jefferson said i know no safe depository than the people themselves. if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion through education. ofs is the true corrective abuses through constitutional power. these amendments are not solutions. dirt -- true directive is education. the founders did not live in the past. to the future greatness of all mankind. byreatness that comes liberty and virtue, not by bondage and coercion. we too must learn these timeless principles, look to our future, and reach what mankind may become and pursue your american dream. thank you. [applause] >> please welcome president of the center of self-governance, mark kerr. >> we are a people losing our inherited visions of the american dream. no one seems to be able to .ommunicate this dream it seems no one can agree to what the american dream is or how to reach it. communicatery to this dream we are on such different sheets of music that our american harmony is shattered.

before that, washington, jefferson, all of the founding fathers warned against a central bank renting money. they would bankrupt the company -- the country. if all of these people calling in think that they will be able just wait themselves, about five or 10 years. with 17 trillion in the hole now, when the world loses confidence in the u.s. dollar, you will see the biggest crash in the history of mankind. host: there are seven things to know about the president's budget. president obama's budget sees the debt shrinking. if all of the policies were and -- implemented. by comparison, the budget office compares the current policies would lead to the debt rising to 79% of the rise -- the size of the economy by 2024. we will keep getting your thoughts here this morning on the president's 2015 budget blueprint. in other news, the wall street journal reports on the affordable care act. insurers are expecting another extension for their old policy. health plans that don't meet the law's requirements could be renewed. for ald be another delay year, according to "the wall street journal." also

we do our part and we go through the motions but jefferson's weual is not a part of what are doing here. abraham lincoln's adage can be proved again once more. you can fool some of the people all the time. a strong press paying attention to the government helps us not to do that. thank you very much. >> question. said thatay, you chairman issa disrespected you and now you're calling on him to apologizing and now they're saying it is your conduct and you should be apologizing. >> i said it was not going to get caught up in the issue of much ofct because i see this as a distraction. that's what i said. know, if i apologize, i apologize for the fact that the chairman could have yesterday from theproffer attorney and failed to do so. good have you information. i apologize for the committee not addressing issues that the american people wanted to address, like the target credit card fiasco. mortgage lenders who have admitted that they have failed the american people. hospitals, most of which in the united states have a shortage of life-saving drugs. these are the kinds of issues that we ough

grovercoolidge, cleveland, thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, barry goldwater, ron paul, ronald reagan, john f. kennedy, ted cruz, senator rand paul. he goes on to say analyze that. facebook.com/c-span. a lot names being posted and a lot of comments. join right there all day. peter is calling from fairfax, virginia. caller: hello. i wanted to remind all that theers to a number that united states is not this to be a democracy. majority rule. the u.s. is a constitutional republic with democratically elected representatives to enforce the law. on that note, my favorite can paul. is rand conservatives have to realize if there is not a rand paul type candidate out there, there is a large block of libertarian type thinking americans that will theably use one of important things we have that pj 'rourke reminds us of. conservatives need to realize this. i don't think they understand. thank you. speakingd paul will be today following this program. we will be live at cpac he getting at -- we will be live at cpac he getting at about 10:10 eastern time. from politico, kirsten l assaultd's sexually

now we have proven president jefferson right as we live under the imperial president whose highness, barack hussein obama -- [applause] to liveus feel blessed in the freest country in history , and even though we are still writing the story of america, it is not a fairy with a guaranteed happy ending. if our political kingdom destined to become some cruel and corrupt house of cards? murdered 55 million babies. we are leaving the next generation $17 trillion in debt with blatant disregard for their future and livelihood. is this the freedom our founding fathers envisioned? the good news is that it is not too late. whether you are aware of it or not, you are here because you are called to the greater purpose. you want your life to count. you have a value far greater than what the culture would have you believe. we still have the freedom with internal significance, freedom to choose what we believe. what you believe determines the direction of your life and ultimately your destiny. every one of us has the power to reject the poisoned apple in this fairytale and denied the fleeting pleas

