unfortunately much of this debate has been divisive. much of it has been irrelevant. we have seen angry people at the doorstep of the capitol. every president over the last century has said this is necessary for a great nation to do. my colleagues, how proud we must all be that our neighbors have elected us to come here in this, the people's house, to do this good work this night. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from texas, mr. barton, is recognized for 10 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. barton: i would like to yield the gentleman from alabama for a unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks against this flawed health care bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. barton: madam speaker, i would like to yield the gentleman from north carolina for unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. coble: i thank the gentleman for

it has a troubled history. in 2002, disturbances and a fire destroyed many of the buildings, and there have been allegations of abuse. today's report accepts that conditions have improved, but it expresses worrying concerns about young detainees. over the last six months, the report says as many as 420 children were detained, even though half were later released back into the community. it says 68 children were held for over a month. >> you have to ask questions about whether the right questions are being asked at the point of detention and whether detention really is necessary, and for the shortest possible time. >> the report also criticizes the large number of single women held for long times with nothing to do. one detainee called the bbc to complain about the situation. and you have women in detention for about three months, six months, 12 months. even two years being kept here. >> several detainees have launched legal action, claiming a breach of their human rights, but ministers say removal centers are n

he has been an economist. he has been a lawyer. he has been a professor.t official, a minister, and, of course, a member of the french national assembly several times, many re-elections. in his minister's portfolio, he has served as minister of economy, finance, and industry and at another period as minister of industry and international trade. his portfolios, therefore, have encompassed economy, finance, industry, and international trade, which is a great school for taking on the job that he now has. one very interesting thing in that resume you'll see is that he took on this job at the i.m.f. in november 2007 and just think for a minute about november 2007. it was the beginning of the cataclysm in finance and the economy and in the social networks worldwide. and he took it on during those awful years since then and he has taken on as his mission, his initiative to review and reform the i.m.f. as needed in the light of the developments that have taken place during this period. it's definitely a challenging role. and he has been pushing very hard to do so

secondly, let us that knowledge what has changed -- acknowledge what has changed. with heroic attempts by president clinton, we attempted to agree first, then ship reality around it. but it was not to be. thousands died, then came the withdrawal from gaza. it took 7000 settlers. violence and terror in return. the occupation deepend. gaza was isolated. faith in the peace process collapsed. ten years on, that faith has to be restored. it cannot be done in one summer. it has to be done patiently on the ground. [applause] it cannot only be negotiated top-down. it has to be built bottom-up. peace will not come simply through agreement negotiated. it must come through a reality created and sustained. it means building institutions for the palestinian government, for prosecutors, civil police, the whole infrastructure of the rule o'clock. -- rule of law. it means treating those who commit terror as enemies not only of israel, but of palestine. [applause] it is about the economy, jobs, standards, aspiration, ambition. it is about education, about children, taught peace in

the court has told us it has to be the exact text. if you change one paragraph it is unconstitutional. they want us to adopt a rule that includes the bill but a lot of other language, it's not the same text. it's unconstitutional. the inconvenient truth is, we have to follow the law and this is the supreme law of the land. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> mr. speaker, permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> madam speaker, this week marks a defining moment for this congress in our nation. with our national debt over $12 trillion and continuing to grow, while government encroaches into every aspect of our lives, the american people have spoken out loudly against any government takeover of their health care. all we have to do is listen to our constituents. if this administration and this democrat leadership continues to force a $1 trillion health care bill through congress into law this bill will increas

it has to be managed.he theory of the case and it is perfectly reasonable was that we had gotten to the point in simulation that we should be able to confidently enter production before we have completed testing fully. that is the theory from the beginning. unprecedented and we have found that in some respects, that aspiration has not always been achieved. that is what we're trying to take some of the aggressiveness out of the program at this point. it is still aggressive. reality will have a vote here. >> if you shorten the development time, it seems to me the increases -- that seems to me that increases the concurrence it. you knew this from the beginning. why isn't the shortening of the development time, why isn't there an increase in the concurrence it level? >> the reduction from 30 to 13 months means doing the same testing we were going to do. that is good. the number of tests. is the same -- the number of test opints is tpoints is the s. >> i guess senator thune is next. >> i support 3 f-35 program

youth reoffending has fallen. and if he would support us on cctv in dna, we might be all able to catch criminals and the right time in the right place. i have to say to him, i share with him a desire that we prevent young people from reoffending. and i share with them a desire that person is better at educating people for the future, but he cannot at the same time acknowledged the advances that are being made and that youth reoffending is down 25%. >> thank you, mr. speaker, in this week which includes international women's day and mother's day is the prime minister aware that moms next is organizing a group of women to come to this house on friday in order to remind us all that there is still half a million women around the world who die in childbirth, and too many children who died in the first day of their lives? with the prime minister commit to action to reduce this international death of women and you need more children? >> mr. speaker, i applaud the work that she does on the organizations, to highlight the

