Must seize this moment and reform are broken system. Families are being divided and migrants continue to die in the american desert. The suffering must end. We look forward to working with our elected officials and all of good will toward this end. Granted. Thank you. As you can see by this range of perspective, the differences are not great but the unity is clear. The Congress Must take advantage of the opportunity to pass broad Immigration Reform. I would like to take questions from the press. Please introduce yourself, your name as well as your outlook. I would like to hear more about the republican super pac. Jeb bush, would they be a part of that . At this point the, we are getting all the paperwork and together and we should be ready to go soon. Obviously the role of the super pac is to raise money that we can use to support immigration in districts where a republican is supportive. We cannot give the money to a candid it or say vote for this man or this woman. But we can support the concept in those critical districts. You will have to ask governor bush what his plans are and what he is doing. I would assume that anything related to immigration will catch his interest. But we expect to do this in the right way, a big way, and have an impact. Up until now, it has been a lot of working the hill, but we are going to have to put more muscle behind it. You have representatives talking about a comprehensive package and talking about several bills related to immigration. What would you say is the right path . The answer to that can be found at the hill. At the end of the day they have to make it work. In 2007, we tried a comprehensive approach. While it is not a flawed approach, and you have to watch out for, you hold back easy things until you get the very complicated things worked out. That is part of the problem of a comprehensive approach. Senator rubio has come out with a the breakup a bill into manageable pieces. It also becomes more transparent to the public. We had a 750 page bill and it was dismissed by one word, amnesty. That is the trap of these large and complex bills. Having said that, i think it is a tactical issue and i hope it is resolved as soon as possible because there are so many other problems that have to be addressed. But i think they can both work with the leadership and the will to get it done. Excuse me, let me make a comment. I do not think this is a problem. There is an advantage to a comprehensive bill. There is a disadvantage to a piecemeal bill, if you pass, for example, issues for educated people to get a visa, and theyre taking care of, you lose a certain amount of support for the other issues. I do not think we should decide that. I think the senator is doing a Great Service by raising this issue. I think our colleagues at this meeting, i met this morning with the person he and i actually talk a lot. I believe we should move forward on all of the arrangements so that the hill will develop an understanding about all of these issues and finally decide whether they will do it in one, too, or three pieces. That is the least of our worry. The fact is they do it. We will continue to talk about a comprehensive bill. I am delighted that senator rubio is helping folks take the issue of Immigration Reform as seriously as he is taking it. He is providing leadership on that and we are appreciative. I think it is great to see movement on both sides of the aisle. Whether or not it is comprehensive or individual pieces is to be determined by leadership in the house and senate in consultation with the president. Right now they are working in the right direction. Going back to what you were talking about, one of the sticking points was the Guest Worker Program and future immigration. I am wondering what type of projects progress you have made and if there has been any medication between business and labor. I want to know your thoughts in terms of what he was saying about a path to citizenship or a permanent status in the u. S. First of all, he and i were pleased to report to each other that our staff is working well together on these issues. That is one of the issues that has to be resolved. We are both committed to getting a bill and i think if we can come to a resolution on the subjects, we might see in things move more quickly. The question of citizenship is one that has a passionate response from some people. Lets take this in a sequential way. First of all, we have to take these 11 Million People, 12 Million People out of the shadows. We have to give them a legitimate existence, a way they can pay taxes and drive cars and live as human beings. If you want to talk from there to a path to citizenship, i think we can build a consensus around that by the steps would be required. It would be terrible to say we are going to have made them legal and they would never have an opportunity for citizenship. I think that would Say Something we would not like. The ambassador and i could probably debate the strategy on how to get from here to there but there is no question what is needed immediately is legalization and a path to get to where we would like to be. Then you talk about the difference between now and 2007 . Are you more hopeful this time . I believe, there have been more people coming out in favor. There are people who have moderated their stance on this from six years ago and i think part of that is an understanding that no action is very bad for the country. I would also like to say, because i believe you have an asian background, the question about the future flow is excellent. This is not just about hispanic immigration, or undocumented immigration. This is about immigration from the world. The agents are making a great contribution to this country. Africans are making a great contribution. Let americans. As we think about the future, this was an issue in 2007. It goes to show it is not Just One Party with a problem. Without the future flow, we are in trouble. Without a strategic future, we