anger. some republicans upset at speaker john boehner for delaying a vote on aid to the victims of hurricane sandy because of the cost. boehner signaling that he s back to a hard line in the budget fights ahead. so are senate republicans. so we re going to focus on spending and the tidal waves coming at us are medicare and social security. postponed two months by yesterday s fiscal cliff deal. the motion is adopted. wave number two is worse. another debt ceiling fight, like the one last year that damaged the u.s. credit rating. president obama vows no repeats. i will not have another debate with this congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that have already racked up. but house republicans pushed back. the president thinks he s not going to negotiate, he better thing again. he s president of the united states, not emperor of the planet. reporter: this could get scarier than the cliff. it may take a default, another downgrade, the serious economic
saddened that the house of representatives walked away last night, didn t even touch this after we spent so much time here on the floor doing something to help the beleaguered part of our country. reporter: republican congressman peter king who represents part of long island called it a disgrace and blasted leaders of his own party. we cannot believe that this cruel knife in the back was delivered to our region. reporter: the president called for immediate action saying when tragedy strikes, americans come together to support those in need. i urge republicans in the house of representatives to do the same. house speaker john boehner said he will make the sandy aid package a top priority in the new congress, a new congress sworn in thursday which means it s back to square one when it comes to drafting this sandy recovery legislation. i m tory dunnan reporting. speaker boehner says he will schedule two votes on aid, one for this friday and a second for january 15th. t
very serious legal trouble in the span of two years. how did you go about covering jeffrey thompson? well, that began with i the mayor.er i used to cover the mayor s office. mayoral ered the 2010 campaign. assigned to ually cover the day-to-day, the campaign and that was the at the time. and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. so, you know, covered the mall campaign. i was most interested in watching kind of downfalls ecause, you know, everyone saw it coming. and that was my job. shortly after the after won, iok off, because he eard from sulaiman brown would run for mayor. it ended up he had a job in the odd.istration which was and then the next thing you knew, he was fired and then he do you ing me and said want to talk? and i was like, sure. we knew, he thing described some serious orruption about being paid in the campaign to disparage on the campaign trail. another.g led to a big investigation, a federal investigation. and, you k
more done. danielle nottingham reports from capitol hill. reporter: the 113th congress opened today with dozens of new members. former congressmen jim nustle says the first order of business is basic. where is my new committee, the office, the bathroom. reporter: the new congress is one of the most diverse i ve recollected including a diverse i ve recollected including elected including women. the challenges are enormous. what just happened with the debt and deficit and taxes, that doesn t go away. reporter: the 113th congress begins work after one of the least productive terms in history. the last group passed just 151 bills, the fewest in 65 years. that left congress with an approval rating of 10% last year, lower than past approval ratings for the i.r.s., lawyers, and even paris hillton. just lake is starting his first day in the jus lake is starting his first day in the senate. he believes the fiscal cliff fight was a preview of the things to come. this
standing among is the confusion, he was clearly shaken. right now we are dealing with our sadness at the lost of our fellow member of our embassy. reporter: the turk irk government blamed a domestic militant group. we strongly condemn the suicide attack. reporter: it s the latest in the series of threats to u.s. diplomatic facilities. in september terrorists killed four americans in ben gauzi. the state department responded, promising more security. the level of security protection at our facility in ankara, ensured there were not significantly more deaths and injuries. reporter: the attack comes on the same day as the leadership handover in the state department. cheering employees packed into hillary clinton s farewell ceremony. we live in very complex and even dangerous times, as we saw again just today at our embassy in ankara. reporter: new york john kerry takes over as secretary today. he s now responsible for carving the path ahead, as the u.s. faces gro