president bush looked in his eyes and saw something akin to thomas jefferson, when he should have seen something more akin to catherine the great or ivan the terrible. that russia wants to live by international norms and abide by international law, that vladimir putin is an aspiring democrat, when, in fact, he is a very convinced autocrat who thinks that the way we try to govern the world -- the idea of international community -- is very silly and he will take advantage of that. in 2008, he chopped off a piece of georgia. we could say they could have but they chopped off a part of a such a, and they still control it -- they chopped and theyt of ossetia, still control it. >> why does this matter to the united states and the west? should we care? tell us why. >> we better care. one thing, putin is deciding what he is going to do next. this is not the extent of his ambition. we do not want to see a crisis next in latvia, lithuania, poland, other parts of eastern europe. we need to think about whether we are going to send a strong message of our own or a weak message. he is not the only ty

president bush famously looked into putin's eyes and saw in his sole something akin to thomas jefferson when he should've seen something to ivan the terrible or catherine the great. recess with a russia which assumes the new question, that russia wants to live by international norms, that they want to abide international law. vladimir putin is an aspiring democrat, when in fact he is a very convinced autocrat who thinks that the way we try to govern the world, this idea of an international community is very silly. in 2008 he chopped off a piece of georgia. --you listen to condi rice now they're going to chop off at least the crimea from the ukraine. >> let me ask you this. why does this matter to the united states and to the west? should we care about what is happening? tell us why. >> we better care. now, president putin is deciding what he should do next. this is not the extent of his ambitions. we better think out whether or not we're going to send a strong message of our own, or whether we sent a weak message. he is not the only tyrant in the world who's looking at this and learning

president bush famously looked eyes and saw something akin to thomas jefferson when he should've seen something terrible. we had the reset with russia which assumed what was in your question that russia wants to live by international norms and wants to abide by international law, that vladimir putin is an aspiring democrat when in fact, he is a very convinced autocrats who thinks the way we try to govern the world, the idea of an international community, is very silly and he will take advantage of that. in 2008, he chopped off a piece of georgia. now they will chop off at least the crimea from ukraine. does this matter to the united states and to the west? should we care about what is happening? >> we better care because putin is deciding what else he will do next. this is not the extent of his ambitions. we don't want to see a crisis next him latvia or lithuania or perhaps in poland or other parts of eastern europe. we better think about whether we will send a strong message of our own or a weak message. he is not the only tyrant in the world looking at this and learning lessons. amo

we will go right to myron waiting in jefferson iowa on a line for independents. caller: good morning. thank you. i had a comment. it is about the senators. if they didn't do this overnight , we would never know about climate change. my gosh. the cable news is don't talk about it. the mainstream media definitely never talks about it. you can't find one article. i think if they really got looking close, they might look at that airplane that disappeared and they might find that it might have something to do with climate change. it is ridiculous. people can call us, people who do not believe in this, that it is a money scam, all the names they want. thank you. host: we have a call from new york on our for independents. -- on our new line for independents. caller: there hasn't been much fact. there's been a lot of talking points and opinions. i think it is very important there definitely is an effect on our environment. more importantly, we have a very big problem in this country with jobs, unemployment and with health care. as one of the original people that their pl

those words, written by thomas jefferson, the first democrat to be called, mr. president, captured the very essence of today' very bill. it is our duty and even the oath that we take before god to protect the religious freedoms of every american. obamacare does not do that, and today's bipartisan measure is a small but necessary step if congress is to honor the great tradition of religious liberty, enshrined in our founding documents and extended to succeeding generations of americans by law. thank you, mr. speaker, and with that i urge passage of h.r. 1814 and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois yeemeds back the balance of his time -- yields back the balance of his time. all time having expired on h.r. 18 14, the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, h.r. 1814. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

