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a new generation of political leaders, hopefully some come from baby boomers. >> sean: i watched gingrichp close during the revolution his contract with america day george w. bush did was kept this country safe and he never wavered on the idea that we've got to be on the offense. which we weren't in the lead-up in the 90s. i don't know, these problems seem worse to me. has taken us back to bill clinton era policies. &$4= us back to carter on steroids. >> that's frightening. we can build, even though we have a calamity here and we built on the ashes before. after the great depression, after world war ii. we can do it again. this country can do it. we are the greatest country in the world and we can do it. >> but we have a timeframe.és$u i think the day of reckoning is coming. by china and t(nybiks gulf emirs and russia, that the day of accounting is coming. the further we go down this road without making these fundamental changes the smaller the playing field. the fewer our options. we've always had a delay had different alternatives, options. you will see that narrow down. that's why the

that was newt gingrich now.e airport and had to give an answer on this. joe, from atlanta. >> yeah, i'm not in morocco. >> not in morocco. former mayor and republican candidate for president rudy giuliani with us joining the conversation. first, your thought on newt's comments. >> well, he's right. you know, it's so interesting how the media constantly painted newt's contract with america as some right-wing ploy when you looked at about half the democratic caucus supported all of those provisions, there were things like the balanced budget act. we did do welfare reform, tax cuts, did term limits, went after term limits, tried to do a lot of good things. and a lot of democrats supported us on. i can't recall a bill that passed like this. again, it is -- and you will never hear this in the media because the media has a narrative. they love health care reform. as lawrence o'donnell says, they've been cheering for health care reform and this president for quite some time, as lawrence o'donnell says. and you will not

it happened again in 1982, reagan's first midterm when democrats came sweeping in and newt gingrich sweep in 1994, a rebuke of bill clinton was the most recent historic year. look at what has democrats terrified right now. the poll asks voters on a scale of one to 10 how interested are you in the elections coming up this fall? get this. 67% of republican voters say 10. they're ready to go. only 46% of democrats have a 10 in their enthusiasm. howard, that's a big differential, republicans can't wait to vote. how can democrats led by the president get democrats to want to vote? >> well, it's going to be difficult, chris. those cases you talked about before where the incumbent party was swept out, the economy was bad, unemployment was pretty high or getting higher. we faced a situation in the fall where unemployment could still be 9%. we don't know where the economy is going to go. the president has disappointed his base on a lot of issues. so it's going to be difficult. but the key thing he has going for him is time. eight months from now until election day, that is a lifetime in american p

former republican house speaker newt gingrich said obama and the democrats will regret their decisionehensive health care reform calling the bill the most radical social experiment in modern times. gingrich said, quoed, they will have destroyed their party much as lyndon johnson shattered the democratic party for 40 years with the enactment of civil rights legislation in the 1960s. yeah, democrats, you don't want to make another big mistake like you did with civil rights. you sure regret supporting civil rights, don't you? the way that worked out? he later clarified, saying what he meant was lbj was right to sign major civil rights legislation, lbj shouldn't have supported things shouldn't have supported things like bussing or otherwise have gotten so far ahead of the country on civil rights. i would not have expected it, but the fight over health care reform is turning out to be clarifying. health reform is not civil rights. this is not a desegregation order, a voting rights bill, it's not the same thing. but this is government trying to take a major step to remedy what is wrong in t

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is this really the historical analogy that gingrich wants to make? katie couric asked rahm emanuel to account for his foul mouth. >> why do you have such a foul mouth? didn't your mom ever wash your mouth out with soap? >> i read a piece in "time" magazine about how swearing is good for your mental health. >> do you swear in front of the president? >> i have cursed before but i do not curse in the oval office. >> ever? >> i probably have done it once in the time we've been here. >> does he curse? no comment. >> look, you know, i will go to the grave with my secrets. time for the big number. these past few weeks we saw the president take ownership of health care reform. according to a white house tally, how much direct pitches did president obama make to democratic house members? 92. no question that helped push the bill past the finish line. president obama made 92 direct appeals to wavering house democrats. tonight's very telling big number. >>> up next, we'll do a fact checking on the health care reform bill. what will it actually do? and what does

you remember the newt gingrich contract with america?on this was supposed to remake the american scene. >> the bush tax cuts. reconciliation. >> reconciliation. we have used this process for big ideas in the past. it can be used this time. the first stop is the house of representatives and nancy pelosi has a tough job. you say to yourself, well, should the house democrats trust the senate? well, where would you look for any evidence that they can trust us? they have sent us 300 bills, which have been held in the senate, mostly by one senator. over 100 cloiture votes last year. currently in the middle of a threat of a filibuster from jim bunting whether we're extending unemployment benefits. in my state it means 15,000 people in my state woke up with health care and unemployment benefits cut because of the objection of one republican senator. >> help us out on the spending part. bunting is saying how are we going to pay for this? the president supports pay, go now. should we figure out how to pay for this? >> i think this is as much of an

