sandra henriquez will talk about national housing. we will examine how employers are implementing the health care law enacted earlier this year. "washington journal" is next. . .

just as democrats and fighting to hold on to their majority in an election are ready defined by mistrust of washington. ethics is one of the issues that concern -- november election -- the federal page of "the washington post" has this headline. also the front page of "the wall street journal" has this had line. birmingham, michigan, mike on

the republican line. which issue will impact your vote in november? caller: yes, it well. i want to thank c-span for what you are doing. as a republican, i am very much disappointed how much -- the things the republicans are doing. you can't vote against extending my on and on the benefits and then both -- vote for the continued tax reduction for the 2 percent of the rich. i think i will have to go with the democrats this time because the republicans have turned into a party of no, no solutions for anything. just hating, hating. it doesn't do anything. i was just talking to my son --

he is happy because of that attitude is that, you know, he is 24 and now he's got a couple of years of extended health benefits. i just think the republicans are not doing anything for the people and they are just raising sand and coming out of any type of solution. host: we will go to barbara, kansas city, democratic line. caller: good morning. i was calling to comment on your subject this morning. i would like to say that my biggest concern eased jobs. i have a couple of daughters who are out of work. one worked really hard to finish college while she was pregnant and had the baby at the same time she finished. so it is disappointing for her. i would like to say that that is why i and going to vote for barack obama party began, the democrats, because i feel he is working very hard to try to solve the problems while the republicans of doing nothing to

help at all. they are like petulant children. i would never vote for a republican anyway now that i see exactly how they are because they are just, they don't have the country's best interest at heart. they are very selfish people. i don't know, they just, i just don't understand where they are coming from and a lot of them that are poor or and lower middle class, they vote against their own best interests. host: lettuce and from an independent. re from georgia. what do you think -- let us hear from an independent. ray of georgia. caller: i am thinking the irs is wrong. the classified american workers as not pack -- capital -- you are either a farm animal, slate, or communist. host: what does this have to do with the november elections? caller: there is a candidate in georgia and he is running on that issue, for the united

states senate against donny isaacson, and i will vote for him. he is an independent. his name is gene host: there is a story in the front page of "detroit news." candidates on the prowl for undecided. keep your eye on that. we will talk about it tomorrow morning. richard, republican line. caller: good morning. program note -- could you repeat the lineup at the beginning of a program like you used to? because a lot of the switch over from another program and it is right at the top of the hour. my question on jobs is due before the election is -- i think that the democrats are

saying jobs because they don't want to say private sector jobs. the important thing is to put private sector on jobs because all of the stimulus jobs to be created are going to the government, and they're asking for more and more pay and they are driving taxes up on the property owners. and all of these jobs and still going to have their high pay at the end of this recession, and it is not really helping the private sector. the practice should be private sector jobs and not these big government jobs from the stimulus. host: back to the democratic line. georgia. good morning. caller: i am voting democrat because i am sick of the republicans blocking everything that they tried to get accomplished in congress and they've got no solutions for no problems. and all they do is come on their

what they're talking points. host: all right. the previous caller mentioned the lineup for today's "washington journal." at 7:45 a.m. we will continue to up in the economy with mark zandi, independent economy with moody's. he and alan blinder did a report on stimulus and government intervention, tarp included in that, and they have found that the government intervention did help the economy. so they will -- we will talk to him about that. we will talk about tax cuts as well. that is at 7:45 a.m. this morning. at 8:30 we will turn our attention to public housing, we will talk to sandra henriquez, with housing and urban development program, assistant secretary for public and indian housing. we will wrap up the program with our health care series, the beginning of all health care series. 9:15 a.m., tracy what, senior