no doubt madison, jefferson and other framers understood that allowing a concentration of power of one branch was a recipe of crayos and instability. so if congress does not act and fails to hold a president accountable for executing the laws as written, how can we expect citizens to have any respect of the law as passed by this chamber? therefore, i urge my colleagues to support this bill, to restore and preserve the del can't constitutional balance among the three branches of our frl system and take an important step of restoring the confidence of the public in our government. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, it's the asure to grant the gentlelady from california, ms. love -- to grant the gentlelady from california, ms. lofgren, who is the ranking member of the immigration subcommittee on judiciary, three minutes. the chair: the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. ms. lofgren: mr. speaker, in the committee report from the -- that accompanies these bills, on page 13 and 14, there are three items that the major

billy in jefferson city, missouri. democrat line. caller: good morning. my comment is the way the president goes about mandating .ealth care let's mandate a wage increase and make employers pay employees more for his own political gains. starting thean is king days. host: kenneth from facebook saying this -- "this goes back to both parties'full-fledged support of globalization." you can give those thoughts on facebook, twitter and the phones as well. here is vincent in tulsa, oklahoma. republican line. the emperor has no clothes. columbus, ohio. independent line. caller: good morning. i just wanted to say, the has a dysfunctional congress. can do something with the power of the pen to move the country forward. if you listen to most of the argument over here against this proposal, there's a lot of rattling around his point. they don't want to support the president. will find athey workaround to hire people to do the work for 10 hours. if there is a workaround to hire more people, that's creating more jobs. that's what we need here. jobs or payte more the p

the late i'm a great jimmy stewart's character, jefferson smith, ed come to washington full of national pride and wonder and yet in a short time, he has been framed and scandalized by the forces of washington corruption. he is about to be banished from the u.s. senate. in a pivotal scene, he stands with his suitcase in hand, statuely sobbing in the -- in the shadow of the statue of abraham lincoln. he is implored to resist the forces of corruption. she says the following -- your friend, mr. lincoln, had his enemies. so did every other man who try to lift his thoughts up off the ground. odds against them did not stop them. they were fools that way. all the good that ever came into the world came from. faith like that. they're not all tailored in washington. that kind just throw big shadows. you do not have faith in any other living man. you had faith in something other than that. you had decent, everyday, common rightness and the country can use that. you said mr. lincoln was sitting up there waiting for someone to come along. you're right. he was waiting for men to see his job and saili

thomas jefferson was the preeminent scientist of his day. size andpple with the ask the basic questions. i did -- i think the scientific -- ance is overwhelmingly overwhelming consensus that the climate is changing in ways that negatively impact the planet and humans have a significant defect. not the only effect. there are plenty of others. we'll continue. human effect is significant. when i hear from witnesses or anybody who contacts me about this when not grapple with the signs who denies it or pretense have as -- pretends, i hard time taking deposition. -- taking that position. i think any organization should only yes or no. you can acknowledge some continued debate. i think people should take a position on the science and all willingness to take a position troubles me. i think those of us making decisions about we have to started their and take a position. i think the science is clear. i have lived and i am seeing it. sea levels are rising. there are people i know who live in homes that they cannot sell them now. they were built 100 yea

hamilton and thomas jefferson had battles about whether to create a central bank. they came up with a compromise. jefferson was a farmer in virginia who didn't trust banks and didn't trust the big banks and new york who tended to charge exorbitant interest rates on farm interests in rural areas. xander hamilton was a banker who lived in new york. he wanted to have a central bank to help the government finance the borrowings that it took on during the revolutionary war. -- alexander hamilton was a banker. they came up with a cover my eyes that created the first banks in the united states. -- they came up with a compromise. one of the compromises was having the capital right here in washington. hamilton wanted it in new york. capitaleed but the right outside of virginia in return for creating a bank in the united states. these fights over the central bank have been going back and forth for years. andrew jackson illuminated the second bank in the united states. there was a financial crisis in washingtonalarmed and wall street and led to the creation of the fed in 1913

