>> david is the author of "the great destroyer." where did you come up with the title for this? what is the president destroyed? guest: i think he is destroying our economy and financial integrity, undermining our values, and clearly has an aggressive war against domestic energy. host: you wrote you believe obama is heading the nation towards a national catastrophe by greatly undermining national defenses. what are some examples of how you believe he is destroying the national economy? guest: he promised he would keep unemployment below 8%. they implemented the stimulus plan. shortly thereafter, it shot

above 8% and remained there almost ever since he did so. he said he would create 5 million jobs. he has lost 4.1 million. 7.6 million jobs gap from what he promised to what it is. he has added $5 trillion to the national debt, soon to be $6 trillion. we have the worst recovery since world war ii, the slowest pace. every of the recovery we have returned labor and employment to where it was four years hence. the recession began in 2007. in december of 2011, we are 4% below where we were when we started. the main thing is we have $99.4 trillion in unfunded liabilities. it is growing at the astronomical rate of $10

trillion a year. paul ryan and the republicans have tried to responsibly propose entitlement reforms saying if we do not do something within three years, bondholders and other experts claim we will go the way of greece. interest rates will go up. the bond markets will go south. the dollar will be the value. obama will do nothing to join the fight against entitlements even though we are going over the cliff. it is inevitable if we do not do something. he will not only not do anything, he stops republicans from doing something while demagogueing them for not doing anything. i could go on and on. when tim geithner was being interrogated by paul ryan, he claimed to stabilize the economy over the next 10 years. in fact, you are adding $10 trillion to the debt. unbelievable to me and other citizens. that is called stabilization.

at the end of the 10 years, it shoots straight up. he did not deny it. he said we do not like your plan because it does not protect the middle class or seniors. ryan said i bed to differf -- i beg to differ because of special protections for different classes. he preserved medicare for those 55 and older and on and on. there is nothing but demagoguery on the other side. no efforts to protect them. we cannot sustain it. i do not understand how anyone can vote for this guy given what he is doing. we cannot sustain this. if the republicans win back both houses of congress, we cannot stop it. we are on autopilot to bankruptcy

without power over his veto, we cannot stop it. he ignored the bipartisan budget commission. host: we want to get you into a conversation with the rest of the country. we will do that by phone. the phone lines are starting to heat up. you were talking about the economy. in one chapter you say that while the economy has begun to show signs of recovery, it has been too little, too late. they would have us believe the government can quickly create economic activity and jobs by injecting road money into the economy.

i wrote it and i stand by it. i may have gone part of that ad of the analyses. he used to work for the heritage foundation. they think any government state -- let me give you an example of the extent of the absurdity. unemployment benefits, if you extend unemployment benefits, you'll get more jobs. if you extend the food stamp program, you will get more jobs. >> david limbaugh is our guest, the author of "the great destroyer." caller: i was just wondering.

our president has talked to the congress to pass bills for people to have jobs. every president has their ups and downs and pros and cons. i don't understand why they cannot seem to comprehend. i voted for president bush. i voted for president reagan. >> black unemployment is higher than it has been in years under president obama while he

purports to be protecting minorities and taking care of them. also, the lower 20% quintero of income earners is lower than hit has been in years despite the obama read distributed programs. he didn't create 9 million jobs. he has lost 4.1 million and there is a job gap of 7.6 million jobs. this is not personally bashing president obama. it has to do the disagreement about his policies. host: we want to remind our callers, when we pick up with you, make sure to hit the mute button. the next call is from robert from brooklyn, new york. caller: good morning.

china flood the market with cheap product. guest: it is preposterous to tie solyndra.ey to cyli the employees there, many of the people that looked at it come insiders knew it wouldn't work. the administration pressured the omb to make the loan, even though it was not a good bet. once the project was going, the administration pressured the board not to issue a bunch of layoffs until after the election in november. scandalous, correct. so the taxpayers lost $40

million more as a result of them improperly telling them to withhold the layoffs. they lost $160 million just because obama illegally subordinated taxpayer loans to private investors to encourage them to invest and they got paid back. it is such an indirect nebulous collection between bain, romney -- i don't even know the caller is talking about, to be honest. caller: i would like to make a comment, please. the entitlements should be cut, but they should be in the form of trade agreements. everytime this president or previous ones go to a foreign country, they announce another trading partner. that in short stands for our jobs going your there, her corporations going of their making thousands on profits and paying no taxes here because

