the factor begins right now. ♪ >> bill: hi, i'm bill owe rile little.hanks for watching us tonight. inciting violence and racial hatred. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. sarah palin addressed a group in nevada. 8 to 10,000 people showed up to hear mrs. palin hammer senator harry reid in his hometown. >> so harry reid comes from these parts. you know, he served on the state's gaming commission and what he is doing now is gambling our future. and somebody needs to tell him, this isn't a crap shoot. this is a lot of this is being crap though. >> bill: obviously the left despises that kind of rhetoric. now charges that sarah palin incites violence and sows discord. some on the left fear tea party movement and there is a media strategy to brand tea party people as racist. right in the miami herald over the weekend leonard pitts says this about the tea party quote: are you can see what's emerging. the most ardent critics of president obama is going to be label racist and extremist. the extremist label is being used by some on the rig

>> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly.e weekdays with bernie segment tonight, let's get right to fox news media analyst bernie goldberg. you were watching cnn. i can't believe you were doing that "the washington post" writer howard kurtz was on the program that he does. and something happened you didn't like or tell us what happened. >> yeah. i mean howie kirtz is one of the smarter media analyst. he is a good guy. i have spoken to him in the past. i noticed that he said that people who question the authenticity of the story about racial slurs were crossing the line. and my feeling is and by the way, you are always on thin ice when you question allegations of racism. so i'm about to go out on thin ice. i'm not saying it didn't happen. if it did happen, it's reprehensible. i want to make that very clear. if it happened, it's represent prehence cybil. but i'm a journalist. journalists aren't supposed to believe what politicians tell them simply because they are politicians. and what we have here are supposedly somebody yelle

six bills. i have been begging in writing, all kinds of way, i've had the ranking member of the subcommittee committee of jurisdiction, joe barton, request my bill be scored, i've had dave camp, when they said, you don't have the joint commission ranking member, cave damp -- dave camp requested it. i realize by making a big deal about c.b.o. not scoring republican plans that they may say, oh, gohmert, we'll take your bill, we'll score it you may not like the way it comes out. i realize that's a risk. but i'm telling you it's been so abusive, c.b.o. has done virtually nothing, about a tenth of the republican bills they have scored are democratic bills. if they want to bring equity to this, it is time c.b.o. started scoring republican bills and not just democratic bills. i had to get that in mr. akin: i appreciate, congressman gohmert, you know, those of us who know congressman gohmert, i know my colleagues do, know that he has a gift of persistence. i recall one of his more persistent moment, rig

and so i think as we go forward here in the senate this week on the fix-it bill, the reconciliation bill, as senator greg can tell you, the medicare cuts have been increased. the taxes have been increased. and the special deals are still throughout the bill. with that, let me call on our budget leader, senator greg. >> well, i think it should be noted that this bill that we're dealing with, the reconciliation bill, is the fourth major step forward in the push to drive this country down a road towards a european style government. it started off by essentially quasi nationalization of the financial system, nationalization of the automobiles, quasi nationalization of the health industry. now this bill has in it which nobody's focused on the nationalization of the student loan industry. it is a -- what we intend to do is throw up a series of substantive amendments, the purpose of which is to try to correct some of the fundamental flaws. i know we can't fix it, really, because it's such a terrible bill, some of the fundamental flaws of the underlying major bill which expanded the federal gove

bailout bills and energy bills turn into taxes. today hundreds of americans are walking the halls of this building asking us to stop this outrageous government takeover of health care. and take health reform step by step and structure a system that gets them out of this broken system, not locks them into it permanently. i hear them, madam speaker, and i certainly hope that this chamber hears them. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> madam speaker, request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> i'm hearing loud and clear from people's america's first district in virginia that this health care bill before us will not reduces, will not increase access, and full of sweetheart backroom deals that they find highly objectionable and that now we are proposing to put this bill through without having to directly vote on the bill. that also makes them mad. let me tell you what they are saying

you are right, bill. don't disagree with you that we stay focused on the merits of this monstrosity called obama care. you can't pull out and extract the emotion and anger the folks are feeling. the left is trying to cling to one or two nuts who allegedly slurred somebody based on their race or their sexual orientation. i mean, they are desperate. they know most americans oppose what they are doing. >> bill: and i agree with that last word, john. >> last word, i repeat constantly that this is not about barack obama. this is about the ideology of barack obama and the direction that he is taking it. i have no animosity toward barack obama at all. but his policy i abhor. >> bill: okay, guys, thank you very much. appreciate the spirited debate. directly ahead is it legal will the supreme court directly overturn obama care. later, oprah winfrey topic of defamation lawsuit. we will tell you more about that as the factor rolls along this evevevevevev/d/d/d/d/d/d/d/d/d/a >> bill: in the is it legal segment tonigh

