by the american people. but now is the time to keep our promise. step one will be to repeal obamacare. as the president-elect said today in my admonished members of the house republican congress, it is important to remind the american people what they are a know about obamacare that the promises made were all broken and i expect you will see an effort in the days ahead to talk about the facts around obamacare. secondly of course is to begin the orderly transition to something better. the truth is that the commitment that the president-elect made was to repeal and replace obamacare and as they said this morning and a tweaked, it will be important that we be careful as we do that, that we do that in a way that doesn't work hardship on american families who came insurance through this program, doesn't work hardship on our economy. as they told the house republican conference today, we are working on a strategy in concert with the leadership of the house and senate for a legislative and executive action agenda t

we want tax reform that works for american businesses, american jobs. i can tell you how many hearings we've had where we see all these business leaving the country. we lost our biggest employer, biggest company in wisconsin. they're belgian acting. we are losing our seed corn. so we've got to fix the tax system, which is pushing jobs and businesses overseas. this is something we think it's clearly going to get her system reset so that american jobs in american businesses and american companies in this country and produce more economic growth and jobs. >> following up on tax reform, the agenda is revenue natural. it's not for you guys are going? >> that's been our blueprint. we are working off the blueprint here in the house and that blueprint is revenue natural and designed to be revenue natural enough overworked nine. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> great job. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i don't know if i want to do that. as my debut. this is really our debut. linda sanchez at night and congressman joe crowley, chair

bring relief to americans. we will help americans crying out for relief from obamacare. and we will keep our promise to the people. as you can see, we'll be working with the new administration on every step of this law, every step of the way, even before day one. with that, i want to hand it over to somebody that we all know very well, because he served here with us. we're so proud of him and we're so pleased about this new working relationship with our new vice president, vice president-elect mike pence. i almost said -- [laughter] [applause] vice president-elect pence: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to the speaker and to the leadership for the warm welcome today at the house republican conference. i'll be meeting later today with members of the senate at their weekly luncheon. and this is a day that our message is very simple. on behalf of the president-elect and on behalf of all the leadership, we are 16 days away from the end of business as usual in washington, d.c. today, our message is very simple. working with the leadership here in the house and in the senate,

at first like to start rethinking the american american people for entrusting us. we take it to heart and responsibility. we have a special guest with us today. someone who has been here many times before. i want to congratulate the trompe pants team. they had the wisdom to listen in now they have the courage to lead america. when we watch on the floor, we are going to start with that courage. we watched what has happened with jobs across the country. we will bring up the reins at act. it simply says that the people of voice when it comes to regulation in america. the only deal with deals of regulation that get imposed upon that cost more than $100 billion. if you look in the last six years there's 82 of those present and have put in place every single year of this administration. we have to start working. no new major rulings will be imposed without a vote of the house and senate for the people have a voice. we will also be dealing went obamacare. so many people know that these failed policies have done to america. employer-based insurance, premiums have increased

to benefit the american consumer, the american voter. because we can do that while also improving on the environment. christ the question was, what can be done to ensure that new infrastructure projects are allowed in a timely and noncontroversial manner? [laughter] >> let me say this and this is an important principle going well beyond the energy industry but it goes to highway and road construction as well. first we need to honor the rule of law and when we go through this exhaustive permit process and seek approval through collaborative processes to change the routes of the pipelines to accommodate local interests, and those are very deserving interest which we should think about and accommodate. we need to make sure the final decision is made and we honor that decision. there is nothing more chilling to private sector investment than the unknown or not knowing what the outcome could be and how long it might take. so, without being too specific there are a couple of early wins there. reset to and make sure we understand through the pe

most americans. plans haves of those actually risen much more slowly since the affordable care was an active done before. was enacted than before. they have benefited dramatically. why? because all of those people who had been previously denied access to health care used to show up at the hospital as their primary care provider or since they were not getting any care elsewhere because they could not afford the bill, they were showing up at those hospitals when there was an emergency. when cost was most expensive. ando not deny people care in emergency. the negative bill and they cannot pay the bill will stop that is why so many people in america were going bankrupt before the affordable care act. somebody pays. who pays? well, everybody else in the system days. everybody else who has private insurance through their employer pays. or taxpayers and states pay for the uncompensated care that the hospital would have to carry. so people's premiums were going up really fast but by providing the health care

john: is the american dream still alive? it is hard to be optimistic walking around this conference because so many people here are promoting buying gold and savings like sleep that night knowing your assets are safe. they have a point because politicians keep promising people free stuff and so much more than taxpayers could never find that these paper dollars your someday may be worth pennies the fed was created the dollar lost 96% of its value proposal i've bought gold and silver. i know they will hold their value more than pieces of paper. except so far i have lost money on my investments. how many of you have invested in gold? [applause] unless you bought it way back you have not done so well so when will inflation explode? it is still low. who knows these predictions are risky and has to explode some time because there's not enough money. but the pessimism about america's future is a bad bet even two-day people steady signal sent text books but he taught although the american economy approaches so the growth the plan th

