claire horry and state representative michelle brooks, donna and kathy. i am proud that so many women represent pennsylvania in harrisburg from western pennsylvania, and it's my hope that women in pennsylvania and across this country will be inspired to seek office at the local, state and federal level and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. smith: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. smith: mr. speaker, here are the results of a new investors business daily public opinion poll about health care, and if you look at the chart right here you'll see those results. asked if congress should pass the current health care bill or start over, respondents said start fresh by a 2-1 ratio by 61% to 32% start over. for independents, the split was 65% to only 24%. on using the budget reconciliation process to

. >> former vermont governor howard dean, former claire of the democratic national committee. governor dean, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. so who are the winners and losers in the world of politics? our radio host will weigh in in less than 10 minutes from now. >>> for the first time since the thanksgiving weekend car accident led to revelations of a sex scandal, tiger woods answered questions from reporters last night. he gave two brief interviews to espn and the golf channel. there were no restrictions on the questions but the networks were given just five minutes each to talk to tiger woods. the reporter from espn asked about his infidelity. >> how would you, in your own

. >> up next, we ask what's next for democrats with senator claire mccaskill. >> and later, tackling health care might look easy compared to trying to salvage the home market. does this one have a chance? we'll get into it with a panel of experts. >> first a look ahead at the president's schedule. he would call the russian president at 10:00 a.m. secretary gates, admiral mullen. we won't see the president because he's going to camp david after his day is done. >> we don't know what he might be reading m morning but here's a hint. he's at an iowa bookstore picking up books written by some republicans. picking them up. there it is, karl rove, mitt romney but not buying. he ended up spending about $37 on children's books. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. increase in 6 months. pete, back it up! ( marker squeaking ) when business travel leaves you drained, re-charge with comfort suites. spacious rooms, free hi-speed internet, and free hot breakfast. comfort suites. power up. now stay two separate times with comfort suites... or any choice hotel and earn a free night. boo

claire, he applauds it. of his government, obama's. it's really incredible that 234 years after the declaration of independence the government of that country has approved medical attention for the majority of its citizens. something that cuba was able to do half a century ago. your reaction, senator mccaskill, to his stamp of approval? >> it would be better if he kept his mouth shut. i don't think any cheering from fidel castro is -- frankly, this bill -- i mean, these are private insurance companies that are going to be available to mernsz. americans. this is not -- this is not like medicare, which is a mandatory health insurance program where you must pay in to the government for a single payer system. that's what medicare is. >> you bring up medicare. explain to me, though, how something's not going to have to give when all these costs start -- and a lot are defearrr. we have people arguing legitimately that we're bankrupting our country with all have this spending. how is the math going to add up or bre

host: in addition to the health care speech today, there will be a fund-raiser for claire mccaskill.ow important is the vote to her? caller: she needs the money, many democrats are worried about the situation. public polls seem very much against the president's plan, he is trying to urge his fellow democrats to take a risk. host: rohm emmanuel and david axelrod had been making a lot of news, what is happening with joe -- with these gentlemen? caller: their gentleman from chicago that are hard chargers. a lot of strong-willed people, and you know that there will be clashes. i am sure that there are things that they do not agree on and things that they do agree on. frankly much of this has been motivated by blogs, stories last month suggesting that rohm emmanuel was the real problem with the health care plan, and that if he had managed it more effectively meet with -- more effectively be would have a health care bill. there is no evidence at all that his job is in danger, it is just one of those washington things that people chatter about. in some of the story is what you see are his s

increase democrat clair mccaskil chicken little scare tactics. like the original bill, republicans are opposed to making the fixes. "the sky is not falling, in fact as time goes on that sky's going to get bluer and brighter because people in america are going to realize that this bill is not full of booby traps, its full of good things that will reform health care." senator john mccain made a referance to a comment from the 2008 campaign to make his point. "you can put lipstick on a pig mr. president but this is still a pig." just out, put obama's job approval numbers at 51-43, a five-point jump in the past week. a separate gallup poll released yesterday found that 49 percent of americans believe passage of health care reform was a good thing, while 40 percent say it was a bad thing and we've got ben lichtenstein of traders audio how bad we've got dow but 11,000 less than a quarter point away at the thing that we can make it? all so well it certainly within range it's gonna be a tough call what is all what we have a really high in flexion back ou