and this bill of course has been -- either bill, the house bill and senate bill, as proposed has been online for some 2 1/2 months. otherwise known as about 75 days. so there has been ample time to review the bill, whether it is the senate bill or the house bill. so my friend is, i'm sure, well aware of what's in the senate bill and what's in the house bill. in addition to that, the president butt online his proposed compromises between the senate and the house, which have been the subject of great discussion, including the bipartisan meeting that the gentleman and i attended at the white house, an extraordinary historical meeting in which the president invited leaders from both parties in both houses to come and discuss what he believed ton -- to be an historic opportunity to provide health care access yibblet to all americans. so i say to my friend that we will certainly give as much notice as possible, but i'm not going to say that 72 hours is going to be the litmus test per say, because that which we have voted on already in the house and senate have given members months notice an

and this bill, of course, has been -- either bill, the house bill or senate bill, as proposed, has been on the -- online for some 2 1/2 months. otherwise known about 75 days. so there's been ample time to review the bill. whether it's the senate bill or the house bill. so my friend is well aware of what's in the senate bill or the house bill. as well, the president put online his proposed compromises between the house and the senate which have been the subject of great discussion, including the bipartisan meeting that the gentleman and i attended at the white house, an extraordinary, historical meeting which the president invited leaders from both parties and both houses to come and discuss what he believed to be an historic opportunity to provide health care for -- accessibility for all americans. so i say to my friend that we will certainly give as much notice as possible, but i'm not going to say that 72 hours is going to be the litmus test, per se, because that which we have voted on already in the house and the senate have given members months' notice, and the american public month

and what does this bill do? this bill puts a $30 billion unfunded mandate by c.b.o. estimates onto our states. to the south of kentucky, a very respected democratic governor of tennessee says this is the mother of all unfunded mandates. and just to the north of me in indiana, governor daniels said a half a million more hoosiers will be on medicaid, costing the state taxpayers billions of dollars. it's going to cost my state, according to the heritage foundation, $303 million from 2014 to 2019. we'll be budgeting for 2014, so the state legislators tonight, hoping the economy will turn around, maybe there will be light at the end of the tunnel, or now having to deal with the $303 million freight train that's at light at the end of that tunnel. this takes student loan money to finance this bull bill. the government is taking over the student loan business, they have lower interest rates, instead of lowering the rate, our students are going to be paying back on their interest rate, we're going to take part of that money and fund this bill on the backs of our students. mr

and the senate bill and markup of those bills, i read both bills and i think there's been fair consideration over the process of more than a year of this legislation. it's time for us to move forward with a vote for the american people and i think that congressman barton is going to get his way. i think we are going to have a very clean vote, no one's going to argue the process, i mean, i think on the other side in the absence of arguing the substance which is good for the american people, they argue process. what do you think about the sweetheart deals that have been taking place over the last few weeks where people are really concerned about the perception that congress is engaged in back room, wheeling and dealing and that they're not presenting an honest face, in front of the american people. a lot of ewilkeses hang in the balance this fall, for example, there are other amendments being considered right now, we require that all individuals under medicaid have to demonstrate their identity and citizenship. what do you think about that, congress woman? >> well, i mean, again i think we've

i read the bill. there is a loss of freedom. thousand -- thou shall buy insurance policy or thou shall pay a penalty. if you will, the ultimate sacrifice of freedom, as one said, the power to tax is the power to destroy. clearly as we expand medicaid, we are going to ultimately shift taxes both to the federal taxpayer and state taxpayer. this will increase medicaid to 33% of the poverty level. that has tremendous implications. one is that physicians will be paid so poorly. i looked up in new jersey for example, medicaid pays 37% of medicaid rates to physicians to see the patient. 37%. now, as it turns out, that is below a physician's cost. physicians would like to see the patients. it's too low of a reimbursement. there was an article in the "new york times" and "new york times" held up an example of a woman from michigan on medicaid who could not get treatment for her cancer because medicaid reimbursement was so low that she was unable to find a physician who could afford to treat her. i read the bil

but this bill is the wrong bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: i yield one minute to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey, an important member of the committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. markey: on health care, the democratic party is the party of hope, the republicans are the party of nope. the democratic health care bill lowers prescription drug costs for seniors, expands doverpblg 32 million more americans, reducing the deficit by $143 billion over the next 10 year, gives middle class families tax credits to help pay for health coverage. what do the republican says to this plan? they say, nope. nope to lowering prescription drug prices. nope to expanding coverage. nope to health insurance tax breaks. g.o.p. used to stand for grand old party. now it stands for grandstand, oppose, and postpone. they grandstand with phony claims about nonexistent government takeovers. they oppose any real reform. then they want t

