at 8:30 we will speak to general -- virginia governor bob macdonald. the governor recently changed his position on a bill requiring women to get an ultrasound before getting an abortion. at 8:40, and how women are trending in 2012. "washington journal" live at 7:00 on c-span. >> louisiana governor is expected to reveal his proposal for balancing the state budget for the next is clear today. a budget of $900 million. in shreveport, it is mostly cloudy and 37 degrees at the airport. 38. you're listening to shreveport's news and weather station. >> next weekend, buttv and american history tv. saturday, starting at noon

eastern on c-span to -- c-span2. the red river campaign of 1864. and then the look at the over 200,000 votes in the election house of the lsu shreveport archives. and a walking tour of shreveport and a butcher city. sunday, at 5:00 p.m. eastern, from the air force base look at the base's role from 9/11. also, a visit the founding fathers autographed collection in the louisiana museum and from the pioneer heritage center, medicine during the civil war. shreveport, louisiana. next weekend on c-span2. >> with michigan's primary election on tuesday, republican presidential candidates have been traveling throughout the

state speaking to voters. both rick santorum and mitt romney spoke at a forum in michigan. comparing to the president's affordable care act. we will surely today's remarks from a romney. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you for that great reception. i appreciate the opportunity to be here. americans for prosperity, all the great work they do in supporting free enterprise, free markets, and limited government. i am excited to be here with you. i look forward to a good day on tuesday here in michigan. i am looking forward to big things. [applause] this has been a campaign that

has had its ups and downs for me. this has been an amazing ride. two months ago, the pundits were asking me why i was still in the race. we will go out there and we will deliver a positive message for america. we will remind people why we are the greatest country in the history of the world. and why we will again be a shining city on the hill, the beacon of hope and freedom for the world. we have to -- [applause] we have to have a leader who believes what america was all about and why we created the greatest country in the history of the world. we have to have someone who understands the greatness of

america that is not in our military, not in our economy, not in our form of government. it is on the idea that from the very beginning, our country was founded on the idea of the dignity of every human life. freedom and opportunity for every human being to realize their potential. to be able to build strong families, business, and the community, and church, civic and community organizations. all the things that create a great and vibrant community. that is what made america a great country. we did not start as a country with a sovereign and a strong central government allocating resources and putting people into classes and titles. we believe in limited government and free people. we built this great community. that is the secret of america.

that is why you have seen other countries try to copy what we do here. even in the last couple of years, we have tried to help other countries be like america. they find it hard. they cannot quite do what we do. we are different. we are exceptional. we did it from the foundation the right way. we believe in free people. my grandfather came to this country in 1925. when he came here, he spent the first two years, he left my father and his family behind. he came here as a proud italian-american. a shout out for the italian-

americans. that is my name in italy, too. guess where my grandfather came. he came to detroit and he worked two years in the auto factories here in detroit. he was not a red wings fans, i just want you to know that. sorry. he came here and worked two years and then he went to the coal mines of western pennsylvania. when my dad came to this country, that is where he came. my grandfather came to this country. he was not promise any government benefits. there were no government benefits. just one -- freedom. that was enough for him. [applause]

ladies and gentlemen, there are a lot of things at stake in this election. but ultimately what is its stake is our freedom. we have the government and a leader who believes that he knows best. the elite in society who thinks they can manage your life better than you can. they can manage industries, sectors of the economy, and tell you that they will give you rights to health care and to all sorts of other things. they will tell you they will take care of you. but what we find is when the government says they will give you rights, they will tell you how to exercise those rights. and the biggest example of that is obamacare.

i would not be in this race if it was not for obamacare. to me, obamacare is the game changer for our country. it is robbing us of our essential freedom. [applause] it is the ultimate top down, i know better than you do. i will tell you what insurance policy. what benefits, but your deductible, everything. the government has designed five plans for you. it tells you what doctors and hospitals will be reimbursed. it manages your economic choices. it landed some based on what the government thinks you should have.

