Reelection of the president. Well have live coverage here on cspan. [video clip] Vice President biden will preside over it. The question were asking this morning, will this congress be any different . You can join the conversation giving us a call at 2027370001 and 2027370002 for republicans and for independents is 2026280205. Join the conversation social media and facebook. Or send us an email. Well continue to show you the numbers. Lets look at some of the headlines on this friday morning beginning with the washington times. Returns as speaker by 3 votes, ten republicans support in the 113th congress. Likely but not feared, boehner keeps the job. Some might ask why he won. She points out mr. Boehner 63 years old from ohio vote yesterday was a warning shot from conservative members of the house. Sobering reminder while he may hold one of the most powerful jobs in washington, his power is greatly diminished and his republican ranks are thinner in new congress. Meanwhile Russell Burman has this story online, the headline failed coo effort against boehner. He point out a group of dissident republicans failing yesterday to push congressman john boehner to second election as speaker and potentially replace him as leader of the house. The defections same has a moment for boehner. Both of his handling of fiscal cliff legislation and scrapping vote for Hurricane Sandy relief bill. There is the editorial this morning. This is from the washington times. The editorial concludes with these words, when republican regained control of the house two years ago, they opened the new congress with members reading the entire u. S. Constitution aloud on the floor for the first time. A spokesman say they will continue the tradition on january 14th. Will this congress be any different . Thats our question and dave is joining us from rome, georgia, democrat line good morning. Caller , i actually dont believe the congress will be any better. John boehner allowed the house to vote its will for the simple fact, if you have people up there who are against government, they are basically up there on the republican side in order to get their check like joe walsh and people like this who got voted out. Everyone gets unemployment checks. Everyone draws Social Security. The difference republicans trying to make it seem like its democrats. When you do that as democrat, you help everyone in the country. When you protect their rights. You got to Work Together but the republicans seem like theyre trying to protect the interest of big business. If they want to cut medicare and Social Security, why dont they say it. They know its not the will of the people. Host were asking question, with a yes or no, will this congress be any different so far . Seven say yes, 36 say no. You can adyour voice and comments and share with them in the next 45 minutes. Keith is joining us from youngsville, louisiana. Line for independents. Good morning. Caller good morning. I was just thinking maybe the suits need to quit putting money in their pockets and start spending it on what it needs to be spent on and quit going on vacation and do their jobs. Host lucy from mcclain, virginia, republican line, good morning. Caller good morning. The question is will this congress be different . I certainly hope so. I hope that the way its perceived will be different. I hope and pray that finally people will realize how serious it is this 16. 4 trillion dollars debt is and the democrats, dont seem to be bothered by it. If this country survive and be strong, we need to reduce this debt. We need to Work Together to cause that to happen. I commend john boehner for his leadership and his sincerity. I hope people are going to trust that the only way for this country do recover economically, is for us to allow the economy to grow and reduce the deficit. Thank you. Host meanwhile david rogers of politico with some legislative issue on the agenda today for the house of representatives. If you swapped our coverage following the debate over the fiscal cliff, late in into the evening on new years eve day there was a ruck cuss over the issue of Hurricane Sandy and 16 billion to help the hurricane victims along the coast of new york, new jersey and connecticut. The house is to take up the bill on friday. House republicans are moving quickly to win approval this week of 9. 7 billion in increased financing to pay for Flood Insurance claims arising from the storm in october, the measure filed thursday for floor action today would temporarily raise the bar on authority for the national Flood Insurance program, which is now expected to hit its ceiling some time next week. Congressman garrett republican of new jersey fiscal cliff is lead sponsor. We have live coverage getting under way at 10 00 eastern time. As the house convenes this morning and live coverage of the joint session will get under way early this afternoon as house and senate take up their other constitutional duty which is certifying the election of president obama Vice President biden. Caller good morning, i am hoping that president obama will stick to what he has said and not allow them to gut Social Security, medicare and medicaid. Im hoping that we can get to the point where he can find a way to go around them with another fiscal cliff. We cant have this. Thank you. Host thanks for the call. Fantasia washington post, 113th congress displays its diversity. Democratic leader of the house nancy pelosi as she join other democratic female lawmakers over at the capitol. There are 20 new members of the senate who are also women and the former House Speaker democratic leader had this to say about the issue of bipartisanship as she congratulated Speaker John Boehner for his own reelection. Speaker boehner, i know all too well that we will not always agree. But i