>> on today's "washington journal," we talk about the house republican budget proposal and then the aclu staff attorney on this week's supreme court decision finding that police can strip search a subject's arrested for minor crimes such as unpaid traffic tickets. also the american prospect magazine talks about the article about black politicians facing white voters. "washington journal" is live every day on c-span at 7:00 eastern. the c-span local content of tourte takes a book tv and american history tv on the road the first weekend of each month. this past weekend featured little rock, arkansas with book tv at the university of arkansas. >> he collected photographs and

was interested in the 19th century, the civil war in particular. these are two friends, union and confederate, who knew each other prior to the civil war, fought against each other in 1862, survived the war, came out alive, and remained friends after the war and here they are at age 100 sitting on the porch talking about the old days baena american history to be looked at life in the world war two japanese internment camp . >> there is a wonderful book. the arts and crafts help them keep their sanity because there was a high degree of suicide and

people would make this duty to give to each other as a way to say we support you and care about you. >> our tour continues the weekend of may 5 and 6 from oklahoma city on c-span 2 and 3. >> republican presidential candidate mitt romney speaks before the american society of news editors' conference live that noon eastern here on c- span. later, at 2:00, a meeting on gas prices and speculation hosted by the democratic steering committee live on c-span. former senator rick santorum came in second tonight in the republican primary in wisconsin and maryland. mr. santorum got 30% of the vote in maryland and 38% in wisconsin. he was not on the ballot in the district of columbia.

he spoke to supporters following the release of the primary results in morris, pa. just outside of pittsburgh. ♪ >> thank you so much. it is fun to be home. [applause] here with karen and the kid, that is not all of karen's family bought most of it. [laughter] her parents had 11 children. it is great to be here with friends and family. we have now reached the point where it is have time.

have the delegates in this process have been selected. who is ready to charge out of the locker room for a strong second half? [applause] it is great to be here in southwestern pennsylvania. i grew up in a steel town about 20 miles northeast of here. in the same county, butler, pennsylvania. how about a shout out to? this area, like the town of people in it, forged steel to build this country to help win world wars and not if we just build it, we forged people with strong values about what made america great.

you can applaud that, too. [applause] i can always be interrupted for applause. this is why we came here. this is what we want to go back to southwestern pennsylvania to kick off the second half. this is a part of the country to where america started. not only do we forged steel in this day, we forge liberty. this was forged right here in in pennsylvania. [applause] the liberty bell and the document, the u.s. constitution

and the declaration of independence. there were forced to right here in pennsylvania. there is no place for this value is -- where the values are more and still been in this great commonwealth. ladies and gentlemen, this great [applause] commonwealth has given a tremendous amount to our country. if you look at the history of our great state, of not only the declaration and the constitution created here, but we won key battles. washington crossing the delaware to save. the revolution. that plan was hatched in pennsylvania. some have said that all of the significant people have spoken in this race so far.

[boos] general washington knew that not all the cigna began people are -- significant people are those elites in society. the where rank officers. what general washington understood, some of the best plans for what made this country great. we have listened to real significant voices of everyday americans. he crossed the delaware. he turned the tide of the revolution. ladies and gentlemen, pa. and tap the other people in this country have yet to be heard. -- and have the other people in this country have yet to be heard. we're going to go out and make sure they are heard. [applause]

we know who we are. we know who we are. we know the stock we are made of. we have contributed a lot. great deeds have occurred here. great pennsylvanians have been born here. i represented the state and the community for 12 years. [applause] i went to every one of those counties every year. all 67 andi understand the greatness of the people of this state.

i understand how important this race is in pennsylvania. this is called the keystone state for a reason. we are the keystone. we are the place for which our country was built and great things continue to happen here. great things like in manufacturing and oil and gas production that is turning our economy are around and creating opportunities for us to grow our economy because of lower natural-gas prices. manufacturing comeback in spite of the crushing burden barack obama and his administration has put on this nation. [boos] what liberty is all about, someone he will go out and fight to make sure that the biggest and most crushing burden that this administration has put on us, one that was debated last week about government taking control of your health

and dictating to you what you will do, how much you will pay, what insurance you will get, and even the practice of your faith will be dictated by the government. we need someone in this race who will go out and make the clarion call for liberty, someone who has stood tall and oppose government health care. this is what obamacare does and what his agenda of government control and his attempt to do cap and trade or he will dictate how much energy and health care he will use, this is a fundamental change in the relationship between the people and their government. if we're going to win this

race, we cannot have little differences between our nominee an president obama. we have to have clear contrasting colors. in last 120 years -- [applause] in the last 120 years, we have had one time or the republican party has defeated a democratic incumbent. time and time again, the republican establishment and aristocracy have shut down the threat of republican party and people across this country, moderate republicans, because we have to win by getting people in the middle, there's one person who understood we do not win by moving to the middle. we win by getting people in the middle to move to us and move

this country forward. [applause] not only do we know who we are and what we stand for, but you know who i am. you are going to hear a lot of things being thrown as happened in all the other states where we have seen a whole bunch of negative campaigning. we have gone across this country with the most improbable of odds and with limited resources except one in which we have had incredible resources. that is human resources. the people of this country have stood up and followed because they have seen someone with a positive vision, someone whose convictions are also forged in still not on an etch a sketch.

