greg brown, the c.e.o. of motorola. and our outstanding football player. jorge a journalist in the country, and b.b.wane, and tony hawk, the outstanding skateboarder in the world. darrell mcdaniels, mike glass, a small businessman, and senator edward bye, and president david lad, the president of a community college and my staff, dennis mc dona and reggie love, and bobby mashay with this good-looking grub. i don't want to talk long, i want to come around and say hello to everyone. i want to thank all for participating. for the young people here today, i just hope that the message we are sending out, about how important fathers are. it's something that you will internalize. because all of you are probably going to end up being fathers. and the time is now to start thinking about what that means in terms of responsibilities. what it means to be a man. and the men you are sitting with today, exempify whether famous or not, they embody that spirit of love and dedication and commitment that fatherhood is all about. we appreciate all of you. i don't want to get

greg brown whose the c.e.o., antwan randall el outstanding football player. dr.teve rosin, bfrlt b. wang outstanding actor -- b.b. wang outstanding ack, to tony hawk who's the best skateboarder in the world. coach bill cower of the championship steelers. darrell d.m.c. mcdon yells. mike glass whose a small businessman. senator evan bayh, fatherhood's dad's inc. dr. robert franklin as well as mike straunmanneis and we also want to thank bobby flay with these unbelievably good-looking grub over here. i don't want to talk long. i want to say hello to everybody. i just want to thank everybody for participating for the young people. i just hope that the message we're accepteding out about how important fathers are is something that you will internalize because all of you are probably going end up being fathers. and the time is now to start thinking about what that means in terms of responsibilities, what it means to be a man. and the men who are -- you're going be sitting with today, i think exemplify whether their famous or not famous, rich or not so rich, they imbod

some of the people taking part are white house counsel greg craig, white house secretary lisa brown, and john podesta, chief executive officer for the center for american progress. we'll have more live coverage with the radio and television correspondents dinner beginning at 8:25 here on c-span. president obama will deliver remarks. on your screen is john podesta, the ceo of the center for american progress. live coverage on c-span. >> this event is expected to begin shortly. president obama will be at the radio and tv correspondents association dinner tonight delivering remarks. that begins and caught 25 eastern time. but the associated press writes that president obama is describing the overall health care plan put forward by house democrats today as a major step toward the goal of fixing what is broken and building on what works. house republicans are sharpening their criticism. they say it would cost tens of millions of people to lose the current health care coverage. the participants are getting ready to start. it should begin momentarily. [crowd murmurs] >> a little bit of back

brown. >> -- >> senator casey. >> no. >> senator higgens. >> no, by proxy. >> senator murphy. >> no. >> senator whitehouse. >> no. >> senator enzi? >> aye. >> senator greg. >> aye by proxy. >> senator alexander. >> aye by proxy. >> senator burress. >> aye by proxy. >> senator mccain? >> aye by proxy. >> senator mikowski. >> aye by proxy. >> senator roberts. >> aye. >> chairman kennedy. >> no, by proxy. >> the ayes are 10, nays are 15. i thank our colleagues. are there further amendments to title two? >> i think senator coburn. >> tom? >> could i inquire. senator mikulski was very straightforward and honest about what was really intended in the cer stuff. and when she was asked by senator greg in our kind of roundtable about what their intention were to really tell a difference between, you know, i just have some questions so i can understand. i think we use -- i can't remember the examples. maybe it was claritin and allegra. i think he used one of the other. let's say cer comes out and says one is better than the other. what's going to be the require me ment? what's going to be the requirement for somebody who is practicing medicine and allegra doesn't