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Additional support is provided by from the tisch wnet studios in new york, ari sreenivasan. The house of representatives voted 407 to nothing to grarnt back pay to 800,000 federal employees now furloughed. The senate also is expected to approve the legislation. In a separate development, chuck hagel said the pentagon is ordering most of its furloughed civilian employees back to work, he did not say exactly how many. Meanwhile, there are new signs the Government Shutdown is damaging the economy, thousands of home buyers may not be able to qualify for mortgages because of the furloughing of irs ...

Resolution. Tip oneill needs no introduction to this body. Those respect and admire tips record, and his long shadow he cast over the peoples house. We all know his best known fame, all politics is local. Its certainly true today as we propose to name a building right here at the foot of capitol hill, a stones throw from this great dome, in honor the our 55th speaker. This is one of those moments when you wonder how the honoree would feel. Especially when its someone like tip who never quite held back his opinions. Perhaps he would have enjoyed seeing leaders from opposite sides of the aisle c...

It is very clear that the American People want a balanced approach for the deficit reduction. We have to make smart spending cuts. We can do that by closing tax loopholes and asking millionaires to pay a little bit more. That is basically what our proposal is and we will vote on it this afternoon. We want a balanced approach. That is what the American People want. By almost an 80 margin, that is what americans want. Even a majority of republicans want this. It is hard to comprehend. The only republicans in the country who disagree with this proposal are the ones who serve in congress. Today, t...

One, sequestration will cut essential initiatives, including 8 million from the breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program and 24 million for Reproductive Health services in title x. Two, the National Institutes of health will cut 1. 56 billion, cutting back research in areas such as alzheimers, environMental Health, links to Breast Cancer and Mental Health services. Sequestration hurts mothers. While the United States lags behind other industrialized nations in preventing maternal and infant mortality, sequestration cuts 4 million from the safe motherhood initiative, 50 million from the mat...

Women are suffering from greater rate of Breast Cancer than ever before in our history. And here we go slashing and burning a budget. I dont like to use the term war on women, but, mr. Speaker, as a woman it sure feels like it. And sequestration definitely has that impact. Joining me today, and i will yield just a few moments, my good friend from new york, carolyn maloney, who has been quite a leader on a range of womens issues, and she knows clearly the devastating impact of sequestration on women. Mrs. Maloney i want to thank my colleague for leading this very important special order and to ...