good morning, claire. >> reporte good morning, robin. as we reported on tuesday, word of those expenses is causing turmoil in the republican party. but so far no republican leaders are calling for steele to resign. clearly afraid that would create even more upheaval now that the party doesn't need. embattled rnc chairman michael steele is moving fast ♪ one day after it was revealed that the republican national committee approved nearly $2,000 in expenses at this west hollywood sex-themed nightclub, he fired alison meyers, the staffer who took a group of donors there last january and steele maintains he knew nothing of that outing. >> it's a story of dirty, sexy money. >> reporter: but that hardly put a dent in the pundit chatter. even more questions exploding about steele's ability to lead. >> the latest embarrassment for the rnc during the reign of michael steele. >> someone needs to tell me how to spend $2,000 at a topless club. >> michael steele is in jeopardy as usual. >> reporter: insiders worry the controversy is distracting seizin

. >> guest: no, thank you, paul, for claire tie being that. don't get me wrong, i don't think there's anything wrong with redistributing the spectrum, but to believe that that's going to solve this problem is naive. the benefits, notwithstanding peter cursed me a little bit at the beginning, the benefits of broadband, of the ability to send various kinds of data between us is going to be enormously -- we've only scratched the surface. there's so much that can be done, and i hope we get to talk about that later. but we're going to need much more than you can get by just picking up 50 or 100 or 500 megahertz by transferring it from broadcasters no matter how you do that. >> host: not to get into too many of the technical details because not all the viewers are engineers, but can you give us ideas, what are some of the technologies that can make better use of the spectrum rather than just seeking more spectrum? >> guest: sure. well, we haven't talked about smart -- [inaudible] for just a second. what is the principle? well, think about all these

clair? [applause] clair is strong and powerful because in work place flexibility,.we're delighted to have her here. want to acknowledge journalist cokie roberts. where are you? [applause] first gentleman of michigan -- till woman of michigan, please stand up. all trailblazers in business. so, with that, i now, i have, a, well, before i, before i introduce the first lady i also want to mention we are so fortunate to have here authors and experts and labor leaders and organizations that have been advocates and university professors who have all come to join us. not to mention they're streaming our entire event over the net. we hope those who are in the office and at home you will be engage and continue with us in this process as well as we work to champion this issue and challenge us all to do better by and for american families. so with that, i would like to move forward and introduce our next speaker. the first lady. let me tell you a little bit about the first lady before she comes out here. there is not much more to add other than you guys already learned course o

claire shipman has the story of one woman whose pursuit of healthy eating nearly killed her. >> get someare you hungry? >> yeah. >> reporter: lunch. three years ago, that word alone would have almost paralyzed kristie rutzel. >> it took me two or three hours to figure out when my next meal would be. >> reporter: she was obsessed with healthy eating. going from vegetarian, to vegan, to a raw food diet. she was so fixated, she almost killed herself. shrinking her 120-pound frame in half. >> my parents said the doctor told them, you have to prepare for her funeral. >> reporter: they thought you were going to die? >> yeah. >> reporter: but this wasn't classic anorexia, kristie says. she suffered from orthorexia, an obsessive/compulsive disorder that is fears about eating unpure, unhealthy food. for you, it wasn't about weight. >> not about weight. wanting my heart to be healthy. wanting my body to be healthy. making sure that everyone i was putting in me was pure and good for myself. >> reporter: it was a diagnosis she found online. and one lighting up message boards and blogs alike. while t

claire: i filed a complaint with the fcc. patty: does anyone at fox call charles krauthammer chuck?'t believe so patty, but we'll investigate. o'reilly i dare to you go one night without mentioning your book bold fresh. thanks for mentioning the book. how about our website foxnews/ o'reilly talking points there tonight. e-mail us with pithy comments from anywhere in the world. o'reilly@foxnews.com. when writinging to the fact the word of the day is no jj >> a very good morning to you. it's thursday, march 25, 2010. thanks for sharing your time today. a fox news alert to start your morning. while you were sleeping, the senate was hard at work on the health care bill. guess what they found. enough flaws to send it back to the house for another vote. a live report from washington coming up. >> meanwhile, some house democrats getting extra security after a series of death threats and even a little vandalism over their health care votes. so why are people angry? well, maybe because they didn't want this bill. we're going to report, you're going to decide on this thursday. >> 2,000 studen

