Legislative branch, but people in the white house, people in the legislative branch, and people in the judicial, should take a page out of his book. This government sucks. I hate to say that. We have no moral compass and, you know, a lot of people in this country like to go and say that theyre conservative or theyre liberal and theyre only just tags. They dont pay any attention to what these people are doing. They do nothing but make excuses, they make a lot of roblems that, you know, that really have spread us to a quagmire in this country. And i really have, as i said, i like to say that i have a lot of respect for him for realizing what is up, what is at stake. I think that if he had to pray the prayer Saint Francis would say, make me a channel of thy peace, i think we should start we should send copies of that prayer to everybody in this government. Because more of them need to start praying it and they need to get out when they realize that what they brought this country to. Host
Doesnt like our bill, it could wind up being a part of the grand bargain or some other mustpass piece of legislation, spending bill or a debt ceiling bill. What about those who argue, it could hurt Energy Prices here or hurts the cause of green energy, what about critics who say that the exporting of crude oil is something that shouldnt happen . How do you respond to that . Mr. Flores should we stop exporting chevies next, should we stop exporting wheat, flour, corn . Why is oil any different than any other product thats produced by the American People . How can they justify picking one product out and say, oh, you cant export that . We want to export everything else. This is the president who republicans helped him get a free trade get fast track authority. Because he wants to be known as the free trade president. Why does he want to block one particular commodity . It doesnt make sense. Notwithstanding the different world views you described between the president and republicans earl
When we devise the bill none of us had any idea, most of us, had no idea what the agreement was going to say. If you look at where we have been, the executive branch has consumed power away from the legislative branch. Most people, you know this was eroded over time. It was an effort to bring power back. The president would negotiate an executive agreement. What that means is he can decide, and it doesnt have the force of power after he leaves. That is the way most president s are doing things now to keep from coming to congress. There is a sex that was called congressional agreement. Thee is a second strongest is a treaty. Many president s are moving away from those types of agreements. The present was going to go straight to the Un Security Council without congressional approval. Because congress has played such a role in bringing iran to the table, we passed sanctions that many people believe for the most crippling sanctions, and because we have played that role i was able to convin
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 1735. 175. The nays is 229. The motion is not adopted. The question is on passage of the bill. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Mr. Conyers mr. Speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is requested. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote theeas are 233. The nays are 170. The the bill is passed. The bill is passe
Basic work of governance that ensures that our military is operating and that our National Parks are open and that our kids are learning. And there is no weakness in that. That is what government is. You do not get what you want 100 of the time. Sometimes you take half of it, sometimes you take a quarter of it. That is that i have learned in this office. Im looking forward to working with the next speaker. In the meantime, john is not going to leave for another 30 days. So hopefully he feels like getting as much stuff done as he possibly can, and i will certainly be looking forward to working with him on that. Ofmore on the resignation House Speaker john boehner from todays washington journal, this is about 45 minutes. Host bobbys the editorinchief, talking to us about whats next for the house in congress. What is your first reaction . Guest it was stunning. There was a lot of speculation that this would be speaker boehners speaker last congress. Speculative was growing. 10 days later,