>> guest: you see new gingrich in the booth and we have a big new new gingrich book coming in april. we are excited about that. we published his last three big non-fiction political books and they've alleen best sellers. his last big political book was called of real change in the camaguey in the presidential campaign so he hasn't had a book since president obama has come into office and now is his chance to give a report card on how the obama administration has done and what he feels we need to do to get the country back on track. >> and we see that and culture is appear. is she won of your authors as well? >> she's a political commentator for human events which is a weekly conservative newspaper our parent company publishes and human events has been in business over 60 years and ann coulter is one of their best loved writers and she writes for human events and participates in the board meetings every week and that is her sort of editorial home so we continue to publish her in the paper and also we have a weekly letter we sent out to about 1 million subscribers for free so each week

host: you came in with the class of 1995 with newt gingrich. you mentioned the party did not live up to the promises they made. is that your biggest critique of the republicans? guest: we made a series of promises in 1994 and we did not live up to them. we also promised to reestablish the bonds of trust between the american people and congress would have jack abramoff and others. i think we were held accountable for that, and should have been. i think the party is now trying to be articulate what it would do if it was in the majority, and on the flip side, democrats are now making promises. nancy pelosi said that she would offer the most open congress in history. clearly, it has not been that. president obama said he would bring us change that we can believe in. bills would be negotiated on c- span. maybe that was idealistic, but there are all kinds of back room deals being cut, special provisions for christopher dodd. i had a list and people can contact my office. i think when politicians break their word war make promises and do not live up t

speaker newt gingrich gave us a government shutdown. bush jr.ave us the war in iraq and eight years of deficit spending and nearly doubling the national debt. >>> next, making amends. though the republican -- though the president delayed his months -- this month's trip to indonesia to work on health care, he did take time to do an interview with indonesian tv. here our president is talking about the four years he spent growing up in indonesia. >> is it true you wrote a poll stating that your dream is to become a president? >> that's not true. i think that -- i remember reading one of my teachers saying that i was planning to be president when i was 6. you know when i was 6, i wanted to, i think, to be a fire. >> you know a fireman? >> well, let me tell you all boys wanted tibfireman when they grew up. i certainly did. >>> finally, power to the people. that's not apparently not slogan that louie gohmert of texas a big state's rights guy was trumpeting on the house floor yesterday. nostalgia for the old dates. the time before the 17th amendment. t

the speaker of the house newt gingrich. several other republicans in that picture.es and mary, does it matter? >> go ahead. >> it sure does. you can go back to reagan. you can go back to bush. johnson. there is never a scene like that in modern history. >> does it matter to us? does it matter to voters? >> it very much matters to voters if polls are to be believed. >> in the president's defense, they had the summit, was -- when clinton signed his economic bill in '93, probably the most successful piece, it was all democrats. this is not like utterly unprecedented. they tried everything they could, the republicans, philosophically were just against it and that's what happens in politics. >> just for the record, he met with them once in 2009 on march 5 and he didn't meet with them again meet with them again until february 20. >> let's look closely. you script these big events because you want the political balance. the president and the democrats need one right now. look at this right here. a lot of people make fun of his friend the teleprompter. you think they could

newt gingrich said republicans should be happy if this bill passed because it would do for democrats what l.b.j. passing the civil rights did for democrats back in the day as l.b.j. predicted for about 30 years. i could go on and on and on. therare members of congress now who have around-the-clock capital police protection. what in the world is going on here simply because we passed a health care bill, senator? >> well, you have gone through a whole range of things. some of which i don't know anything about. of course members of congress should have good conduct ourselves, that's very important. second, we should always deplore any sort of racial incident of any kind and any sort of violent exchange. i do deplore that in all of my conduct. i try to do my best, and i just said on the senate floor that this has been a long and empassioned debate. it has been a well intentioned debate, and we have big differences of opinion, and we ought to stick to our differences of opinion and leave it at that and hope that the rest of the country will do the same. tavis: is it just a difference of o