hope with all my heart that we will find Common Ground that is a higher better place for our country. Surely, we can be touched by the better angels of our nature. Surely we can be touched by the better angels of our nature. So beautifully expressed by president lincoln. Host Representative Nancy Pelosi and this from the washington journal boehners second chance. Let me share with you a portion what the journal is writing this morning on its editorial page. John boehner was reelected as the House Speaker on thursday avoiding a second vote after 12 republican members voted for others or not at all. The question wed ask why in the world does he want the job . Mr. Boehner hopes to accomplish what he will do differently in the 113th congress the speaker and the Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell have accomplished little in two years beyond checking liberal ambitions. Theres this conclusion from the washington journal editorial, mr. Boehner needs a applausable counter strategy recognizing he cannot govern from the house and the power of the hurricane purse to see what policy victors can be had. Will the tone be different . Will any legislative accomplishments be different . Clay is joining us from amarrillo, texas, independent line, good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for letting me come on to your program and governor you give you my points of view about congress. Congress will not do anything different for what it been doing for the last two years. Our votes what it really count for. Special interest groups, lobbyist and powers. Congress is reacting out of fear right now because if something doesnt change, there is going to be a change coming regardless whether they want it or not. American people are fed up with the situation that congress has become. They need to cooperate. Do what they get paid for, pass legislative laws that are beneficial to the American People. We are the American People and we count but they dont seem to think so. Host bill king has this on our twitter page. You can join the conversation. The president should call the bluff of the house and say okay, lets cut spending, say 35 from defense. Think theyll agree . Roll call. Com had this story, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi handing the speaker the house the gavel manager his own marking his own reelection. Boehner securing the votes to retain the gavel but not without the signature intraparty drama. The speaker remains the de facto face of the Republican Party for the next two years but there is no sign the rancor of the past two is behind him. That story from rollcall. Com. Judy is joining us from garland, texas from democrats line go ahead. Caller hello. I really Hope Congress is better than this term than last term. They really need to vote their conscious and not party line. I speak for democrats and republicans. Host judy how do you fix it . Whats your prescription for reform . Once they get the American People back to work and middle class, i dont think middle class will mind a tax hike. I really dont. But with the way the economy is now, people cant afford it. Host okay, well go to john joining us next from illinois, go ahead please. Caller thank you for taking my call. One of the things that concerns me, they want to pass a bill for sandy, which i think is great. But, they put all of this why not just stick with the issue . They put all of this pork in. This is part of the problem with the way things are run. With the one caller, the democrat, wanting obama to go around congress. Thats not the way we do things in this country. It very disturbing, im a republican out of chicago, i just do not agree with the way they do things. It seems illegal and totally wrong. Host okay. John thanks for the call. Lot ceremony yesterday as members of congress and miami februaries on congress and many family members on hand. There are 13 members in the new senate. There were these remarks by the speaker of the house, john boehner. Put simply, were sent here not to be something but to do something. [applause]. Or as i like to call it, doing the right thing. Its a big job and it comes with big challenges. Our government has built up too much debt. Our economy is not producing enough jobs and these are not separate problems. At 16 trillion and rying our National Debt is draining Free Enterprise and weakening the ship of state. The American Dream is in peril. It gets weighed down by this anchor of debt. We begin to set our economy free and jobs will come home and confidence will come back. We do this not just to boost gdp or reduce unemployment but to secure for our children a future of freedom and opportunity and frankly nothing is more important. Host comments from the speaker of the house john boehner from the house floor as he took the gavel again for the second two year term. Headline from the washington journal, how to tame unruely caucus, carry a big hammer and theres this from our twitter page one our viewers saying, the congress is different, the tone of the congress is not. Guest thank you very much for having me. Host let me get your assessment on whether or not you think tone the legislative agenda of this congress will be different and overall if this congress can be different from the 112th. Guest if you look at the immediate legislative agenda what were going to see, its kind of a deja vu all over again. We finished this big draining battle over fiscal issues over the so called fiscal cliff. Were running up against the debt ceiling. It could be even nastier fight we just saw. Democrats say they wont deal on debt limit what they did in the summer of 2011. Republicans say, no this is what when we have to cut our spending and get our finances in order and how they resolve this in the next two months will