shortly after this bill is pass -- this bill's passage. how's this for six years of benefits? our seniors will experience immediately a reduction in the doughnut hole that has forced them in instances to choose between food and drugs, shortly after passage of this bill. shortly after the passage of this bill young people up to the age of 26 will be able to go on their parents' insurance. six years of benefits with 10 years of taxation. this is outrageous misinformation made all the worse by the fact that the minority chooses to bring this up at this moment when we are here to honor the sacrifice of our proud veterans. i yield to my friend on the other side. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kansas is recognized. from georgia. i apologize. >> i will proudly take kansas, mr. speaker. georgia, which ever. i thank the gentlelady for yielding and although which haven't worked together on any committees i know you by reputation and i know that your reputation is good and that you are known to be a fair representative. so one of my concerns, i just have to tell you, as some

our bill does it. doctors who go overboard and provide tons of quantity and no quality will be disciplined. again, cbo is bipartisan. it's known to be conservative. it's driven us nutses because we though there's more savings. even taking them at their face, $138 billion in ten years, a lot of savings. >> let me get senator graham in here. now, i promise schumer is not playing with the cables here. >> no. >> but you have the floor here. you know what some of the discussion has been. what is your view? >> yeah, i do. well, there's a reason no republican voted for this thing. it's not that we don't care about people and we don't want to lower cost. this lost its focus. it got -- there's a noble effort started by the president. then it got to be, i've got to pass a bill because my presidency is at stake. this idea it reduces the deficit is a flat-out lie. you don't include the money we're going to spend to fix the doctor problem, which is $200 billion. so they took it out of the health care bill and put i

this isn't a jobs bill. s that no jobs bill. this is a snow job bill. mr.ee with, i think was right on the money. the senate piece of this bill, $13 billion for a tax credit, here's the way this thing works. $13 billion out of $15 billion. if you're a small business person in this country struggling and you hire somebody at $30,000 a year, you know what? we're going to give you, we're going to give you, you don't have to pay the payroll taxes, the 6.2% payroll taxes. i had three chambers back in ohio, chambers of commerce, republicans, democrats, i said, you know what, how many of you are going to hire anybody? this is not going to create one job. it's the centerpiece of the bill. i will be asking members to defeat the previous question so i may amend the rule. if the previous question is defeated, i would propose to make in order an amendment to modify the house amendment which would eliminate the $13 billion in this stupid tax provision and transfer to it infrastructure spending and further that that infrastructure spend being distributed pursuant to the

this bill raises that to 133%.but, the federal government in that category from 100 to 133%, picks up 90% not the 50% it normally picks up it picks up 90%. there are a lot of offsets. for the same 10 years that government -- governor rounds was talking about pennsylvania saves money because this bill allows us to buy prescriptions at the lowest rate. this bill allows us to claw back the federal medicare part b charges that were made to the state. this bill pays a higher per teenage of our chip program. this bill allows us to get an enhanceed f-map to help us pay our medicaid cost. >> mike: f-map sounds like government talk formula that the state and federal government share how much the state versus how much the feds pay. i didn't want to sound like we are talking -- >> for pennsylvania we already cover each state has the choice as mike pointed route, but we already cover in our medicaid program people up to 133% of poverty. so we save instead of the government picking up 50% of the cost they will be picking up 90%

this bill that we're going to vote on the skelton bill is amending a bill that has not even passed. i question the constitutionality of the -- and the procedure here's. the health care bill is not going to protect the department of defense military people under tricare and veterans. now, why is this occurring? i think we realize because the democrats moved too quickly and they're penalizing our veterans and so the chairman of the armed services committee is against it, more importantly, he's here with this bill and i think all of us should understand without passage of the buier-mckeon bill which is 4894, the bill has been dropped, to amend the patient protection and affordable care to ensure appropriate treatment of department of veterans' affairs and department of defense health programs. this is a simple statement. but it has huge implications. so mr. levin i urge you to reconsider and make sure that part of this mckeon bill is language of the buyer-mckeon and i close by saying, the reason why we're here today is because the bill was put together improperly and it's just an affro