has employed 7000 people in china. on their block today, when they reported this new move, they were very careful to try to shield those employees and said that all of the decisions about what good will is what to do in china is being made out of the u.s. this has been a long-running spat. it did make it as far as the secretary of state hillary clinton. >> many thank you, indeed, for that. let's look at some of the other main news. petco you are -- four main employees of rio tinto are facing trial in shanghai. negotiations with beijing were tainted. china warns about politicizing what is largely a commercial case. karzai talks with [unintelligible] it could signal the possibility for a deal with the group of rivals to the taliban. some parts of hong kong had readings more the double at which people are advised to stay indoors. beijing was trotted in yellow haze. anyone going outside was warned to wear masks and scars. the ban on ivory trading remains. an attempt to weaken it has been foiled. the two countries wanted to

it has an exam. it has interviews. it does things the right way.it is not necessarily producing all the right results, but i do think it is the right way. we hope that in due course, they should have a mission to increase the pool of candidates. they are not allowed to discriminate. it has got to be on merit and nothing else. we could get into that debate, if you like, but we have plenty of other things to talk about. it ought to mean a wider pool of candidates. ultimately, it means more diversity. there are not enough women. there are not enough minorities. it is an even worse problem than with the women. in the early days, they probably were quite cautious. they probably won't do anything brave, like appointing an off the wall-type candidate. so, i have a feeling it is still the early days. we will see. >> one large difference between this supreme court of the u.k. and the u.s. supreme court, right now, our court is composed of judges who were court of appeals judges. we have been criticized. the bench has been criticized because we don't have an

has grown. they now are able to look at a layered approach. they target what they need and they go after specific types of equipment. and in closing, my company and others in our industry, we are committed to this mission. we work very hard at this and we're very proud of the fact that we're contributing. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, john. and to wrap up our panel, i will turn it over to someone who needs no introduction. that's alan bersin. he is our last speaker today. history the assistant secretary for international affairs at the department of homeland security. nominee to be head of the cbp. with a distinguished background coming from california, and also i wanted to thank debbie secretary roberta jacobson. i know you need to have -- have a hard stop at for a lock. -- at 4:00. smack she has done this before. >> we thank you very much. we know you have to stew. and with that, secretary bersin. >> well, i will -- thank you and thank you again to general and u.s.-mexico chamb

mensural has nothing complicated. -- metro rail has nothing complicated. now to alison and doug. >> thank you. >>> we have a developing story. authorities are tryg to figure out what started a fire at an annandale gas station. this was at 8 sunoco station on a small river turnpike. nobody was injured. low river turnpike was closed while crews battled the fire. >>> time is running out on health care. the president has picked up some late support. critics are not backing down. kathy park has the latest live from our newsroom. >> democrats are making some progress. the bill is one step closer to the president's desk. there is another roadblock. the pressure is mounting on capitol hill, especially for the small number of house members needed to pass the health care reform bill. scott murphy. >> i am waiting to see the language. >> dennis kucinich has made up his mind and his vote is now yes. >> even though i do not like the bill, i have made a decision to support it. >> this comes after some heavy lobbying from the president. >> it is a good sign. >> president

i think his death ha staff has contributed equally. there is up in one issue we enough been able to overcome, not a single one. on the issue that all of you have focused on the most, consumers, we were there. what is going to be happening, i have enjoyed this immensely. over the last 30 days, is what we came here in the senate to do. we laughed, we have debated, and we have got into the 5 yard line. even though yesterday' i was mae aware of the we need to go ahead, i still plan to work with him. our staff -- they were in shock. i want to thank our step. you think about a 12 and a page bill. we do not have a committee staff to work on it. they have been incredible. they know this bill. -- better than any staff in the senate. if they continue to play a role. i am disappointed. i still think it is important that we get a financial regulation bill. this really is a jobs bill. the fact is that financial markets need predictability. they need to know what the rules of the road are. it is not take a few phone calls for them to tell you that w

there has not been -- let me back up. in order for this to work has to be a strategy. a very tough year last year. there was a slowing down of interest in this year. the other components of the energy bill that you all put together. all of them have to work in concert. you have to have the resources available to incentive to produce feedstocks. they have to be retrofitted to become more efficient. a broader expense of the opportunity not just in one region but all across the country. coordinated research that increases the efficiency of what we're doing. as a result all that we're trying to coordinate these resources. we think we're going to have a much stronger and more viable biofuels industry than we see and are already seeing signs of interest picking up. the uncertainty about the rfs2 had issues which we have now cleared up. so it is, there are a lot of moving pieces in 2009. some of those pieces have come into play. you will see more aggressive effort. you will see us do a better job in terms of resources in the future. at the present time the carryover is enough