health care consultant with mercer, she will talk about how the health care law is being implemented. it is an issue we are going to be focusing on all this week. today we are taking all our health care series talking about that. on tuesday we will have a discussion on how the -- excuse me, that today's discussion. on tuesday we will talk about how the law changes health insurance and what changes you will see now and in the future. on wednesday, individual mandate and what new rules are in place for individual consumers. on thursday, a look of the changes for medicare part d, the so-called though not hold. on friday, how the health care lot impact states. we would talk to two state attorney generals on both sides of the issue, for and against. that is our health care series that we begin today at 9:15 a.m.. it runs all we hear on "-- it runs all week on "washington

journal." but for the next 35 minutes we will talk about the november elections and would issue will be impacted your vote in november. a lot of political news this morning in the papers. this is the headline from "the new york times" this morning. why both parties want an economic fight by the way, the phone lines right now are being tweaked. we want to continue to take your phone calls. we will put them on the screen as soon as we get those fixed and we will get to your phone calls in just a minute. piece. wood's it goes on to talk about how republicans are advocating for tax cuts and democrats want to

extend some of the tax cut for those that make less than 250,000. also mentioned mark zandi, our guest coming up. which issue will drive your vote in november? will it be the economy? will it be ethics?

long beach, california. mary on the independent line. caller: i am an independent voter. i have a grandson in afghanistan. my issue is foreign-policy. how many awards are we going to go fight for the -- wars are we going to fight for the illegal occupation of israel? i vote on the candidate. i look through it and i see who takes money from aipac, who doesn't, who caters to the lobby and who does not. i can vote democrat, republican, independent. i just look for the candidate, i vote on foreign policy. that is my issue. host: oxford, connecticut. josh on the republican line. caller: my issue will be health care. although i am a republican, i was for the health-care debate. in november.

host: let us go to carl in chicago -- are you there? how will you vote in november? caller: democrat. host: why is that? caller: right now i am looking at what is happening and i am not sure that people realize what the republicans and business is doing. working totally against the interest of this country. they are fighting against even trying to do anything on their part to step up and help the economy. $2 trillion and they will not hire anyone, and we -- a lot of these republicans need to look at this and understand that they are working against the interest of this country. we are supposed to be together when things are bad but they are working against the american people and people need to see that. thank you. host: front page of "the washington post" below the fold.

it is a piece about paul ryan, a republican from wisconsin. quoting him here. considering the road map -- his idea for battling the deficit -- an electoral disaster. he does not speak generalities about reducing spending but does acknowledge their real cuts in popular programs that will be required to bring down the debt. front-page story in "the washington post" about paul ryan and his ideas. there is a side story that has bullet points about what he thinks need to be done to cut the deficit, if you are interested in reading that.

connecticut, ross, a democratic ally. good morning. caller: i am going to basically repeat what the last person said but just expand on it, too. when it comes to job creation, which so many people are obviously concerned about, number one, you have to remember that a lot of people who have a lot of money and what the republicans to win our in the position to hold back creating jobs. they can't is essentially -- they can essentially hold a gun to the president of the united states. they can simply not create jobs until the republicans get back in power again. then they can say look at what the republicans before creating jobs. same thing for the tax increases that are going to be coming up at the end of the year. again, i see them holding a gun to the government of the united states and blaming everything on the tax increase and setting it essentially we are not going to

create any new jobs until -- saying essentially what are not going to create any new jobs until we have the tax that we have now. i hope people remember that. called the ethics issue came up on the sunday shows yesterday -- host: the ethics issue came up on the sunday shows yesterday and nancy pelosi was asked about her pledge to train of the swamp of ethics scandals. here is what she had to say. >> where perhaps you might lose the majority. >> we don't see it that way. we are very proud of the agenda we put forth to the american people. our recovery package, we have twice as many people unemployed as there are now if we had not moved forward. these actions are all controversial because we were digging our way out of a deep ditch. so we have been legislating over the past 18 months, get big in