it's reminiscent of newt gingrich, i would say, and the takeover in 1994. >> the other thing i was goingd is we're all too young to remember this. but in 1988, there was catastrophic health care with medicare and what happened in 1988 was that there was uprising a year later by older americans who you may remember stormed -- from your history book, stormed dan rostenkowski and that was a bipartisan bill. that was supposed to be a pay as you go extra benefit. that was bipartisan. this is a very partisan bill. and to see the uprising is what has given mcconnell and boehner and other republicans hope. gwen: nothing like an election year to test that theory. thank you both very much and i hope you get to take a break now. while the president was celebrating his admittedly huge domestic victory the ground was shifting on foreign policy matters. consider the curious case of this testy exchange of views with israel. at issue is israel's decision to build housing in east jerusalem. a move the u.s. considers bad for the peace process. >> the jewish people were building jerusalem 3,000 years ago.

coming up later, newt gingrich's perspective on where the gop goes from here.ation. what the speaker would do if he was in charge. there is something else when it comes to being in charge. this national health care program that's coming our way incremental criminally over the next ten years, even though we'll be taxed leading up to that before we actually get any services, what about some of the program going forward? obama care. who will get it? should the congress get it? should the president get it? there is provisions to make sure they don't. >> gretchen: well, whether or not they want it is a different question. but senator chuck grassley, republican from iowa, he's steamed about this. here is what he said. it's unbelievable that the president and his closest advisors remain untouched by the reform they pushed for the rest of the country. and he wants to propose an amendment to force all political appointees, from the president on down, to take their own health care reform that they pushed for the rest of america. i think this is astounding that the lawmak

newt gingrich is not going to endorse, club for growth is not going to endorse.t's good news for john mccain. for now, he's hoping sarah palin can share some of that star power in these two rallies in arizona. and then sarah palin, she's then headed to nevada where she's going to host a big tea party rally there with ann coulter. >> thank you. >>> my big question today, how much can sarah palin really help john mccain? give me a shout on twitter or on facebook or e-mail me. >>> looking at the horrific scene on an interstate in southeastern kentucky, 11 people killed after a tractor trailer crossed the median and slammed head-on into a passenger van this morning. the truck's driver was also killed. transportation investigators say the interstate could be closed for the next eight hours. >>> a fire destroys an historic courthouse in north carolina. we'll tell you what it has to do with an affair and john edwards. >>> making strides when it comes to fighting poverty. nicholas kristof weighs in on why there is reason to hope. >>> plus, the salahis are soon going to c

i'm looking at numbers from the gingrich group did some polling on this.t really is not close on this issue yet i guess the base wants it so the base gets it regardless of what happens in november. dick morris just said they don't care about congress right now, they think they will lose congress in november but they need to push this through. is that the calculation? >> democrats will take a loss in november, no doubt. it is an antiincumbent year. the republicans will lose seats, too. because it is a hugely antiin couplement year. temperature crates just can't win with democratic votes. republicans can't win with republican votes. they all need independent votes and they know it and that is why the deficit score is a key play here. democrats if they can convince independents they can win. they going to lose seats but they may get some by doing that. >> i hear you point on that. nancy, you can address this. we learnd that nancy pelosi is going call for a vote on the doctors' fix. which means $230 billion of the supposed savings isn't going to reoccur. she i

. >>> a watched gingrich up close the contracting of america i think the best thing george w.afe. he never waived on the idea we have to be on the offense which we weren't in the 1990s. i don't know, these problems seem worse to me. >> first of all barack obama has taken us back to bill clinton era. look, we can build, even though we have a calamity here, a problem here, we have built on the ashes before after the great depression and after world war ii. we can do it again. this country can do it. we are the greatest country in the world and we can do it. >> we have a time frame. i think the day of reckoning is coming. so much of debt is owned by china and the golf emirates and russia the day of accounting is coming. the further we go down this road without making fundamental changes the fewer our options we have always had a country with a lot of different alternatives and options. that's why i think these next few years are -- oo too it has to start with two models contract work, reagan work, reagan inspired people he changed the world. economically he made the world a safer