it is americans that are our greatest asset and our american people, the american people that we have across this country. that said the gravity of this moment is a bit overwhelming as a step back into government for what i know is a monumental task ahead. transitions are hard enough. they are hard enough and anything that we do but transitions and transfers of power from one united states person to the next are historic and this one is no exception. to me, one of the most significant moments in american history was at the very beginning of president john adams was not reelected and had to hand the presidency over to his archrival thomas jefferson. it could have been a constitutional crisis but it wasn't. why, because we have a peaceful transition of power and that is the tradition that has bound us all ever since. as for adams and jefferson in their final years they became great friends and their correspondence is one of the best examples of patriotism and bipartisan sense of national purpose among all of our leaders that have ever existed. the model to the world, as a model to the w

he heard the voices of americans of every part of the country in ways others had not. he now carries a heavy burden. we will work with him to help the american people feel confident again, confident in themselves and confident in their futures. we look forward to the inauguration in just over two weeks.s. there is now much serious work to be done. i look forward to working with each of you to achieve it. apolog >> thank you and i apologize to my good friend the republicanic. leader, couldn't be here for his remarks that i intended to be so i was but i was meeting with the vice president so i would so little late and i apologize, vice president-elect so i apologize for that.ed majority now i also do want to recognize the distinguished majority leader and reiterate what i said yesterday. s i sincerely hope just as i heard he hopes that we can find common ground here in the senate. while we have all times inevitably disagree on the right way forward for our country i know he's a patriot who cares deeply about this institution. that matters a lot to me. i learned after mee

, and you don't care what americans think. this is the first time this is been done, we're going to make our questionnaire and results available. people can look at what we did, and hopefully people can move on from there. 800 plus people respond? prof. ginsberg: in the polling business, when you do telephone polling, most people don't want to respond. they don't want to waste their time. my view is that in the case of the survey, first of all, i am going to be snarky again, a lot of people don't have much to do. this was an amusement. second, people who work in washington are self-important. not unlike professors, we are self-important,be e deed o te n dii a sisowhayos. isspos tonngon ot atlsy t'id will ou ait here anklino roelt an the neealersiewed welfstitns and tructeore in of ticawer thal sensib rumenthara ofhe prines is p emis on religious and moral appeals over the past quarter century. , this is in your book to suggest the politicians on both sides will do whatever they have to do to get elected. prof. ginsberg: that i

the american people, many american people, most american people are hurting under this law, and they have spoken clearly numerous times, and it's time for us to bring to them the changes that improve their lives by improving their health care, by improving their health and making sure that no american is worried about whether or not the necessary health care that they or their family member needs is outside their reach. madam president, thank you very much. mr. carper: would the senator yield? mr. moran: i yield. mr. carper: it's great to see my friend from kansas on the floor, and looking forward to serving with him the next six years. one of the things i focused on as a member of the finance committee on the affordable care act was the idea that we have doctors, hospitals, nurses, who in some cases provide entirely too many tests and procedures and so forth that are needed to treat somebody, just in order to cover -- in naval aviation, we used to say to offer our 6:00. if you have somebody behind you to shoot you down, covering our conversation. doctors, hospitals and nurses spend

it for the american campaigns. some of this went to korea, who was also in a serious situation. some of it was held as a reserve against the catastrophic supply failure in japan. there is some evidence that most food that had been brought in for the stockpiles had been distributed by the time the summer was raised. we do not know where this tonnage was attributed. we do note that between may-october 1946, during the most critical months of the food crisis, vagina 4000 metric -- 594,000 of metric rice were imported in the form of canned goods. but may not seem like much, the heights of the crisis on the second half of the race here. so if half of the rice harvest went to the urban population, that means regular rice through may and october should've been around 1.6 million metric kind. the imported u.s. food alone with her added 37% to the total available food during this. . that have some figures provide support for this. i'm sorry. indicates asigures you can see, the percent of the total food available to the japa

and the americans, and the american bankers i will mention in a moment, or even farther away. the decision was made by two emperors and the military around them on august 1, 1914. they were unable to accept the youngerf his uncle, the insisted that the european war was still winnable as long as it was conducted as a lightning war . we often forget this was the underlying strategy also on the german side that war would be over by christmas 1914. businessman and the economic press kept warning against a major war. the most freeing a statement appeared in the wall street journal as i mentioned before, the 28th of july, because it go to the position of not only of walberg but also generally of those of herbert spencer who mentioned earlier, and that was three days before the outbreak of the first world war. i quote the wall street journal. the whole world is engaged in business as never before. industrial germany in 30 years of power for outright is military germany. throughout the civilized world, towns have become cities, and priors succeeded the states, and the empire the moder