they will pay minimal tax and a foreign country. also, thank you. guest: a lot to cover their. obama has railed against american businesses for going overseas wealth creating an impossible tax climate here. he has gone to the company's overseas and giving speeches that we ought to give people here. he is in bed with the g ceo whose company didn't pay any taxes at all. they did so much business overseas kamal while railing against having our company is having jobs overseas. obama's record on creating jobs isn't great. he needs to relax regulations at

a greater rate. host: in addition to being the author of this new book, he is also a syndicated columnist. his also a partner at the partner of limbaugh and howard and specializes in entertainment law. john from louisville, ky. caller: when bill clinton was then, we had peace and we had prosperity. then we had eight years of bush appeared the country and to complete hell. while disappointing a lot of people in his cabinet, say people with bush. everybody knows you have to cut entitlements. do you ever hear the republicans talk about raising taxes or

subsidies for oil companies? and this crap about goldman sacks, both companies are in bed with -- geithner -- these middle-class people who think the government is out to get them. they control both parties. it is absurd. what romney, five sons going to the military? of course not. that is for the middle-class boys were black, white, and hispanic. anybody who thinks differently is an idiot. host: i think we have a volunteer force for now. guest: the allegation that bush did all this is getting a little long. the liberal policy of affordable housing is the primary cause lead in the financial crisis. obama had his fingerprints all over that period they sold both in the secondary market.

apart from that, we talk about the subsidies. we talk about bush lowering taxes. lower taxes yielded greater revenue. so there was no deficit there. while the iraq and get dennis than words were raging, bush's deficit had reduced to $160 billion, which is about a 10th of what obama's was in fiscal year 2011. it is specious to say that bush caused this, that he drew this, that his tax and military policies drove us over the brink. but in respect of all of that, i wish democrats and republicans would say, i don't care. president obama's position should become a key was to blame bush like an adolescent and never take responsibility, bush

did all this, even though i don't believe he did, but we are in such a precarious ofsituation that i come as leader of the united states, will recommend that we get our finances under control. but he doesn't. forward toward bankruptcy. we have to solve this. republicans are the only party who have come close to it. host: you are on the washington journal. go-ahead. caller: i wanted to make a comment on the changing economics. it seems to me that the combination of their belief system in the keynesian economics is printing money into an oblivious future that will be driven by inflation. it is already a big issue you have to do with. how wanted to hear what you had to say about that. guest: there is a complete lack

of sophistication economically and a blind ideology. some of the obama editorial supporters say to continue printing money. that is the same of the europeans. we won't go the way of greece as we can continue printing money. but you cannot get something for free. this isn't make-believe. this isn't monopoly money. but i think obama is an economic telerate -- economic illiterate. i don't said that disrespectfully. they don't hire the manner of their own volition. they don't just hire and that starts a multiplier effect we where others to the same. that is not the way it works. he needs to listen to market signals. but there's so much government intervention in the markets and you cannot hear those markets anymore. when obama and his group of

people who believe in more socialistic form of government, their approach to it is that government cannot respond without an infusion from the government and without government with them. he basically said capitalism couldn't do it by itself. it has always had to rely on government to do it. if we would allow the free market to breed, if we kept smothering -- quit smothering the free-market and let it to work, we would have a robust market. host: we have a tweet from somebody who identifies himself as evil bastard. i don't make this up.

how much of the current economic situation is the responsibility of the president and how much of it is the congress? guest: they are tied together to some extent, but you have a republican congress opposing a democratic president and a democratic congress opposing a republican president. but now you have the democrats in control of the senate and blocking the ryann plan which was passed by the congress and blocking the cap and balance plan. they're the ones who are inch -- obstructing any reform efforts. what bush did and what obama did, and it is the obama plan versus the ryan plan for economy. there is no comparison. obama actually doesn't have a plan. there's no entitlement plan. ryan brings it all into balance in a relatively paced way, not

even in a fast way. i don't see how we can compare the two. the republican party is the best vehicle to bring conservative principles back and economic integrity back and stability. the republican party has done internally better than democrats. they tried to stop obama and he does demagogues and says there tried to stop the poor and minorities. i don't even think that there is any word close to -- i do not even think they are even close to parity. host: author david limbaugh is our guest. host: back to the phones, kevin,