what has happened since 1995 with newt gingrich, now with into pelosi, power has been reduced by theommittees and to the speakership. you do not have the committee's claim the role like they used to. host: next phone call. addy on the democratic line. caller: first of all, this is not president obama's agenda, this is my agenda. i need insurance. people are making it a race thing. we need help. host: give us more about the president's relationship with the senate, harry reid? guest: he came from the senate, did not spend too much time there. he certainly had the support of senator reid and his campaign. i once had a campaign event in nevada when then-candidate obama was running for president. harry reid introduced him ground they. he spoke to some of us after, really looking forward to working with now president obama. i think their relationship is a good one, but i think it is a difficult piece of legislation. moscow in terms of getting that through, has he shown more or less patience than president bush? guest: i think he has been lasting gauged with the details but has been more s

newt gingrich the other day said passing health care is the biggest mistake democrats are going to make they passed civil rights and lost the south. is he seriously saying john kennedy and lyndon johnson and this country should not have stood up and fought for civil rights and passed those civil rights bills? it's disgusting. >> this is republican response after the bill was signed today. >> over time this legislation will have the same effect that similar legislation has had in the european countries that senator gregg spoke of. that is when you promise more and more people the benefits or the subsidies the cost of the government will increase to the point eventually rationing of health care will result. >> the president intends to take a victory lap on this bill. he's going to take a victory lap on a bill that the american people don't want because they know we can't afford it. because it will raise their premiums, cut medicare and raise taxes on the middle class. >> they just flat-out lie. >> yeah. unfortunately every poll that's out today shows the american people do want this. ever

do you intend as speaker ever to proid preside over a balanced budget like hasstert or gingrich did?>> first of all, let us reflect on where that budget deficit came from. we had two wars which were done on supplemental not pay-as-you go, and we have deficits from the bush years. but having said that, it is our responsibility to reduce the deficit. for that reason, i am pleased that the senate has now agreed to have pay-as-you-go. it became the rule of the house the day i became speaker. it became the law of the land only recently when the senate agreed they would provide by pay-as-you-go. secondly -- excuse me, i'm answering the gentleman's question. the second point is that we have a commission that the president has, by executive order, put forth to take under consideration everything, revenues, expenditures, entitlements, the rest, but to talk about. and that has a short fuse. that will be a this-year phenomenon. then the president has asked for a freeze or a cut in the appropriations bills as we go forward. so what i say to members when they have an idea or a suggestion for legi

with new gingrich. i don't know if that happens to barack obama in 2010 we will see but obviously some people were predicting that is what will happen. now if you get 35 seats from the republicans in 2010, will policy be more down the middle, more bipartisan? i don't know >> host: where it breaks down for clinton to some extent is with the monocle lewinsky and impeachment things which i think historians are going to have trouble rustling with trying to figure out was that a great moral issue with the republicans to gone seriously or was that some amazing piece of insanity where we all became polarized over something that shouldn't have been the focus. >> guest: you probably know my view. i wrote a book on this call to the death of outrage and i thought was very serious, very serious morally and ethically and legally because there was testimony and depositions. i remind people my brother represented bill clinton in the paula jones business so we had some interesting family discussions and debates and dis

former speaker gingrich yesterday suggested that democrats should pass this and that it's good if they pass it because it's going to hurt them the way that the democrats were hurt after lbj pushed through civil rights legislation, first of all it's a bad analogy to the speaker, number one but secondly there are some things that are right and if you're going to lose, go down swinging, i think this is an issue that's serious for all americans. >> i do have to respond to that, david. if it's so good for the insurance companies, why have they spent $200 million trying to defeat this? why has been such a pitched battle from that particular interest group and from those groups? the reality of this is, for all the republicans have talked about how it's a government takeover, this is very similar as chairman kaine said to the republican approach from 1993. what it says to the american people, david, is that washington has changed, that they're ready to stand up to one of the most powerful groups of interests, the insurance companies, that they're ready to stand up to the forces of fear, that h

when newt gingrich was on, even hillary appreciated what was done.host: i'll have to stop you there. caller: these people have to come together and get the job done. host: thank you for the call. a heavy lifter when it comes to the votes. caller: good morning. they are doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. they took it out of your check it is 37% of our state budget. good luck finding a doctor that will see you. this is a shameful legacy. i hope the people in his district letting him vote on what they need from him. that side kick with their best interest at heart. if you strip out all the budget. a wholly different picture emerges the deficit by $562 million writing about this morning in the "new york times." next is barbara joining us from connecticut. good morning. i've heard from dozens of people arguing over the abortion language in the bill. i don't know what this language is. is it a specific paragraph in the bill that could be read over in c-span. some prolifers wish to amend the