we need health savings accounts. the real answer is consumer driven health care. do you have any idea who was the original author of health savings accounts 20 years ago? [applause] i was for free-market health care before conservatives were for free market health care. that has been a leader on conservative, on the most fundamental issue, your health. it is what the progressive nirvana has been from the beginning. they have seen it in other

socialist countries in the world. when the government can convince you that you need to give them the power over your health, they got you. they got you. now you will pay tribute to them. you will give them even more power so they will give you more benefits. i saw that from the beginning. why? because i am a conservative. not because it is popular. it is because of who i am. i was never for a government run health care system. it is robbing you of your freedom and giving control to the government. [applause] you look at this race, the big issue is government control of the economy of businesses, of the energy industry, health

care, financial services and history, regulation, mandates, government programs. who has been out there on the big issues of the day? never buying into climate science. the only person i sit next to on the couch is my wife. i do not go out and crow that i proposed the first carbon tax on power plants. as governor romney did when he was governor of massachusetts. i did not buy it. i did not buy climate science. [applause]

i did not buy it because i knew climate science was political science. [applause] i did not blow in the wind when things were popular to be with the elite. i do not come from the elite. my grandfather was a coal miner. i grew up in public housing. i worked my way to the success that i have. i am proud of it. [applause] i will not let the phoney ideology to rob you of your freedom. i was not for obamacare. you are the center of the health-care industry.

i was not for bailouts. i was not for the bailout of wall street. we saw what happened to the mills in western pennsylvania. bethlehem steel, no longer. these are the big names that dominated the steel industry. most of them are gone. the steel industry is still here. pittsburgh is revitalized. there is a lot more there, too. capitalism works. free markets work. you have to believe in it. [applause] i can understand how some people can panic at a time of crisis

and believe that government is the answer. it was the wrong thing for them to do to bail out wall street. i can understand why people did it. what i cannot understand is why some people would bail out wall street and use a very different measure to not bail out detroit. if you will bailout wall street, and take care of your friends on wall street, and you do not have a principle against government bailouts, why do you pick one and not the other? you can criticize me for not supporting the detroit bailout. i did not support any bailout. i did not support bailouts in my own community. [applause] what you have with me is what you see is what you get. as opposed to, what you see today is different than what

you get tomorrow. i will be a strong consistent conservative. i will stand up for free people and free markets. i have laid out my 10-point plan of what i will do in the first 100 days. i talked about cutting taxes for everyone. governor romney's plan is to cut taxes. how will he pay for it? by taxing the top 1%. never thought a republican presidential candidate would adopt the verbage of occupy wall street. [applause] he is in a primary where conservatives matter. to imagine what it will be like when the general election comes around. what you see is what you get.

we will cut taxes for everybody. [applause] we will focus on creating jobs, just like we are doing in pennsylvania. we will talk about manufacturing. i know what manufacturing means to a community. i understand what it means to have folks who are at the bottom of the economic ladder. i know what it means to have those manufacturing jobs, it gives to the opportunity to accumulate more skills over time. those opportunities for working men and women, not all folks are gifted in the same way. some people have incredible gifts and want to work.

president obama says he wants everybody in america to go to college. what a snob. [applause] you are good decent men and women who work hard every day. they are not taught by some liberal college professor. [applause] i understand why he wants you to go to college. he wants to remake you in his image. i want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his. [applause]

we have an opportunity in america to stand up for working men and women in manufacturing and energy. create jobs from the bottom up. to go out in states like michigan, pennsylvania, and ohio and talk to minority communities. not about giving them more food stamps, but about creating jobs. [applause] we will cut the size and scale of government. i propose $5 trillion in cuts over five years. spending less money each year than the year before. [applause] i have not been the advocate of expanding government with new

entitlement programs, like governor romney. i have reformed entitlement programs. if you look at the rest of the programs, we reformed welfare program. instead of a dependency program, we made it a transitional program. food stamps and medicaid and welfare programs need to have happen to them what i was able to get seven votes and the united states senate and bill clinton's signature. we had leaders talking to you and you wrote to them. that is great to see. i was at a tea party event just a few minutes ago. i am glad you are here. 15 years ago, you were not here. 15 years ago, we were pretty

complacent. spending was easier than cutting things. why did you do all those things? where were you? the american public was not out there doing what they were doing now. we were not in the condition we are in now. i saw it coming. i was proposing reforms to social security and medicare. i was proposing reforms to a whole bunch of other programs. i turned around and all the people were behind the, way behind me. now you are out here. i am glad you are here. we need your help. we need your energy. we need your enthusiasm to do the big things. if you want big things to happen, you have to elect somebody and nominate somebody who can draw a clear contrast with president obama. who was able to do big things.