you are on "washington journal." caller: i am amazed. thank you for allowing anybody with any point of view -- here's the question. what other president do you know of that, from day one, you have republicans get together and say they will destroy this man? in the congress, they said we will oppose everything that he does, including from the debt ceiling to the jobs bill. and then they run the country into the ground and then they say let's hang it on obama. everything this man has written has been about how democrats are destroying everything. what about republicans who refuse even if it helps the

country? guest: it doesn't help the country. everything that obama is proposing is in favor of destroying the country. he just introduced the jobs bill. the $600 billion stimulus bill, astronomical. after it demonstrably doesn't work, in fact, it failed miserably, even douglas dittersdorf cbo director said there was a negative effect on gdp. so it doesn't register with obama appeared he says i will double down and do it again. so he posted different infrastructure bill. high-speed rail. then he proposes stimulus, jr., the stimulus jobs that.

he wanted to do exactly the same thing that didn't work. after eight years of spending more than a government has ever spent, we are in astronomical that and still have not created any jobs. why cannot president obama learn what the fdr's secretary of the treasury learned. it is not a matter of partisan obstructionism and obama should join them. but he won't. host: you're right. obama's form positive flows from the belief that america has been too nationalistic, aggressive, exploitive, and arrogant in wor.

terms of national security, the reported leaks that have been coming out and the attorney general's announcement to investigate those leaks and the prosecutors. guest: it is very disturbing that we have these leaks. some say the administration is guilty of these leaks.

i cannot infer anything about who did it yet. but the administration has been known to leak in very serious. so i wouldn't put it past them on national-security issues. what i said and what you quoted me in the intro that chapter about obama's approach to foreign policy being inconsistent and inscrutable, i also stand by. host: back to the phones. aim for democrats from georgia. -- amy on the line for democrats from georgia. caller: bush and his cronies deregulated which led directly to the 2002 financial crisis. they spent billions of dollars. where was the average then?

it is so intellectually dishonest to act like obama is the worst thing ever when we all know -- we were all there -- bush created a horrible mess and then left. guest: it's in the constitution. i said earlier. i will repeat it. i don't believe bush policy largely led to the mess. i think the affordable housing policy created the mess and the liberal policies led to the mess, some of which president bush subscribed to on the domestic level. he created a prescription drug entitlement. i don't believe in everything he did. although, when he decreed that, the democrats would have created a more wasteful program. i talk about that in the earlier book. i also reiterate that it was not

the bush wars that lettuce over the financial brink. we had $161 billion in debt. it wasn't until the housing market exploded that his deficit finally went up. his average was way lower than president obama. so this nonsense about comparing bush's debt with obama is preposterous. again, i sure -- i showed a chart. there is no comparison. obama is not making any effort to hold his down, none. even in his own plan where he goes to the chalkboard -- and this is in a perfect for -- he tells us what he will do. he doesn't aspire to balance the budget. he doesn't aspire to get it -- to get the deficit lower than $700 billion a year almost $1 trillion a year, the cbo says bin he says i am not adding a dollar to the national debt. we will not wrap up our credit card debt any more. in the same week, he is presenting a debt that will cost

of $1 trillion in the next two years who is he feeling? is he confusing himself or is he trying to blow smoke and deceive the people? the fact that he presented is incriminating. it isn't -- it is blind going -- it is mind-boggling to me. think there has been a lot of entitlement reform in the last however long. i will not exonerate anyone for entitlement reform -- i mean, for their record on entitlement. but these are all liberal ideas and liberal projects. conservatives want to cut these back, not because we have no compassion. it is precisely because we do. we have to bring these programs to restructure debt is sustainable. we believe in a safety net, except for a tier libertarians.

we want to practice -- we want to protect those who cannot help themselves. but we do not want to extend the dependency class and work -- and ruin the work ethic in the united states, ruin individualism, ruined the worker. the food stamp program, newt was criticized for calling president obama the food stamps president been he has expanded its program and they even incentivized certain states to put more people on the rolls and the will of a reward for doing it. this is not the way to salvage america and get people back to work and to get the robust economy moving again. host: we have another 15 minutes with author david limbaugh.