the gingrich congress was like the last nail in the coffin.s became very divisive in the 104th congress. the really dislike each other at that point in time and have not improved since. when the democrats won control back, they were like, "ha ha. we are going to get our turn and show you." in my opinion, if the democrats had reached out a year ago and allowed the amendments the republicans offered in committee to be added in the floor -- there were stripped out. it is timely technical -- it is kind of technical. it might have worked. but once we got to the summer and the tea parties and the republicans saw the anger out there, they were like, "it is your baby. we are not going to help you. we are going to say no." it spiraled down. >> you have a question. >> i am from code paint. i live in washington, d.c. but i am from los angeles, california. i have a couple of comments. you were talking about one word that would describe congress. for me, it would be fear. the fear based rhetoric coming out of the republicans and the fearful less of the dem

the gingrich congress was like the last nail in the coffin.ry divisive in the 104th congress. the really dislike each other at that point in time and have not improved since. when the democrats won control back, they were like, "ha ha. we are going to get our turn and show you." in my opinion, if the democrats had reached out a year ago and allowed the amendments the republicans offered in committee to be added in the floor -- there were stripped out. it is timely technical -- it is kind of technical. it might have worked. but once we got to the summer and the tea parties and the republicans saw the anger out there, they were like, "it is your baby. we are not going to help you. we are going to say no." it spiraled down. >> you have a question. >> i am from code paint. i live in washington, d.c. but i am from los angeles, california. i have a couple of comments. you were talking about one word that would describe congress. for me, it would be fear. the fear based rhetoric coming out of the republicans and the fearful less of the democrats to r

democrats demonized new gingrich -- newt gingrich. if you can demonize the leader of the party in the house, linking those members with an unpopular ", that is politics. jim wright was the first. that is the new way politics is being played at this point. martin and i have never been personal about this, we do like to talk about issues, going toe to toe on the issues. it does not help you, personally, because you may need to boat on something else. but unfortunately that is how the game is being played. host: what is your knowledge of british politics? guest: i am looking forward to the may 6 election. host: "the british leader and its party shows signs of life. one of the country's most widely respected pols shows that labor had drawn within two percentage points of the conservatives." guest: they could stay in power with a governing coalition, but what generally happens -- towards the end the votes against the incumbent party should be a wider. my gut on this is that they might be up now, but once the campaign kicks in that directio

as far as competition is concerned, where was the competition when newt gingrich and danny hester voted in the past, numerous times, hundreds of times, that article came out in "the wall street journal" talking about the number of times that they used it to pass all of the legislation in the house and senate. do you care? i do not care. i just one health care. host: thank you for the call. yesterday we announced on this network an unprecedented amount of coverage available online, more than 160,000 hours. part of our new video library accessible to all of you allowing you to identify the events, speakers, topics, dates, issues, all available for free. a great educational tool as well, we hope they use it. back to your calls, health care and the process, leon, good morning. caller: i am disgusted that help politics are going on in washington, i do not know how anyone can even live in that city. i am proud of eric cantor speaking the truth. is just unconstitutional and i wish that people would realize that. maybe we could get somewhere in the process. host: from "the baltimore sun" more o

i am astonished that the republicans as bright and intellectual as a new to gingrich's -- newt gingrich, that the democrats will pay for passing the bill just like they paid for passing the civil- rights act in 1964. host: take a step back, the so- called age of reagan. it does the health care bill and all of that? caller: excuse me? host: the age of reagan. caller: it probably ends the age of reagan. as far as i'm concerned. i believe the health care bill was a good bill and that the republicans -- maybe they have to go back and have their consciences checked. host: here is the headline on the jump to this piece. york, pennsylvania, republican, jan, go ahead. caller: i love listening to you guys in the morning, every morning. my question is, but i have been wondering about this through the whole thing. i currently have tricare and i am currently active duty. my concern is -- and i am just curious. and i have not read all 2400 pages, of course. but i'm planning on keeping tricare for myself and my family once i get out and i know there are some people in the same boat. i'm wondering how