campaign mode saying no, stopping job creation, but our members of the best salespersons for their own districts. they have been an active there. they know their constituents. >> are you nervous about november? >> no, i am not -- >> i know you are putting on a brave face, but people say there is considerable worry about what will happen in november. >> let me say this. i never take anything for granted. host: nancy pelosi talk about the november elections in general. the issue of ethics coming up in the paper this morning. after you saw and read about and heard about last week with charlie rangel and maxine waters being charged allegedly with the ethics violations, public child, those issues coming up. kentucky, a normal of the republican-led. caller: good morning. host: go ahead, norma. you are on the air. caller: good morning. host: you are on the air. we can hear you. caller: i vote for republican

because republicans -- because i think the republican would be the best thing to vote for because obama is not doing a good job, he is listening to nancy pelosi, whatever her name is, and harry reid. and here he is supposed to be getting the boys out over their in afghanistan and everything else -- no, he is not a good democrat. he is not a good president. host: all right. the president is going to be talking about iraq today at a speech in georgia. that will be laid on this morning. go to c-span.org for our coverage. philadelphia, james, on independent line. good morning. caller: how are you doing this one? host: go ahead. caller: i will definitely be focusing on the economic whole thing. i just want to say that we are all very powerful beings and we

can change this. we just need to have faith and we need to stand up and take action to get our country back. host: john boehner, minority leader in the house, was asked about ethics and what is happening on capitol here -- have -- capitol hill and this is what he had to say. >> talk about draining the swamp -- you heard me say this that i expect in the american people expect the highest ethical standards from their members of congress. nancy pelosi said four years ago that it was time to drain the swamp. and i cannot believe it has taken some two years to investigate the charlie rangel case. but the fact is, she has not kept her promise. the swamp is alive and well. host: jamie on the democratic line in a lexington, kentucky, what issue will impact your vote? caller: integrity. host: ok. why? caller: i rather be -- runner

for congress be honest regardless of how painful it might be. i think that is what the american people lack today. that is why i support barack obama. he did say it would take a long time to change how washington does business. he has gone against the lobbyists. the businessmen are kind of angry at him. and i think because people need to wake up and see what our president is trying to do for all people. yes, he says he wants to spread the wealth. the top 1% to 2% of the people over the last 10 years to 15

years, salary, wages, on an average has increased 298% while the bottom have increased, on the average, no more than 25%. so people, wakeup. our president is for all of the people and not just the top. thank you so much, and you have a great day. host: for lauderdale, florida. everett on the independent line. caller: i think i come going to be voting basically on the economy. and all the people who are saying that everybody else should wake up, but -- they are the first ones i would suggest to wake up because they believe all the talking points that come out. very quickly, specifically. the democratic party, they want to let the bush tax cuts sunset because it was only benefiting the rich, but now that are talking about letting it continue on for everybody else -- well, if it was only

benefiting the rich why they now letting it continue on? the truth is, it did not only benefit the rich. thank you. host: you can join the conversation on our twitter page. if you go to c-spanwj, you can send your comments. here is one tweet -- and we move onto canyon lake, texas. republican line. caller: it is hilarious to hear these obama democrat idiots. every day obama proves he is incompetent at everything he has done, and he blames republicans for everything he has done because he is incompetent. typical democrat. the way democrats have sex -- it is always the babies fall, --

never say no -- host: "the national journal" magazine, front-page cover story is tea party paradox. inside the magazine -- they call it the "tea party paradox." the story goes on to say this -- that is "the national journal" frontpage trouble story. douglas, democratic line.

good morning. caller: the fact that the united states last year, 40% of our economy was on paper, gross domestic product, with the derivatives and stuff going on with wall street. so, 10% unemployment is going to become the norm. and a fellow from the texas, you talk about idiots, you have one, george bush. thank you. host: "the christian science monitor," their weekly magazine this morning focuses on the political swings ahead and says a political tsunami is growing that could not democrats out of power with november's elections. that is a "the christian science monitor" magazine. cape cod, massachusetts. vincent on the independent line. good morning, vincent. caller: ok, you are there. ok. i was going to in answer your question and you have a good question.