our next caller comes from reseda, calif. caller: first of all, if it was not for leaks, nobody would know how criminal our government is and that is a good thing, i think. obama is a traitor and a war criminal. so is bush and beyond that. but let me tell you, all of our money and the deficit will never be solved unless -- both parties are blocked by a pack. host: let me stop you right there and go back to a comment about the president being a war criminal. give us an example. caller: they want us to fight syria and all of these wars we're fighting for israel. guest: you give these people a quiz.

are you really republican? that sounds more like -- never mind. that sounds ridiculous. i cannot respond to it. host: let's go to baltimore, md.. caller: i find it amazing -- i agree with you on entitlement spending, i do. it is on a course where it cannot be sustained. something has to be done with that. but my argument with that is the republicans are quick to want to cut entitlement spending. but i don't see them breaking up these too-big-to-fail banks. i don't understand why will the republicans have the same server when it comes to picking up the bank's the way they want to control entitlements spending?

i have lived through three republican presidents -- eight years of reagan, four years of bush 41, and eight years of bush 43. none of those presidents ran a surplus. yet this is the party of spending cuts and tax breaks. i don't understand the logic how it can be the party of spending cuts and tax breaks. all of them ran debts. guest: no question about it. but reagan tried. he was up against a democratic congress. his tax cuts nearly doubled revenues in 10 years. so it's not about -- tax cuts don't cost revenue. even in actual dollars.

when newt got in there in the '96 congress, the 94 congress, they stop clinton from extending. you look at the clinton deficit, his projected deficit in the early part of his term, they went off the charts. he, too, didn't aspire to lower deficits. they fell in his last -- in his lap after republicans forced him to be more austere and now he masquerades as the president of surplus. this is not about president keeping score. this is about the future. president bush didn't do much domestically in my opinion, too. but what we do now? we're not kids. we're in this mess republicans say i don't care who did it. if some democrat would come along and adopt the paul ryan plan or some back somalia that in getting bipartisan group of people to agree in blood to what -- or some plan like it can get

partisan bipartisan group of people to agree in blood to that -- this idea about the bank's backing of -- that is a red herring. you can talk all you want to about banks. the democrats got their way of dod-frank. it is a corrupt monstrosity. it will give the president the authority to an unaccountable board that doesn't even have to answer congress about its budget in answers to -- about its budget. it answers to the federal reserve. it is not breaking up the banks, but it can.

banks are growing bigger on dodd-frnk. that is obama's solution and it doesn't work. and if it ever does work, we are in trouble. to capriciously go in and break up banks, it is not even a judicial review if it transpires a certain way. the courts keep a for 24 hours. but we're getting away from legislative accountability and delegating more authority to unaccountable administrative agencies. let's look at the real culprit. it is our policies that have caused this. it is our spending. and it is their entitlements. we will not solve this with the banks. we will solve this by restructuring and tenements. host: folks have been meeting in chicago for the first chicago- area conservative political action conference. they had a straw poll of 520, they were engaging

who would be the best running mate for governor romney. who do big to be the no. 2 on the gop ticket? guest: i don't put much stock in polls, but i love rubio and jindal and paul ryan. any of those would be just -- i would be very happy with any of those. but there are a lot of factors. i'm not a political strategist. a focus more on policy. a political strategist has to analyze who would be best and help the ticket the most. i want someone who is reliably conservative. we haven't gone to that point yet where we have gotten down to narrowing it down. but the three names i mentioned are reliably conservative and would help the ticket. i have not seen analyses of it.

people who know more about it than i do will be making those decisions. host: the book is called "the great destroyer." david limbaugh is with us for the next seven minutes. caller: good morning. first of all, the guest of yours is a certified member of the lunatic fringe of the republican party. absolutely. unbelievable. what we're living through in america today is the last days of 30 years of the legacy of reaganomics. tax cuts for the rich. that is all these people want to talk about. and they claim that will work. we see what has happened. jobs have gone overseas. our banking system is a joke. we allow them to do everything

that they want to do, not what needs to be done. we bailed them out. they have done nothing to help this country whatsoever. they are sitting on $4 trillion, that as corporations sitting on $4 trillion waiting for a republican ideologues it comes along. guest: tax cuts for the rich, thank you for reminding me about that wild charge that president obama keeps making. these are not tax cuts for the rich. their tax cuts across the board that were skewed more for the lower-income groups. president reagan were across- the-board tax cuts. we had robust growth. a repeat, tax cuts, other things being equal, do not result in lower revenue. it is the spending that will stop and the proposed spending and are unfunded liability that will stop. this class warfare has got to stop. obama talking about the buffet