has been widely used since the 1930's and was in fact used no fewer than 202 times under speakers gingrich and hastert amounting to 30% of the rules put forth by the committees under their leadership. all this hypocrisy is kind of galling. i hope my republicans can recover from this amnesia in time to watch the congress pass a bill that the american people need and want. they do not like the health care system that's in this country. they want reform. and we are going to give it to them. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise to express my great concern over the recent statements by administration officials regarding israeli housing construction in that nation's capital city. history warns us that appeasement of mutual enemies is the surest way to destroy alliances and to invite aggression. and yet the rhetoric of this administration is taking us down this dangerous road. israel h

in 1994 newt gingrich very proudly killed mrs. clinton's health care efforts. we have waited 16 years, 12 years we had republicans in control of this house. we had six years with the republican senate, republican house, and republican president and nothing was offered. what you're saying today is, let's kill the democratic bill and we'll wait another 16 years to 2026 until we try again. the americans are going into bankruptcy, 2/3 of them because of health care. and we cannot wait any longer. the time has come for a vote, folks. let's stand up and tell the american people, you want to wait until 2026 to try again. that doesn't make sense. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. paulsen: madam speaker, the health care debate has aroused the american public like few other issues ever have. for months the american people have stood up and

gingrich used the process or the more than 106 times that hafter used it.but you know what our members are concerned about? they're concerned about what with our guests are. they're concerned about the process which finds their policies being rescinded. they're concerned about the process that finds their policies canceled because of pre-existing conditions or when found in a second way a policy is rated or actually taken away. stories that i'm lying on a gurney headed into a hospital and have your policy revoked. that's what our members are responding to and that's what americans are responding to all across the country and why this is so important. >> we feel very strong

huckabee deniy evolution, romne flip-flopped on health care reform, gingrich is a corrupt beltway insideure, is a product of a conjugal visit between charles manson and ann coulter. these are not ideal options. if you want to read more, you'll find it on my blog cnn.com/cafferty file. funny stuff. have a great weekend. >> see you monday. >> she was -- she came face to face with the president at his first state dinner though she wasn't on the guest list. it's what she's doing next that has our attention. raspberry cheesecake... >>> the washington area couple who caused a major stir for crashing a white house state dinner are cashing in on 15 minutes of fame. brianed to is working the story. >> they've got their roles on the bravo network, despite leaving a trail notice town that's damaged careers and reputations. >> mr. and mrs. salahi. >> reporter: their adventure gave the secret service a huge black eye, and within a few months the white house social secretary lost her job. they refused to testify to congress about their actions. and a source close to the couple tells cnn, mick kel sala

a key turning point was when they won control of the house and senate in 1994 and new gingrich becamehouse pretty suspect -- effectively. it resulted in the weakening of the committee chairman. that continued in 2006. as a result, the leadership, democrats and republicans, are at each other. yes, they have to get along, they do business, but it is all lot rougher than it is in the senate. host: you write about charlie rangel, in addition to leadership, taking on the role -- you write a problem was that there were some missed deadlines. guest: the reason the committee system was created and the reason it has prospered is bills have gone to committees like ways and means because they have the expertise. what has happened since 1995 with newt gingrich, now with into pelosi, power has been reduced by the committees and to the speakership. you do not have the committee's claim the role like they used to. host: next phone call. addy on the democratic line. caller: first of all, this is not president obama's agenda, this is my agenda. i need insurance. people are making it a race thing. we n

speaker newt gingrich used reconciliation for his contract with america. we have used reconciliation to create the cobra program to provide health insurance for unemployed workers across america. time and again, we have used reconciliation for major issues involving taxes and revenue. it's been done 21 times in the last couple of decades. more often, it's used by the republican side of the aisle than the democratic side of the aisle. now, to brand this process as somehow un-american and unfair is to suggest that all of the efforts by the republicans to use this process have been un-american and unfair. i don't think that's true. it wasn't true then. it isn't true now. what we have is a bill that has passed the senate, health care reform bill, which is now over to the house. the house of representatives will decide whether or not they can enact the senate version of health care reform. the follow-on bill is likely to be the reconciliation bill which will make some changes in that health care bill. it's not the total health care bill, but it will include cha

