we will get the perspective of david schweikert. that is live on c-span television. thanks for joining us on this thursday. enjoy the rest of your evening. >>> in a few moments, the head of the congressional office testifies on the economic outlook. in a little less than two hours, they will discuss extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. after that, the senate budget committee will talk about how the europe crisis will affect the u.s. >>> 2020 or half of all energy that navy uses afloat and ashore will come from non fossil fuel sources. >> from the first to use nuclear power for transportation, navy secretary ray mabus on new energy for the fleet. >> we are too dependent on volatile places on earth to get energy. we are susceptible to supply shocks and if we have enough, we have susceptible to price shocks. when the libya situation started and the price of oil went up $40 a barrel, that was almost a $1 billion additional fuel bill for the navy. the only place we have to get that money is operations or training. our ships steam less or planes fly less.

host: meet congressman david schweitzer, -- david schweikert.e will continue our conversation on the housing crisis in the country. arizona has been particularly hard hit. guest: a lot of that was we overshot. we have lots of investors. i am optimistic. in looking at the multiple listing service last weekend, we saw that there were certain priced at. under $30,000. this gets into the policy side of lenders with inventories there seems to be a very active first-time home buyer investor market right now in arizona. you are starting to see velocity in the market. >> we are waiting for the unemployment numbers. how is arizona fairing? >> they are getting better. we are getting success with businesses migrating into the state. we just picked up another bank moving operation. we are working hard to make arizona business friendly. we run around with signs saying that arizona is open for business. host: we announced -- we brought you in to officially -- to talk about the president's plans for closing costs. what do you think of the idea? guest: the devi

is a sociologist professor at and invited professor at columbia university in chicago we have david schweikert he is a professor of philosophy at loyola university chicago and in los angeles we go to tony katz he's a tea party organizer and a radio talk show host all right gentlemen cross talk rules and if i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it tony in los angeles you got up early as for this program so i'm going to go to you first why why has the middle class been suffering so much over the decades is it government policies that have done this to the middle class or is the middle class itself it's changed its values its structure and this is just the way of capitalism it's just a way it works that's there's been a myth about the middle class for a century and it's just something that's changing. first of all it's good to be here and let's not engage a conversation where we're blaming capitalism capitalism is not the problem capitalism is what allows people to thrive and survive and grow and allows for opportunities i'm never going to allow anybody here anywhere e

on washington journal tomorrow morning our guests will be keith ellison and represent ative david schweikertwashington journal is live on c- span every day at 7:00 eastern. >> for those who are not aware of what the parliamentarians does around here, he is like an umpire in in the bowl -- in a ballgame calling balls and strikes. it should not be surprising to hear we have not always agreed with those calls. it is not easy to keep up with 200 years of precedence. >> he is the only parliamentarians to be hired by both democrats and republicans leaders. he was retained in his position despite a change of senate control four times by five different majority leaders. one cannot be an effective parliamentarians without being judicious. he also brings to the job a willingness to hear both sides of the government and consider every side of the issue. >> after serving nearly 20 years, alan firm and has retired. he talks about his rare role in the senate. >> is there some kind of lawyer client relationship as as you will not tell senator be what senator a is up to? >> there is definitely that relation