pat toomey has introduced a great piece of legislation. i'm happy to co-sponsor it, or be the sponsor in the house to make this ban permanent. and another thing we need to do as well is we control the power of the purse. and where the earmarkers pretend that that means we have the ability and should have the constitutional right to earmark, what it means is we should provide oversight on how the federal agencies spend money. if we don't think they're spending it correctly, we rein them in, we establish the parameters in which money is spent. it doesn't mean that we look and see their abuses and pile on spending abuses of our own. and that's what the earmarking process came to be. so thank you again to citizens against government waste. and let's keep pushing until we can make this permanent. >> thank you, congressman flake. i do need to interject, however, that one of the most enjoyable occasions during all these years of examining earmarks is when we made punxsutawney phil the porker of the month. next we have congressman jim jordan, who

because the moratorium is only temporary, senator pat toomey and representative jeff flake both of which are here today have introduced the bipartisan earmark elimination act which would establish a permanent ban on earmarks. unfortunately the senate amendmy offered by a vote of 40-59, which is a lot more we used to get to try to ban earmarks, and the bill introduced by congressman flake has not reached the floor of the house. that would be the full objective and would meet our original goal in 1991 of truly eliminating earmarks. the effort to permanently ban earmarks is essential. many members of congress including senate majority leader harry reid, senate appropriations committee chairman, a number of republicans including mike rogers, a republican of alabama, have been clamoring for the restoration of earmarks. representative rogers said earmarks are required in order to pass legislation referring mostly to the transportation bill which had trouble reaching the house floor not because of a lack of earmarks but because it's simply too expensive. senator reid stated often that earmarkin

so now it is my great privilege to introduce to you our senator pat toomey, a man who never lost faith in our party, our values and our nation, a man who in chester county we carried for in 2010 and pat toomey knows what makes america great. he hasn't forgotten that and along with him, the next president of the united states governor mitt romney. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you. thank you all. thank you very much. val, thank you so much. thanks for all that you're do g doing. we all know that val stepped into this job with great shoes to fill and the shower, and i -- i expressed that, and i said is it too early? he said no, i by the white house, and you know, when he said something like this, there's no debate. i knew we were going to the white house. the driver -- the limousine driver took us to -- i forgot which gate it was and the north gate, the white house gate and i said just stay here. i'll take this to the guards of the gate, and i said fine. well, i'm keeping a pretty close eye on elvis, and he gets out and we all -- the world knows what he was wearing, you know? it was pretty normal for m

a disgrace. >> greg: love pat toomey. great senator. that's it for "the five." see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪

pat toomey, a very conservative senator from pennsylvania, and a new one, offered up a proposal that would have increased revenues. now weever want to sayaise taxe oka yonever want to use that. but it would have increased revenue. all of us really signed on to that. >> rose: "all of us"ing? >> the republicans in the senate. not all of us. >> rose: republicans in the senate is different from republicans in the house. >> yes but if they had cut that deal on that supercommittee i think you would have seen increases in revenue. now how would he do it? bri loophole closing. there's loopholes out there as you know that the reason why the tax code is this high is because lobbyists... >> rose: but the president is in favor of that, too. that's a proposal that the democrats make. recehe deductions and lower cooratincome tax. >> but the democrats on that committee-- and history will write this factually-- but the democrats on the committee refused that offer. they refused that offer and there just wasn't... and, of course, then we got the sequestration. here's what i think all of us... what is

wracked up endorsements from bobby jindal, florida governor rick scott, pennsylvania governor, pat toomey, lindsey graham and terry branstad. joining us by phone is msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halpern, co-author of the book "game change." how are you? >> thank you, luke. those are timely endorsements. the train is leaving the station. >> that's right. get on board. rick santorum bows out of the race. why do that now and what does that mean going forward? >> he wasn't totally clear about why. i think family considerations and the strains on his family that have been evident for a while and he was in danger of losing pennsylvania. a lot of people believe any of the gains he had made as a national figure could have been undermined if he had been first or one of the first to lose his homestate in the primary. the timing worked for him. the math did not. he still will be a major player now if he consolidates what he does at the convention in tampa and beyond. >> let's talk about that rick santorum was able to garner enthusiasm about the anybody but romney crowd even

bob casey and pat toomey and just being able to meet them and talk to them. >> some of the leaders like leon panetta talked about being financially sound because if we're not devoting money to national defense is going to be worthless. >> high school students from all 50 states who participated in a week long government and leadership program in the nation's capitol shared opinions interacting with the government. aall of my cent and senators said there's partisanship and everyone that we've met said that and i wonder if everybody's saying that but it's not actually happening. is there a discrepancy of what they're saying and actually doing? i never really thought about that before i came here. >> the u.s. senate youth program, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >>> this saturday at noon eastern, on c-span2's "book tv" join the live call-in program with author chris kyle talking 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 yourselves as a family and a team, and she said, you know, when

bob casey and pat toomey. and just being able to meet them and talk to them. >> some of the leaders like leon panetta, he talked about how important it is to be financially sound because if we're not financially sound, devoting money to national defense isn't going to be worth us because we're not going to have any money to devote to it. >> reporter: high school students from all 50 states who participated in a week-long government and leadership program in the nation's capital shared their observations and experiences as they interacted with congress, the supreme court and the president. >> all of my congressmen and senators said there's a lot of partisanship going on in congress and i'm the one reaching across the aisle. and everybody here we've met from congress has said that. and it kind of makes me wonder if everybody's saying that but it's not actually happening. is there a discrepancy between what they're saying and what they're actually doing? and i had never really thought about that before i came her