>> guest: inevitably that has to happen. at the present time, the federal universal service fund can be used only to support traditional telephone service. by law it is limited just to that use. now the high cost fund is $4.5 billion every year and it is fully subscribed at the present time and is being used by a local exchange carriers in order to support their telephone service offerings. candidly, they are also using it in order to deploy fiber optics and two communities over which they do carry local telephone service, but they're also carrying over that i've are type one citizens solved high-speed internet access and it becomes for their dsl services. so without question, they are today even beginning to make broadband more available to the utilization of universal service funding although it's generally under the guise of enhancing the capability to offer traditional local television service. our legislation would take two steps in this critical direction. first, we would enable the guys to be removed. we would say tha

and that has been recognized and has been hailed by many leaders. as i said earlier also from a very important institution such as the imf and the european central bank. >> sreenivasan: the greek government has already adopted major spending cuts and tax increases. but the austerity measures have sparked violent protests. wall street managed small gains today, one year after bottoming out. the dow jones industrial average added nearly 12 points to close at 10,564. the dow has risen more than 60% in the last 12 months. the nasdaq rose eight points today to close at 2,340. a rutgers university graduate student pleaded guilty today to a security breach that fouled flight schedules worldwide. haisong jiang slipped under a security rope last january at newark liberty international airport. that triggered an alert which delayed or canceled 200 flights worldwide. today, jiang apologized in court and said, "i made a big mistake, and i also learned a big lesson". he faces a $500 fine and community service. the first gay marriages in washington, d.c., were pe

the net result has been that inflation has trended down.he recovery continues, the fed will eventually have to make sure that this balance sheet expansion does not lead to inflation. this means that we have to get the timing right for tapering off and ending our expansionary programs. in other words, we need an exit strategy designed to remove some of the monetary accommodation that is now in place. the question of how we will go about that has been the focus of a lot of commentary. let me outline for you how we are thinking about our exit strategy. traditionally, the main tool of fed monetary policy is the federal funds rate, which is what banks charge each other for overnight loans. we have pushed that rate to zero for all practical purposes. this is as low as it can go. such an accommodative policy is currently appropriate, in my view, because the economy is operating well below its potential and inflation is subdued. consistent with that view, the fed's main policymaking body, the federal open market committee, last week repeated its st

mark has defended sex offenders. robin has prosecuted them.not curable, should they get out? >> absolutely not. not when you're talking about a serial serial sex offender pedophile abductor. i'm not talking about an unlawful sex between a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old. this is a different genre, a type of predator that needs to be in jail forever. >> larry: mark? >> i don't know that i disagree with that. i mean the biggest problem -- i've listened to part of the program tonight, and everybody talks about the system is broke. the system -- the big problem is that we're warehousing probably 100,000 more people than we need to warehouse in this state. and, you know, the prison industry is a great -- it's kind of like the military industrial complex. we've got the prison complex here in california. consequently, that's why the system is broken. everybody wants to throw people into the state prison there is probably 50,000 people that have no business being in state prison, that should be out. and they should concentrate on the people who need to

guest: the work that has been done so far has many flaws in it. while on what the president to succeed, and i supported him, i do not want to be part of locking in a privatization process without any controls over premiums at a time when they are going up 20% sun, wind industries had a double-digit increase for the last four consecutive years in profits. do we have to go back to square one? in state after state, people are beginning their own initiatives at the state level. pennsylvania -- pennsylvania health care for all. that is a statewide organization that is doing everything they can to the dance single payer that the state level. either it is pennsylvania, missouri, colorado, maryland, there are initiatives happening all over the country. i believe this process in the capital is totally flawed that it cannot succeed. however, americans will someday have a health care for all plan. it will work this way. some states will pass health care reform. the california senate's four weeks ago passed a single payer- type of initiative. they passed it t

there is a real debate about what has been working in what has not been working. for when you look ahead in terms of the congressional budget office, they said the recovery act added between men in the end to put 1 million jobs by the fourth fourth quarter. the cbo director house is not a partisan in this debate. he said "the policies that were enacted in the bill are increasing gdp and employment relative to what it otherwise would be, " fo." i am glad that congressman brady a couple of minutes ago was talking about history. history can be relevant. you mentioned the reagan era. he also compared job loss in two different time periods the history is instructive in the number of ways. if you look at in terms of jobs gains, it gained 22 million jobs. under president bush, about 2 million. you look at in terms of deficit, one president clinton left office, the following things that happen, the surplus was to $36 billion. for president bush left office, it had changed to about a $1.30 trillion deficit. trillion deficit. we know what the job numbers were in december 20

