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dick thornburgh and bob casey.83 and 1991, both of them raised the income tax and said they would roll it back. those rollbacks occurred to the percentage they said it would in the year they said the rollbacks would occur. so i think pennsylvania is on a different track record. neil: will you still be governor? what is the deal? >> no. i go out on january, 2011. i will propose -- neil: be will come back, regardless, if someone lies to us here. >> i will hand the next governor a proposed budget. for five weeks to go. it is a sunset provision, and that means it goes out of law automatically. neil: everyone says, why did you cut spending? but, you know, your party has a knee-jerk disposition to hike taxes and dance -- ask questions later. not that republicans are stewards of fiscal responsibility, but this is out of control. we have deficits that are out of control and now we have a very popular governor in a key state, adding to the tax burden. >> keep everything in context. in six years, business in pennsylvania has

and by the way, bob casey of pennsylvania yesterday voted with the republicans to ban any money fromt's supposed to be for national health going to pay for abortions. >> it's the last thing obama needs. the issue is complicated and divisive and controversial enough without bringing abortion into it. the american people are getting mixed signals. they say they don't want to pay for the program, but they do want to cut costs and they do want some kind of reform, but don't get in way of my doctors and the tests they might order. they're all over the map. politicians are trying to be responsive to all of that. it's a tough enough issue without bringing abortion into it. obama's in a tough spot. i don't think he gets this through. >> i think he did -- i think he will, but he's got to deal with this thing. what do you think, roger? this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. when i see it coming, it came from nowhere.

hill today i watched senatotoatch cacame on tonightht a sd they just votedd narrrrlyy oneote with bob casey ining his side, to nonot exclude abortn from e healthare coverage off this new plan. i justst think it mht be a deal-baker to include abortion whwhen theresident says he's going to reduce the nunuer of abortions in thiss country, through noncoercion,obviously. w can he do that and sayay i'm subsbsidizinit at the same time? >> i think it'ss aifficult oblem and this isishere a lot of wen's groups are goinin to look a him criticallyy to see if he'smaintaed hisampaign promisto push forwardd their issues. i think he's going to he a fight. think e of the reasons he came on mony, in the middle off the confirm hearings, at is he kn america was watching and at he wants too demonstratate that he's a multi tasker. i think it demonstrates that h h believes sotomayor is goingo get confirmed ratatherasily --- >> back to my questioion. is he going to kill his health care bill l by includinin artion financining by taxpayers for a americs under this plan? in othererords,e says he wants to reduce thenu

senator bob casey, member of the foreign relations committee says that's wrong. >> i believe hillaryking with the president and i think she's done it very well. >> reporter: administration officials close to the secretary point to her leading role on china policy. on relations with russia. with north korea. her strategic dialogue with india. clinton, they say, is rebuilding the state department, winning back some of the influence it lost to the prosecuting in the previous administration. in a city of sharp elbows, they claim, hillary clinton, diplomat and politician, knows how to use hers. people who know secretary clinton claim she's more interested in shaking foreign policy than playing the washington media spotlight game, that she really is a policy force. >> jill dougherty, thanks. >>> it is a huge day for secretary clinton. what kind of statement will she make in the big policy speech this afternoon? two expert political minds, clint mays and karen finney. see what they have to say about clinton's real role in this administration. >>> that brings us to the top of the hour. it's

they didn't stray for that except for bob casey on some pro-life issues, so that was the plan when theycame in. you know, the unfortunate thing is -- and i think the president's right. he really does want a bipartisan effort, and that's what it's going to take for it to be meaningful for the american people. but the approach to it is kind of like a doctor practicing bad medicine. >> right, right. >> if you fix only symptoms and don't treat the disease, all you're going to cover up the disease, the disease is going to get worse. and the premise from which the their coming is we have to spend more money on health care. >> right. >> and i totally reject that, tony. we spend twice as much as any nation in the world -- >> yeah. >> per capita. >> yeah. >> so, what's happening is we're not getting good value. and what we have to do is have a bill that will lower the cost of health care, not raise it. and what we're talking about with the bills -- all the bills, whether it's the senate health or the ways and means bill, you're actually increasing the cost about 8%, 9%. >> well, help us here. he

he called in senator bob casey, who is joining us now and leading the charge now.enator casey, you were just appalled at what you were finding out was happening in your own state? >> well, it is outrageous when you think of when a student is sent to this country, it is not only a student from a foreign country, it is a student that's part of a family. to have that trust, that relationship of trust between a member of a family and the place where they have their placement when they come to the united states and the trust between two countries, to have that shattered by an incident like this and a series of problems is enexcusable. the state department has taken action. i would urge them to keep going, not wait for legislation, which i will offer if necessary. it is critically important that they bring some account ability to this program so we don't have this tragedy happen again. >> in holding the state department's feet to the fire, i know you have uncovered what we have uncovered. there have been violations going on for years. these complaints have sat on bureauc