, for asian americans, hispanic americans when it comes to race relations, whether it's on the economic or civil rights side, whether they will push forward on reauthorizing parts of the voting rights act. everybody will be looking to this administration so see what they will do. because this really wasn't a huge topic for them during the campaign but now that he's the president of all america we will be looking to see what the administration has to say on these issues. host: there is ruth from wilmington, north carolina, independent line. caller: good morning. i am calling about the topic because i feel as though the question, first question wasn't framed correctly, and the idea of legacy of race relations under obama, president obama's legacy, i think that we focus too much also on that issue of race and not prejudice. and i feel as though the last caller who spoke about economics was very much on target. i called -- i attempted to get on in the first segment and i was going to -- and i called on the line that did not feel that race relations had improved. but i do know that there has

you look at the totality of the cabinet, indian-american, african-american, asian-american. you c if you look at the totality of people he is bringing in for senior staff positions, cabinet, we will have 5,000 positions. so i think you can pick out one subset but if you look at the totality of the diversity that he is bringing in this i would say it is probably something to hold up second to none. >> given that some of his comments about latinos and immigration is such a hot topic during the campaign why not make that a priority? >> i think it is a priority. i think it is a very narrow way to look at it and say if you don't appoint people to this particular position that's a problem. i just mentioned the level of diversity throughout the cabinet and staff. as we continue to announce this that problem will be something people look at and respect the level of diversity throughout his administration. >> [ inaudible ]. >> i'm not going to get ahead of the italian government. >> how many nominees do you expect to have confirmed and what conversations are you having to get the pro

, and higher american." a very protectionist stance, and we know he has strong views on trade. he said protectionism will work to make america stronger again. some of his trading allies might feel that protectionism is going to participate a trade war and be bad for the global economy. —— precipitate. countries like mexico have already felt the brunt of some of his tweets, i thinking perhaps particularly of ford, who decided to not move ahead with the planned factory in mexico. you‘re starting to see american companies talking about their decisions in that context. now, given the length of time companies take in making investment decisions, the timing of these sorts of announcements may not be as much to do with donald trump azimuth sides would like to portray, but there is also china, 2.6 million jobs, americanjobs but there is also china, 2.6 million jobs, american jobs rely but there is also china, 2.6 million jobs, americanjobs rely on china —— trade between china and the us, so they will be wa

throughout american history americans have worried about immigrants, feared feared immigrants, sometimes even hated immigrants. the dutch were very anti- english. they thought the english would ruin america and the place they had created. the english were anti- irish. by the mid-nineteenth 19th century new yorkers were very anti- catholic. later on the same immigrants, not only the ones that were anti- catholic but the ones discriminated against become anti-semites. and so on up to anti- muslim sentiment today. people's anti-immigrant sentiment once a gambit of emotions. as sometimes immigrants were condemned for being too conservative. other times they're condemned for being too radical. sometimes people complain sometimes people complain that immigrants take our jobs. other times new yorkers have to play that immigrants were part of a secret army plotting to destroy america. something we have heard throughout american history throughout new york history. the other theme of the book is that immigrants today really aren't any difference in an important sense than previous generations of

americans welcome this rededication to american security, liberty and prosperity. but the new leadership is incomplete without accountability. if accountability does not start with ourselves, we cannot credibly extend it to our friends and our adversaries. we must hold ourselves accountable to upholding the promises we make to others and an america that can be trusted in good faith is essential to supporting our partners, achieving our goals and assuring our security. we must hold our allies accountable to commitments they make. we cannot look the other way at allies who do not meet their obligations. this is an injustice not only to us, but to long-standing friends who honor their promises and bolster our own national security such as israel. we must hold those who are not our friends accountable to the agreements they make. our failure to do this over the recent decades has diminished our standing and encouraged bad actors around the world to break their word. we cannot afford to ignore violations of international accords as we have done with iran. we cannot cont

lewis is an american hero. he is the most heroic person to serve in this house maybe ever and don't forget this is an attack on him for doing what he calls good trouble. when the civil rights law said african-americans couldn't vote, he went to selma and he marched and he was beaten and he was arrested. and he led his democrats on the floor when we tried to find a way to get a vote through regular order on no fly, no buy if you were a terrorist on the terrorist list, you could not get a gun. john lewis is trying to protect america once again and taking to the floor of this house in protest. this is wrong. i support john lewis. i applaud you for taking your ethics proposal and ditching it. it was the wrong option and the wrong things to do. this is too. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas reserves? mr. sessions: continue to, thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker

republicans have always been the party of american industry and the american worker. we must embrace that heritage, rebuilding this country with american goods and american labor. and we've started. believe me. over the last couple of months. i would like to say i did about as much as anybody or more in terms of getting industry to start coming back to our country before i took office. but we have a lot of great news with ford and general motors and fiat chrysler and so many others. we have a lot of great news. lockheed is adding a lot of additional people. boeing. we have a lot of positive things happening. and it's really going to start bursting out. you'll start seeing it very soon. we want to get our people off of welfare and back to work. so important. it's out of control. it's out of control. and we believe that the world's best country ought to have the world's best infrastructure. it's what our people deserve, and it's what we will ensure they get. our infrastructure is in serious trouble. we will build new roads and highways and tunnels and airports and railw

in the end this is going to be borne by american consumers, american industries. just even those industries that are giving inputs from the mexican economy and using them in the development of finalized products in the united states t will make those products less competitive. it will have an impact on american jobs and consumer. there will be another debate of rhetoric of what a 20% farrive means. who is paying for it really. is it it it the country that is exporting or really the consumers in the other country. >> rose: now phil, will donald trump be able to argue that the 20% tariff, i will make enough money to build my wall and shut up? >> he might be able to. and i don't, maybe his supporters are going to want to hear that. but that tariff is going to trickle down to consumers here. and it's going to have other ramifications. it is going to complicate the trade relationship that a lot of u.s. companies have in mexico. >> rose: how popular is the mexican president with his own people. >> he's having a great deal of deficit as a result of corruption issues and

to help americans balance work and family life. and to drain the swamp of big money from our campaigns. all of these provisions of president-elect trump has pledged and we will seek common ground. but we will stand our ground wherever in good conscience we must. if there is an attempt to destroy the guarantee of medicare, harm medicare social security, or the affordable care act, democrats will stand ur ground. if there is an assault on clean air and clean water, on civil rights, women's rights, or lgbt rights, if dreamers and their immigrant families face a nightmare of deportation, democrats will stand our round. and if there is an attempt to silence our voices for commonsense gun violence prevention, with gabby giffords here in the chamber as our witness, democrats will stand ur ground. many of us just celebrated christmas. the birth of christ. and sharing in our humanity god enabled us to participate in divinity. y -- his this spark is acknowledged in every faith and tradition in recognizing the spark in others, we reaffirm it

there is excitement to get monkey off the back of american people, get the american people back to work. as it was written in that article, what the american people want dignity of work and earned success. they don't want wealth redistribution and handouts. they have a chance to put food on the table themselves, get country going again and have mobility for themselves. charles: john, the other side of this, america tried socialism for eight years, and they decided you know what? the nanny state doesn't work for me. >> that's right. to liz's point, we had a president, president obama who would talk about entrepreneurs say, if you built this business you didn't build that. how much more pessimistic can you be about things. now you got as she says, a cheerleader for america, and i think it is going to make a significant difference just in the willingness of companies and entrepreneurs to take a chance, put it out there, see how it goes. charles: i will go as far as saying we'll see reversal of household formation. birth rates went to all-time low last couple years, entrepreneurship at all-

to help americans balance work and family life. and to drain the swamp of big money from our campaigns. all of these provisions of president-elect trump has pledged and we will seek common ground. but we will stand our ground wherever in good conscience we must. if there is an attempt to destroy the guarantee of medicare, harm medicare social security, or the affordable care act, democrats will stand ur ground. if there is an assault on clean air and clean water, on civil rights, women's rights, or lgbt rights, if dreamers and their immigrant families face a nightmare of deportation, democrats will stand our round. and if there is an attempt to silence our voices for commonsense gun violence prevention, with gabby giffords here in the chamber as our witness, democrats will stand ur ground. many of us just celebrated christmas. the birth of christ. and sharing in our humanity god enabled us to participate in divinity. y -- his this spark is acknowledged in every faith and tradition in recognizing the spark in others, we reaffirm it

it will provide an enduring legacy as a gift to the american people. it will be a museum and caretaker for diplomatic who work to promote american interest. there will be an educational center and first mu -- i have been a passion of advocates since the inception and like many of you here tonight feel pref legen privilege today know a reality. i appreciate all of the work it took to build it, sincerely james a. baker iii [ applause ] >>> it is my pleasure to introduce al bright. >> definitely height challenged. thank you very much, pat for the introduction but thank you very much for everything you have done for department and for all of us. secretary kerry, secretary clinton, secretary powell and former state department colleagues and distinguish g guests, i am truly delighted to be here with all of you and greatful to appear in person and not as an exhibit, at least not yet. having been secretary when the idea was originally proposed i can say without hesitation that this day is most welcomed. and for many people to recognize and thank i want to sing