but this bill is the wrong bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: i yield one minute to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey, an important member of the committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. minute. mr. markey: on are, the democratic party is the party of hope, the republicans are the party of nope. the democratic health care bill lowers prescription drug costs for seniors, expands doverpblg 32 million more americans, reducing the deficit by $143 billion over the next 10 year, gives middle class families tax credits to help pay for health coverage. what do the republican says to this plan? they say, nope. nope to lowering prescription drug prices. nope to expanding coverage. nope to health insurance tax breaks. g.o.p. used to stand for grand old party. now it stands for grandstand, oppose, and postpone. they grandstand with phony claims about nonexistent government takeovers. they oppose any real reform. then they want t

in the senate passed a bill, we are taking that bill, we are going to pass that bill, we're going toss it by making the corrections, fixing the leaky roof with this correction, this correction bill called for reconciliation bill and that will pass. >> but you know that if in that role of that vehicle by which the senate bill is passed, that it then becomes law. in the other contingencies are remedies to be sent to the santa -- to the senate so they may be passed in may not speak. what i want to say because i think it would be ironic if this signature issue, this landmark legislation of this president and his majority, it's going to reach the supreme court. on the issue that i thought in the clinton vs. city of new york is clear, if there's any change whatsoever, even one word in legislation in any of the three facets than a dozen satisfy. that's how ironic it would be if your signature issue is thrown out and mr. diaz-balart as the same. >> if you believe your purchase and found out she bought a shack and said you're going to be upset. >> can i answer that. i'm sorry. >> we are passi

bill: tried to body up. a sudden, i am wondering when omar will get back in the game. you think of getting into the flow. nothing is for sure the way kids make threes. verne: you called it. bill: there we go. verne: he has been on the bench for the last four or five minutes. dellavedova misses one. samhan has been a presence today. but he has been hampered by foul trouble. he picked up his fourth a while ago. the winner of this game gets villanova on saturday in providence. dellavedova. i have no idea what that was. 3:10 to go. bill: this is a pressable group if they can make this one verne: double-double. here is samhan. wow. bill: how about the run out. so alert. verne: 29 points and 12 rebounds. gonzalvez for three more. bill: this is pressable now if they don't make a mistake. two bigs on the floor. gonzalvez a little bit frustrated. what a day for the big fellow. you name it, he did it. verne: absolutely. bill: i thought he had too many catches early. maybe the tougher catch. he just got into the flow.

kill the bill. killed a bill. kill the bill. kill the bill. kill the bill. tillable built. kill the bill. kill the bill. kill the bill killed the bill. >> this weekend, lawmakers are heading towards a final vote in the hulls -- in the house. you can follow the latest on the only network that covers washington gavel-to-gavel, and edited, with no commercials or commentary. take us wherever you go for archived video and to see what house and senate members are saying on twitter. >> the u.s. house of gavels in tomorrow for debate on the health care reconciliation bill. a final vote is expected later in the day. lighthouse coverage on c-span. the senate could take up the reconciliation bill next week. live coverage of the senate is on c-span and2. -- c-span2 >> and now, the house rules committee considers changes to the reconciliation bill. this is one of two -- two reconciliation bills. the second one also changes the federal student loan program. the rules committee sets parameters for debate. the reconciliation procedure is being used as a way to avoid a filibuster and requir

madam president, this has been billed as the -- the reconciliation bill has been billed as the bill to fix everything that's wrong in the original health care bill. that's how it was sold to house members. vote for the senate bill and we'll fix all these things that you find as problems in the reconciliation bill. now we've got before us the reconciliation bill and some will argue that fixing it for our nation's veterans, their spouses, their family members, that this isn't the appropriate place to do it. i agree, we should have gotten it right the first time. we shouldn't have to have a fix-it bill. but when you don't bring sunlight to it, when you exclude people who are focused on poli policy, this is what you get, you get a bill that doesn't fulfill the promises the president made. let me just state again exactly what they were. the president said -- and i quote -- "one thing that reform won't change is veterans health care." he went on to say, "no one is going to take away your benefits. that is plain and simple truth." well, if it's plain and simple truth, then this body has no ch

this bill raises that to 133%.but, the federal government in that category from 100 to 133%, picks up 90% not the 50% it normally picks up it picks up 90%. there are a lot of offsets. for the same 10 years that government -- governor rounds was talking about pennsylvania saves money because this bill allows us to buy prescriptions at the lowest rate. this bill allows us to claw back the federal medicare part b charges that were made to the state. this bill pays a higher per teenage of our chip program. this bill allows us to get an enhanceed f-map to help us pay our medicaid cost. >> mike: f-map sounds like government talk formula that the state and federal government share how much the state versus how much the feds pay. i didn't want to sound like we are talking -- >> for pennsylvania we already cover each state has the choice as mike pointed route, but we already cover in our medicaid program people up to 133% of poverty. so we save instead of the government picking up 50% of the cost they will be picking up 90%