this has been the tactic. it is really the tactic of might north party at any point in time because they don't have the votes necessarily to effect this. they are going to pull out everything that they have in their tool shed. they could do -- there is a certain vote that they can offer. we don't necessarily know. it is going to be an alternative they could offer at the last minute. we don't know what that's going to be. another thing i want to point out, they are voting on the senate bill first now and then on the changes bill. this is also a change from yesterday, from last night. we thought they were going to vote on the changes and then the senate bill to give some members some political cover but obviously that's not going to happen. >> that had a lot of people scratching their heads. we had people asking about it to us this morning. wait a minute. you vote on the changes and then you vote on the bill? can you really do that. i'm sure, brieiwhen we talk to next, it will have changed. thanks so much. >>> t

jake tapper has more from the white house. has the latest for us. good morning, jake. >> reporter: good morning, robin. that's right. while democrats were celebrating at the white house, republicans on capitol hill d clothroughout the country, were plotting strategies to repeal the bill and challenging its constitutionality in court. president obama called the bill's signing, improbable, and remarkable. and it was clearly personal. >> i'm signing this reform bill into law, on behalf of my mother, who argued with insurance companies, even as she battled cancer in her final days. >> reporter: at a later celebration, he said there was a lesson from the experience. >> we don't fear the future. we shape the future. >> reporter: after all, this is a bold and broad piece of legislation. or, as the vice president called it -- rewind that. yes. just as fdr had his new deal, the irrepressible mr. biden called this a big bleeping deal. yes, mr. vice president, you're right, the white house press secretary tweeted. republicans are vowing a big bleeping deal of

he is nearly at wits end. >> it has got to stop. >> it has not. every soldier was required to watch this video on suicide prevention. a specialist watched it. the next day, he killed himself. david martin, cbs news. >> you know that the audience has a lot of different reactions. some would say that your -- you are sensationalizing suicide in the military. the got what has happened a year later? >> that is his no. 1 job, to stay on top of suicides. the number of suicides is down from the record levels in that peace where there were 23 in one month along. the last figures that i saw were for february and i think that there were 13 in the army. it was 13. is that a good number? obviously not. it is probably below the national average. a 23 was not. it shows that soldiers are killing themselves more frequently than the public at large. >> they were killing themselves after coming home. >> one-third kill themselves when they get home. one-third kill themselves while they are there, and a third kills themselves before they go. you have the apprehension

the system has to change. we cannot allow preexisting conditions to continue to prevent pregnant women from getting proper treatment. pregnancy is a pre-existing condition under the current system. the system has to change. we must find a way to muster up the courage to take on this challenge. if we could pass and did pass social security when the polls were against it, if we passed other crucial measures when the polls were against them we can pass health care reform. and for those who contend that in this country how you got here will depend upon whether you will get treatment, my response is this, if you commit a crime in this country and you harm someone and we should harm you as the culprit, when we capture you we will give you aid and comfort. in this country, if you are an enemy combatant and you hurt our warriors in battle and we should capture you and you have been wounded, we will give you aid and comfort. if this country, if you're on death row and you're going to meet your maker next week, we will

that request has been made.with you, we need to look back and make sure we had everything based on what we had at the time. we felt the remedies were the right remedies. but when we look back and find that there was an additional informational component, we would have found a different conclusion. >> did they get the proprietary data to make a difference? the point is, we do not know. you cannot conclude one way or the other. >> i cannot conclude we received everything until we receive the request we just sent to toyota. >> these previous investigations in 2004 and 2007, were they relying on toyota's investigations? >> what we have to rely on, senator, our complaints we get from people, what information we get from the industry, what information we get from the manufacturers. >> the independent investigation did not occur, is that correct? >> our people do these investigations. we have people on our staff. >> we have been told you do not have a software expert. looking at it in totality, what is independently ve

i regret that the member who has just spoke has used this time to mischaracterize the bill we will have before us tomorrow. i would like to specify those characterizations. the gentleman said there will be medicare cuts. there will be no cuts to benefits for any medicare recipient. yes, there will be cuts in fraud, waste and abuse under medicare. senator coburn of the other body said 1/3 of medicare spending is fraud, waste and abuse. heritage foundation says 10%. this bill takes between 5% and 6% of that fraud, waste and abuse. forward, the gentleman made note of veterans and tricare, veterans' health care under this congress has increased to the highest level in the history of the country and will not be affected in anyway. and i would challenge any one on the minority side to show me one word in these bills that justifies a different conclusion. one, tricare will not be affected in anyway. and i would offer a similar challenge. the gentleman said there will be massive tax increases. what he did not say is that tax increases to help pay for this bill are on families with an income of