rule and getting people rev up, saying that billionaires' and millionaires don't pay enough taxes. they do pay taxes they pay almost what obama is proposing. to the extent that they don't is because they have lawful deductions prevent charitable deductions. they have dividend income or capital gains but they're not supposed to pay. but for the him to demonize them and they recently got their deductions after 9/11, the aviation issue is hurting, the deduction was not to put the money in rich people's pockets it was to help the aviation industry and it worked. and now obama is costing jobs. also that he can demonize these so-called rich and capitalize politically is unconscionable. guest: you talk about the money that went into the aviation

industry after 9/11. compare that to the situation in detroit and the auto industry and the money that went there. is there a comparison to be made? guest: there was no money injected into the aviation industry. there were tax breaks, tax incentives. it worked. people tend to forget that these policies work, same thing -- host: so the money that was put into the auto industry brought the auto industry back? guest: know there were billions of dollars in taxpayer losses. another thing, president obama always applies group and identity politics and brings racialism into things. he preserved certain auto dealers because of their minority and their gender, dealerships that were run by

minorities and fema were more likely to be preserved than those otherwise. that is not the with the role of law dictates that the government operate in the united states. host: our next call comes from new york city. i am so glad the some define eroded book that is saying the truth about what is going on. all the liberal media keeps covering and makes him look like a hero. he destroy the middle class. all he does is makes taxes, taxes, taxes on the middle class, such as gas and other taxes and they go to the poor. he doesn't defend the middle- class. he destroyed it. guest: that is a very good point. he promised he wouldn't raise taxes on families earning $250,000 or more. he broke that promise. in obamacare, their 17 taxes.

not to mention, destroying the economy, unemployment being enhanced -- being consistently higher than it has been in years. the state of our economy now is getting hard at the middle and lower classes, especially minorities. host: michael on airline for independence. caller: i was wondering about obama talking -- when he was talking about the health care, it would all be on c-span and open cameras and all that. and he took all those insurance people into the back room. when i go to the doctor -- i go once a month -- they are scared to death of this health care bill. what are your comments? what happened to the c-span

cameras and watching all this on tv and he ticket behind closed doors? guest: in fact, the godfather of c-span, brian lamb, called for the debates being on c-span, the health care debate. obama promised he would do it. he broke that promise. he cynically insist that the debates have been on television. he broke that promise and everyone knew it been he finally did needed it and he kind of laughed about it. obamacare has been a bag of broken promises. he promised people could keep their own health care policies. something like 30% of employers are of the only ones who can keep their plan. doctors are leaving the practice premier going to retire in five years, 43% -- doctors

are leaving their practice and are going to retire in five years, 43%. it's a nightmare. the cost curve has not gone downward did it cost more than double. we have already seen that. it's a shame. host: david limbaugh has been our guest here in his the author of "the great destroyer." >> coming up sunday on "washington journal," a roundtable discussion on gov. walker's victory in the wisconsin recall much impaired guests will discuss which could mean for the november election, other governors and unions across the country and the impact of the citizens united case on the recall effort. then a recent study has found that americans will use and what binds and divides our country is changing. michael demint will discuss the when and why of the change. -- michael didmmick will

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brandenburg gate in west germany. also this weekend, our series "the contenders," 14 key political figures who ran for president and lost the play -- but changed political history. sunday, james blaine, this week and on c-span 3. >> on thursday, the u.s. house temporarily stop its work to wonder house minority leader nancy pelosi's efforts in congress. it was for 25th anniversary. house minority whip steny hoyer and speaker john boehner both spoke about serving with representative pelosi. steny hoyer called her one of the tavis: leaders any of us have ever served with. this is about 15 minutes. > all of us through our lives meet people, particularly when we

were young, and i'm sure this happened to people who were with leaders of our country, thomas jefferson, a young man, i'm sure there were people whoet thomas jefferson when he was 25 and they said to themselves, boy, this guy really has his head in the clouds. and then he became one of the great people of democracies in our world. when i was 23 years of age, in 1962, i was working for a united states senator, his name was daniel brucer 69 -- brewster from our state of maryland. and that summer he hired as an intern a young woman, younger than me, but about my age, close, and we had the opportunity to get to know one