in addition, newt gingrich's contract with america, parts of it enacted through reconciliation. so we know that it's been used. some of the people on the other side have argued that it's unfair to use it to modify any basic health care reform. it's interesting that the critics of reconciliation process have voted for it many times. out of the 17 opportunities to vote for reconciliation since he's been in the united states senate, the republican leader, senator mcconnell, has voted 13 times out of 17 for reconciliation. senator grassley has had 20 occasions to vote for or against reconciliation. he has voted for it 18 times. senator mccain, 13 votes on reconciliation. he voted for nine of them. senator kyl, 11 opportunities to vote for reconciliation, he voted for them every time. so these republican senators who are now saying that there's something flawed or wrong or sneaky about this process have used it over and over again to achieve legislative goals. i've voted for it myself. we had some provisions relating to reform of student loans, for example, that i thought were good f

gingrich said over and over again, if we fail, you win. if we fail, we believe the american people lose. and we think that's not fair. and i will give one more quote and cease and yield back to you. october of 2008, presidential campaign debate, national television, john mccain, your candidate said i want to see a plan that gives all americans, all families availability of affordable health care. that was the quote that senator mccain, your candidate for president, made just a few months ago. it was almost exactly what mr. obama said, so from my perception there was a consensus with respect to where we needed to go. as a matter of fact, i think almost every member on this floor believes we need to reform the health care system. we've had a very vigorous debate, very open debate, very transparent debate over a year now on how this ought to be done. we have disagreement. and that -- that's the nature of democracy. but if a majority of the representatives in this body and the majority of the representatives in the other body believe a policy

you go back to what we passed -- gingrich is right. 70% of the vote in the house. you look at bush going into iraq had an overwhelming number of people. this is one of the most deviss ive -- >> don't you think it was so stoked, though, by the divisive media hype stuff that in the end, people who wanted to be reasonable on the right were also felt they couldn't be, i think. john mccain's comment was ridiculous about how he's never going to work -- >> stoking has happened on the other side as well. >> at the top of the hour we'll look at the quinnipiac poll. tina brown, thank you very much. >> do you have a harris poll? >> there's a harris poll out. and it really reveals -- >> the beast book. our very first beast book. more than 20% believe obama was not born in the united states, he's the domestic enemy of the u.s. constitution, these racist, anti-american and collapse of terror attack accused of -- >> barnicle must have made that comment. [ children laughing ] look in the glove box. [ children laughing ] suitcase? huh? ♪ where do gummy

of interest foregone since 1998 when we had to agree to concession insisted upon by then speaker gingrichand then the clinton administration, treasury department to forgo interest on the trust fund. that interest is restored. repatriated to the trust fund and in the future will collect interest like all other trust funds. mr. etheridge: another 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. oberstar: but there are two issues in this bill that i was very concerned about. the senate passed the bill that had a funding formula that was very, very discriminatory. four states benefited with 58% of the funding and 22 states got nothing. senator reid has consented in a letter he sent to me and to speaker pelosi to restore the house funding formula that we proposed in a subsequent bill that will pass the senate this month -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. oberstar: to get those additional highway formula funds as we pros posed in a formula -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. etheridge: 15 seconds. mr. observer sta

they had one that just 12 years earlier and that 1994 newt gingrich election sweep. 2008, when iraq got better but as you well know, the economy got a lot worse. president bush' numbers were still in the toilet. while republicans were swept out of the house and senate, voters were angry at republicans and wanted to sweep them out of the white house, as well. you had the second factor of all of these new voters who were so excited about barack obama. young voters, minority voters coming in and took democratic majorities to a higher level. and both of these elections, which sought democrats being motivated while republicans were lethargic. the second thing was independent voters swing heavily in 2006, in 18% margin for democrats in the house of representatives. they gave barack obama and eight. win. democrats have to defend the majority that was created in those optimal conditions in 2006 and 2008. change is the watchword again now in the sense that to me, the circumstances would have to change to change the trajectory of this election. right now, you hear health care

that is when we had the rise of republicans, newt gingrich. democrats do not want that to happen again. republicans are saying this is exactly when to issue that we are going to use. that is absolutely central to this story. host: kathy from florida. independenct line. caller: you keep saying this is so complicated but it is pretty simple. the government has the power to tax us. however, it is not a tax. all of the other programs, they tax and provide. now they are mandating that week by a private product. they are stopping all over the constitution. the millions will refuse to comply with an unlawful wall. guest: i do not share your deep anger, but you are certainly on to something. this law really goes into the private health insurance market and regulates in ways that run on revenue would turn over if he saw what was going on. you want to sell health insurance? okay, fine, but you have to agree to a strenuous set of rules. this is an interesting intrusion into the private health insurance market. however, it has always been a heavy regulate