as far as i am concerned, i am independent, but as far as i am concerned, if you are a republican, don't even talk to me. you put us in a hole too many times. host: ok. we will move onto the republican line, maryland. newman, you are on the air. caller: good morning, c-span. i am calling in to refute the very first caller. he called in to say he was a republican and then he goes on to bash the republicans and everything. that is typical thing on it c- span. but in any event, if the tax cuts are allowed to expire, we are going to see higher unemployment, you will see less jobs out there. i have been looking for a job for well over a year -- there is just nothing out there for a 77- year-old guy. i want to say one more thing to these democrats. they always on some sort of

plantation -- they used to be on a southern plantation, now they are on the democrat plantation and soon they will be in the chinese plantation because once you zero people money, you are a slave to those people -- once you owe people money you are asleep to those people. we of the chinese $1 trillion right now and we -- it is going to go way up. host: june on the democratic line. good morning. caller: i am going to probably vote for whoever is against amnesty for illegal immigrants. host: immigration is your tap issue. caller: desk. host: what do you think about the arizona law? the caller: i am all for it. host: is your state considering something similar? caller: yes. host: what would it do? caller: i notice that there is a lot of jobs that could be had by

of the people who are legally here, that have been here for years. i worked at a factory, it was all freedom -- immigrants from families and none of my family could ever get on there. host: front page of "usa today" has a story about the immigration law. states are rethinking similar immigration bills. arizona ruling gives lawmakers pause. the front page of "usa today." illinois, caelian, independent line. -- celia. caller: congratulations on becoming a mommy. back to the issue at hand -- i met two independents, so i know who i will vote for but i am really stuck because -- i am

basically just a voting for people who support my best interest at hand. i and unemployed. who will keep me with (the benefits and to like a job? who will keep me in my house? republicans just filibuster. i know small businesses who are going to lose their businesses soon because they can't get a loan. regardless of party, vote for who is in your best interest. host: can i ask you about the politics of the unemployed benefits -- and unemployment benefits? do you know others who are unemployed and you think that made you more in tune with this november election? caller: no, i have been doing things politically since i was a child.

but i am seeing more because i have more time. i am not distracted by all of the things i used to be distracted by. so i can look at voting records. i can look at what they say in their speeches and things like that. so i absolute know exactly who i am voting for. host: the senate returns this week for one more week of legislative business and economy is to be issue number one. will you to then? caller: i always did. host: i will go on to tucson, arizona, randy on the republican line. caller: good morning, gretchen. as far as loading this time for president -- it will not -- as far as voting for president, not barack obama. you have to be on the road and get a feel. he is not good with what he has done. i did not know who i will vote for but it will not be for barack obama. maybe if hillary gets in there

she might have some good ideas. i don't know. but we will have to wait and see, the debates as things go. one more thing, "the new york times" and "the washington post," -- you will not have anything to talk about in the program. you constantly bashed republicans, conservatives, the tea party and you never, ever- the other side. i tell you what, we the people out here, we see that and we listen. host: randy, we read "the wall street journal," "the financial times," and "the washington times." we are putting the newspapers out there to let you know what other people are reading. it is not an endorsement of these newspapers but it is just part of the debate and to facilitate conversation with all of you. greensboro, north carolina, earl, democratic line. caller: i've got two things.

i am for it democrat because of unemployment. all you hispanics, you heard the previous lady what she said about you all, make sure you get out and vote in november. hispanics, make sure you get to the polls and vote democrat. thank you. host: help with the democratic effort will be first lady michelle obama. this headline in "the washington times." for popularity seen as a political tool. that is "the washington times close with this one. hamilton, montana. carmine on the independent line. caller: i am an independent. i can vote any way and i do, i'd vote for my sheriff, he is a republican. lately i have been holding back my votes -- i will vote independent and probably other parties. my issues are hated democracy.

host: we will have to leave their and move onto another voice. carol, democratic line, deyton, ohio. caller: good morning. just listening to that for a second, we have a right of choice being democratic and republican. and just wanting to say, with democrats we all try to come together and fight for a cause and republicans, i hear it every now and then, but in the and you don't hear the cause being