>> we talked about dayton. dÉjÀ has been hit hasncr -- dayton has been hit by ncr.e understands and the warehouse has been helpful. we treat it like a base closing. the federal government comes in and he has been helpful on this and help people who have lost jobs and communities that have hot -- lost revenues. help with how to grow jobs in those communities, how to do economic development. >> senator baucus is expected to unveil details on health care reform. what is your feeling on that? >> we should not go there. -- when i look at what is happening to people's incomes, the middle class americans have seen no wage increase for several years. many of them are doing givebacks to what they were making in 2004 or 2005. everybody at the plain dealer did a 12% pay cut and that puts people back to what they were making in 2004 or 2005. i do not think you post taxes on middle class workers on their health care. >> [inaudible] >> i would have difficulty supporting health care plan that does not keep the insurance companies honest. we talked about the progress that we have m

and dayton before he finally got his shot. so he broke in, what, 18 years of age probably. >> yeah, free agent 2004. and to bring up jar adjuster against again he pitched 500 innings in the minor leagues with the tigers before he got traded. so he came out of high school from kyra tsao with a, his dad grew up a huge brace man, pitched 500 innings, then got called up to detroit for 31 and he is now in with the braves after that trade for rent a rhea but 400 innings, well this kid is going to come right out of the big leagues, yeah but at what cost would you bring him up after pitching 110 innings in colleges right now. you talk about a guy like adjuster against, here is johnny cueto on the road this year, got four wins, tied for second, e.r.a. right there, he is 4, opposing batting average, that's the big one, .171 on the road. you come into somebody's house and pitch like that, not very nice. >> johnny: uh-huh. johnny cueto has just given up his fourth walk of the game. nick johnson. actually third walk of the game, it was the

take ann from dayton. dayton is a community in southwest ohio. she wrote to me to share her story. for the past five and a half years she paid almost $130,000 in health care bills. how can this be? was she uninsured? no. when her illness struck she was a partner at a law firm, had good insurance. once she became too sick to work, she lost her coverage. she was forced to fend for herself. she and her family went on cobra for as long as they could, then paid $27,000 a year for insurance on the individual market. the individual market is where the administrative costs run 30%, 45,% where medical underwriting runs rampant. she traded that plan, $27,000 a year plan, $2,500 a month almost, for a bare-bones policy that cost only $15,000 a year. only. but doesn't cover prescription drugs and has a $5,000 deductible. that means before she gets one dollar of care paid for by insurance companies she's paying $15,000 for the premium and $5,000 for the deductible. she writes in her letter this is not what insurance is supposed to be about. the bill before us today will take a number of steps to

what is it like where you lived in dayton? on the come i work in the health-care industry -- caller: well, i look in health care industry. a good point -- people say two parts of the economy doing fine -- the health-care industry. that is a bogus statement. because what is occurring in our health care. is hospitals are cutting employees hours, hospitals are not being reimbursed reasonable amounts of money for the caregiving, the hospital where i specifically work calculated they are getting a dollar from the government for every dollar's worth of care. it is not working because they are not being paid a reasonable cost for their care. host: thank you very much for the call. we will talk about the economy and health care and foreign policy with senator john mccain, with up -- with us and 8:00 hour and bob schieffer will join us at 9:00, and linda douglass, the director of the white house health-care task force, communications director, will join us at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. tomorrow and be seen it -- abc news will have a one-h

dayton, ohio. kathleen honor democrats line. caller: jane hamsher, is incredible. i encourage your public to go to that blog. i have read comments from policy analyst. seymour said that congress had passed funding, condoleezza rice was part of that, i believe, to send into iran to undermine the president bridget present government and four men dead student movement there. -- and undermined the student movement there. i read everything that he has to say. i would hope c-span will have them on to talk specifically about this issue. host: another photo from "the associated press." this is out of iran yesterday. the accompanying story talked about what this means in iran. obama's core message of democracy and change dovetails with the hopes of iranian reformers. obama was also elected on the form of moralizing rhetoric. speaking of which, if you go to twitter, they have a special section that looks at the i run postelection and gets the comments of it. -- they have a special section that looks at the iran election. caller: i just want to say that i support the presiden

host: let's go to the republican line from dayton, ohio. caller: good mind.hank you for taking my call, congressman upton. i take issue a little was something you said about having to scale down our cars and go with a smart card to meet the cafe standards. -- to go with the smart car. i am a pickens plan supporter. guest: i am, too. i have a bumper sticker on my car. caller: a wonder about these cafe standards that pay mpg -- is there a requirement that the gallon be unleaded gasoline that we have to import? guest: it is. this can about before i was in congress. no longer can you have leaded gasoline. it must be unloaded for the environment. that has not been up for debate in decades. yes, it does have to be unloaded form and there are even cleaner versions. right now because of epa requirements passed back in 1992, and a number of larger communities, there is a special blend knell of will recall reformulated gasoline which is even cleaner which must be used in the summer months because of ozone levels out there -- there's a special blend now. i will also rem

jobs from the united states of america from galion, ohio and akron, ohio, and junctiontown, ohio, dayton -- youngstown, ohio, because c.e.o.'s lobbied congress down the hall to give trade advantages to the communist party dictatorship in china. we have paid a price. the chinese people paid an even more important price. i'm proud to join with senator inhofe to introduce with him a resolution acknowledging the revolution of the tianamen crackdown. it demands that china release its political and religious prisoners. today, mr. president, we look back on the tianamen protest, we honor those who died in the struggle for freedom. let's remember that brave, unnamed protester who 20 years ago believed that one person can change the world through peace an nonviolence. think what a whole nation can do, mr. president. thank you. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. a senator: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. burr: mr. presid