have you read the bill? have you read the reconciliation bill? have you read the manager's amendment. hell no you haven't. >> order mr. speaker. >> both sides would do well to remember the dignity of the house. >> mr. speaker, in a few minutes we will cast some of the most consequential votes any of us will ever cast in this chamber. the decision we make will effect every man, woman and child in this nation for generations to come. if we are going to vote to defy the will of the american people we ought to have the courage to stand before them and announce our vote one at a time. (applause) >> i sent a letter to the speaker this week asking that the call of the role be ordered for this vote. madam speaker, i ask you, will you in the interest of this institution grant my request? will you, mr. speaker, grant my request when we have a call of the role? will speaker -- >> rhetorical question? >> will you grant my request when we have a call of the roll? >> under close 2 a a record vote is conducted by electronic device unless the speaker directs oth

another was the s-chip bill, my bill with senator kennedy, that had 85 votes. the third one was college tuition and that had i think something like 78 votes. the fact of the mter is that it has never been done before, never been used before, to do this. it's very, very dangerous. it's going to cause a lot of problems and in the end you're going to -- let's look at one other thing. the senate bill was passed, e.j. seems to accept the fact that the house bill was passed but there are two different bills. now they are going to take the senate bill, they say, but if they had the votes it would have been voted on. they don't have the votes. i suspect they are going to manipulate the rules further in ways that were never contemplated in order to get this dog through. the 2711-page dog. >> first of all, i find it astonishing that so many republicans who when president sh surged troops into iraq against the polls said this is a courageous act and when president obama tries to push a health care bill against the polls this is a terrible thing, this is not a consistent a

the bill is the bill. paul knows full well, we are not double counting. we haven't done anything differently budgetarily than any traditional process we used. every president has used the same budgeting mechanisms. there is nothing different here. while paul is in the weeds for economic theory, i would like to tell you how healthcare reform affects every day lives. folks that i talked to, the survivors that i am one of understands that we are done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of preexisting conditions. women in this country are done being treated like being born a woman. >> i would note. >> those are important things. >> i understand but the money is an important thing. i'm not going to use paul ryan's numbers. i'm going to use our numbers and let's put these up on the screen. first of all, almost all of the added savings, 138, so $20 billion more than the senate bill, come from the student loan reform into the healthcare reform bill. this isn't from healthcare savings. this is from the student loan. you cut revenue

bill. thank you, madam president, and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: madam president, i would just briefly like to comment about the prior amendment that has been offered as an alternative, a side by side or a cover amendment to the sessions-mccaskill bill that would take the budget limits that passed by this congress and make those more difficult to violate by creating a two-thirds vote for it. i would just say a couple of things about the pryor amendment. i think it's not good and we should not vote for it, and it portends to have good motives and maybe it does have good motives, but, in fact, it would allow $62 billion more in spending over three years than the mccaskill-sessions amendment. that it would instruct this deficit commission to propose tax increases and entitlement cuts to pay for increases in discretionary spending. the deficit commission was not meant for raising taxes and cutting entitlements to pay for new discretionary s

obviously it all goes away if they pass the second bill, which changes it, the fixer bill.tter is these are republicans making their point and you're going to hear this over and over again i think because they're going to take up the time that's allotted them. >> and the chair of the rules committee in the house of representatives, david dryer was the chairman for many years of the rules committee when the republicans controlled so these arcane parliamentary maneuvers, they both appreciate what's going on. >> welcome to their world, right? on the rules committee that is the way, that is what they do every day. and what dryer was trying to do is sort of get this on the record over and over and over again. i know you'll be shocked, alex. he'll probably be using this in campaign ads, that you democrats are voting for all of these special interest provisions that you say you hate but you're voting for them. let's just get this clear. you're voting for them even though you're going to try and fix them and undo it, by the way, what are you doing right now? you're voting for them.

this bill is not a reform bill and that's my problem with the bill. it's a coverage bill.d justice, it's fairness, and that's probably again to the left of most of my colleagues. but that's a good thing. i think insurance markets work bet aernd if you get people in, you have better risk-writingth and over time, you get better competition, because you've got everybody in. i think that will bring the prices down. the problem with the bill, there's no reform into the bill. it pours money into all the buckets that are there without reforming this. spending will skyrocket. we'll go from 18% to 20% of our gdp. states will have to increase spending on legislation. increased taxation, which will slow down, i believe, our coming out of the recession over time. we haven't changed the system at all. and until we reform the system, progressives maybe move to single-payer, that's not going to work, i don't think and america doesn't support it i think people like conservatives such as myself, have true reform, aligning incentives, payment reform, pay people on value, not on volume, very