[applause] someone you cannot give away the most important issue in this race, health care. governor romney gives that issue away. he was the author of a bill that led to romney-care. he imposed his values on every business and every individual. just like obamacare and in some cases, worse. same mandate. mandated health care. same mandate for doctors, the same thing. same mandate for fines. same mandate for catholic hospitals to handout morning after pills.

he overruled his own secretary of health. if we give up every issue, freedom of religion, freedom of contract, freedom of the economy. the biggest issue of the day, we give up the issue on the bailouts. we make it worse here. he was for some and against others. against the one here in michigan. we give up the issue of cap- and-trade, government control of the energy and manufacturing sectors of the economy. disqualified, disqualified, disqualified. why would we do that? why would we nominate someone who is on qualified to take on the big issues of the day? he would say, i have changed my mind. let me assure you, the money and the media will convince you he is not what he says he is

today. he was not what he says he is yesterday. ladies and gentlemen, this election must be about clear choices. every time we have run a moderate, we have lost. [applause] every time we have run a conservative, a complete conservative on all the issues, national security, culture, and economy, we have won. [applause] every time, in a primary, all the experts say, elect the moderate. you have to elect the moderates. otherwise, you will lose those key constituents. we won the 2010 election because our people were excited about our candidate and they

came out in droves. that is why we won, not because we compromised. they say, a moderate, we need to worry about moderates and the issues. if you are a moderate, issues are obviously not the most important thing to you. otherwise, you would be in one camp or the other. that is why you are a moderate. how many moderates have you talked who say this -- i did not vote for the party, i vote for the person. who are you going to vote for? are you going to vote for someone who says one thing one day and says anything else the next day to win?

someone whose own party doesn't support? at least someone you know they believe what they believe. that is the difference. [applause] we have an opportunity to make this election about big things at a time when big things are at stake. you have an opportunity here in michigan to shock the country. we will stand up for limited government. we will stand up for a constitutional country. we will stand up for strong families and strong communities. thank you very much. god bless you. god bless america. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

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>> a little later in the day, mitt romney had an opportunity to elect -- to address the crowd appeared here is a look at what he had to say. >> former massachusetts governor mitt romney had an opportunity to address the crowd at the americans for prosperity forum. here is what he had to say. >> what a group. thank you. it is good to be back in the place we called home for the first 19 years of my life and the first 19 years or so of your life. we were raised in this area. i went to a party when i was in high school. a girl i had seen in elementary school but have not noticed, suddenly became very

interesting. she was a sophomore. she had come with someone else. i went up to him and said i live closer to her than you do. can i give her a ride home for you? he said sure. we have been going steady ever since. my wife of 20 years, ann romney. -- 42 years, ann romney. [applause] >> this is a great group. thank you. this is home and this is interesting. we bleed burners. the other thing you do is listen to tiger baseball. i had a little pink transistor radio that i carry around with me and listened to piper baseball. i had the opportunity to come

out once a week when i was in high school. i work at my father's company in troy, michigan. the back story on that is my grandfather, born in wales, and started working at age 6 in the coal mine. when my father was 16, they immigrated here. this is where we got our start. when you think about where we come from and who we are grateful for, we are grateful for our ancestors who made sacrifices and brought us to the greatest land in the world. [applause] all of my aunts and ogles pulled their money together and gave my father a college education. with that college education, he started a company right here in troy.

my father was a brilliant man. he engineered parts for aircraft carriers. hydraulic lifts that brought the plane up. my father was the inventor of a vacuum toilets. is that not exciting? [laughter] everybody in my house and moving parts. the door to the kitchen never closed. my father had a police system so the door would automatically close every time. right here in troy is where i work for him as a high school kid. i was so proud of him and so proud of the progress they made, the sacrifices of my grandfather as a coal miner, and that is the sacrifice would be to restore to america. i am convinced there is only one person who can do that. a year ago, when we were making the decision, it was tough because i told mitt four years before, i would never do this

again. he laughed and said, you know what, you said that after every pregnancy, so -- [laughter] i guess i really did not mean it. a year ago, when we were making this decision, we were trying to figure out, was he going to run, we could not figure it out. i said, if you win the nomination and if you can beat barack obama, i need to know, can you fix america? he said, yes. ok, let's go. that is all i needed to hear. [applause] maybe i should just do all of the talking and let him stand here and watch me. [laughter] i also decided no more debates. if we're going to do another debate, he will sit in the audience and watch me, and that will be it. but i have seen his whole life be successful in everything he tackled, whether in college,