. >> greg: love pat toomey. great senator. that's it for "the five." see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> i'm andy levy filling in for greg gutfeld. what is coming up on tonight's show? >> the secret service in an effort to clear up a possible presidential threat made by ted nugent through -- flew to oklahoma because nugent was performing at the grill. it should be said that nugent was performing because the tulsa fudruckers is booked up. and obama raises eyebrows when he says he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. many on the right had a problem with this insertion labeling it as class warfare. donald trump had the assertion when the president was born. and finally, audio released of mel gibson fly into a rage in costa rica, somehow making him craze yes, sir than a rat in a tin outhouse and filled with giant rats and tin outhouses. back to you, andy. >> see you at half. jay indeed. >>> i am here with fox business network, lori roth man. her new book "the roth man prophesies" tells the story of the jewish creature seen in west virginia in the 1960s. nati

. >> bob: senator pat toomey, the republican budget paul ryan in the senate yesterday that cuts $440sgusting. here is what toomey said. a small segment of our society has problems with poverty. senator, 49.1 million people are under the poverty level. this is what you find. i won't say all republicans but republicans in congress, particularly conservative ones are gutting at the same time they want to cut taxes from richeo

. >> greg: love pat toomey. great senator. that's it for "the five." see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> bret: will more heads roll in the secret service prostitution scandal? more details tonight. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm bret baier. there are indications that the fall-out of the biggest scandal in secret service history may be far from over. senior white house correspondent wendell goler reports the investigation in to what happened is now coming under scrutiny. >> a day after secret service officials announced the careers of two supervisors and staffer was over, the white house defended the pace of the ongoing investigation. >> people have already been held accountable or held themselves accountable in this very incident that has been under investigation for a few days. >> new york congressman pete king is briefed on this and predicts more heads will roll. >> as the investigation goes forward and more evidence comes out we can expect to see move against other agents as well. >> 18 more secret

. >> and governor corbett, your successor, hasn't endorsed either, but pat toomey the republican senatorat about rick santorum and his impact in pennsylvania and the governor? >> i think he's absolutely right. it's very hard. if you've ever run for office and lost, as you know, i have, it doesn't come easy to just you know -- >> you didn't lose many. >> it doesn't come easy to shake off the loss and say i'm for that guy who beat me up and trashed me through the primaries. i think eventually rick santorum will do. one the conservative white democrats, the independents in the philadelphia suburbs and a few moderate republicans up for grab. barack obama cleaned them up in 2008. the question whether the campaign that the republicans have ran and governor romney's forced to run on social issues has turned those voters off so much that he has no chance to hold them. if he doesn't hole them it doesn't matter what happens in the west. >> talking a lot of women in those suburbs. >> right now big problem. but when you look at it even in the most optimistic polls the president still only adding fou

santorum, including the fact he endorsed the more-moderate senator arlen specter over the challenger pat toomeyl newspaper reports that some of toomey's supporters in the state are still mad at mr. santorum because of that. despite his personal guarantees to the contrary, the possibility that rick santorum will lose his own home state in three weeks is real. and that possibility has given way -- is giving way to a common sense argument that if he does lose pennsylvania, mr. santorum will have to drop out of the race. and if he will lose in pennsylvania, if it looks like he's going to lose in pennsylvania, shouldn't he probably drop out before that loss in order to avoid the embarrassment of losing at home? former mike huckabee aide telling the hill newspaper today that the damage of losing in pennsylvania would be huge, "if he loses pennsylvania twice, that's going to really hobble him in the future. that would be very hard to live down." given rick santorum's guarantee that he will win pennsylvania, his admission that he needs to win pennsylvania, and the real possibility that he might not in

joining me now, speaking of taxpayers and a lot of money, pennsylvania republican senator pat toomey, a hawk on the deficit. pennsylvania votes today. why are we still spending money on transporting newt and calista gingrich around the primary states? >> that's a good question. i think it would be in everybody's interest if newt gingrich would acknowledge the inevitable and focus his support and his supporters on electing mitt romney and defeating barack obama. but you know how this is. this is a personal decision that only he can make. >> with the caveat that you never know what the threats are out there but the bottom line is, once the service joins a campaign and they did in gingrich's case, after super tuesday, he won georgia, so on march 7th they joined his campaign. it was already well onthe point where anybody thought he was a viable candidate. once they go and are launched it takes the candidate, him or himself to pull the plug by saying i'm no longer a candidate. >> well, that's the nature of the process. as i say, i certainly hope that speaker gingrich will come to that conc