bill, even minor changes would send the bill back to the house for another vote there. bill? bill: molly henneberg, thank you. you heard from senator judd gregg, ranking republican on the senate budget committee. in a moment he'll tell us why he thinks the democrats' health care plan, now law, means financial armageddon. more of that coming up later this morning. martha: we all remember this, it was the deal that change bart stupak's mind and led him and other antiabortion democrats to vote yes on the health care reform bill and that may have been what turned the tide and allowed passage of this bill. and today is the day to sign that executive order. president obama will do just that, on that abortion funding ruling. that signing will reamp the agreement that no taxpayer funds will go toward abortions, and yesterday's signing of the reform bill which we all witnessed, there were 22 pens that signed the bill, it was a huge media event, but today, for this measure that deals with abortion and health care reform, the president will sign that executive order we're told in privat

it says in the bill we are not criminalizing anyone for failure to. >> bill: they get fined. >> bill, here is what we are going to have to try to figure out. if we are going to communicate, you will have to let me speak. right now we have 88% compliance rate with all elements of the tax code, requirements, sanctions, everything. it's the highest in the world. >> bill: what about the other 12%? the irs gets them if they don't pay the taxes. ask wesley snipes. you can't tell me the irs isn't the enforcement arm here. it is. congressman? >> [sigh] i have a very big burden here debunking every one of the mistakes you are making. it's going to take me a while. >> bill: tell me which agency in the federal government will deal with someone who absolutely defies? which one. >> bill, watch this. we are not criminalizing people who fail to comply. do you understand me? >> bill: they have to pay a fine. >> do you understand? -- that's exactly right. >> bill: who determines the fine? >> it's in the law. >> bill: all right, congressman. >> i have got to tell you something. this is the problem with

in the senate passed a bill, we are taking that bill, we are going to pass that bill, we're going toass it by making the corrections, fixing the leaky roof with this correction, this correction bill called for reconciliation bill and that will pass. >> but you know that if in that role of that vehicle by which the senate bill is passed, that it then becomes law. in the other contingencies are remedies to be sent to the santa -- to the senate so they may be passed in may not speak. what i want to say because i think it would be ironic if this signature issue, this landmark legislation of this president and his majority, it's going to reach the supreme court. on the issue that i thought in the clinton vs. city of new york is clear, if there's any change whatsoever, even one word in legislation in any of the three facets than a dozen satisfy. that's how ironic it would be if your signature issue is thrown out and mr. diaz-balart as the same. >> if you believe your purchase and found out she bought a shack and said you're going to be upset. >> can i answer that. i'm sorry. >> we are pass

>> kill the bill!nstrators converged on capitol hill to insist lawmakers kill the bill. similar rallies both for and against the passage popped up in cities across the country. it was against this highly charged backdrop at times turning racist and ugly that the president of the united states stood and urged lawmakers to be strong and to do the right thing. cnn's senior congressional correspondent dana bash was there. >> reporter: don, democrats are working late into the night here counting the votes, hoping to have a victory on health care by this time tomorrow night. and today they got a personal push from the man who has the most at stake politically. the president came in confident. >> we are going to get this done. >> reporter: and used his final. he pep rally for house democrats to cast it in historic terms. >> is this the single most important step that we have taken on health care since medicare? absolutely. >> reporter: he acknowledged political reality. >> i know this is a tough vote. >> repo

bill. i urge my colleagues to support this resolution. thank you, mr. speaker, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to my friend and my colleague from wisconsin, mr. kind. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's recognized for one minute. mr. kind: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my friend from missouri for yielding the time and i also want to commend my colleague who introduced the resolution. i was a proud co-sponsor of this resolution. in a previous trip to afghanistan i too had a chance to spend some time with the national guard agri-business development teams and we can't thank our troops for the mission that they're carries out in afghanistan enough. and it's especially true for the citizens -- citizen soldiers we sent over there, guard and reserve units. but the agriculture business development teams are performing a very vital and important function in the dev

we passed house bills. we knew the house bill. but -- we heard the minority leader say it last night from this floor, most on the democratic side do not know what's in that bill. i dare say you've learned a lot because you've gotten the phone calls from the press, suddenly thes pregot curious about what's in the senate bill and they're asking all kinds of questions. tonight, perhaps we can deal with some of those. but one thing i wanted to point out at the very beginning be careful when you hear us talk about what's in the bills because both sides of the aisle, both democrats and republican, may not be sure what's in the bill. we heard testimony or we heard the speeches on the other side about how medicaid rates now were going to be plumped up for primary care doctors, medicaid rates will become medicare rates. that's actually, in fact, it's only for primary care doctors, it is only for two years, but it is also only in the reconciliation bill. did we pass the reconciliation bill? we did in the house, they haven't in the senate. w

