we speak with blanche lincoln and robert weissman. airs liven journal" every morning beginning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. a couple of live events today. the senate homeland security committee will hold a hearing on the navy yard shooting and security at federal buildings at 10:30. at 2:00 on a foreign relations subcommittee looks at the violence in central african republic. >> i am standing in front of the world's first practical airplane. this was the third and final experimental airplane that the wright brothers built and survives as the second oldest of their airplanes today. orville wright consider this the airplaneirst practical and was constructed and flown in less than 60 years' time. the time between they built their kite and this airplane. than two yearsss after their first flight in kitty hawk, north carolina. er in kitty hawk flew four times on one historic day. they very much worthy proof of heavier thanwered, air flight. flyerhe 1905 wright behind me was capable of repeated flights, not just for a few seconds, but upwards

host: you just heard from blanche lincoln, former u.s. senator.s,rt weissman also joining the president of public citizen. why with the president allow oira to slow and stop the regulation? guest: that is a great question. it is an ongoing problem. is people close to the president, the chief of staff, who are listening to large business interests and complaining about rules that have been issued by the agency. that has been one problem and i think it is an ongoing one. there has been a second problem that became very acute around the 2012 election. did aashington post" front page story about this. and going on for a few months after the election. time forgetting significant rules issued. whoe is a new head of oira is doing a better job in clearing this up. that was a specific problem around 2012. host: richie from brooklyn, new york. caller: good morning. i was listening to the conversation over the last couple of minutes. lincoln whatsk ms. she makes of the small business administration not having their head nominated the president. it has been a

then we will discuss the cost and benefits of federal regulations with former senator blanche lincoln who now heads the group small business for sensible regulation. and robert weissman, president of public citizen. "washington journal" is next. ♪ week seven, republican senators say they will vote for a two-year budget agreement today. debate,test of vote and a final vote expected tomorrow. and his ruling on an as they surveillance -- on nsa itveillance operations -- infringes on a degree of privacy that people enshrine in the fourth amendment printed in an appeal of the decision could take six months. washington journal for december 17, 2013. the folks at "the national jo

[laughter] i will never forget -- i will never forget when blanche lincoln from arkansas said, when congresseconvened after the summer, they were talking about minimum wage and she said, i went to target and i bought shoes for my twins to go back to school. i bought the notebooks and i bought the pens. you could not have bought those on minimum wage. i know the price. that to me is critical. >> so, practicality. >> women are introducing more laws and work hard to get them passed. they care deeply about content. it springs from that reason why they got into the government in the first place. they are committed to projects and have a passion for policy work. that is something that women bring to government. >> i think, you know, it is not that women are better than men. none of us think that. we do not have our masculinity to prove and this is a huge advantage. [laughter] [applause] so, more and more men, i hope, will be free from the prison of masculinity and we can all be human beings together. until that time -- [applause] on the average, we are all talking about averages and we are not tal

former democratic senator from arkansas and chair of the it's my business coalition, blanche lincolnlitical commentator and washington correspondent for "the new yorker" ryan lizza. here's what's most striking. we all know his approval ratings are low but on the question of who could do a better job for the middle class, just 46% say the president. that's still a teeny bit more than the republican party but last year, the president had a 26-point advantage on this question. 26 to now six points. ryan, what happened? >> well, 2013 was essentially a wasted year for obama. if you compare with what he ran on in 2012 and what he got accomplished, the score card doesn't look so good, right? immigration reform got through one chamber of congress, not the other. most of his economic ideas have not been instituted into law, including this package that -- the small package today but that's not what he really campaigned on. if you look at things like climate change and implementation of health care, big unknowns, question marks and health care a bit of a disaster at least in the short term. so