and he got a degree from harvard law at harvard business school at the same time, whether in business, everything he tackles, he did well. and he is the kind of guy who has integrity, intelligence, good judgment, experience. i am looking for a president will sit in that office, bring that experience, get rid of this deficit spending, and bring sanity back to this country. so now let's hear from you, mitt. >> thanks, sweetie. she is only slightly biased. it is good to be in michigan. a lot of stories here, deep roots. i was both born here and raised here. i love telling my dad's funny stories. he was in mount pleasant on the fourth of july, just after being elected governor.

he stood in front of the audience and he said, "it sure is good being here in mount clemens." [laughter] and there was this big "ooh" from the audience. and my mom went up and said, "george, it's pleasant, pleasant." and he said, "yes, it is pleasant here." [laughter] i was born in detroit, harper hospital. there were about 35 kids in my elementary school. my guess is that every parent who sent a child to kindergarten that morning in that school believed america's promise. they believe if they thought their job the right values and the home and of the child got a good education, and if he or she was willing to work hard, take risk, and have dreams,

they could achieve prosperity of some kind and security. that is something we knew. a part of america was the conviction that the future was brighter than the past, that our kids would live a better life than even we had lived and talk about our grandfather making the sacrifice to come here. she talked about the brothers and sisters, all collecting their savings, giving it to her dad so he could go to college and build a better life for his kids. this has always been part of the american experience. in the last few years, people beginning to wonder if that american promise will be kept or be broken. we have watched a president who has presided over, what, 36 straight months with unemployment over 8%. the 25 million americans out of work, stopped looking for work, part-time jobs that need full- time employment. those are numbers but i have told you, but those numbers stand behind real people and real crises. it is seniors planning on retiring but who cannot. as a mom and dad, one has a day

shift, one has the night shift. they rarely see each other, only on sunday. we have young people coming out of college who cannot find work, soldiers coming home from afghanistan, from iraq, and they cannot find good jobs back here. this is the greatest economy in the world, the greatest nation in the world? we have people really suffering. this president has made a lot of promises he has not kept. he said he would cut the deficit in half. he has doubled it. he is on track, by the end of his first term -- his only term, by the way -- [applause] he is on track to put together as much public debt almost as all of the prior presidents combined. this is a record he cannot be proud of. he also said he would get people back to work. he said, if i connected this economy turned around in three

years, i will be looking at a one-term proposition. we are here to collect. we're taking it back. he also spoke about the need to secure medicare and social security, but temperamentally solvent. and in three years, no meaningful proposals, not even one, to do that. extraordinary. here is a person who not only campaign for president, but has been president three years, and with no prospects of turning the economy around, getting america back to work, no plans to end deficit spending. he just gave a state of the union address in which he did not even mention the deficit. the massive debt this country has. how can that be? and no plans for medicare or social security? this president is out of ideas, out of excuses. 2012, he will be out of office. [applause] the choice in this election will come down to very different

directions. i just listen to frank beckman. what a hero, what a terrific guy, great american. i love listening to him. he was absolutely right as a talked about the different course that america could take. this president has put us on a course to be more like europe. europe does not work in europe, it's sure as heck will not work here. start with the deficit. the idea that he is willing to stand by and watch trillion- dollar deficits -- not just watch them but put them into law -- is simply unthinkable. we are on course to become like greece or italy or spain, and this president sits by idly watching. what i will do is cut spending, cap spending, and balance the budget. [applause] i have done that. i'm not just talking about that.

if you are in business and i was in business 25 years, with it to businesses are run myself, others i try to help, if you are not a conservative fiscally in business, then you are out of business. you have to balance your income statement. you have to make sure that your costs equal your revenues, or your revenues equal or exceed your costs. i went to the banks and did that. i went to my state of massachusetts and balanced the budget every year, without raising taxes or adding more debt. as i go to washington, let me tell you how i will do it. first, i will look at every single line item, every single program, and ask this question -- is this program so critical to america that it's worth borrowing money from china to pay for it? if not, i will get rid of it. [applause] by the way, it does not take a leader to promise of free stuff.