ifill: we also hear there was a return at least rhetorically of mack tad a al-sadr the anti-american claire i can who encouraged his follower to vote. what was the effect of that. >> even though he has not been seen for a long time, he still has immense loyalty. probably the sadrists are among the best at getting that vote out. certainly any time he says something that does have an effect. when i was in sadr city just a few days before the elections i did talk to some people who said they wouldn't bother to go out to vote. once sadr indicates that he wants you to go out and vote, then that probably really did have an effect.ó- s it did with one of the major sunni leaders who had been barred under debathification. it seemed that people listened and heeded that call to some extent. >> ifill: it took 168 days to negotiate a new government in 2005 when the outcome was close as this one is expected to be. is similar instability feared this time as well? >> there is actually quite a lot of concern, gwen. in fact, that's probably the major concern because really what we're looking at is a very clo

joining us is dale claire from a trade school which teaches students how to cultivate and plant and operateedical marijuana dispensaries and, dale, first of all, is there really money to be made for selling legal marijuana? >> hi there, david. as a matter of fact, what this is really about is jobs. we're offering tens of thousands of jobs in california that are sustainable not just in retail but also security, transportation, and importantly agriculture. this is about our central valley farmers producing hemp which is more food and paper not necessarily the type that gets you high. >> i want to run something that we heard from the drug czar, the obama administration drug czar, who said the profits from taxes on hemp and cannabis are not worth legalization. >> for instance alcohol. we get about a dollar in taxes and we spend about $8 in social and health care and criminal justice costs. to think we would make money or somebody would make money off marijuana is ludicrous. >> your reaction? >> well, it's important to understand that cannabis is already the largest cash crop in california. and

that led to this spirited response from missouri democrat senator claire mccaskill. >> i don't get itpurpose of saying no is. i don't get what we accomplish. we're sent here to work. we're paid by the people of this country to work. and the idea that i had to call these witnesses and say, go home because the republicans won't let us have a hearing? disagree with us. >> the majority's 30 minutes has expired. >> vote no but let us work. i implore you, let us work. >> nbc's luke russert joins us live from capitol hill. i understand that was not the only partisan dustup we saw on the hill today. >> reporter: no, it wasn't, david. senator mary landrieu from louisiana vigorously defended the right of louisiana to get that special amount of money within the health care fix-it bill. her adversary? john mccain, she objected to him calling it a sweetheart deal saying the only time she ever likes to hear the word sweetheart is when she gets a valentine's day bouquet of roses from her husband. let me update you as to where we are right now. in about two hours or so, the vote-a-rama will start. th

claire mccaskill, with her subcommittee, had to cancel a hearing dealing with having police officers trained in afganistan, canceled. working hard, they are to throw a monkey wrench in everything that we're trying to do for the american people. to in any way denigrate, as has been done this afternoon, chairman max baucus, chairman chris dodd on the work done by the man replacing ted kennedy is an outrage. max baucus devoted his life to this legislation for the last two years. a number of roundtable discussions with finance committee members and invited guests, three, the number of papers outlining health care reform, significant, important papers that were distributed to everybody around the country who was interested in health care. gang of six, three republicans and three democrats, 31 meetings. number of member meetings on health care reform, 142. these aren't backroom deals. this is how business is conducted here in the united states senate. number of days in the finance committee the bill was available before the markup even took place, total number of amendments posted online b

people who will criticizing your health claire say on education... >> i think financial reform is anortant piece of this. because we need to revise our oversight to meet the challenges of the 21st century so we don't end up in the same position we were a year or two ago. financial reform is very important... >> rose: there's a case again where senator dodd had to say, you know, it was a case where we're not going to get any republican votes here. so we better take this approach. >> and we'll see what happens on the final vote, charlie. it's bewildering... perhaps they think it's good for... i did read that the republican leader in the house, mr. boehner, met with one of the leaders of wall street and said you guys ought to support us and our candidates because we're the ones who are standing between you and financial reform. so perhaps it's a pragmatic judgment on their part that there's money to be made, some campaign money. but on this question of partisanship, this president stands ready to meet and work with any... he spent countless hours with republican senators trying through

