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Certain provisions of the Senate Amendment to h. R. 2642, relating to Crop Insurance. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. Pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2h of rule 2 of the rules of the u. S. House of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on october 11, 2013, at 10 15 a. M. ,...

Guest that he could not raise the adequate amount of wheat that he wanted to. Because the government had decided they were going to control wheat plantings. And so what he said was, okay, then i can raise wheat for my chickens. And he took it all the way to the Supreme Court and lost that battle. Host why do you recount that story in the debt bomb . Guest because its a great example on the enumerated powers and the unwinding why do we find ourself in the place were in now . Howd we get here, wha...

A partyline basis. And now, my friends, they sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. So we need to repeal the Affordable Care act and we need to replace it. Because health care in america is still not satisfactory, nor have we fulfilled the needs and our obligations that we have to all of our citizens. The problems with the Affordable Care act are well known. A failed web site rollout that has hindered enrollment and the purchase of mandated coverage. As of december 17 only an estimate...

We are now going to go to wolf blitzer who has got the very latest and all of the updates on the fiscal cliff. Wolf . Deb, thanks very much. Happening now, a fiscal cliff hanger. The Senate Bipartisan bill faces a very uncertain future in the republicanled house. Our speaker has said, when senate acts, we will have a vote in the house. That is what he said. That is what we he can be pekt. That is what the American People deserve. But is a sudden rift in the Republican Leadership putting it all i...

The presiding officer the senator from michigan. Mr. Levin mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Levin mr. President , the bill that we are about to vote on is a good bill. Its the product of a an extensive bipartisan, bicameral agreement between the Armed Services committees of the senate and the house of representatives. We have passed a defense bill every year for the last 51 years...

Tonight on the communicators at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. President obama recently said his proposed 2015 federal budget to congress for review. In light of its release and the debates that followed, booktv presents portions of author talks on the federal budget process. In the next hour use eclipse with philip joyce, author of the Congressional Budget Office. David wessel, author of red ink inside the highstakes politics of the federal budget, and oklahoma senator tom coburn, author of the deb...

Many aspects that someone could look at and judge whether that was a good reform or battery form. People grabbed onto that particular conclusion and try to use it to their best and. We are talking with professor philip here at the university of maryland about his book on the congressional Budget Office. The cbo was used in two ways or in one way it should have been used in two ways. One way is to help a Super Committee to set the parameters. So director elmendorf went and testified on the nature...

Economy and create jobs and remove all doubt, remove all doubt in the full faith and credit in the United States of america. Every time you come to this floor its a question, why are we here . We are here to do the peoples work. Lets sit down. Get it done. And move forward. Instead of filling the agenda however worthy some of those initiatives may be, instead of not along with passing a middle income tax this is also reminiscent of a year ago. The president proposed, the house and senate, democr...

The secretary the speakers rooms, washington the clerk the speakers rooms, washington d. C. , december 23, 2013. I hereby appoint the hobyorble fred upton to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, revved rend eugene emrick, Catholic University of america from washington, d. C. The chaplain lord, we thank you for yet another year, the awesome blessings you h...

Been described. They have to do that with 100 . Epublican vote. We stand ready our members have signed letters and petitions to open government, that we are therefore a coin legislation to open the government, clean legislation to lift the debt ceiling, that would take us on budget deal in any and all issues can be discussed. That is where we are. I am optimistic here at i believe because of the impact of not lifting the debt ceiling, on , is soalone actually catastrophic there will be those in ...