battle against fellow representative been quayle and picked up an endorsement this morning from pat toomey. they are facing off in the suburban phoenix 6 the district. toomey's support helps schweikert makes his case as the most conservative candidate. that is in "roll-call." one more article about a member of congress. alan i. representative tim johnson to retire. -- illinois representative tim johnson to retire despite winning the gop primary just a few weeks ago. host: that was a factor in johnson's decision. he will announce his decision today, according to the report, which also stated johnson felt comfortable with his decision, given that perennial candidate -- it goes on to give a little bit about congressman johnson. he is a sixth term lawmaker. he is known as a bit of a loner in the house and he also got national attention for his phone call where he tries to call every one of his 300,000 constituents. the new congressional lines to many of those families out of his district, leaving him to tell the "washington post." -- that is agony. what is this all about? back to your calls on

he switched party in 2009 two weeks after pat toomey joined the race.ith for 44 years was no longer the same. >> i found myself increasingly at odds with the republican philosophy and more aligned with the philosophy of the democratic party. therefore, i have decided to be a candidate for re-election in 2010 in the democratic primary. >> well that didn't work. after failing to win over republicans, specter didn't convince democrats either and he lost the democratic primary to joe sestak the following year. lincoln chaffee after losing the election bid in 2006, he jumped ship and became an independent and he was elected the first independent governor of rhode island. michael bloomberg switched from the republican party to independent, barely put a dent in his popularity, all of the decisions for political expediency in new york city. after serving two terms as the republican mayor of new york he not only switched parties and managed to change term limit laws and is a third term limit. now he keeps both parties at arm's length. >> we have to work together

there was the so called supercommittee, we saw senator pat toomey, someone who has been very, very, very vocal about avoiding tax increases putting $00 of additional revenue on the table. we saw jeb hensarling, republican from texas, doing the same thing. so republicans have made this offer. it didn't go anywhere. >> brown: with sufficient numbers to passing? >> john boehner made this offer to the president. the president was never willing to actually do the leadership role to get it down. >> brown: you have been involved in campaigns, as we said. you say this is a political issue at the moment. is it going to remain as one? do you see this as one that sort of continues with us over the next months? >> i think the president's clearly decided that this is a valuable political tactic. i expect them to continue with it. there is bolling suggests that he's making misa mistakes. that swing voters aren't interested in this pointless battle about fairness. they want the jobs, they want the debt controlled. they want real changes. >> brown: douglas holtz-eakin, thanks for joining us. >> thank yo

today i interviewed senator pat toomey from pennsylvania and he will not sign on to extending that student loan rate, the lower rate. and chuck, on his show, interviewed connie mack from florida, and he would not sign on. so you have in the house and the senate, tea party-supporting economic conservatives who are not willing to go as far as mitt romney even on pivoting to the center. >> andrea mitchell and chuck todd, thank you both very much for joining me tonight. steve schmidt's going to hang around for more republican analysis. >>> coming up, president obama versus mitt romney this week. they are, as andrea said, fighting over the youth vote with student loans as the issue. we will show you the president talking about student loans on jimmy fallon's show tonight in a way that no politician has ever talked about anything. >>> and rush limbaugh viciously attacked georgetown law student sandra floouke again today in h first response to limbaugh's attack. sandra fluke joins me tonight for an exclusive interview. >>> and on the "rewrite" tonight, a not-so-fond farewell of the presidential c

and when i was interviewing pat toomey yesterday, he said that he wasn't persuaded of that, connie mackhouse member was on with chuck todd also yesterday. and he anti-on board yet. isn't there a point where the congress of republican party is going to be at odds with mitt romney's overall message. >>> there will be some of those points. i don't know that that hurts mitt romney's overall message to have disagreements with members of congress right now. but there will be some of those areas where it's more of a matter of degree. there's really no reason for that student loan rate to be as high as it is. i was a university president for four years before i came to the congress. and we want to make student loans available, but why is that rate as high as it is? because it was one of the paid forces in the president's health care plan. you know, if the health care plan goes away as the court very well might decide, there's no longer an argument about this loan rate because it was used to take money from students and pay for health care and largely health care for people who aren't students b

battle against fellow representative ben quayle, picked up an endorsement this morning from senator pat toomey. the two arizona lawmakers are facing off in a race to the idealogical right in member versus member primary in the suburban phoenix sixth district. toomey's support helped schweickart make his case as the most conservative candidate in the race although quayle has prominent conservative supporters of his own. that is in "roll call." one more article about a member of congress. illinois representative tim johnson to retire. representative tim johnson, republican of illinois, will retire this year despite winning his gop primary just a few weeks ago. during the redistricting process in which illinois lost a seat, johnson's gop-leaning district was made more democratic by democrats who controlled the process. that was a factor in johnson's decision according to the capital facts and illinois political newsletter which first reported the news. he will announce his decision today according to the report, which also stated johnson felt comfortable with his decision, given that perennial ca