meanwhile, those on the left of the stage or having committee hearings of carl levin, the permanent subcommittee on investigations with lloyd blankfein and the folks from goldman sachs making a spectacle, which was witnessed by the world. the republicans senator started to come up to the leadership and say, we're on the right set of the issue -- the wrong side of the issue. we're seeing more and more amendments. we are finding some republicans want to join us. my guess is we will have a substantial number of republicans join us for pulp -- for passing wall street or form. i think they recognize that is where the public sentiment is -- wall street reform. i think they recognize that is where the public sentiment is. >> do you expect the debate to conclude within a week? >> that is a hard question. you're going to be broadcast on sunday. my guess is we will not return to the bill until tuesday. you'll have to work pretty hard. we only have 3 or four days in this coming week. there are a lot of amendments. as we get together for this show, there are over 140 amendments pending on the floor. that is

home state for the chairman of the senate armed services committee, carl levin, who fay vorps the extraengine. >> we are taking money we could use for capabilities that we really need and spending it on something we don't need. >> reporter: ge and its supporters in congress say a second engine would create co competition and result in long-term savings. >> only in washington does a proposal where everybody wins get considered a competition. >> reporter: secretary gates says he will strongly recommend that president obama veto the entire defense spending bill if congress continues to insist on building this unwanted second engine. and diane, it looks like that's what it might take to stop congress. >> bold stand by secretary gates. brian ross reporting tonight. >>> and coming up, some of the day's top stories, including a big birthday for an icon chomping away after all these years. ♪ so sensory ♪ so satisfying ♪ the discovery ♪ never seems to stop ♪ ♪ it's the magic friskies ♪ ♪ makes happen ♪ every day ♪ in so many ways ♪ friskies ♪ feed the senses an everyday moment can turn romantic

showed a graph of job losses in carl levin's state.who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. which is the following statement is the closest to the truth, the u.s. government ran out of money, or wall street turned itself into a casino and in 2008 the senate and the rest of the government and u.s. taxpayers bailed out your sorry overpaid asses to save the national economy. in short mr. glassman, what jon stewart said. our winner, poor george will. operating in those dear, dead days when people could not easily check his facts and find he scrubbed them of so much context they were left laughably misleading. media matters reported mr. wills said wind farms kill a lot more birds daily than are probably going to be killed in this oil spill. in "newsweek" he wrote birds beware, the american bird conservancy estimates that the existing 25,000 turbines kill between 75,000 and 275,000 birds a year. imagine the toll that 186,000 turbines would take. that is terribly disturbing. each wind turbine might kill three birds per year. if sacht

michigan democrat carl levin chairs the committee. he said today republicans would block the bill at their own risk. >> the fact that there's one provision in here that some people don't like, it seems to me, would not be sufficient appeal for 40 senators... or 41 senators... to filibuster a defense bill. >> woodruff: meanwhile, advocacy groups on both sides of the debate sought to reinforce their positions. >> we have a lot of concerns about this. our military is engaged in two wars right now, and this is not a time to be using the military for social experimentation. >> the reality is today that there are over 66,000 service members who are gay and lesbian. and you know what? most of their colleagues know. they know who is gay, they know who is straight, and it doesn't make a difference. >> woodruff: the president welcomed the developments, calling them "important bipartisan steps toward repeal." secretary gates put out a video message to the troops asking them to participate in the review. >> so, please, let us know how to do this

[applause] >> up next, senator carl levin on the defense authorization bill. a hearing on the oil rig explosion investigation. following that, president obama's remarks on the gulf of mexico oil spill. on tamara's "washington journal," criminology professor james alan fox. michael blanpied on predicting earthquakes. and a look at military and veterans' issues. "washington journal" begins live at 7:00 p.m. eastern, live on c- span. >> the senate armed services chair talks about his panel's markup of the defense authorization bill and how it is different from the house version. among the topics, pay raises for military personnel, don't ask, don't tell, and the joint strike fighter program. this is about 35 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. the armed services committee completed its markup and its work on our bill late yesterday afternoon. it adopted the bill by a vote of 18 to 10. the focus of our markups over the last couple of days and are hearings over the last couple of months, and our effort, is to support our troops come and give them everything they ne

. >> carl levin talks about the defense panel's mark up of the authorization veil. the topics, military pay raising, don't ask don't tell and the striker program. this is about 35 minutes. >> the focus of our mark-ups over the last couple of days and our hearings over the last couple of months in our effort is to support our troops, to give them everything they need to succeed, to support their families. that has always been the focus of the armed services committee, and it always will be. we authorized a 1.4% across the board pay raise for military personnel. i'm not giving you these items in any particular order or priority. they tepid to follow actually the subcommittee decisions that will be taken up bay the full committee. the committee will be on the website at any time. i think you already know about the action relative to don't ask-don't tell. that was adopted by a vote of 16-12. i will go into that on questions, although there has been a lot written on that already. the prohibition on the performing of legal abortions in d.o.d. facilities has been repealed.