[applause] you will be seeing the negative ads. you will be getting the robert shiller calls -- the robo calls. you know how hard i work. you know how strongly i believe in the games that the value of southwestern pennsylvania have instilled in me. i come from a steel town of immigrant parents. my grandfather worked in the mines, someone who lived in government housing on the d a grounds and saw the great sacrifice of our men and women, serving them as they served our country.

you know me. they will say all the things that i am someone who does not stand up in what i believe in. you know me. [applause] i ask you over the next three weeks, and this is not have time. no marching bands. we are hitting the fields. the clock starts tonight. we have three weeks to go out there. we will win this state. after winning the state the field looks a little different in may. the one time that we did when in last 120 years, the republican party had the courage to go out and nominate someone who all the experts and contents

and republican establishment costs said could not win. it was too conservative. he lost almost every early primary. he only won one until may. everybody told him to get out of the race. this was that in 1976. we need a moderate. in 1976, he did not get out of the race. he was able to stand tall and when the state of texas, which we have every intention of doing. [chanting "go rick go"]

he took that to the convention. he fell short. in the fall, republicans fell short. we nominated another moderate. cannot galvanize our party and bring those votes to our side to get the change. four years later they fought him again. we need another moderate. we have to defeat this incumbents. let's not make the mistake of 1976. but bypassed that era -- let bypass that era. you can help me now go pennsylvania. thank you very much. got less you. thank you. [applause]

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♪ ♪ >> former governor mitt romney was the winner tonight in the primary held in maryland and wisconsin. he spoke from the grain exchange in milwaukee, wisconsin where he was introduced by house budget committee chairman paul ryan. hello and thank you, wisconsin. [applause] >> first off, we have a lot of special people we need to think. -- sank -- thank. i want to thank my friend, the

chairman of the romney campaign, bob ehrlich. i also want to thank co- chairmen paul. louis pope. thank you for what you have done to deliver all of those votes for mitt romney tonight. i want to thank senator ron johnson. [applause] i want to thank jensen brenner. i want to thank the romney cochairs here. thank you for all your hard work. [applause] i also want to thank my good done tonight. [applause]

we all know that president obama cannot run on his record. we know that he cannot run on his broken promises. after the 2010 election, when the voters told him to go a different direction to change course, did he moderate? did he do that? no. he doubled down on his partisan agenda. it cannot run on his record and if you will not change course, then what does he have left? we found out today he is going to try to divide us in order to distract us. i seem to remember him saying that he would be a nightmare, and not a divider.

-- a u niger, not a divided. - a uniter, not a divider. this is one and the worst of his broken promises. we do not need a campaigner in chief. we need a leader that america deserves. [applause] the presidency is bigger than this. he was supposed to be bigger than this. we need solutions, not excuses. we have a president who takes the lead in not one that spreads the blame. we need someone who appeals to our dreams and aspirations, not our fears and anxieties. we as americans deserved to choose what kind of country we you want and what kind of country we want to be. it is not too late to get america back on track but our

country on a path to prosperity. guess what? that. we have a leader that will give americans that choice. we have a leader that will put our country back on the right track. tonight wisconsin have spoken. republicans are unifying. [applause] we are united because we believe in the american idea. we believe that we have a leader that is right for this moment. that is the man i am introducing to you as the next president of the united states, mitt romney. [applause]

♪ ♪ >> thank you. thank you. hi guys. congressman ryan is a great leader, a wonderful speaker. thank you for providing this. he is not going to take ann's place. thank you to washington and maryland and the state [applause]

-- and the d.c. this has been quite a night. we won a great victory tonight in our campaign to restore the promise of america. finde not like to americans with bigger hearts. than the people of wisconsin. [applause] as i have been traveling across the state, i visited with far too many whose hearts are filled with anxiety. so many good and decent people seem to be running hard just to stay in place. for many, every day it puts them a little further behind. it is that way across so much of america, too much of america. under this president to watch, more americans have lost their jobs than during any other time frame during the depression. many have lost their homes. a record number of americans are living in poverty.