it has, but many americans -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair will remind all members to heed the gavel. the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: i yield 45 seconds to the zwirbled the gentleman from georgia, dr. linder. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 45 seconds. mr. linder: thank you, mr. speaker and i thank the gentleman from michigan yielding. 85% of america is insured. 95% of those people are happy with their insurance. but the other 15% uninsured, they consume 70% on average as much insurance as those who are insured. the lady in cleveland that has been referred to is being cared for at the cleveland clinic. so what are we to do with the 15%? why not take over a 16% of the economy? $2.5 trillion program that will zry health care to the 85% who are happy to find health care for the 15% who are not insured. this has never been about health care. this is about government. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield one minute to the very distinguis

that has been -- that has been the thicket that every hud secretary i've known has found to be unmanageable. at the same time, as senator murray referred to it, i personally have a minimum amount of high confidence in the authorizing committee's ability to deal successfully with these legislative changes in timetom assure there is not a gap. and we're going to have to work with you on that because this -- anybody who looks at the legislative calendar in the united states congress knows that even getting our appropriations bills done is going to be a challenge. and we're going to have to have some discussions because i -- the banking committees are trying to bite off financial regulation, and that one is not, that, one's not going to be a simple markup and two days on the floor, at least in the senate, and man, there's not enough time to do it. so we need to work with you on that. the tra program is -- it's very -- very optimistic. i can -- i would ask you what do you see as the key elements and the advantages of the tra program over current programs? >> so today, given the way particularly

got the energy, that has got the leadership, that has got values to really get this country going.hange we talk about is not some airy-fairy concept, not undefined, it is based on some very clear and conservative values. take our economy. what we need in our economy today is the value of aspiration. we're not going to get a recovery from the government. we need a recovery from the private sector, from business, from individuals. we need this to be a country where people want to set up a business, take people on, make money, get ahead, have a sense once again that this country is about opportunity for all. i had a small businessman came to my surgery the other day and he said every year i have to try to drive down my costs and improve the quality of goods i sell to my customers. why on earth can't my government do the smame -- same thing? that is the value we mean. the change we need in our society. it's not some sort of vague change. it's based on a very clear principle, a very clear value of responsibility. we think the responsible society is the good society. we believe in standi

so which party has more sex scandals? the website the daily beast did some research and they identified the top 58 political sex scandals from the past 20 years and found that the gop had 32 of them. democrats had 26 but their scandals were bigger. bill clinton made the list three different times. with democrats owning 13 of the top 20 scandals based on the daily beast's study. nbc's luke russert joins us now. luke, how does this break down by category? >> reporter: it's a really interesting breakdown, david, that the daily beast did. if we look at three main categories which is prostitution problems, just straight infidelity problems, and then sexual harrassment problems, it's an interesting breakdown. number one, under the prostitution problems republicans have an advantage over democrats. they beat them 6-1 of the top 58 political sex xanscandals. infidelities, they break even. 18 to 18. it's really the true bipartisanship that we see there. and then under sexual harrassment, democrats actually have a much bigger probl

. >> a time for change has come! >> now the elections, once the fever pitch of health care has passed, democrats life depends on changing the subject. the experts see a huge republican sweep this november. back on track, can the president use the next eight months to switch the train from the wrong tropk pele say we're on to the right track for the country? can he switch signals in time? and finally, the robe, nothing divides washington like a battle over who joins the supreme court. it looks like one is coming. twillhe struggle to replace a liberal giveonservatives a fight they won? hi, i'm chris matthews. welcome to the show. kelly o'donnell covers congress for nbc news. howard fineman is senior washington correspondent at "newsweek." michele norris is host of "all things considered" on national public radio. and michael duffy is assistant managing editor at "time magazine." democrats can't wait to get off of health care and on to jobs. they're terrified that this year, 2010, might be like three other historic midt

then it has an a and a b and a 2. that is specific language that we -- that is used in bills that we pass here every day. what the president has proposed is not legislative language. what they want to do is use something called the slaughter slight of hands. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. foxx: and the american people don't want it. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cummings: to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cummings: thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to commend to this house the memory of one of my constituents, the reverend david joshua crumb, who at the age of 42 died suddenly on february 20 of this year. reverend crumb was a young man of strong personal faith coming from a long line of leaders in america's faith community, includin

this is the highest skywalk nick valenda has every performed. the last minute he decided to including his mother. she hasn't performed in years. his next goal is to walk across the grand canyon. nik wallenda comes from a long line of skywalkers. >>> okay it's going to be a few more days before a south after kaj sculpting team finds out if it created the world's largest chocolate rabbit. their easter bunny is 12'5" tall and weighs more than three tons. it took three days to complete this. the sculpture will be on display until march 27th, then broken up into chocolate bits and distributed to local orphanages, just in time for easter. >>> for a few weeks now trainers at seaworld in orlando haven't been in the water. an update on some of the other changes the amusement park has made since a killer whale killed a trainer after a show. >>> how's it going, guys? >> welcome to hln news and views. you just saw president obama arriving for a pep talk with house democrats late this afternoon. a vote on health care reform is expected tomorrow, and the pres