carl levin favors the repeal, but it is unclear whether he has enough votes six senators on the panel are considered undecided, legislative sources said three the house is expected to vote on a similar measure this week, based on the repeal proposed by senator -- representative patrick murphy. the house armed services committee declined to act on his bill in passing its version of the defense spending measure last week, but speaker pelosi has told gay advocacy groups that she will allow a floor vote if there is enough support in favor of a repeal." we will track all that action and let you know what is happening as it is happening. annapolis, maryland, ed, independent color. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. i would like to debunk the stupidity of the government does not create jobs. quite frankly, if the government had not build the dams in colorado, california, nevada, arizona, all that part of the country would not be around it if eisenhower had not build the interstate system, we would have the same type of problems we have with railroads. so the government has to be

carl levin wants to ban banks that are assured by the federal deposit insurance corp. from making proprietary trades in high-risk securities. the measure would also prohibit investment banks from betting against the securities that they sell." likely a round of votes this evening, 6:30 or so. madison, wisconsin. good morning, the areas. caller: i just have a brief comment. i think that the casino that is now wall street needs much more scrutiny than this particular piece of legislation provides. it vexes me that after what was probably the biggest financial crisis since the great depression the republicans and democrats cannot come to an agreement on this legislation. it shows you how poison the atmosphere is in washington. they cannot come together even in crisis. the author of the bill, chris dodd, as a lot of financial questions about his role in financial matters leading up to the crisis. in this way we kind of watch over his role, but we really need to have transparency in our financial markets. without that no piece of legislation is going to help. thank you for

meanwhile, to the left of that stage was the committee hearings of carl levin was lloyd blankfein andhe folks from goldman sachs making a spectacle, which was witnessed by the world. republican leaders came up to say we are on the wrong side of history. now we see more amendments which we thought would be partisan, but are finding republicans who want to join. my guess is in the and we will have a substantial number of republicans joined us to pass wall street reform. they realize that is where the public sentiment is. for them, politically they have made a mistake. >> do you expect the debate to be concluded within a week or so? >> that is a hard question. we will be broadcast on sunday, will not return to the bill until tuesday, the most work pretty hard with only three or four days in the week. i hope that we stick with it. there are many amendments. as we get together for the show, there are over 140 pending on the floor of the some. it is not unusual. in the end, the members must decide the most important ones. we have 53 members who have filed. it will take some time. host: you

chairman carl levin, the chairman of the relevant committee -- the investigations committee -- said we were focused on policy and theubgs. and -- and ethics. i think that's an important role for the united states senate. what happened in that goldman situation? there's a lot of way to describe it, but one way to look at it is this way. that goldman sold investors a product, in this case a derivatives product and its value was tied to the peformance of a big portfolio of subprime mortgages. so that's where it starts. but it appears that goldman worked both sides of the deal. they'd sell these products to investors, on the one hand, while also plotting with a hedge fund manager who is betting against the pr-frpbs of the very -- peformance of the very same mortgages. it gives conflict of interest new meaning, and it's a disturbing, a large image, i think, for a lot of americans. selling on one side and then going over to the other side and plotting and scheming to make money and not worrying about what's down when, what's downstream, the horrific consequences, like a wrecking ball to a bu

senator carl levin held a briefing this morning to talk about that particular will show you of that if we're able during the series of votes. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote -- on this vote, the yeas are 215. the nays are 204. the first portion of the divided question is adopted. question is adopted. he house will come to order. members will take their seats and clear the aisles. members will take seats. and take your conversations and take your conversations outside the chamber. members will please take seats on leave. -- or leave. madam speaker? the speaker: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous con sent to speak out of turn for one minute? the speakepro tempore: without objection. the speaker: mr. speaker, i rise today to honor herb shank, the teant of the house democratic cloak room for the last 38 years. herb is retiring today after serving this institution much longer than probably most members of the congress. indeed, he has served under seven speakers of the house and generations of members have depended upon him. as a door keeper and cloak room attendant, herb has ensured the sec

permanent subcommittee on investigations of the homeland security committee, chaired by senator carl levin michigan, was holding a historic hearing in bringing in the top leaders of goldman sachs. including their c.e.o. asking them about their practices that had led to financial difficulties at the company and were being questioned now even in a lawsuit that has been brought by our government against that company. that display and that testimony was happening at the same time that the republican filibuster to stop this reform bill was going on on the floor. finally several republican senators spoke up to their leadership and said, that's it. we want to engage this debate. we want to get this are started and do it in a prompt way and the filibuster finally broke and we nominally started the debate last week. can you count on one hand all of the amendments that we considered last week. we could have done a lot better. we wasted a lot of time. there are important policy considerations that have to be asked and answered by votes on the senate floor. some from the republican side, valid questio