30% of single moms are living in poverty. new business start-ups are down to the lowest level in 30 years. you know our national debt is as a record high. when you drive from tonight and you stop by the gas station, just take a look at the prices. ask yourself, a former years of that? -- four more years of that? [boos] i agree. [laughter] it is important to understand one extraordinary fact. president obama thinks he is doing a good job. he actually thinks he is doing a great job. he thinks he's doing is starkly great job. -- and has started a great jobhe did not say this on saturday. night live.

it is enough to make the think that years of flying around air force one, telling you that you are doing a great job, that is enough to make you think you may become a little untouched. that is what has happened. this campaign will deal with many complicated issues. there is a basic choice we will face. the president has pledged to transform america. he spent the last four years laying the foundation for a new government centered society. i will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a society led by free people and free enterprises. [applause] the different divisions we have i think are a product of the different lives we have led, the values we had. when you is a community organizer and communities were

hurt, his reaction was to turn to the government for help. he saw free enterprise as the villain and government as the solution. he never seem to grasp the basic point that a plant closes one a business loses money. he is also attacking the very communities he had wanted to help. at least that is how it works when america is working. under barack obama, america has not been working. the ironic tragedy is that the community organizer he wanted to of those hurt by a plant closing became the president on his watch more jobs has been lost since the great depression. in his government centered society, the government has to do more because the economy is said to do less.

when you attack business of delphi success, you are going to have less this is an less success. the debate becomes about how much is to extend unemployment insurance. he guaranteed there will be millions more unemployed. and barack obama's government centered society, of tax increases that only become a necessity but also a desire tool for social justice. there is a finite amount of money. in barack obama's government center society, government spending always succeeds. there are other nations that have followed this path.

it leads to chronic high unemployment, crushing debts, and stagnant wages. this is beginning to sound familiar. i do not want to transform america. i want to restore the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government. [cheers and applause] it is opportunity. it is opportunity that is always driven america and defined as as americans. i am not naive enough to believe that free enterprise is a solution to all of our problems. nor am i naive enough to doubts

that it is one of the graces forces for goods. this world has everfree enterprise has done more to known. the people out of poverty to build a strong middle class, to educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all of government combined. [applause] if we become one of those societies that attack success, why not become certain that there will be less success? that's not who wethe promise of america has are. always been that if you worked hard, and had the right values, it took risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and next generation. this means that government has to be smaller and have strict limits. taxes have to be as low as possible. i will get rid of obama care.

[applause] in line with those of competing nations, designed to foster innovation and growth, i will cut marginal taxes across the board. i want to create good jobs india -- in this country. [applause] we understand that regulations are necessary. they have to be continuously updated, a streamlined. regulators have to see their jobs as protecting economic freedom. washington has to be an ally of business, not the opposition of business. [applause] workers have the right to join

unions. union should not be forced upon workers. union should not have the power to take money added members' paychecks to support politicians who are favored by the boss is. [applause] out of touch liberals like barack obama say they want a strong economy. in everything they do, and they showed they did not like business very much. the economy is simply the product of all the businesses added together. we have to build successful businesses of every kind imaginable. we have always been a country of dreamers.

one team helps another. if the streamers are rewarded with prosperity, we use this as a a reason to dream big as well. this is a lot worse by the mistakes and failures of the president's leadership. if the bill before us a steeper, steppers. i then all of the country from student unions to kitchen tables, from bridegrooms to boardrooms. i've heard frustration and anger. rarely hopelessness. a lot of americans have given up on the president. they have not thought about giving up. not on themselves, not on a tether, and not on america.

[applause] we have a duty placed upon us to restore the promise of america. we will do it. we will do it because we believe in america. tonight i am asking the good people of pennsylvania and new york, rhode island, delaware, and connecticut to join me. join me in the next step toward that destination of november 6 when across america we can give a sigh of relief and no the promise of america has been kept, the dreamers can dream of little bigger, the help-wanted signs can get dusted off and we can start again. this time we will get it right. we will stop the days of apologizing for success at home

and never again apologize for america abroad. [applause] together we will bill the greatest america we have ever known where prosperity is grown and shared, not limited and divided. an america that guarantees that ours is the door to innovation and great this and it always is knocked on first. there was a time not so long ago when each of us could walk a little taller and stand a little straighter because we had a gift that no one else in the world had -- we were americans. that meant something different to each of us but it meant something special to all of us. we do it without question and so the the people in the rest of the world. those days are coming back.

that is our destiny. join me. what to gather. take another step every day until november 6. we believe in america. we believe in ourselves. our greatest days are still ahead and we are, after all, americans. god bless this great country and god bless you. god bless the united states of america, thank you, guys. thank you for the victory in wisconsin and maryland and the district of columbia. thank you, guys. [applause] ♪ ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