he has softened that. he was talking about age of austerity, and he has softened that, and the reason was that it frightens off voters. they are more concerned about the services about the services and benefits they get. >> now, kuhl it's in the middle east are akin to rock stars. -- poets in the middle east archenteron stars. -- are akin to rock stars. one woman has a poem that attacked the muslim clerics for frightening people with their fatwas. tensions will be running high tonight when one of the female contestant gets out on stage. dressed in the full lengths a buyout -- the following address, the saudi mother of four has been making waves with her verse. set against competitors from all over the world, she is thought to have a good chance of winning the prize. there was also the style of a recitation. -- of her recitation. >> [speaking foreign language] >> but she attacked the rise in extremism and fatwas which encourage strict segregation between the sexes. >> and a time, what is lawful as confused

host: "wolpaw" has the story -- "roll call" has the story -- baltimore, maryland.christo, democratic line. caller: i am a very frustrated with the way the senate is working. i think they should push the bill through the senate. they did it when bush was in office. and -- how he allowed bush to push the taxes to benefit the rich people, it was not funded. and then the two wars, it was not funded. so let the democrats do what they have to do. there are a lot of hurting people out here and for him to be so selfish the way he is an axe a grant the way he is i think it is unconstitutional. host: @ a little bit more about the politics and "usa today." within the story, it's the democrats, including senate majority leader harry reid tried to hold it as an example of gop efforts to hold up the democratic bill. colorado, earl of the republican line. caller: good morning. i say, god bless senator bunning. when you take into account the unfunded mandates that we have due to these so-called entitlement programs, we are more than $78 trillion in debt. we can't afford this and n

didn't who has -- resident who has experienced tenncare. they will have to lay off workers and cut back odge wages to deal with the new mandates. the end result is what we're dealing with in tennessee right now, rationed care. to beat its budget, they're limiting 10care patients with no more than eight visits to a physician and $10 million paid to providers. while we can't make our state medicaid program to work as it is, people in congress want to expand it. in the end, what's happening in tennessee is going to happen in america. and that's the wrong solution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote inoccurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. recorded votes on postponed questions will be taken after 6:30 p.m. today. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i move to suspend t

he has done it. he has to take to the kitchen table and win the argument that it's a good thing for voters. >> yes. it's tricky because on the one hand, he wants to say, we just made history and that sounds great. this is a guy who loves history and loves making history. he can't talk about the history. he has got to talk about the kitchen table and he has got to say this is reform, but this is not revolution. and in many ways he is right. this was a big bill that is going to cover a lot more people, but it doesn't really fundamentally turn upside down the health care industry. it makes big changes but doesn't turn it upside down. he is going to tell those people you're going to keep your doctor if you want it and people that don't have access can get it. chris: he is selling to the people who are going to vote, , older, white, middle-class people, not the 32 million people that are getting health care for the first time. >> right. he has got to say and not this way, this isn't as bad as you thought

that has been a 14-month struggle and has been very, very hard.s on life support several times, but the president did it. the congress did it. the american people did it. you've got to forgive those who may be a little more exuberant. we'll say and do things in that spirit that we may not otherwise do. we can all be forgiven. this is an extraordinary moment for our country and i'm as pleased as could be. >> and as gibbs tweeted, yes, mr. vice president, you are right and so be it. thanks very much. great to see you. >>> what is the republican strategy now that the bill has actually passed? politico's eamon javers will join us. and nothing can keep newt gingrich from voicing his plan. here's what he told a camera crew yesterday. >> this is a big bureaucracy, high tax, high litigation bill that will further weaken the economy. this is a ruthlessly chicago machine kind of approach that is fund mentally wrong. [ female announcer ] the latest athletic fabrics that keep you cool and dry have now inspired stayfree® to create a whole new level of comfort

he works harder and has more ideas than i think anyone has had in the world.om, please stand and be recognized for the great work that you do for us. and finally, tommy cannot do it alone. he has a great support staff. please, all of you, please stand. now for our luncheon program today, i am very pleased and very grateful to have as the sponsor for our lunch today, the university, and three of our associates of come. kathy gallagher. the director of our mba program. our executive director of the institute. we thought it might be most appropriate for manny to introduce jim owens for three reasons. the fdic chairman -- it is always handy to have a lawyer on site. second, like jim olin, randy has the ability to actually apply economic principles. he has started up and run several businesses successfully. and like many of us, ran the actually has been up close and purses to cap the equipment -- gm has actually been up close and personal to cat equipment and has ridden them. randy, please introduce our speaker. >> thank you. jim owens has a more rigid the remarkab