another. and we sat approximately 12 feet from one another as a young college graduate and a young law school student. that was 1962. through the years i stayed in maryland and that young woman got married and moved to california. and just a few years later i came to the congress of the united states and six years later she came to the congress of the united states. after having been the chairman of her party in the largest state in the union. having been very much involved with the united states senate. having been a leader in our country not as a member of congress but in her role as a significant party leader and a member of the democratic national committee.

in sally burton died, herself a member of a distinguished political family, this young woman ran for congress of the united states. her father had served in the congress of the united states, been a member of the appropriations committee, been mayor of baltimore city, and been the father of a mayor of baltimore city. how proud he would be of this young daughter he raised at his knee not frankly as somewhat caricatured as a san francisco, but as a baltimore city pol. i say that with great affection. who knew how to put neighborhoods together, who knew how to take care of citizens in that city, that's where she learned her politics. and as thomas jefferson had people who attacked him

bitterly, she has had the same. we all have that in this game we participate in that we care deeply about that young woman at i first worked with in 1962 became the highest ranking woman in the history of our country in our government. and now we note some celebrate, others note, her obtaining of a quarter century of service in this body. and all of us will be able to tell our grandchildren, and i have my grachildren now, but i have a number of them now, and a number of them are young women,

and i tell them how proud they can be of the leadership and trail that has been blazed by this extraordinary woman. and i talked to a number of you on the republican side of the aisle, my good friend, roy blunt, and he says to me, he says, boy, that woman has a spine of steel, and that she does. those of us who have dealt with her know that she's one of the rongest leaders any of us has served with, whether you agree with her or don't agree with her. and so i rise, mr. speaker, to note this anniversary of 25 years of service of nancy pelosi from the state of maryland and very proud, proud state of maryland, to have a daughter like nancy, and a state that is proud of its citizen servant,

nancy pelosi. so i now yield -- so i now yield -- ladies and gentlemen, i now have the great honor of yielding to my friend, we are both americans, we both love this institution, and he is now himself not quite as historic figure because there have been many men who have been speaker of the house of representatives, but my friend, john baber, speaker of the house.

qush -- john boehner, speaker of the house. the speaker: let me thank my friend, mr. hoyer, for yielding. i rise today to commend our colleague, the gentlelady from california, on her 25 years of service to this institution. it's the latest in a series of milestones for the gentlelady from california. on january 4, 2007, i had the privilege of presenting leader la lowsy the -- leader pelosi the gavel when she became the speaker of the house, the first female speak of the house, but just as important as this anniversary is, in and of itself, it also represents 25 years of commitment and service

to this institutio now, the gentlelady from california and i have differing political philosophies, and we have had some real battles here on the floor over the 22 years that i have served with her about -- many of you know the gentlelady and i have a very, very workable relationship and we get along with each other fine. we treat each other very nicely, and actually have a warm relationship. but because we all serve in this institution and we all have work to do to protect the institution and serve the institution, and i can tell all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, that i enjoy my relationship with her and enjoy our ability to work together. now, it doesn't mean, all right, that we are going to agree on taxes or we are going tagree on spending, but i know i speak

for the whole house when i rise today to say to the gentlelady from california, ms. pelosi, congratulations on 25 years of real service to this institution. thank you. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i will now yield back but before i do the gentlelady from california would like me to yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. in the political life that we have here and our service to the american people, i take great pride in always saying when

someone says to me were you surprised when somebody did this or this bill did that, i say, i'm hardly ever surprised in politics. because i know what the possibilities are. i am thoroughly surprised today t i had absolutely no idea that -- today. i had absolutely no idea the mischief that mr. hoyer was up to going bk decades i might add. but i thank him for his kind words and all of you for your nice reception and i thank the speaker for his gracious comments as well. . i was remembering, oh, my goodness, we are taking up time on the floor and this is personal and i was recalling it wasn't that long ago when we -- mae five, six years ago we came to the floor and that then