and it is not just my belief, it is the beating heart of our american idea. the conviction that we are created equal. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. the insistence that these rights while self-evident have never been self executed. that we, the people, through the instrument of our democracy can form a more perfect union. the great gift that our founders gave to us. the freedom to chase our individual dreams to our sweat and toils. our nation's call to citizenship have given worked together. it is what led pioneers to go west and make shift railroad to freedom. it is what pulled immigrants in the rio grand. it is what pushed women. we have shown the capacity to change and make life better for those that follow. our progress has been uneasy. the work of democracy has been hard. it is always been contentious. sometimes it has been bloody. for every two steps forward. we feel we take one step back. but the long sweep of america has been defined by forward motion. a constant widening of our founding creed to embrace all and not just some. [ cheering

it's really astonishing when you stand back and look at the american army on the eve of the american civil war. the army had only about 16,000 men in it. most of them were out west picking fights with native americans. when lincoln, following the firing at fort sumter, lincoln calls for 75,00 75,000 voluntee. that is a fivefold expansion in the size of the army. it's going to require explosive growth overnight. you have a country that is designed to equip, feed, clothe and transixteen thousand troops. it is now being to do all of that times five. answer cameron faces really unprecedented challenges administratively, that none of his predecessors had ever seen. in addition, he's cutting against a pervasive american fear of standing armies. americans have an anti-military tradition. i want to keep the army small because if they don't army might be used to strip away their rights. cameron is now time to grow the army by a factor of five overnight. he's got this bureaucracy of the war department that is divided into these eight bureaus, sort of overseen by these ancient generals, most of

they expressed american common determination to achieve goals. they imply action and in most cases, you have already begun that action. but not fully completed of course. let me speak for a moment about these commitments, and i'm going to the speak in the language that the congress, itself, spoke when they passed these h measures. i am going the quote from your words. in 1966, congress declared that the improving the quality of urban life is the most critical domestic problem facing the united states. two years later, it affirmed the historic goal of a decent home for every american family, and that is your language. and now, to meet these commitments, we must increase our support for the model cities' program where the change is already being prepared for more than 150 american citizen, and to achieve the goals of the housing act of 1958 that you just passed, we should begin this year more than 500,000 homes for needy families in the coming fisle cal year and funds are provided for the new budget to do just this. [ applause ] and this is almost

the armed drone. >> never before in american history has an american president had the technology and the legal authority to hunt down any person anywhere on the face of the earth and kill them. >> there was a surreal selection process that became known as the kill list. >> they would have bios and pictures of these people. some came to be called sort of baseball cards of terrorists. and a decision was made to put them on the list or not put them on the list. >> carrying out the campaign of killing was the president's cia director, leon panetta. obama gave him plenty of latitude. when obapanetta wanted to expan the drones, the president over the objections, told him, the u.s. gets what it wants. >> al qaeda's second in command has been killed. >> killed by a u.s. drone strike. >> drones got the job done. >> reported drone strike. >> al qaeda's senior leadership was decimated. >> the joke became that they once again killed the number three guy in al qaeda. >> president obama had become the drone president. >> very controversial drone program. >> killed. >> killed in the drone attack. >

and then you have americans from the united states coming into what is now california. those are overland narratives, and it describes in 1828, and overland trip into california. havef the rarest items we officer whopanish exploring the california coast -- this is the first spanish edition of the war from 7090 and is a very rare and probably will. ands go back to the 1790's were california fits within the larger sort of holdings of spain. at that time, california was part of new spain. the seat of power was mexico, far to the south of where we are standing. they were very concerned about sharing geographical information about this outpost -- which was sparsely populated. of course, the missions were already here. but there weren't very many people living here. issuesere communications , and the distance meant they did not really have full control over the coast. was cognizant of this. they sent their area's military toeditions in the 1790's gather information to get a better hold on the situation and they were concerned about other european powers coming in and taking o

the american people spoke decisively and wanted change. i promise them this friday come we're going to make america great again. >> there's a distinction about that feeling with the press and that the senate intelligence committee is doing. just to button up one question -- did anybody in the trump campaign have any contact with the russians who were trying to meddle in the election? >> of course not. and i think to suggest that is to give credence to some of these -- of these bizarre rumors that have swirled around the candidacy. the fact that a few news organizations, not this one, actually trafficked in a memo that was produced as opposition research and associated that with intelligence efforts, i think could only be attributed to media bias. as i said this week at the press conference, the american people are tired of it. we're coming into this week with a great sense of optimism. the american people know that we can have government in washington, d.c. as good as our people. we can get this economy moving again, rebuild our military.