thomas jefferson may have been a right-wing nuts. but if you look at what this president is doing right now trying to tramp will on those freedoms the hobby lobby case is where those rights converge. to our job creators. this is a business that wants to run and provide services to people. a few locations in my district. wife likes going to hobby lobby but shouldn't be faced with the dilemma. whether or not they are going to violate their own religious freedoms in this country. nobody should be faced with the threat of our government taking away their religious freedom just to be able to operate as a business and that is happening right now with the president. and not limited to businesses. if you look at what is happening, the president likes to talking about a war on women, he loves to divide this country to divide, how shameless that is. and where is the president's war? it is against the little cyst ders of the poor, a catholic order of nuns that are trying to do good. they are forced to sue the federal government because barack o

jefferson said that. i don't want to put myself in that category. i'm hoping ken starr will say that. >> i think you should applaud what he said. that's very important. can tell me what i can and cannot do. i love religion. i love religions i'm not a part of. i read religious books. involved in religion in many ways. if i lived in a country where they told me what religion i had to practice and how, i would be religions worst enemy. i would be fighting tooth and nail and i want to keep it that way. don't ask for the help of the government. don't ask for help of the state. do a better job. religionere and make more relevant to the life of young people. don't create conflict between the rights of women and the rights of religion, the rights of gays and the rights of religion, the rights of other dissenters and the rights of religion. you're going to lose many of those battles unfortunately. you're going to have to figure out a way to make people love what you are doing. we just had a conversation before this began with two wonderful people, evangelica

i'm almost sure that thomas jefferson cast an eye across the atlantic when he uttered these words in 1821 when greece declared their independence and i quote, the flames kindled on the fourth of july, 1776 have not spread over much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of dess petism. on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them. it is no coincidence that the feats of the enunesiation, a commemoration of the conception of jesus christ, which chosen to ignite the action for independence. i'm blessed to be of two cultures that have been beacons of liberty for all of civilization. the place of my birth, the land of the free and the home of the brave, the united states of america. and the land of my ancestors, the birthplace of democracy, the hellenic republic. many greeks fought for years, pledging to their heritage, culture and faith. a bishop raised the emblem of freedom for helens. the flag baring a white cross and nine blue and white stripes representing the nine letters in freedom. eight years of bloodshed and attle led to the treaty of and

koskinen, as i said the declaration of independence, written largely initially the first draft by thomas jefferson but it was subject to an editorial committee. he didn't like that. he thought his words were pretty good. among those words were, americans were entitled to life, liberty, now hear the editorial committee did not act. he said, and the pursuit of happiness. but it sounds like some people would substitute that, unfettered and unquestioned access to 501(c)3 and 501(c)(4) stacks extell status. do you read that in the declaration of independence? >> i don't read that -- >> no it doesn't read that way. so it's not really an explicit entitlement or right. it's a process you have to qualify for, is that correct? >> correct. >> there are many different ways of trying to figure out how somebody qualifies, and whether they qualify, is that correct? >> yes. >> and by and large, historically, irs has had a standard operating procedure for determining those -- that status. either 501(c)3 or 501(c)(4) or other status. is that correct? >> correct. >> in this particular case, what we're all excited ab

sector investments will be made in new and existing plants and projects in allen paris, beauregard, and jefferson davis. hersh is that people on this committee have probably never heard of, and people in america have never heard of it either. but these are real places with real people. a 100 mile stretch between ican, lafayette, and lake charles, louisiana. that investment would create 37,000 new jobs, high-paying jobs. willerica, lng exports drive domestic production and create jobs. there are are also a powerful geopolitical tool, particularly in light of russia's it illegal aggression in the ukraine. events have shown that putin is intent on using his monopoly on energy supplies to pressure our to advance hise economic and philosophical agenda. last week, russia sanctions nine officials. i was one of them. being sectioned by president putin is a badge of honor for me and the people i represent. it has only encouraged me to redouble my efforts to increase domestic energy production in the united states and make the u.s. a global leader in energy exports. america can and should be an energy supe