speaker hastert was the longest serving republican speaker of the house and we made much adieu about that landmark. so i comfortably accept your kind words. since we could observe that, i think -- and i said long may his record stand at that time. that is the humor in certain circles. as the gentlemen were speaking, i was recalling when i was first speaker and sitting in the chair to welcome the president of the united states to the chamber for the fir time and it was president george w. bush. and presidenbush surprised me that day, too, when he opened his remarks by sayinto the gathered crowd that many speakers had the privilege of -- many presidents had come to

the congress to speak to a joint session, but none of them had ever opened their remarks with these two words -- madam speaker. and he then went on to say, although my father served in congress with president roosevelt and president truman and that was a tremendous honor for him, that doesn't compare to the idea thatis -- he said something like, baby girl, was sitting in the chair as speaker of the house. that was an honor for me. his father honored me for my 25th anniversary. president george herbert walker bush on president's d by inviting me to speak to his library, the bush library at texas a&m. we recalled a time of civility in the congress when he was president and we had our disagreements, as the speaker

acknowledged, we still do, but we did so with great civility and that was what we talked about that day. i consider that a great honor. and i consider this a great honor. to serve with each and every one of you, patriots all, representatives, independent representatives of your district, and that word has two meanings. it's your title, it's also our job description that we represent our districts and bring beautiful diversity of opinion, of hnicity, of generations, of geography, a philosophy to the congress of the united states. the beauty, i say in my district, is in the mix. while i am honored to serve as speaker of the house, first woman speaker of the house, first italia ran american speaker of the house, first maryland speaker of the house, first california speaker of the house, many firsts, it always is the greatest privilege of my life as i'm sure it is with

each of you to step on the floor of the house to represent and speak for the people of each of our individual districts. so i thank you, mr. speaker, for your kind words. while as you said, we may not always agree on taxes we did at one time when president bush was president and we worked togeer at that time to -- on his stimus package, which was tax oriented. you remember that. it was good for the country. d it was a good model for us to go forward. it's an honor to serve with you as speaker. while i with great joy accepted the gavel from you that first time, it wasn't so joyful to hand it back over, but nonetheless, it's all in the chamber and that's where we all serve for the american people. steny, you don't know when, you

don't know where but one day, one day i will repay this maificent honor you have extended to me by taking me totally by surprise. and wait until i talk to my staff about this later. steny hoyer, great patriot, great marylander, great member's member, a person who respects every person he serves with. steny hoyer, mr. speaker, i know i speak for everyone in the chamber when i say we are prd to call you colleague. thank you souch for this opportunity. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. >> coming up, tsa administrator pistole.t

later, investor warren buffett talks about his life and his career. >> coming up tomorrow on a port newsmakers," senator teddy steno -- senator debbie stabenow and senator pat robertson. >> just talking about reform doesn't solve anything. you look at the expenditure side commit the revenues said, you have to get specific about it. if i had anybody in this room design a plan, i could sign on to 90% of them. >> warren buffett tonight at 8:00 p.m. on c-span.

>> earlier this week, tsa administrator john pistole talked about the size and scope of the tsa to the homeland security security. he defended the tsa's progress in the past two years, the size of the workforce, hand the recent foiled terrorist bombing threat. it is about an hour and half. >> this hearing of the hamas security subcommittee on the tsa will come to order. i want to thank everybody for being of this hearing and want to thank mr. pistole for being here. sir, you have got a tough job. i think we can agree that every person in this great country of

ours has the right to criticize and complain about tsa. but what sets un die apart from those who just want to criticize the tsa -- but what sets you and i apart from those who just want to criticize the tsa is that we have the ability to clean up this mess. progress has become -- has come at a snail's pace and come in some ways, has gone backwards. it is not enough that the agency is becoming more -- while the pre-jet program has gone off to a successful start, it does not represent most travelers. so let's talk about what we can do. on monday, congressman walsh and i visited chicago or a hair

airport. we met with travelers afterwards. the overwhelming majority expressed frustration that 10 years after 9/11, tsa is still collecting pocket knives. it is still collecting water bottles. it is still -- of course, the travelers are subjected to invasive searches and loss of privacy. the fact is that these folks are right and reasonably are fed up. the prohibited items list is an appropriate place for you to start making immediate changes. history has proven that, if you cooperate, the airplane would land safely and they would get their prisoners out of jail. 9/11 has changed and that mentality. mentality.