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Continues now. Michael capuano is a democrat from massachusetts. He serves as the Ranking Member on the housing and insurance committee. Well get to those issues in just a minute. Congressman, i do know if you heard of for segment on washington journal. We had attorney general holder say he wanted to reduce times for people are guilty of drug crimes. Been a supporter of mandatory minimums. I do think we should have mandatory guidelines that require a clear and unequivocal explanation as to why t...

Between christmas and new years. I do not know. Maybe they should finish their work. You will see some push in the next few days to get a small deal done. Viewers are fan of the process. Anything that gets done needs to be done quickly before new years to be signed into law. Today is the 27. And so you have a few days left for lawmakers to make a deal. The president s should land at some point. There is a 5 hour time difference. They have to figure out something. It seems likely will go over the...

The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 224. The mays are 183. The previous question is ordered. The nays are 183. The previous question is ordered. The house will come to order. E this vote the yeas are 226. The nays are 178. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from texas, mr. Barton, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 6190 on which the y...

The level of the attention in both houses of congress and id like to see what your responses. Congressman the unit as an air force reserve will be leaving. The intent is to take this c130 j. s and put them in little rock arkansas. General jackson would tell you there is a problem with recruiting in that area in his reserve unit. He would also tell you is this it before every decision we are making right now hurts. They have to did downsize as well. This move would save them 23 million a year. It...

On his 26year career. And a discussion on corporations and stock values. Dan burton is retiring from the house this year after 30 years in office. The 15term congressman represents the Fifth District in east Central Indiana which includes parts of indianapolis and the surrounding suburbs. Earlier he talked with cspan about his past investigations of the collective demonstration and the oversight ruled congress. This is 30 minutes. As you exit the institution how would you say it stated . It has ...

Ohio, he was a guy who would give you great advice and would work to get you an answer for the problem. So whether it was the Appropriations Committee or quite frankly the Transportation Committee where he served much of his career, was an area where he knew more about transportation and transportation issues, quite frankly than anybody in this town. He was a walking book on transportation issues. Pretty hard for a buckeye to talk about a university of michigan graduate this way, mr. Speaker, bu...

Of our country. We have known that for years. When are we ever going to make those kind of decisions . We will have another opportunity later, when the debt ceiling issue arrives. When are we going to make this decision . That is our question. This whole discussion and admittedly, the president has some advantages, being one messenger. You would think this whole discussion was about nothing other than raising the top two has tax rates. Two tax rates. That has literally nothing to do with solving...

Let me start maybe with secretary husted. Photo i. D. To register but only a signator sigget to vote. Is there a signature to vote. Is there a problem with that . There are a dozen of ways, as long as its accepted within your state. If you can get political peace within your state and people can generally agree what the rules are. Thats why i love the title, balance. Its a balance. Every time that you add something that makes it easier to vote, then you have to balance that with something that a...

Guaranteed failure. We hope within the scope of these conversations we are able to move the ball forward. They will have to decide what the scope is. How much we want to fight off and shoe as part of these negotiations. That will be one of the early decisions we try and reach. The good news is that we hope that our republican colleagues have learned the right lesson from the debacle we just went through, unnecessary pain. It did not have to be that way. We are hoping that our colleagues will put...