bob casey, sherrod brown of ohio. want to thank my republicans, even though they did not vote for the idea. i mentioned the ideas they brought it to make it a better bill. john mccain, lisa mikulski, orrin hatch -- i'm really going to miss someone here. the ideas that they came together to work. we have a product now. we need to get on the business of working on this. you cannot sustain the present situation. the american people deserve a lot better. the need the same kind of security that we provided for ourselves as members of the united states congress. i do not think the american people are going to upset the notion that they should have to live with the kind of fear and frustration that is associated with having the kind of health care system and our nation, knowing we can do better. i'm thank my colleagues for the work we have done already and urge us over this break to listen to our constituents, hear their voices, and come back to the chamber in early september with a series determination to do and no other co

jay hagen, sheldon, bernie sanders, bob casey, sherrod brown of ohio was terrific as well. i want to thank my republican counterparts. even though they did not vote for it, they brought good ideas. lamar alexander, john mccain, lisa, oren hatch. i am going to miss someone here. but the idea is we came together and worked, and we have a product now, and we need one out of finance committee. we need to get on with the business of working on this. you cannot sustain the present situation, and the american people deserve a lot better. they need the same kind of security in my view that we have provided for ourselves as members of the united states congress. i don't think the american people are going to accept the notion that they should have to live with the kind of fear and frustration that is associated with having the kind of health care system in our nation, knowing we can do better. i thank my colleagues for the work we have done already, and urge us over this break, if we are not back here work, to listen to our constituents, hear their voices, and come back to these cha

. >> talking about senator bob casey in we have a whole set of people who take the other side on thisssue but arlen specter couldn't get renominated in pennsylvania as a republican because he is pro-choice. >> i think specter has other problems in pennsylvania. >> discovered them. >> leave it at that, guys. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >>> just received a new statement into cnn on one of our top stories, drug agents reading michael jackson's doctor offices, the second time. his lawyers have a new statement. and jim moret is standing by live, from inside edition, new insight on what could happen next, within the next few days. >>> plus, a highly decorated soldier killed in iraq in a bathroom and a killer, the army sent out a warning years ago. wait until you hear the very strange circumstances of this case. ththththththththththththth >>> growing investigation into michael jackson's death, police today raided dr. conrad murray's las vegas home and his office. what were they looking for? what could happen next in the probe? we are joined from l.a. right now by jim moret, the chief

we're joined by senator bob casey, democrat of pennsylvania, tom forman is here as well.looking at some of the republican criticism that's really being waged against the democrats, especially the president. >> this is the key to it. as you can see, senator, this is what the republicans are presenting as an organizational chart of the house democrats health plan with consumers way over here and the president up here and a lot of other stuff in the middle which the key point, senator, as you would say, they would say to you, is all about money. that all of this costs a tremendous amount of money that we don't have. what do you think? does this hold any water? does it have any weight to it? >> it's very clever but it doesn't reflect reality. what we're talking about here is something very basic. if you like the health care that you have, you can keep it. if you don't like what you have, you can go through a gateway and choose a different plan and of course, if you have no health insurance at all, our plan, i'm talking about the senate plan, can provide it. so they can use al

kay hagan, jeff merkley, sheldon whitehouse, bob casey, shared brown of -- sherrod brown as well. i mentioned the ideas that they brought to our bill and made it a better bill. mike enzi, lamar alexander, john mccain, lisa murkowski, pat roberts, orrin hatch, many a going to miss somebody when you start that list. but the idea is we came together and worked and we have a product now and we need one out of the finance committee. but we need to get on the business of working at this in my view. you cannot sustain the present situation, and the american people deserve a lot better. they need the same kind of security, in my view, that we provided for ourselves as members of the united states congress. i don't think the american people are going to accept the notion that they should have to live with the kind of fear and frustration that is associated with having the kind of health care system in our nation, knowing we could do better. and so, mr. president, i thank my colleagues for the work we've done already and urge us over this break, if we're not going to be back hear working, t

. >> bob: i think he's one of the underrated players in the league without a doubt. >> rob: when the dodgers got casey blake last year, a hard working just tough guy at third base. >> bob: clubhouse guy, too. >> rob: he was a great acquisition. he didn't get a lot of credit for. everybody said, oh, manny ramirez. casey blake was outstanding, too. >> bob: dodgers still playing. marlins lead them 3-1 in the sixth inning. out at chavez ravine. the dodgers have an 8.5 game lead over colorado in the west. padres are 23.5 back. he spoiled a pretty good slider. >> rob: that's when you know he's seeing the ball well. >> bob: kensing is like a kid in the backyard using the pitch factors. he's loose. >> bob: that is nasty. good take on a good pitch. >> rob: i actually practiced with a version of that, not the pitch back, but it had a net that hung in the back. but i made a big square like the batter's box. threw through the holes and stuff based on the pitch back. when i started throwing harder. >> bob: zimmerman hits this ball well to right field, right off the wall. nyjer morgan scores, guzman checks in at th