>> pitching, in college at university of dayton. >> and craig was asked about being sent to the bullpen his reaction, did he like it or is he not too thrilled about it? >> glad to still be here, i guess. obviously you want to stick around as starter, but the guy's been doing this for a while so he deserves his spot back. but i'm excited. i've been in the bullpen a little in college. >> this bullpen's been struggling and the team is obviously confident you can help make it better. >> yeah, hopefully. i'm going to go in and give it my all just like i have when i was starting. so i'm looking forward to it. we'll see what we can do. >> he had his first major league win against the yankees, shut them out in that 3-0 shut- out for washington, on the biggest stage in major league baseball. interesting, his opening comments, well, i guess i'm going to go down and i think i'll be able to handle this. does that say he's unhappy or is -- >> no, he's not unhappy. i think he may be a little disappointed. the sweet and sour deal. he's happy that he's here, no question about it, because i guarantee, b

. >> how did you wind up university of dayton?lege close to home and i watched their basketball games on tv and i was always a big fan. i never got recruited by a lot of big schools, so kind of fit into what i wanted, the type of school i wanted academically and worked out baseball wise also. >> last night as tradition would have it when you have your first major league victory, your buddy lannan from the blindside puts that baby right in your face. >> right. >> done he was coming? etalkeding about it like two weeks ago. he's like when you get yours first one, you're getting shaving cream in the fares face. i could see him waiting on it when we took hands at the end of the game. debbi asked me question and i was thinking what i was going to answer and, bam, he caught me off guard. i guess that's what you get when you get your first one. >> one thing we noticed about lannan is how quickly he got out of there and took the steps right down to the clubhouse. he wasn't stick arched. >> right. he didn't want any that have mess on him. w

take for example ann from dayton ohio in the southwest part of my state she wrote with me to share her story. the past five and a half years she paid $125,000 climbing in health care bills. how can this be? was she on insured? in fact when her illness struck she was a partner in a law firm and had good insurance but once she became too sick to work she lost her coverage and was forced to fend for herself. she and her family went on cobra, as expensive as it is when you are unemployed, for as long as they could and then paid $27,000 a year for insurance in the individual market where medical underwriting runs rampant and the cost of the bureaucratic cost of a single policy and individual market is 40, 40% off. she recently traded at plan because of the expense for a bear bones policy that cost her $15,000 a year but doesn't cover prescription drugs and has a 5,000-dollar deductible. so she starts off paying $20,000 for medical care. that's just the start. she writes in the letter this is not what insurance is about. the bill of course today takes a number of steps to ensure americans do

host: kathleen on the democratic line from dayton, ohio. caller: you said we don't need to pick -- we can't change the world. if we would just start with u.s. habits, as you described, i believe we are 4% of the world's population using a 35% of the world energy resources. then you also said that if you had heard congress saying anything about turning off the lights and computers -- former president jimmy carter 35 years ago put a sweater on in front of the national public and said, turn down your thermostat. he started talking about saving energy, and the oil companies, they slapped him down. the other thing, i personally believe -- then have a question. i believe alternative technologies for our energy sources -- we could have tapped it 35 years ago and we have not done so because of the strength of good -- stranglehold of oil companies. but how can you explain to the american public and lay terms wide -- was it two years ago gas prices were four bucks a gallon and now they are two bucks a gallon? i just feel that when alternatives were b

from warren from dayton, from smaller communities are unfortunately not unique. there are stories from small ohio towns like trotwood, near dayton, vanwood, greenwood and other areas across ohio and throughout the midwest. that's why it angered me as i sat in the banking committee as i chaired that committee as chairman dodd was working on health care issues, when i hear the restructuring proposals by g.m. and chrysler portrayed by my more conservative colleagues in this body, when they label it as everybody sacrifices but the workers. we have seen a $7 an hour cut in compensation for these workers, that's $14,000 a year hit that these workers are taking. they're far from giveaways, american autoworkers, their families an their communities are all in this together and have suffered -- and with their communities have suffered more than anybody. just three years ago there were a quarter million members of the u.a.w. after the g.m. and chrysler restructure -- in the auto industry. these are men and women who make up the nation's middle class, the heartbeat of americ

yet at the kitchen tables of middle-class homes in toledo and dayton and akron and gallipolis and zanesville and my state, they are talking about using a mortgage payment to pay for a sick child ale health care treatment. small companies are talking about cutting jobs because health insurance policies are too high. middle-class americans are talking about how a public health insurance option is needed to provide economic stability for their families. as we develop economic reform we can't forget that millions of americans are depending on us -- us in this chamber and our colleagues on the other end of the building are depending on us to do the right thing. we should listen to people like darlene, a school nurse from cleveland. darlene treats students from economically distressed neighborhoods who lack access to healthy food. her students struggle in school because they're worried about a sick parent, a sick grandparent who can't afford health care. darlene wrote to me describing one student that she trys to help has asthma and a heart condition, a grade school student, but doesn't have an in