when the democrats won control back, they were like, "ha ha.e going to get our turn and show you." in my opinion, if the democrats had reached out a year ago and allowed the amendments the republicans offered in committee to be added in the floor -- there were stripped out. it is timely technical -- it is kind of technical. it might have worked. but once we got to the summer and the tea parties and the republicans saw the anger out there, they were like, "it is your baby. we are not going to help you. we are going to say no." it spiraled down. >> you have a question. >> i am from code paint. i live in washington, d.c. but i am from los angeles, california. i have a couple of comments. you were talking about one word that would describe congress. for me, it would be fear. the fear based rhetoric coming out of the republicans and the fearful less of the democrats to respond. another thing -- what do you identify yourself as? i am a progressive democrats. -- a progressive democrat. i believe that what is going on was always going on. many of my fa

cooperation with pakistan has increased. pressure is greater and has been sustained for a long time. so i think it is fair to say that command and control is weaker and al qaeda is suffering seriously. >> lehrer: suffering seriously, mr. scheuer? >> well, it's certainly being hit in the was area of the border, mr. lehrer. but the border is 2,600 kilometers long. >> couric: >> lehrer: you mean the border between pakistan and afghanistan? >> yes and we're not working along that entire border. i think we should all hope panetta is correct. but we've heard this story from this administration, past administrations about the noose tightening around the neck of al qaeda and it never seems to quite tighten. the other point i would make is simply the act of trying to kill these people is an important advance. if you're being chased and shot at, you make mistakes. it's very callous to say, but violence creates intelligence. and the more we're out there shooting, the more people are going to make communications mistakes, travel mistake

iran has refused to cooperate, as the world has witnessed. instead, they engage in more violations of international obligations like the decision to enrich uranium by 20% and to build more enrichment facilities. it rejected the offer to enrich for fuel, and it continues to deflate some of this -- to deploy thugs in a quest for basic justice in their own country. iranian leadership's continuing defiance has set the stage for our efforts to mobilize the world and imposed meaningful sanctions and clarify for the iranian leadership the smart search -- smart choice. follow international rules or face penalties and further isolation. the united states is determined to prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. [applause] i know there was no strategic threat. we get the. it is also a threat of the acquisition of nuclear weapons. it is also a threat to the security of the united states of america. many countries in the world strongly oppose a nuclear-arms iran. it would threaten them and undermines the efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

hayworth thinks he has a shot. so the reason everybody is out here today is in part to see john mccain but they're also out because they're here to see sarah palin and it's going to be the first time we see the two of them together since they lost the 2008 presidential election. >> good stuff, norah, thank you very much. >>> a major new victory for president obama following his health care win. the u.s. and russia have agreed on a new nuclear arms treaty that makes sharp cuts in the arsenal of both nations. long-range weapons would be reduced by about one-third. the president and the russian president medvedev signed off on the agreement in a phone call this morning. >> with this agreement the united states and russia, the two largest nuclear powers in the world also send a clear signal that we intend to lead. it took patience, it took perseverance, but we never gave up. and as a result, the united states will be more secure and the american people will be safer. >> the treaty still needs to be ratified by the sena

that has been resolved. think you cannot underestimate the power of what they just formally announced here. it is a process issue but it is very much a political issue. it was very clear in talking to, they wouldn't admit it here if you heard, we tried. they wouldn't admit the reason why they decided to scrap this deem and pass idea is specifically protecting members not voting directly on the bill is because many members they were trying to protect were calling the leadership offices saying don't do this. we are getting hammered for business as usual, washington as usual. you heard earlier there was one member particularly who was very open saying i can't do this. i can't vote for this. every vote counts. it sounds like they actually got some votes just in changing the process. again, sounds very technical, very much in the weeds. this is all very, very much political. another thing they are trying to work out is potentially this whole controversy over abortion. this kept members here, leadership here until

time has -- the gentleman's time has expired. mr. camp: i ask that the gentleman's words be taken down for the false statements. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey will be seated. the clerk will report the words. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to remove any word or words that were taken as offensive. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, the words will be stricken. the chair will -- the chair -- keep in mind, all members that any statements should be directed through the chair and not individually at any other member. >> mr. speaker, in the course of a -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kansas. state your parliamentary inquiry. >> is it true that in the course of comfortable debate that we not question another member's motives? the speaker pro tempore: members must maintain proper standard -- mr. tiahrt: is it against house rules to question another member's