more than 40 million americans did not have health insurance. millions were stuck with coverage that would not actually protect them if they get sick, and costs were rising at an unsustainable rate rate, making coverage unaffordable for families, nuisances, and the federal budget. so we have two address three key issues at once. we had to expand access to coverage, improve its quality, and start making coverage more affordable. access, quality, and affordability. we took on all three. and today we can measure the nations progress with the affordable care act. on access, the uninsured rate has dropped below 9%. the lowest rate ever in our nation. [applause] >> and that is partly due to the continued growth of the marketplaces. so far this year, eight point 8 million people have gotten coverage to healthcare.gov, more than last year, and we set a new record for the most sign-ups in a single day. it's also do to the 31 states and d.c. that expanded their medicaid program program, and tt number may soon be 32, since north carolina just announced its

as with so many other americans. roosevelt remained a fan as he graduated from politics and branched out west to become an increasingly visible public figure. in 1895, shortly because for -- shortly before he became a dozen of the police commissioner james o'neill a letter to walter camp. it is a great letter and i will read about 300 words from. -- from it. here is what he said. for your championship of athletics, they met on the farm and in the workshop here as in other countries is an -- at enough to get is a coworker. we were trying to produce sedentary classes. i think he is worried about videogame watching. from this, the athletic spirit has saved us. of all games, i personally like football the best. i would rather see my voice plate than see them play any other. i have no patience with the people who did claim against it because it necessitates rough play and occasional injuries. the rough play is confined within family and honorable limits. it is a good thing to have personal contact about which the new york

four major areas where americans get healthcare insurance. 18% of americans get medicare. one is employer insurance, 61% of americans get their insurance on the job. one is medicaid and one is which is 22%, one is the individual market only 6% and the exchanges we hear so much about are just 4% of that 6% but that's where so much of the turmoil is. let me ask you this. is this the bill, any effort to replace and repeal obamacare, is this the bill to reform medicare? >> absolutely not. >> so we would be focused on employer, medicaid and individual insurance. are those accurate categories or would you categorize them in a different way? >> the challenges that we have to address immediately are those in the individual market and in the medicaid market as you identified. >> is it possible to work on one of those areas at a time? rather than in a comprehensive -- let me put it this way. don't expect senator mcconnell to wheel in a wheelbarrow with a big comprehensive republican healthcare plan because, in my opinion, we don't believe in that. we don't believe in replacing a fai

and so while less than 1% of americans may be fighting our wars, 100% of americans can do their parts, at the very least, to support you and your families. everybody can do something, every business, every profession, every school, every, community, every state, to reach out and to give back, and to let you know that we care, to help make the lives of our troops ano your families just a little bit easier.family just everybody can do something. and that's why michelle and jill biden have mobilized moree americans to honor and support you and your families through joining forces. and that's why, even after we leave the white house, michelle. and i intend to keep on looking for ways to help rally more of our fellow citizens to be there for you, just like you've always been there for us. so we can't say it enough and we can't show it enough. it thank you for your patriotism.ou thank you for your professionalism. thank you for your character inu representing the very best of the american spirit.est of our nation endures, we live free under the red, white and blue, l because of patriots lik

american exceptionalism doesn't mean american perfectionism. and the idea that we have been specially protected in this country doesn't mean we've always deserved it. there are times when the manifestly have not and there are issues on which we manifestly have not. but one of the problems with so much of what you get in education today, particularly history in education, isn't this long litany of complaints about america. america has spoiled the environment and native americans lived in perfect harmony with nature, which by the way is not true, and things were at peace, like eden and in the white man came and everything was rude and everything was spoiled and everyone was exploded and everything was cruel and miserable. okay, that's wrong. it's also wrong on the other side to say that from the very moment that people first came to jamestown, that they were righteous end of a good and everything, lived in harmony, it's history. but the important point that i would share with the high school students is that history is more exciting, more meaning

so, while less than 1% of americans may be fighting our wars, 100% of americans can be behind them, support you and your families. .verybody can do something every business, every profession, every school, every community, every state, to reach out and give back and let you makethat we care, to help the lies of our troops and their families just a little bit easier. everybody can do something. that is why michelle and joe biden are mobilizing americans to honor and support you and your families through joining forces. even after we leave the white house, ship -- michelle and i will into new looking for ways to help our federal -- our fellow citizens to be there for you like you have always been there for us. can't say it enough, and we can't show with enough, thank you for your patriotism. thank you for your professionalism. thank you for your character. representing the very best of american spirit. .ur nation endures we live free under the red, white, and blue because of patriots like you. it has been a privilege of a lifetime to serve with you. i have learned much from you. i am a better

we have lost the respect of americans here. there is a sense that our democratic system and the institutions have failed us and i see nothing in the last "48 hours" to indicate that any of this is going to be addressed in the coming weeks or months. >> dickerson: susan, secretary graham, i am sorry, senator graham, i gave him an elevation there, senator graham, beliefs in going forward with sanctions bill against russian, sets up not just a debate but real things. what do you think is going to happen? mitch mcconnell has to put a bill in front of the president the president doesn't seem to like. >> we don't know that will happen. senator graham says if the vote were tomorrow he would get 75 votes in the senate, but the vote is not tomorrow and president trump has some ability to lobby republicans in the senate as well. but i do think this could be an early flash point between the congress, especially in the senate, and the new white house, because there is a consensus, there is a republican consensus among republicans and democ