we will speak with former senator blanche lincoln, currently the chair of small business for centralregulations. is liveton journal" every morning, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> so i'm standing in front of the world's first radical airplane. this was the third and final experimental airplane that the wright brothers built. this airplane was considered the world's first practical airplane when it was constructed and flown in less than six years between the time that they built their kite and the success of this particular airplane. this is also a plane that was built less than two years after their first flight at kitty hawk, north carolina. what is interesting to think about is that the wright flyer flew four times on one historic day. they were very much in the proof of concept. the aircraft behind me was capable of repeated takeoffs and landings, repeated flights not just for a few seconds at a time, but upwards of 40 minutes. this airplane could fly graceful circles, figure eights, it could bank and turn and fly very much like a modern airplane flies. this is very m

nator blanch lincoln "washington journal" airs live every morning beginning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> last week the university of minnesota held a discussion about the bipartisan budget agreement and what it means for compromise between democrats and republicans. among the speakers were two congressmen. his is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. i would like to welcome you to the university of minnesota. we have a terrific program here today talking about the significance of the budget deal reached in washington in terms of the political implications for both the democratic and republican parties as well as the origins of some of what we have been seeing in washington. e have a terrific panel. i would like to introduce the panel. we have gil gutknecht, he served in 12 -- for 12 years in the minnesota house and 12 years in the united states house of representatives. we have martin sabo, who served for a long time in the minnesota house of representatives, including a speaker from 1973-1978. he went on to washington, where he served for 13 terms, i believe, in very importa

joining us, former senatorthe blanche lincoln who now is the chair of the small business for. sensible regulations. welcome. >> guest: thank you. >> host: also joining us, robert weissman, a public citizen ands as their -- serves as their president. welcome to you as well. we've kind of titled in thepu costs and benefits, let's start with you, senator lincoln, are there costs or benefits to regulation? >> guest: absolutely, and i'll be willing to bet youos that robert and i agree probably on a lot more than we disagree on, but any regulation is going to have a cost, and it's going to have a benefit, hopefully. absolutely. i will bet we will agree on more than we disagree on. we want to see greater transparency in terms of what the costs and benefits are. we want real data to be able to see what that is all about. what would you say goes into factoring it, if it is a cost or a benefit? guest: everything should. we are what -- way over the majority of small businesses want safer working conditions, they want cleaner air and cleaner water. they also want to be heard and about how

," bill kristol, former arkansas senator and chairwoman of the it's my business coalition, blanche linco lincolngton bureau che chief for "usa today" susan page. former president bill clinton is slapping down reports a few weeks ago he was trying to give hillary clinton, his wife who may be running for president some day, some cover when he suggested president obama should honor his promise, if you like your health plan, you should keep your health plan. here's what he said to cnn espanol today. >> many believe you did it to distance yourself, former secretary of state and senator hillary clinton thinking of a presidential run. >> the answer to the first question is no. first of all, i said nothing about this. not one word until the president, himself, spoke. >> what do you think? what do you make of it? >> well, i, who knows. if hillary runs, i hope she does, i'll be right there behind her just like i was last time. i think it's important to keep promises. continuing to work to make sure the affordable care act works and gets rolled out in a way that people can access it is essential. >> bill?

blanche lincoln a friend of this program lost her race because of that same idea in 2010 about being a deciding vote. democrats have lots of evidence of how being attached to the health care law can be politically perilous in these states. >> it will be a historical moment if the 2014 election, barack obama's second mid-term election is decided on the same issue that his first mid-term election was. >> tbd. >> to be determined. no doubt about it. democrats have the most difficult thing i see. you've seen it before too, mike, when somebody in their own party tries to run away from their president -- i can tell you firsthand in debates, i had a guy running away from bill clinton in 1994. okay. so wait. you are for him -- i'm sorry. because they kept saying i didn't support bill clinton on this. by the end you can just -- you can just pull that thread and the entire campaign unravels and people go wait a second why were you voting for him? >> it's going to be particularly difficult for mary landrieu given where she's running from to runback to him. >> i bet it turns around. >> a refrige