dr. stanley plotkin. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] host: good morning, and welcome to "washington journal." the house and senate are in today. the senate works of the transportation infrastructure part of the jobs package and the house takes on the access to capital for job creators act. the g-20 summit -- we will hear more about that later this morning by a reporter in cannes. yesterday the house voted to reaffirm in god we trust as the nation that a model. president obama criticized congress for voting on the resolution rather than focusing on the jobs bill. was this and poor and resolution or was the president correct? -- was this an important resolution or was the president's correct? the numbers to call -- we are also on facebook. look for c-span, and you can weigh and. let us look at this article from "the hill." let's take a listen to president obama's response speaking on key bridge in washington. >> if congress tel

dr. stanley plotkin emeritus professor of pediatrics at the university of pennsylvania also the adviser to the history of vaccines project at the college of physicians in philadelphia. the website is historyofvaccines.org. thank you for being with us. ..

dr. stanley plotkin. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. leister -- eastern. several events to tell you about on our companion network, c- span3. protecting military service members and their families from predatory lending practices with the senate banking committee and also financial literacy. then at 12:45 p.m. eastern, a defense department acted on the continuing withdrawal of u.s. forces from iraq. to discourage attacks, the pentagon will discontinue announcing the troop withdrawal schedule. >> would you continue your statement, please? you will receive an answer, do not worry. >> i am prepared to wait for my answer if pelfrey is an answer -- it hell freezes over. >> he was a former governor of illinois and twice ran for the democratic presidential nominee and lost. adlai stevenson on "the contenders," live friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. for a preview, including speeches, go to c- span.org/thecontenders. >> every weekend, the people and events that document the american story. this weekend on "american artifacts," the decorative and fine arts rarely seen ou

dr. stanley plotkin, america's professor of pediatrics at the university of pennsylvania, also the adviser to the history of vaccines product out of the college of physicians at philadelphia. thank you so much for being with us. we will have now to the floor of the house. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] 3, 2011. i hereby appoint the honorable michael g. fitzpatrick to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, for five minutes. mr. poe: tha

dr. stanley plotkin of the university of pennsylvania. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> would you continue your statement please. you will receive the answer in the due course. >> i'm prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over if that's your decision. >> a bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation today trying to fix the postal service's financial problems of the bill would keep saturday mail delivery for at least two more years, encourage cuts in post office staffing and reduce payments to the postal service retirement system. senators joe lieberman, susan collins, tom carper and scott brown held a 40-minute news conference on their plan. >> we're confident will pull the united states postal service back from the brink of bankruptcy and secure its financial health into the future. we're introducing this legislation today and plan to mark it up before the full homeland security and governmental affairs committee next wednesday. five years ago senator collins and carper led congress in the

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