will have another undocumented problem in five years. And less people want to recognize that reality and do what is right for the country, we will continue spinning our wheels. I think a lot has changed. We talk about business, badges, and bibles. I think all three of those groups could have done more in 2007. De you agree with mr. Donahue having Different Task force for the visa according to the economy . There has to be away a lot of our laws date back to the 1950s. Some to the 1960s. There has to be a way of bringing it up to date. Those are things that will have to be negotiated. All be just say it cant managed by a central system in washington where washington decides how many nurses we need, how many farm workers. Business will have to play a role and business will have to be the determining factor in order to make this work in a practical way. Think for a man and that 10,000 people a day retire in the United States, seven days a week. We are a nation with unemployment and with a shortage of people that go to work at specific jobs. The secretarys point is on target. If you try to do this with an overseer of exactly how many lefthanded nurses and right handed carpenters get into the added states, we are doing the wrong thing. We need to do it on demand. If we have an extraordinary need to be competitive, and many, because of the price of energy and the fact the country is probably will have and have access to more energy than anyone else, you will see manufacturing jobs coming back to the United States. I think right now there is a couple of Million People we could hire if they have the skills, if they had the education, if they had some of the other requirements to fitting into a High Performance economy. It is hard to explain. How can you have that need . You also heard the store the other day, they are drilling for a lot of oil in north dakota. Not a lot of people want to move there. It is a complicated issue. You also mentioned senator rubio. What about the house . Are there any republicans who are champions for this . What kind of indication you get they are willing to pick this up . Just about every issue that comes to the congress, and it is not going to happen. We have seen a lot of leadership in the house in the last session. We believe there is a growing number of people that would like to resolve this issue. This is a matter of the snowball going downhill. You start rolling and it gets bigger and bigger. I am not worried about whether we can get the votes in the house if we can get an agreement between labor and mallet management and other groups that have the business. If we can get that together, we will get the votes. When you have 14 opinions and everybody disagrees, it is harder to get the votes. We are going to be visiting with republican members beginning next week. We will continue to do that on the house side. We have spoken with a number of folks in the house to talk with them about Immigration Reform. And there is definitely a Good Development on the republican side. I am not sure they are as far as long as senator rubio is but i think that as they continue to talk with each other and they continue to talks between the house and the senate, we are going to get to that place. I think the determination is there and as has been said, if the people appear continue to press this case, i think we will get to a point where everyone agrees on what the big pieces are. I wanted to share with you some of the things we are doing at the conference. One of the things we will be doing, we will have a gathering of something called a catholic social gathering. That will bring the 700 or 800 catholics from all over the United States. While they are here, they will have door knocks. Immigration reform is one of the programs of this years gathering of the catholic social ministry. The second thing is we have something called the justice for immigrants campaign. We have begun a campaign to senators and congressmen, asking for their support and asking them to push on this issue. A lot of activity already. President obama of course promised in his first term to take a leadership role on Immigration Reform. It has been disappointing to many he did not get that moving. He has pledged again to do so. He talked about he wanted to see a bill early on. Now he has introduced ideas for gun control. He has another debate over fiscal policy. What does leadership mean in your mind . What to do you want to hear in the state of the union . Or is there a better idea something would come from the senate and the president would take a support role . It is a good question. Part of the problem the answer is not another great speech about Immigration Reform. We need action. This is what happens when Immigration Reform is important but it is not the number one issue. You can keep on telling it the could you have to take care of the fiscal cliff, which will looks like it will go all the way to the end of that term. I do not think its going to be over soon. Guns, i think that has surpassed Immigration Reform on priorities. Im not making a judgment. Im trying to state some facts. You are right, and this has to become the numberone priority for the president and congress, get people together and say we are going to fix this problem. Surpassed immigrationit has to e of nice sentences. I would only add that i think it is incumbent upon us as citizens and members of groups and advocates, nongovernmental organizations to keep the pressure on the president so he remains focused. There will be always issues coming up. No one can predict his calendar for the next x number of months. We believe Immigration Reform is different. It has a past, present, and feature of bipartisan support. Congress has many issues to grapple with. This range of speakers today shows that conservatives and liberals across the country want this president and congress to act. That is different than any other issue. Democrats are talking about a path to