i don't know of any legislation that has received as much scrutiny as this legislation has.resident obama began the process with the health care summit in 2009. republicans and democrats participated and over the past year and a half the house held 100 hours of hearings in 83 hours of committee markups. we heard from 181 witnesses both democrats and republicans. 239 amendments were considered at 121 were adopted. the notion that there wasn't a process in place is absurd. we are now in a difficult situation because the republicans -- the republican leadership has made it their mission to use every parliamentary maneuver and hetrick available to try to block this legislation. .. there is a lot of abuse in the insurance industry. there are good and bad insurance companies and the mr. dreier talks about the grand initiatives the republicans have. well, you were in charge a long time and not much has changed in the practice mr. levin and pointed out there are tens of millions who don't have insurance. there are countless people who are discriminated against because of pre-existin

after all, the house has sent so many bills to the senate that the senate has been unable to act on.emember, there have been so many filibusters in the senate by the republicans, so many things that the senate has been unable to do that the house is worried that they may end up passing the senate bill and that will be the only thing that becomes law, that they won't be able to get even without the chance of a filibuster, that the senate won't be able to act on this second bill. >> lehrer: so they get a double hit, then, politically. they vote for something they're not that comfortable with and it doesn't pass anyhow. >> well, if the house votes for the senate bill, the senate bill becomes law. >> couric: >> lehrer: i mean if the senate doesn't pass it, that's what i meant. well, what s there a general sales pitch that speaker pelosi has that works for everybody waivering house member or are they targeted to individuals? >> well, the general sales pitch, of course, at this point is that something is better than nothing. that the house at this point having passed a bill pretty much now

he has not ruled.nd the prudent thing for him, because he's going to be sitting in the chair, is to not answer that question because he's going to have to answer it on the advice of the parliamentarian. three other vice presidents, rockefeller, nixon, humphrey all answered the question. democrats/republicans. answered the question, yes, at the beginning of a congress, the majority vote you can adopt rules. and that's -- that's the catalyst that we have here. is the constitutional option is the fundamental part of reform. so if you hear anybody stand up and say we want to put a new rule in on hold and make them more transparent, 48 hours, your name comes out and it has to be public and it has to be for a reason related to the individual, for example, if it's an nomination rather than a policy issue that has nothing to do with the individual. all of those reforms, the harkin where you lower the threshold on the filibuster, 60 for three days, 57 three days later. 54 and then down to 51 -- a declining thre

. >> tim: has he ever. loucks is going to check in for him. >> mike: i think the team you get loucks and another ball handler against clemson. >> tim: still a two-possession game with 1:48 remaining. trying to work the pick-and-roll. kitchen. singleton puts it on the bench, and in doing so going to induce -- i like that play. again, looking for a second like he was going to settle for the three. instead of doing that, put pressure against the foul call. >> tim: mike, he does have an innate ability to put it on the deck and face up player. and then the creative skills to at least get fouled when he goes inside. don't forget coming up. there was a time in the season you would have said he was the player of the year this year. he'll have to have that kind of evening against duke. >> mike: against duke they have a way of taking out the top four. >> tim: a good matchup. two big misses by singleton. opening the door for clemson with a minute and change left. young, he rattles it home. and it's a one-possession ga

samhan has been a presence today. but he has been hampered by foul trouble.. the winner of this game gets villanova on saturday in providence. dellavedova. i have no idea what that was. 3:10 to go. bill: this is a pressable group if they can make this one verne: double-double. here is samhan. wow. bill: how about the run out. so alert. verne: 29 points and 12 rebounds. gonzalvez for three more. bill: this is pressable now if they don't make a mistake. two bigs on the floor. gonzalvez a little bit frustrated. what a day for the big fellow. you name it, he did it. verne: absolutely. bill: i thought he had too many catches early. maybe the tougher catch. he just got into the flow. back now with a run out on the press. reading things in extraordinary fashion. verne: richmond has a total of 13. bill: did not serve the meals on the charter. but he did everything else. verne: anderson. how about that. another three. 2:27 remaining. verne: dellavedova has it. now steindl does. followed by martel. bill: boy, they really space nicely. verne: 2:15 to go. bill: the size

news has been coming in that a small plane has crashed while on route to the epicenter, concepcion. let's go to the capital, santiago. >> from the air, the power of the earthquake and tamales unleashed can be seen. towns and villages -- towns and villages were broken down and washed away by the waves. in central chile, near the epicenter, few buildings still stand. even for a nation used to earthquakes, this is to much to bear. >> and we need help to look for our father. >> father, we love you very much. >> it has been three days since the earthquake struck, but only now are rescue workers getting to the more remote areas. they are working as fast as they can to save anyone who may still be buried. this is the second city, now in ruins. residents are too frightened of after shocks to good sleep in their own bed and lighting fires for warmth and comfort. >> there is no electricity, no water, and no food at all because everything has been looted. we have nothing. >> dozens of leaders in the capital have been rounded up. curfews have been put in place in certain parts of the country. t