it puts americans abroad, american communities at home and american soldiers around the world at risk, and i believe that steve bannon, who might become a member of the national security council, was the architect of that executive order. mr. speaker, i ask president trump if he's not willing to remove mr. bannon from the white house, at least for the safety of this country, remove him from the national security council. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentlelady is recognized. >> i thank the speaker. mr. speaker, i rise this afternoon really with a very, very sad and heavy heart. ms. eshoo: i don't know anyone in our country who watched what took place across the country that wasn't dismayed, that wasn't heart broken, that wasn't confused, and as my constituents said, what is happening in our country. now, there are some that say this must be done. this executive order must be done in the name of national security. i'm a veteran of the house

even in those headwinds, 8.8 million americans signed up. that is just in the marketplace for federal, soon we will also include the marketplace for state-based. we hit a record for most sign-ups. most individuals when they took surveys by external consumer groups said their coverage was satisfactory. are there things that need to be improved? are there places where more repetition will help? and more affordability? yes. but the idea of disaster in collapse, i think those need to be examined. host: maybe you could elaborate, the idea that republicans will repeal obamacare and delay it for a couple years. with some kind of replacement to come down the road. you talked about the impact that would have on the health-care system. also impacts you mentioned a minute ago. people worried about what to do. can you elaborate? sec. burwell: some of you may have seen, the president did an interview with fox, an interview and there was a woman from kentucky who actually had signed many people up for the affordable care act. voted for the president-elect

he has also called the american civil liberties union and the naacp un-american and communist-inspired. in 1986, sessions was denied confirmation for a federal judgeship by a republican-controlled senate committee over his racist comments. amy: this week's sit-in came as more than 1000 law school professors sent a letter to congress urging lawmakers to reject sessions' confirmation, writing -- "nothing in senator sessions' public life since 1986 has convinced us that he is a different man than the 39-year-old attorney who was deemed too racially insensitive to be a federal district court judge." sessions' confirmation hearing is scheduled for january 10 and 11. for more, we go to washington, d.c., where we're joined by cornell william brooks, president and ceo of the naacp. also longtime human rights advocate, civil rights lawyer, and minister. welcome to democracy now! before we go to talk about another story, which is what is happening in the sentencing of dylan roof, let's talk about your physician on bill sessions, on william sessions on jeff sessions, sorry. the senator of alabama

morning, president of the the american federation of government employees. i want to show our viewers first what sean spicer, the white house secretary had to say -- the reason why the president went forward with this, and get your reaction on the other side. guest: sure. [video clip] spicer: encounters genetic expansion of the it counters- expansion of the workforce. it does not apply to military personnel, and it ensures the american taxpayers get effective and efficient government. host: j. david cox. guest: number one, the number of federal employees has been very much flat lined at 50 years right at 2 million employees. it was that many during the kennedy administration. it went up or down just a small fraction. what has increased through the years started in the reagan administration, the shadow workforce of the contract federal workforce, which is approximately 5 million people nowadays. so, the federal workforce has not actually grown. while theflat lined, needs and services of the american public have continued to grow. host: who does the hiring fre

it gives away american influence. it will be a weak policy by the united states, not a strong policy. >> yang: heather conley, is this sort of singsly sort of offering to accept the annexation of crimea in exchange for something else? was this a business deal? >> exactly. we're talking about two separate things. the sanction relate to the annexation of crimea and the invasion of eastern ukraine. a nuclear arms agreement, let's step back a minute, russia has been in violation of the i.m.f. treaty many years. steps have not been taken to address those violations. we have seen announcements of russian tactical weapons near n.a.t.o. borders, now near u.s. troops. we do need to address this but we're mixing apples and oranges here. again, nuclear stability, i agree, is very important, but right now, and i thought president-elect trump mentioned he wants to strengthen america's nuclear arsenal, perhaps i misunderstood, so are we reducing? are we increasing? but we have to watch very carefully russia's military modernization

every american should worry about this. it's the democrats today, it could be the republicans party. none of us should be gleeful when a foreign entity hacks into our political system to interfere with our elections, and that's what the russians did. that's what the russians did, and i hope on friday president-elect trump comes to that realization. he should condemn julian assange for putting our soldiers and foreign policy at risk. julian assange is no friend of america and no friend of democracy. >> clearly he's not doing that, the president-elect is citing him right now in his statements. you said i hope no american will be duped by julian assange. do you think the president of the united states has been duped? >> i don't know. all i can tell you is i hope he listens to the intelligence briefing. i'm sure he will. all 17 intelligence agencies have come to the same conclusion. you don't have to be sherlock holmes to figure out what the russians are up to, they're trying to break the backbone of democracies throughout the