be a very interesting dynamic to watch. In terms of actual tone and the nature of the congress, youve got a lot of democrats will say, youve gotten rid some of the tea party fire brand republicans as they call them and hopefully that would make for more cooperative environment. There are a lot of new members of the congress are elected, they really ran on being cooperative, bipartisan, being problem solvers. Its so divided congress, weve got a Democratic Senate and weve got a Republican House who really dont see eye on eye on much of anything. Im not convinced at this point that very partisan nature of congress that we saw for the next two years will be too different now. Host lets look at the members and how they voted and the key that were looking at are the nine or ten republican who voted for somebody other than the speaker of the house, others like congressman stockman of tech voting present. What signal did this give to Speaker Boehner and the Republican Leadership . Guest this is a message that to the speaker, they are not satisfied with the leadership. Its a comment that you would have gotten from any of these members who voted present or voted for someone who is not for boehner. This is, i believe, you had ted a freshman republican who voted for cantor and House Majority leader eric cantor saying were not too happy with the leadership now and this is its important to remember that he was still elected speaker he got the majority of his congress behind him. I think going away quickly and easily, they are eager to make their discontent known. Host were talking with Seung Min Kim whos following this. One of the first orders of business we saw yesterday with the new chair of house rules committee, Pete Sessions of texas and ranking louise of upstate new york. What happens as congress begin dealing with the rules of this new congress . Guest the other major first legislative for the day was to deal with the rules package for the 113th congress in the house where this is how this is system by which you just set up a bunch of rules to make sure to help govern the house. It included in it there were some provisions on the house to run the house but there were provisions democrats pointed out authorizing additional money to fund the defense of marriage act in court which they criticized early in the day. Host what else you looking for today as congress convene. Hurricane sandy will be the first this morning. Guest major item is going to be the sandy vote. This caused serious wreckage earlier this week. Everyone has been focusing on the fiscal cliff vote and it finally passed congress. The news came that the vote that had been scheduled on sending aid to states hurt by Hurricane Sandy had suddenly pulled from the floor. It infuriated republicans, democrats and very notably republican from the new york and new jersey area. Speaker john boehner got conspiracy lashing from governor Chris Christie from new jersey. So this is the first trend of the aid that Congress Hopes to send. Its about 9 billion in Flood Insurance. They hope to pass it quickly and hope to pass it under suspension rule would be twothirds of the house to vote. The senate side will would probably if receive from the house and taken up by unanimous consent, the house hopes to pass that 51 billion in additional funding for sandy area on january 15th this month. Host Seung Min Kim politico, thank you for joining us live. Back to some of your comments first from our twitter page. This is cdog. He says this, Speaker Boehner will lead the republicans back to the minority. From our Facebook Page, comments carolyn says if the senate of the house will abide by the constitution and they reduce the size of government, we might be the great country we used to be the direction we are heading now will destroy us and elizabeth says, this, one could only hope this congress will be different. I hope. Online at cbsnews. Com, five big issues facing the 113th congress. First fiscal issues, first and foremost, the congress would have to address the issues left on the table from the 112th congress. The second big agenda is immigration, something that the president said will be a top priority in the next year. Number three is gun control, number four is energy according to cbs news and number five, tax reform. Top five issues facing the new congress. Next is robert joining us from florida independent line, good morning. Caller good morning. On behalf of many independents and certainly many voters that now have which might call, voters remorse, if they havent felt it yet, time will come it will occur. The difficulty of our leadership in our america is take a picture of triangle. Executive, legislative and judicial. Right now, we have a fractured triangle on behalf of the president and part of the triangle is damaged by the senate. The record shows that the Republican Congress has effectively and factually presented numerous job related legislature to the senate and many other stopgap bills for all the enormous amount of laws and rules and publications or what you want to call leadership out of control forcing on many of our businesses wont hire. Host robert thanks for the call. For three decades john kerry was the Junior Senate from massachusetts. But the picture this morning of the boston globe changing the guard, showing swearing in of the current junior senator elizabeth warren. John kerry will be approved by the senate to be next secretary of state that will set up another special election in massachusetts. There was another massachusetts politician that continues to comp to come up in conversations about the issue of bipartisan. In one of his final interviews in 2003. Promised tip oneal, sat down to talk to us about bipartisanship. This was in november 1992 interview part of cspan video lib