just four months old founded by rich littlehale and bob casey, two schoolmates at yale university. the pair admit launching a business in the middle of a recession was scary but they believe recycling ewaste has huge potential. >> i think we've been very lucky in terms of the time that we're in. people are actually starting to become more aware of these problems and, at the same time, we're offering a solution that not only makes sense for the environment but makes sense for our customers. >> this was actually built by our marketing team. >> reporter: in order to get the word out the young staff relying on creative low-budget marketing a technique they used at great success at the launching of latest apple phone. >> -- from about 6:00 in the morning until about 9:30 but then the whole team sort of traded through it. >> everybody in new york, i think, probably, a thousand people got pictures with this. so, this thing's all other facebook and twitter. >> reporter: the front room where the ideas come together but this room makes up the nuts and bolts of the business. >> devices that c

just over four months old this eco-friendly site was founded by rich little and bob casey, who schoolmates at yale university. the pair admit launching a business in the middle of a recession was scary but they believe recycling ewaste has huge potential. >> i think we may have been lucky in terms of the time that we're in. people are starting to become more aware of these problems and kamt we're offering a solution that not only makes sense for the environment but makes sense for our customers. >> this was built by our marketing our marketing team. >> reporter: the young staff rely on creative, low-budget marketing. the launch of the latest apple iphone. >> from 6:00 in the morning until 9:30 and then the whole team sort of traded through it. >> everybody in new york, i think, or probably 1,000 people got pictures with this. this thing is all over facebook and twitters. >> reporter: where the ideas come together, but this room makes up the nuts and bolts of the business. >> the ideas that come through the door, triage. some of the devices go off and are recycled for their metal's value an

bob casey, you made significant contributions on small business ideas along the way, kay, your work, being involved earlier on some of these problems in how we deal with the public opposite or how we deal with the pay and play issues and your work yesterday on providing for the part-time workers and seeing we don't discriminate against smaller employers with part-time employees and jeff hurricanele with the idea with the -- jeff murkle to provide the support to have intelligent people making the decisions that are needed. and sheldon, the work you provided in dealing with the public option, dealing with liability questions and the like have been a significant contribution. every member of this committee has made a significant contribution. we considered 200 amendments offered by my republican friends, 160 of them were adopted this committee and some were technical and substantive. almost a 1/4 of the united states senate has been engaged almost 60 hours in a discussion about this critical issue and this is a far better bill, even if you don't vote for it, you've made a significant co

pastor, i'd like to thank the fantastic staff, tonya butham, the clerk, bob sherman, joe wendell, casey pierce, on the minority side, rob blare, in my personal office, katie haslet, and rick plaqueton. all these individuals worked hard to put together the product before us, but no one has worked harder than mr. pastor, i want to thank him for his friendship and leadership and guidance on this bill. the gentleman from arizona is a pleasure to work with. i thank him for his leadership and his assistance. plmp, the subcommittee's recommendation totals $33.82 billion which is $1.1 billion below the president's request, and $200 million over the fiscal year 2000 enacted level. while the dollar amounts are significant, the issues contained in the bill are at the core of the nation's economic prosperity and national security, especially the energy portfolio and our historic responsibility for the reliability and protection of our nuclear stockpile and thus worthy of debate and amendment on the house floor. the bill was preceded by the american recovery and reinvestment act which gave more than

. >> bob: he's ahead of another hitter. last night's pinch hit here casey  >> rob: he was probably loo for the breaking ball but right back into another one. he got a strike out. little bit muddy over at first base. corey hart came up with a handful of mud. >> bob: they either watered down the infield. i didn't know we had an early morning shower here but i noticed that during batting practice. the dirt, you can fell, starting from the on deck circles, is a much darker color than it is on the warning track. they really watered this thing down and rob, that may be a reflection of what we talked about how hard this infield is hear. 3-26789 we'll see if the runner goes. he does. the ball is popped up behind short. gonzales out, waves everybody off. alberto has it for the second out. here's what casey mcgehee did in the sixth inning against tyler clippard after a critical walk to mike rivera. >> rob: one too many change ups to a right hander. guys sitting on the bench all night. you don't want to help him out by taking something off the pitches. anot

bob: and a ball out to center. morgan catching it. rockies take the lead. look at this. what is going on with seth smith? the run does count. boy, caseybe watching somewhere from somewhere because we are wondering if anyone can play this game. @p @>pk@c@" ep6l.xopnpq.cp+pgú  >> bob: one half inning ago it was austin kearns sitting on the bench wonder what had just happened now it is joe beimel whose throwing error as ruled by the official scorer results in the rockies scoring an unearned run. rockies shore up their defense by moving carlos gonzalez from left to center. and then ryan spilborghs who hit for dexter fowler stays in to play left field. and then you're dealing with huston street who saved the ballgame last night with a pitching to contact one, two, three 9th inning. >> bob: nationals top of the order. morgan was at the plate when austin kearns fell down between first and second and was picked off. >> bob: morgan, johnson, zimmerman possibly dunn here in the top of the 9th. ball 1 high. by the way, we have the possibility of a pitcher winning this game without throwing a pitch. blap   . >>