let's make sure we know where americans, we are, know we are americans first. the process of elections, the politics is behind us, or it should be. the election is over. donald trump has been elected. he is our incoming president. we should all want, no matter who our president is, to be the best they can be, to be successful, because if they do well, our country does extremely well, my state of west virginia does extremely well, so i am going to work and try in the most productive manner to make sure we are moving in the right direction and i will always do that a. >> dickerson: senator, what do you think of congressman john lewis's decision not to attend the inauguration and some other of his colleagues making that same decision? >> >> john, i have not the utmost respect for congressman lewis. he is an icon, if you will, and we all have the most respect for him. i just think that was uncalled for. maybe -- i just wish that rhetoric would tone down. from both back and forth. the bottom line is, if we are concerned about the russians and we know russians want t

republicans have always been the party of american industry and the american worker. we must embrace that heritage. rebuilding this country with american goods and american labor. and we've started, believe me. over the last couple of months. i don't know, i'd like to say i did about as much as anybody or more in terms of getting industry to start coming back to our country before i took office. but we have a lot of great news with ford and general motors and fiat chrysler and so many others. we have a lot of great news, lockheed is adding a lot of different people, a lot of additional people, bowing. we have a lot of positive things happening, and it's really going to start bursting out, you will start seeing it very soon. we want to get our people off of welfare and back to work. so important. it's out of control. it's out of control. and we believe that the world's best country ought to have the world's best infrastructure. it's what our people deserve. and it's what we will ensure they get. our infrastructure is in serious trouble. we will build new roads and high

watch. >> the american dream is back. we are going to create an environment for small businesses like we haven't had in many, many decades. this is not on -- this is a knock on everybody. >> so far wall street has embraced the trump presidency, though the markets were down today over what experts called the uncertainty surrounding the president's immigration order. >> tucker: well, trace gallagher, thanks a lot. the refugee story is giving one of america's hottest companies a grand opportunity for more posturing. the ceo of huber said our company is always standing up for what is right, it he pledged to use uber's lawyers for the ban. the company's entire business model relies on using illegal loopholes to deny drivers health coverage or an offense. and over executive once called for the targeting of families of critical journalists and then leaking their personal information online as a form of intimidation. perhaps uber is not the ideal company to giving the rest of us sanctimonious lectures. get back to us, if you woul

what is the legacy of the pan-american exposition. i think that it's time for us to think beyond mckinley he was an important man and obviously got monuments to him. it's something that i think it was pretty oppressed impressive accomplishment. we can point to the event that write about. that they struggle for social justice. for fair treatment of animals. in a quality they did get started in buffalo but they gave them an opportunity to be discussed and be challenged and they marked the beginnings of the conversation about social justice that went on and continued to go on until this day. the pan american exposition occurred at a time when we weren't a globally interconnected world they were really one of the great ways for the world to know what other cultures and societies were doing. do you still feel like that for world affairs. why not. i think i've done some looking up and exploring why we don't have world affairs and talk to people who said the olympic takes the place of the world fair. or disney world takes the place of the mi

>> we're going to put the safety of americans first. we're not going to wait and react, as i said in the statement. the president's going to be very pro-active with protecting this country. we're not going to wait until we get attacked and make sure it doesn't happen again. he's going to do everything in his power to stop every threat we face in this country and every potential threat. and that's the key point in this. how do we get ahead of threats? how do we keep america ahead of the curve when it comes to people who want to do us harm? that's what the president's done. he's made sure that every way possible we get down the path of securing this country, putting america's safety and security first and foremost, bar none. major garrett. >> sean, you suggested over the weekend, as well as steven miller, the action taken on the executive order might have been related to some specific intelligence, that it was necessary to prevent something from president and any questions about why a certain agencies may not have been briefed up could ha

the american miracle. his nickname in south philadelphia, really, real, really, and i knew people who still refer now dad this way, his nickname was tumoral. sayre are medved had a tumor and it was the dad. my dad grew up with people who had never been to school. he was kind of a star and won the mayor yo scholarship in philadelphia and then fought in bar and then went to in university of pennsylvania and undergraduate and two masters degrees and a ph.d in physics. he has an amazing life. and the one thing that he never ever shied away from was a sense of wonder and blessing and destiny. about this parents coming to this country. the first american born child and he was conceived right after my grandmother came in to the united states of america. this random new life, this lan of fresh starts, this amazing, blessed, spectacular land. my dad was 22 when i was born. and he used to take me around in philadelphia to historic sites. to independence hall where both to the discussion and theto declaration of inde