it takes a leader to call for sacrifice and get people to follow. i will be going to the american people and say, look, you may like these programs, but we have to get rid of them, and i will lead. we will have some sacrifice and we will get rid of programs and people like. one that would all agree to get rid of is obama-care. i will get rid of that from the very beginning. [applause] but there are others. we have a bill called davis- bacon. it says you have to use union labor or pay union wages. that costs $10 billion per year. i will get rid of that. we subsidize things like amtrak. we have to stop doing that. there are some things i like, like the national the dormant for the arts, national endowment for the humanities. they're wonderful, but i am not willing to borrow money boat from china to pay for them. there is public broadcasting. i like pbs, i like big bird, my kids like bert and ernie.

i do not think it's worth borrowing money against so our kids don't have to watch advertising. i think it is ok for big bird and kellogg's corn flakes to be on the same tv at the same time. we will stop spending on programs that are not absolutely essential. that is number one. i will cut a lot of spending by doing that. there is another way to cut spending, and i am sure you will appreciate this. that is by taking programs we will keep, like medicaid, the programs for the poor who need health care, and housing vouchers, food stamps or people in need. we will take those programs and instead of them being managed by the federal government and growing completely out of control, we will send them back to the states. we will let the states run those programs, with specific limits on how fast they grow. [applause] and by the way, that saves $100 billion per year, by having

medicaid grow at inflation plus 1%. there are other programs that are so on economical and wasteful in washington. you know how many job training programs there are in washington? 47. think of that. and reporting to up to eight different agencies. as somebody is looking for job training, think of all the programs that have to sort through, all of the bureaucrats and the waste. i want to get rid of all of it. take those dollars, send it back to michigan, and say, mich., you craft them and do a better job at much less cost. [applause] so balancing the budget. balancing the budget starts with cutting and eliminating programs. number 2, taking programs we will keep, sending them back to the states, where there manage with less fraud, inefficiency, and more effectively. and third, with the government

that remains, we have to make it far more efficient than what we have. let me tell you a story about efficiency in government. this comes from john lehman, former secretary of the navy under ronald reagan. he said in the second world war, navy purchasing was approximately 1000 people. he said by the time he became secretary of the navy, we were commissioning 17 ships per year, and navy purchasing had grown to 4000 people. he said today we commission nine ships per year. navy purchasing? it has grown to 24,000 people. we have to economize. i will cut at least 10% of the federal work force that remains, through attrition, and i will link the pay of federal workers to pay that exists in the private sector. [applause]

you do those things and we balance our budget. the other things? we have to get the economy growing again. this president does not seem to understand what drives growth. this president this last week announced a program where he will raise the marginal tax rate from 35% to 40%. you know how many people work in businesses where the businesses charge not the corporate rate but the individual rate? where businesses have flow- through, where they do not have the corporate level tax but the individual tax? do you know in the private sector work force, 54% of americans work for that kind of business? so if you raise the tax rate from 35% to 40%, you make it harder for them to grow. i will cut the marginal tax rates for everyone by 20% and get this economy going again. [applause]

he has his own plans for energy as well, and that is to say no to call, no to oil, no to natural gas, no nuclear, yes to his friends at solyndra. my view is we have to say yes to the keystone pipeline, yes to drilling, yes to energy in this country that we can develop in this country. [applause] he believes in something i called crony capitalism. it is kind of phony capitalism. he takes your money so he can invest with his friends, whether it is fisker or tesla, money goes into businesses that happen to be big contributors to his effort. and not worked out so far, we will see how they do down the road. what they do is make it harder for the private sector to grow and thrive because competitors of those businesses cannot get financing and go out of business. the right course for america is not having a president trying to direct winners and losers, it is to let the free market choose

the best and to let those thrive and succeed. [applause] we are facing real challenges, a crisis of fortunes in the american family that is under stress, the economy, globally with iran and others threatening our security and our peace, and this is not a time for business as usual in washington. it is a time for principal, conservative leadership. i learned that in my home, the values i was taught there. i live in my home. i learned it in my business experience, where you have to balance your income statement. i applied to those principles as the governor of a state. by the way, playing in michigan as a conservative is like playing an away game. i legislature was 85% democrat, yet we balance the budget every