, just any bill.health care reform will raise taxes by a half a trillion dollars. it will cut medicare by more than a half a trillion dollars and not strengthen medicare. but to do it -- but in doing it solely to create a new and unsustainable entitlement program. and, of course, it will cause health insurance premiums to go up even more than they're already going up. rather than bring the country together around some commonsense reform, it has driven the country further apart. at a very time that we need to come together, and health care reform legislation should have been done with broad-based support. now, of course, this excessive bill is law. an opportunity has been lost. this legislation will raise taxes by a trillion dollars and, in the end -- you know, this is not the enow the process of clep the mess begins. hopefully we can get some of these changes started this week in this very bill before the senate, because congress will be back to fix challenges created by this bill. the medicare physic

bill. >> i think my friend in reclaiming my time. i think he makes a very important statement especially at this time in the process. i don't know -- i don't know how the supreme court will rule if the senate bill is deemed past. i don't know. i know in the constitution the fact that each house is specifies is responsible for its own rules and obviously that's true but it also specifies certainly the supreme court made clear in the line item veto case that exact language has been adopted, so i think the majority if it proceeds by deeming the senate bill passed puts at risk is legislation. mr. dreier. >> thank-you, i'd like to clarify and this gentleman statement and that is this has actually been done six times, not 200 times. there have been instances where amendments have been taken but on only six occasions has this been done and i think it's important for the record to note that and no one knows exactly what the determination a court would make on this is as the gentleman from miami has

caller: it appeared the bill is not a health care bill. it is a bill about religion. i'm not a religious person. i do not think this bill should be about anybody's religion. it appears to have a composite media. we also have an elite party. the elite party can pass bills by reconciliation. it can pass bills by the past. if the democrats want to do that, all my god, it is so unconstitutional. it has never been done before. we cannot do that. i want people like steve pacupaa data the party. it has become the party of the religious right. religious right destroyed the republican party. it is that going to do that to the democratic party. host: virginia. good morning. republican line. caller: good morning. i would like to say two things about this. the first one concerns abortion. bin laden, george bush and the pope are all against birth control. the thing i would like to say, all these other countries subsidize their workers with health care. our workers are not subsidized with health care. i believe that is one of the reasons that we are falling behind. host: ok. it is

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bill. republicans like lindsey graham, or brett, dick lugar. i just have to let them know that it will cover the rogaine, geritol and slim fast. [laughter] >> as far as foreign affairs, i still say we must be firm with the iranians. however, we must keep open dialogue. so that's what i'm going to make a trip myself to beverly hills. and lastly, in closing, i must say this on a serious note. i know that the choices we have ahead of us are tough, and not everyone agrees with my choices. however, i promise you that by the end of my term, america will be able to stand up together, for the first time, and agree that once you go black you don't go back. thank you all very much. god bless you, and god bless america. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen. our headliner tonight is a self-titled all-american immigrant. joe wong has come a long way from a rosy eyed new immigrant to one of the hottest properties in the world of comedy. he's appeared several times on both david letterman and the ellen dege

it's in the bill. the reconciliation bill slashes more than a half a trillion dollars from medicare and contains $202 billion reduction in veining. you don't -- in medicare advantage. medicare advantage beneficiaries in my state like the health care they have right now. and it's not true that if you like your health care you get to keep it. it's false. this bill takes benefits away from seniors who are on medicare advantage. that is the truth. it may be an inconvenient truth for our colleagues who like to stress what they think is good about the bill but continually ignore things that are going to hurt their constituents and certainly are going to hurt my constituents. my senior citizens in arizona don't want the government taking away their health care, and they are very concerned as a result. a constituent from tucson -- and i'll close with this, mr. president -- wrote me a very short, very direct letter but it summarizes, i think, the point a lot of people feel. "i'm a senior citizen age 83. if i lo

bill.that a lot of dirty tricks are being played here and they don't like it. they don't like several aspects of the proposal that's being brought forth this week. number one, they don't like the fact that the democrats are proposing to pass this bill without voting on the bill. they know that that goes from passing bills without reading them to passing bills without voting for them. another thing that they don't like is they don't like to see two bills that have no relationship to each other put together because one of the bills can't pass on its own and so the folks in charge attach it to a bill that they can get the votes for. so what the majority people are doing is that they are going to latch on to the reconciliation bill a job-killing, government takeover of student loans. they are attaching that to their job-killing government takeover of health care which many people have called a monstrossity. -- monstrosity. this is not the way the american people want us to be operating in this