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>> the road house took what -- the road to the white house continues april 24 in more contests. may 8, indiana, north carolina, west virginia hold their primaries. on may 15, nebraska and oregon and arkansas and kentucky on may 22 and texas on may 29. follow the candidates on the road to the white house at c- span.org/campaign 2012. >> this saturday at noon eastern on book-tv, join our live call-

in program with a distinguished former navy seal as he talks about his life from professional rodeo rider to becoming the most lethal sniper in u.s. military history. at 10:00 p.m. -- >> if you think of yourself as a family and a team and she said when i get a raise at work, he is proud of me and we got a raise. our family got a raise. i felt as though she had read the fine providing to include water husband does and she had respect for what her husband was doing. >> the changing role of women as the breadwinners of the family and how that impacts their lives. also this weekend, america the beautiful, director of pediatric neurosurgery at johns hopkins compares the decline of the empire's past with america and shares his thoughts on what should be done to avoid a similar fate sunday at 3:00 p.m.. book-tv is every weekend on c- span 2.

this year's studentcam competition ast students across the country with part of the constitution was important to them and why. the third prize winner today selected the first amendment. >> god said, let there be light and there was light. >> it is no rebuttal to my position that it is important. there are plenty of poisons in the world. >> anyone who says they have got on their side -- has god on their side gives them the right to commit any crime. >> although harsh, the debate has been going on for ever is. . thankfully, we're guaranteed our free rights in america. our constitution says congress shall make no law respecting --

disrespecting religion or preventing their of. this is my house in grand junction colorado where i have lived most of my house and have hardly ever been to church. my parents were raised catholic but they said catholic church is more about the money than the fate. i stopped believing and a higher power until it became agnostic. i decided to immerse myself in the middle to better understand religion and its role in government. this is a free lunch that is put on every week by a baptist church at my high school. people all faiths are welcome and they listen to a 10-20 minute sermon. >> we ask you guys to give them as much respect as you give me. i allowed things in my life to interfere with the greatest decision with the greatest reality that mankind can ever

know and that is experiencing, daily walking with christ. >> at the other end of the spectrum, there is a western colorado society of free thinkers that meet once a month at our local mall and talk to people -- talk to people about infringement on our basic rights th. >> [inaudible] >> the president of the western colorado freethinkers talk about many topics. >> i know there is a god because i cannot look at this beautiful world around us and say this happen by accident. i believe that as an insult to my intelligence. >> to say there is some guy out there in the heavens looking down on me and i lost myself on and got founded for me, that's a

very odd to me. if god can find somebody is the cell phone, how come he can't make peace in the middle east? >> we allman -- need to take a leap of faith in our believes. >> faith to me in jesus christ -- when i set this tear down in front of you, i did not test it out. i did not look up to manufacture. i just believe with all of my heart that it would hold up so i sat in it. as a scientist, i cannot say there is no god. you cannot prove that. there is no scientific way to test that. however, for myself, i can say to me that there is no god. i have not seen any evidence or any kind of analysis that would convince me. >> whatever faith you have, i spoke with the ap american

government history teaches from my high school on the history of religion in america banner reading to the declaration of independence, you can see we're all given inalienable rights by our creator, having god mentioned in the declaration of independence and those individual rights given by him or a huge driving force in the american revolution. >> the fathers saw the need for religious or the establishment of religious institutions that would not be imposed on people. they wanted people to believe in whatever form of religion they so choose to. >> one thing that offends me the most, especially when politicians say, we were founded on christian principles. christians don't have a monopoly on morality. morality comes from your upbringing, the environment you live in, it comes from your own brain.

>> our founders did that religious background and it seems like we're going to far to keep got out of government. >> you do not have a right, it was not intended to be protected from exposure to religion whether it be a christmas tree or some kind of display from someone who believes in god. if someone is that sensitive, we are missing the point of what our freedoms are. >> the constitution protect our rights. i don't see any reason why we should [inaudible] congress shall make no law establishing religion. we need a mutual understanding that we are a country that was founded by christians. nobody is wrong and nobody is right under law.

even if there is a nativity scene on the lawn of the congress building, that does not exempt you from freedom of speech or having the right to vote for it i am personally not religious but i respect the other's right to respect my very we need to see that we have the right to our own beliefs and how to express them. >> we must be vigilant in protecting the rights of a religious minorities and building a society in which people all faiths and people of no faith can live together openly and peacefully. >> go to studentcam.org to watch all the winning videos and you can continue the conversation on our facebook and twitter pages. >> coming up today on c-span 2, former senator george mitchell who used to serve as u.s. special envoy for middle east peace is speaking before the government's security conference. live coverage starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern. later we go to the white house

where president obama will sign into law the bill to bar members of congress from profiting from insider information. live coverage is at 11:50 eastern on c-span 2. here on c-span in a few moments, today's headlines and your calls live on "washington journal." at noon, mitt romney addresses the american society of news editors. at 2:00 p.m. eastern, we are live for a meeting on gas prices and speculation posted by the democratic steering committee. in 45 minutes, americans for posterity -- for prosperity vice president will talk about the budget proposal. at 8:30, a discussion on the supreme court ruling that prisoners can be strip search before joining a gills general popuon