year without raising taxes or the debt, reduce the legislature tax rate 19 different times, and we also were successful in implementing english in our schools. we fought for english immersion, our kids are taught in english in our schools. [applause] i empowered our state police to enforce illegal immigration laws in massachusetts so we could deport people who come here illegally. [applause] i also faced a supreme court in my state that said john adams had written into the constitution the right to marriage between people of the same gender. we reversed that in my state. we were on progress to do that. then we also had the legislature passed a bill that said we would allow cloning and our state. they want to change the definition of when life began. i stood up, said no, and veto that legislation. i'm a pro-life governor, a pro-

life candidate, perot traditional marriage candidate, and i am a conservative. i test from my conservative traditions by quoting somebody who endorsed me and my 2008 campaign. santorum said, mitt romney, this is a guy who is really conservative and we can trust. he said he is the clear conservative candidate. he is right, i am the conservative candidate, and what we need in the white house is principled conservative leadership, and i will bring it. [applause] now, at the last debate -- and that was a fun debate in arizona -- at the last debate, we heard something about business as usual in washington. when the senator mentioned sometimes you have to take one for the team, what he was describing was the circumstances where he disagreed

with something on principle, but he had to vote for that because it was taking one for the team. we cannot do that anymore. we cannot continue to take one for the team. my team is the people of the united states of america, and i will fight for that team, not the partisans in washington. [applause] the list from that debate was extraordinary. he was opposed to planned parenthood funding and title 10, but voted for it. he was opposed to no child left behind, he voted for it. he voted to raise the debt ceiling five times without compensating cuts and costs. he described how he favors earmarks, including fighting for the bridge to nowhere. he supported arlen specter's efforts. there was also 1996, where he

supported arlen specter, by the way, when he was running for president. arlen specter, the only pro- choice candidate we saw in that race. there were other conservatives running like bob dole. he supported the pro-choice candidate, arlen specter. this taking one for the team, that is business as usual in washington. we have to have principled conservative leadership, and i have demonstrated that through my life and as governor. i listened to frank beckman a moment ago, and he was right on -- this president says he wants to transform america. i do not want to transform america, i want to return to america the principles that made us great over the years. again, thinking about frank, he quoted the declaration of independence. those first words, carefully

selected by the founders, changed the world. they said that the creator had endowed us with our rights. not the governor, not the state. and among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. those words meant opportunity here in america, and freedom. so freedom lovers from all over the world came here. this was the place of opportunity, where people could pursue their dreams. government would not direct how could live their lives, the circumstance of birth would not limit what to achieve. through work, education, a little good luck, their ambition, their dreams, that would determine their success. that brought people here by the millions of the centuries. we have to restore those values. i love the words of the great american hymns that describe how much we love this country. "america the beautiful" -- "o beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain."

"o beautiful, for heroes proved, in liberating strife. who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life." any veterans in the room who remember that? please stand and be recognized. [applause] thank you. thank you, sir. there is another verse. "o beautiful, for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years." the idea is the founders of this country did not just right for their times. this all beyond the years. the principles of freedom and the preservation of life and the ability in america to pursue happiness as we choose. that those principles would not be temporary but enduring.

they have changed american meat is the most powerful nation in the history of the earth. president obama and his friends are trying to change us, take us in a different direction, because more like europe, make us an entitlement society, where people think they're entitled to whatever they want. they want government to take from some and give to others. in that society, the only people who do well are the government givers and takers. that is the wrong course for america. the right course for america is to lower the burden of government, make it smaller, and the deficits, debt america on track to prosperity by lifting up the american people with. homes, great value is, toward the jobs, is soaring economy, with a nation that a second to none. i will fight with all of my energy to install conservative principles, the principles of the founders, the principles upon which this nation was founded.

there were found with berlin's and inspiration. we need to restore them so that america can remain as it always has been, the shining city on the hill. thank you very much. great to be here with you today. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

>> we will have more road to the white house today with live coverage. ron paul will be speaking with small business owners in michigan. newt gingrich will be in new georgia. the former house speaker is on a bus tour whose primary falls on march 6, also known as super tuesday. watch live coverage today on c- span.

a look at what is coming up this morning on c-span. next, open " washington journal" headlines with your calls. the agricultural sector will be participating in a panel looking at states efforts to end childhood hunger. when that wraps up at about 11:00, it is "newsmakers." chairman liebowitz is joining this morning to talk to proposal to create new privacy protections for internet and smartphone users. our guests on "washington journal" include nolan finley. at 8:30, will speak with virginia republican governor bob mcdonnell who is participating in this weekend's meetings. he recently changed his position on a bill in his state requiring