we got one bill basically half baked and another bill that was not even a bill as opposed to getting one bill half baked and opposition party that was working on how to actually improve that bill in athat was catering to the american people. it feels as if the political process is one political party kind of coming up with what they can come up with while accommodating special interests and the other party trying to take the first party down which doesn't do anything for the american people in a two-party system. >> why not bring both the house and senate bills to a conference committee and do it the old fashioned way which in my opinion would have been the right way. put republicans on that conference and let us have a voice as this thing works through. >> when will republicans stop complaining about what they didn't get or stop whining about what didn't happen -- >> when you stop asking us. >> paul ryan came out with a rationale plan. it had a lot of signature parts of ron wyden's healthy american act. instead of the republican party rallying around congressman ryan saying this is

this is a no jobs bill. this is a faux jobs bill. i look forward to the unemployment statistics tomorrow because i believe that within about 100,000 americans will have lost their jobs in the last month despite all these great successes. and continuing with my admiration for chairman oberstar, my favorite part of the speech that he gives on the stimulus package is, all those jobs which he created through the infrastructure spending and stimulus, 8% of the funding, so that means, you'll have to figure out math, but that means in an $800 billion bill, half the jobs were created by 8% of the funding. and that's thanks to you and the work that you and your colleagues do on the committee. the other half were created by about $750 billion. that's a strange, strange, strange investment. mr. oberstar: would the gentleman yield? mr. latourette: i would be happy to yield. mr. oberstar: just briefly. if the gentleman, madam speaker, could assure us there would be no senate filibuster or hold on the bill, senator reid would have been happy to ac

bill. the fact that the house passes the senate bill and the president signs it into law if that happens, talk about that, because that will be historic. >> it will be a gigantic change in american health insurance, wolf. as sanjay has been emphasizing, there will be many benefits that will come to people directly whether pre-existing conditions for children or small businesses getting some help in paying for insurance or people who have got pre-existing conditions as adults being able to go into these big exchanges. all of the benefits, a lot of the benefits will flow quickly and then there will be other subsidizations that will come down the road. there is also -- and i think this is why this bill is so controversial -- yes, it's historic in the sense of making big, social changes. it's also historic because we've never had, in the last 60 years, such a big piece of social legislation pass on the partisan vote in a country that's so deeply divided and as you well know for the last seven m

>> well, what comes next now that the insurance bill or the reform bill passed the house.e keeping them honest and the fact and fiction and outright lies from politician on both sides. the 360 interview is with the man at the abortion storm and why he switched to a yes vote on the bill and what he thinks about somebody yelling "baby killer" while he was speaking last night. we le speak to him about that. >> and will passing reform be the turning point for the democrats and president obama or political suicide? depends upon who you talk to, wolf. back to you. >> thank you, anderson. >>> you heard ben stein come pl plain about the constitutionality of this bill, and penn gillette was not happy about the transparency of it, so what do you think? >> well, i don't care about the flavor, because that won't work in the court of law, and moes of the lawsuits and the lawyers, themselves, and the most of them who work for constitutional law will be thrown out. when you talk about transparency, the first time the president with both sides and legislators on both sides talked about he

trailer bill, the bill that was used to purchase the votes in the house and pass the big bill that i could say that america's children are going to be better off, that the people who have health care issues in this country are going to be better off, but that's impossible to say. why is it impossible to say? because this bill as it passed the house was an atrocity. it was an explosion of government the likes of which we have never seen in this country before. it grows the government by by $2.6 trillion. in the process, it will interfere with almost every american who has private health insurance and how they get their insurance. and it will take americans who have health insurance today and it will push them out of that health insurance as the small employers across this country decide that they can no longer afford it. and it will say to medicare recipients we're going to cut your medicare by a trillion dollars when this is fully implemented, a trillion dollars, and we're going to take that money and we're going to use it to fund a brand-new entitlement over here for people who aren

senate bill. the second one change is a student loan program. the rules committee will sent parameters for debate tomorrow when the bills go to the full house. house is in session today too. the committee will also consider possible amendments. the reconciliation procedure is being used as a way to avoid a senate filibuster and it requires a simple majority rather than 60 votes but provisions must be specific budget requirements. if the senate health care bill passes the house tomorrow it will then go to the president and the companion reconciliation bill which changes the senate bill will go to the senate for possible consideration next week. from capitol hill, you are watching c-span live coverage. .. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning now, the firm will please come to order. >> madam chair, you don't have order. >> we're here today to consider h.r. 4872 reconciliation act of 2010. and happy to welcome the distingu