claire shipman reports on one who was diagnosed just in time. >> reporter: >> reporter: lunch. three years ago that word would have almost paralyzed christie. >> i stayed away from restaurants. it took me maybe two, three hours to even figure out what my next meal was going to be. >> reporter: she was obsessed with healthy eating, going from vegetarian to vegan to raw food, restricting more and more foods. she was so fiction sated she almost killed herself, shrinking her 120-pound frame in half. >> my parents told me that dr. king said, you need to prepare for her funeral, we're going to get a chaplain up to the hospital for her. >> reporter: they method you were going to die? >> reporter: but this wasn't classic anorexia, christie says. she says she suffered from something called orthorexia, an obsessive-compulsive disorder that creates phobias about eating unpure, unhealthy food. for you it was not about weight. >> not at all about weight. just i wanted my heart to be healthy, wanting my body to be healthy, wanting to make sure everything i put in me was pure and good for mys

claire, good morning. good to see you. months ago. >> right now you're saying why is lester doing girl getaway. >> i figure you're a metrosexual kind of guy. >> exactly. we're here, new york city. >> i put it on the list because i don't think there's any girls that would deny a shopping trip and new york is really where it's at as far as shopping is concerned, from fifth avenue, as we talked about before the break as well as chinatown and all the boutiques. >> any good bargains to be had here? >> fantastic trip puts in sex and the city, for $110, a night's accommodation, bottle of bubbly, location tour of the sex and the city movie. you also g a shoe bag, of course, if you can fill that. i'm sure you can. >> $110? >> yes. >> and the other place i wouldn't miss is the district, walking tour for three hours. mention the "today" show and you get 50% off of it. >> a theater trip in london you want to talk about. 83 bucks a night? >> 83 bucks. >> hotel? >> accommodation, show ticket. it's a steal. >> that is a steal in london w

so i'm pleased to just share a few thoughts today on the legislation that my democratic colleague, claire mccaskill of missouri, and i have offered that would ensure that we show some fiscal discipline in our spending habits. it is not a dramatic change in what we should be doing and what i think we can do, but it is a -- an action that would send a message, i think, to the financial markets in the world that we are beginning to get the message from our constituents that this recklessness, this kind of spending cannot continue. our legislation received bipartisan support last time. 56 senators voted for it, which is a pretty good number, but you do need to get 60 to pass the legislation. i think this time with our new colleague from massachusetts, maybe we're at 57, we may be at 58, and others i think at this moment may be evaluating whether this is the kind of action they would like to support. let me go back and take a palestinian or two and explain what our legislation attempts to do, how it can work, how it has worked in the past, and why this step could be important. because it would

h.r. 4887 esentencely amends the senate health care bill to clair phi all tricare plans are considered as minimal acceptable coverage under the bill. it is the least we can do for our veterans. defining tricare as such because it leaves enrollees from the individual mandate in the bill. it is a complete medical care program for active duty members and retirees of all seven uniform services and their dependents. it is currently opened to about 9.3 million potential beneficiaries. active duty military, their spouses, and dependents are automatically enrolled in tricare prime. retirees can choose between tricare prime or two other options. then a tricare for life. these beneficiaries are enrolled in medicare. but tricare serves as a secondary payer. unfortunately in the senate health care bill, democrats do not deem tricare programs for service members and military retirees under age 65 to provide minimum acceptable coverage. h.r. 4887 would clarify these programs, make sure they are included in this definition. it's surprising to me these programs were left out originally. this is an imp

democratic nominee in missouri going to be at tomorrows fund-raising event for all of these just for claireccaskill? >> it's my understanding checking yesterday these are joint fund-raising events in conjunction with the ds sec that would go to help -- >> i don't have that answer but i can check. >> the nobel money -- >> i haven't gotten a recent update on that. >> where is it? >> i assume that it's -- >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> i estimates with the committee. >> he does not have the money. >> not that i'm aware of. >> doesn't he want it? >> that's what we are working on this is a better question for the nobel committee interest bearing account -- >> nobody in the presence circle. >> bill, give the money back. [laughter] >> i thought we was weird bill wanted to buy my lunch and as good as i hoped would be. >> who gets the interest in the end? >> i don't have the slightest idea because i haven't fought -- >> it's based on somebody's will so i assume the committee which which the process is named. can you guys get together and maybe -- i don't know what interest rate. sorry. >> of the reaso