citizenship. But senator rubio is talking about a visa and access to the legal system we have now. What would you support . From the standpoint of republicans, Immigration Reform. We support we are not going to secondguess people as long as they are making progress. In 2006, one of the guidelines we had was that we did not want the undocumented immigrants to cut in front of the line of people who have been waiting, to do it in a proper way. The result or the solution was a legalization process. They are legal. Not Everyone Wants to be a u. S. Citizen. Some may want to go home and not go through the process. If they do want citizenship and a green card, then there is a process for that. The important thing is they are legal and they can come out of the shadows. That was the approach then and we will see how the two parties come to an agreement on what they should be. Two last questions. [indiscernible] it is natural for the press to look for the differences. That is how you write a story. If everybody agrees, you do not write the story. This issue does not bother me one bit. If we get to the point where we have a program, a program to deal with immigration in this country in a fundamental way, we will resolve that question. If you want to know what the resolution is going to be, it will be a progressive issue. We set a series of steps in place to do this as we go forward. I think everybody has said that. There needs to be a process to citizenship. It is something that takes time but we follow it. That is where we are probably going to go. If those are the issues we have to resolve, we are in great shape. If i might suggest, the lady in the back with a camera, we will put you on tv, trying to ask a question all afternoon. Fair deal . You canoing to ask if come to the microphone. Secretary, i will get to later in spanish. So dont go away. Somebody else stay and do it in spanish. I cannot do it. Un poco. He said Immigration Reform is going to be a priority. I was wondering if you can expand on that. What steps besides going on to the hell, what else can you do . The hill, what else can you do . We know there is discussion as to move what is going to be in the bill. There is a consensus that there is a discussion as to who is going to present the bill. Should it be the white house . Or should we wait for a bipartisan bill . What would you prefer to see you presented . Let me answer the second question first, in my opinion, that discussion, the engagement, the exchange, these kinds of meetings should carry on for a little while because we are building a sense of consensus between people who had more disagreement an agreement. I think that will move ahead quickly. As the secretary indicated, there are a lot of other things going on right now in the administration. We have to get people into critical jobs. We have to finish the reorganization of the house and senate, which happens every change. I would prefer not to have a lot of one of bills. I would wait a few weeks or months until we come to a closer consensus and i think we would have a better chance of passing something through both houses. I do not care where it starts. I would like all three groups have an understanding of what it is going to be and let them go into a back room and figure out what the sequence will be. On the fact of what the chamber is going to do, we will do it in washington and around the country. We have thousands of the state and local chambers are around the country, we have 900 associations, businesses from Different Industries that have representatives all around the country. We have the millions and millions of people on our grass roots network. And we will put it that all to work, when the time is right. Right now we are building consensus when there are bills to be advanced. We will do at that. The worst thing to do in this town is to talk when nobody is listening. We need to get people ready to listen and then go out and advocate in a strong way. Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] tavis smiley holds a form focusing on poverty in america and solutions. We will hear from several panelists including House SpeakerNewt Gingrich at the forum titled vision for a new america. This weekend as the 57th inauguration. It is the official swearingin at the white house, before noon eastern. Our coverage includes your calls and more. It begins with a look at the inaugural address in 2009 at 10 30 a. M. Eastern. On monday, the public ceremony is at noon at the capitol and other festivities,it is includie parade down pennsylvania avenue. We will take your phone calls and comments and our coverage on monday begins at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. The American Bankers Association held any event earlier today looking at taxes than the upcoming debate in sequestration. We will hear from members of the association, which includes a group of economists from the largest banks. This is just over 20 minutes. Thank you jim. Good morning and thank you for coming. We have some interesting discussions over the last two days. I think the major take away from those discussions is that it is the view of the committee that the fiscal cliff agreement has created new head wins for the u. S. Economy in 2013. Real gdp growth in the nine states in the first half of 2013 before below 2 accelerating to 2. 6 in the Fourth Quarter. The committee believes that the combination of tax hikes, a prolonged fight or the debt ceiling, and the possibility of severe spending cuts in 2013 have the potential to really stop this recovery in its tracks. One thing you will notice from our forecast table is that the recession probabilities from the committee are higher than normal. We still have the probability of a recession at 23 and for 2014, 20 . That is a little bit higher than what we typically see. We think the private sector is poised for sustainable growth. I think the housing numbers point to one area of strength, the Housing Market. The tax h