. >> sunday, michelle easton, founder and president of the claire booth lewis policy institute on her work to promote conservative women in leadership roles, sunday night on c-span's "q&a." >> our mission is to make the world more open and more connected. we do that by providing people a free tool where by they can share information with anyone, anywhere, at any time. >> more than 400 million users online, it's the fastest growing website in the world, facebook's public policy director tim sparapani saturday on "the communicators" on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. host: on your screen right now, "the washington post"'s national bank reporter. you had a story earlier this week talking about overall financial efforts to oversee financial services and to change that. but particularly when it came to something called -- certain, i guess, lenders that weren't covered by the bill. who are those lenders? guest: in america we have sort two of kinds of lenders, a regulated system of banks and then an unregulated system of company that make loans that look like banks but aren't bank

the bill that senator claire mccaskill and i have offered. it's a bipartisan bill. it had quite a bit of democratic support last time. we came within just a few votes of reaching 60 votes and passing it. and i'm hopeful today -- we made some alterations that could appeal to some of my democratic colleagues, and maybe they would be able to support it now. and i believe it would make quite a positive step in how we fund our government and how much debt we rung up. in the 1990's the idea was placed into law that said that money -- that the budgets that we pass should have statutory language and should actually be made a part of statutory law. and so we did that and -- and in the 1990's we began to see shortly after that, a contain trainment of the surge and -- containment of the surge and growth in spending. the growth was far more modest. as a result by the end of the 1990's, we had a surplus. president clinton claimed great credit for that. i think he sometimes fail to recall that -- that the congress acted and ultimately congress has the power of the purse. no money

the >> sunday, michelle easton, founder and president of the claire booth policy institute underwearvative women in leadership roles sunday night on c-span q&a. >> the senate commerce committee are different perspectives on the supposed merger between comcast network nbc and cable provider comcast. a merger currently under review by the fcc and department of justice dared witnesses include comcast chairman brian roberts, a representative of the consumer federation of america and the head of the regional cable and internet company. this is two hours. >> welcome, mr. brendan roberts, chairman and d.o. contest corporation. mr. john wells, president of the writers guild of america appeared dr. mark cooper, director of research at consumer federation of america. ms. colleen abdoulah, president, ceo of a while internet cable and phone spirit and mr. christopher, you professor at the university of costa mesa. can we have order please and everybody take their seats rapidly? senator dorgan -- senator dorgan is going to chair. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conv

you, you heard or saw the introduction here of google out of china and the reference to tenements claire change in terms of censorship in china. can you tell me what your timetable is to accomplish that if you turn your mike on, please. >> thank you, senator. and it's a very fair question to let me take it on directly. we don't have a specific timetable. having said that, we are firm in our decision that we will not censor our search results in china and we are working toward that end. we have many employees on the ground, some of whom are very dear colleagues of mine. and so, we recognize both the seriousness and sensitivity of the decisions we are making and we want to figure out a way to get to that end as stopping our search results in a way that is appropriate and responsible. so we are working on that as hard as we can, but it's a very human issue for us. >> thank you for stating your clear goal and i think we are all sensitive to the fact that there are important steps to reach that goal that we want you to make in the right way and expeditious way, but one that is sensitive to th

this is claire from new jersey. "i'm 82 years old having been widowed and bankrupt at age 37 to raise my children alone. i the thought my small pension plus my savings i would never have to depend on my children to care for me in my old age. now that my savings have been depleted by 30% and my health care insurance is costing m me $3,200 a year, i'm very worried that my savings will last me much longer. "end of quote. elizabeth in spur, texas, writes, "social security is my main source of income. i have bills i couldn't pay if it wasn't for this income. i think that it is a disgrace that the government will bail out the banks and car manufacture he but not sure if the elderly will get a cola. the elderly are the people that have kept this country together for years and they are considering not giving them a living -- a little raise? i wish that some members of the -- members of the congress and senate have to live on the income that we have to and see how they can manage. like the saying goes, if the show was on the