liz: i believe it was henry waxman if we want to break through the barricade.y they want to jumpstart the action. the once again, you can make all the suggestions in the world. but what is the point? climate change, i don't know that we want to have them act on. they have brought together all these ceos, and they did come up with some good ideas one was you know, none of them cost money. businesses in the area, colleges in the area, why don't they talk about training programs they could put in a place to train students. they can fill the jobs that are available. but it's like they sit down and write out proposals and the president dismisses them and nothing happened. and you think it will probably have the same result, depending on whether you think climate change is real. then jay carney said it's not a singular priority, and now we have henry waxman saying, what we want to do outreach and public outrage. so do you think they can win on this by so-called educating the people? >> it is just a lot of talk with no action behind it. if you want to know how they fe

burgess about medicare, social security and entitlement spending and later, democratic congressman henry waxman discusses climate change proposals. we will also take your calls, "washington journal" is next. host: the federal deficit is expected to dip below one trillion. the news comes as republicans and democrats face a march 1 deadline to avoid billions in across-the-board spending cuts. the pentagon announced it will offer benefits to same-sex couples. in the senate is wrapping up work on the violence against women act. and the house will vote on a bill requiring the president to offer a plan to balance the federal budget in 10 years. good morning. we begin with your take on the leaked white paper from the white house just fine drone strikes on u.s. citizens overseas. nbc news reported on the memo monday night and it has gotten lots of reaction in washington. what are your thoughts? call -- we want to get your thoughts on social media as well on twitter or facebook. or send us an e-mail. we will get your thoughts in a moment. first, josh gerstein is joining us on the phone. here's your head

henry waxman, a member of congress, he wants the president to go around congress with his voice. >> we have the separation of powers in this country. something that's hugely important. with a waxman is recommending and i recognize just waxman represents to me a liberal, too. and i'm against conservative or moderate as liberal. but the idea of president going around congress to get things done, especially when he gets up in his state of the union and says that the sequester is not his work, but the work of congress, suggests to me that the democrats are trying to have it both ways. blame congress for that which they've done that they don't like and the president can take power when he doesn't like what congress might do. it it sets very bad precedent. stuart: it does indeed. so you give me your professional opinion you think that the president will approve the keystone pipeline? >> i do. stuart: do you think he'll go ahead with regulating household appliances and climate change? >> i think the president is going to do as much as he can to implement his agenda without congress all the wa

henry waxman said koop saved countless lives through leadership and standing up to powerful special interestso companies. he was 96 years old. >> shep: in one of his last acts pope benedict xvi has adjusted church law to help speed up picking his own replacement. he announced his plans to retire at the end of this month, the first pontiff to do so in about 600 years. he celebrated the final blessing yesterday in front of tens of thousands of people at st. peter's square. he signed a legal document allowing the churches cardinals to meet immediately following his resignation this thursday. lauren green is live in new york. do we know when the conclave is going to start. >> not certain yet. is he amended the rules and only another pope could do that. we will know likely friday. that is when the college of cardinals will begin meeting going over details about the church including scheduling the conclave. anything from march 8th to march 10th. >> shep: lauren, why is it important to move that date? >> if you want a pope by holy week, it had to be done. church law said they couldn't begin 15 days

act which is -- as far as i can tell, how it got out of the house government oversight committee henry waxman other democrats basically signing of on it. it was passed by a voice vote. we don't know exactly who ultimately voted for it. this -- the core of it, that is biting the post office in the butt right now was this effort to take down the second largest employer in the united states. in 2006, the post office was doing just fine, thank you very much. in fact, the post office was profitable. in fact, the post office in 2005 had been talking about since they had the largest private vehicle fleet in the united states and most of those trucks traveled less than 100 miles in a day which is easy range of an electric vehicle, they were talking about electrifying, replacing gas engines with electric engines as much as half of all of their vehicles. they were really looking at some progressive stuff. the koch brothers were going nuts. plus, as the second largest employer in the united states behind walmart which is not unionized. ever since 1981 when ronald reagan declared war on union workers, th

henry waxman. keith ellison would be on that list. donna edwards i believe. jan schakowsky.eter? we know so many of them. a lot of them from california. i'm sorry. barbara lee. maxine. >> maxine. >> nancy pelosi. naturally. >> bill: up to her. sam farr. good friend. i'm sure there are others. just ones that i think of -- without pausing to think. you expect the democrats to be, of course, on the more liberal side. among the most conservative, it has to be paul ryan right. followed by -- >> tricky for him because he missed a lot of votes last year on the campaign trail. but paul ryan is certainly a guy who ranks pretty highly on that. >> you know, it's interesting some of the most conservative members don't necessarily register as far. you see someone like justin amash, especially along libertarian-leaning republicans in some ways because if you look at maybe the foreign policy, they sort of get pointed deducted from there because there is sort of a ron paul model there. and also you have to keep in mind a lot of the guys break away from leadership a great deal. so that -- it

that is followed by congressman henry waxman. and ranking member on proposed climate change policies. >> thursday, defense secretary leon panetta and joint chiefs chairman general dempsey testify about the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, that killed ambassador christopher stevens and others. we will be live with the armed services committee starting at 10:00 a.m. on c-span. later, john brennan, the cia director joyce, testifying before the senate committee. he is expected to face questions on the cia drone program. we will be live with this program starting at 2:30 p.m. eastern also on c-span. >> if you go to most american history textbooks, if you go to the back of the textbooks you have in the basement, you can take me up on my bet. my bet with you is that in your american history textbooks in high school, you'll find no mention of eugenics. if you go to your biology books, you will find no mention of the word "eugenics. a biology books signed by most of the places, montana university, great textbooks, but i di

in 2008, a big congressional hearing when henry waxman was the chair of the oversight committee, it wasn'tessional panel. the analysts at s&p are talking about losing business to moody's because moody's had different standards. if this is some sort of pay back for the downgrade, that strikes me a little bit odd when you're talking about career prosecutors. but that's open to debate. >> finally, david, i wonder, do you think, fast forward five years, this business model will exist? this business model of theirs? >> this that's a very good question. i would have already thought it would not exist. there were charters written into certain investment institutions that can only buy rated securities and that gave them enormous power. the issuer pays model is still in effect. it is expected to change, but i would have thought it would have changed three years ago. >> thank you very much scott and david. let's get to our capital markets op-ed. ga gary -- let me just say this, this is civil litigation as you guys pointed out. there's a lot of people that are still waiting for that criminal litigati

guest is republican congressman michael burgess of texas, and at 8:20, democratic representative henry waxman of california on climate change policy. live every day on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> we want to welcome back to our table, scot garrett of new jersey. serves on the budget and financial services committee. let me begin with you where i began with our previous guest here, jim mcdermott. this is the "national journal" from today. ." is this accurate reporting? are the $85 billion in automatic cuts go through in -- on march 1? guest: it seems we are going in that direction. republicans have taken the position that the obama administration has gotten the tax increases they have want. taxes ha gone up on american families. revenue is up. now americans are asking congress to do the rest of the project, which is deal with the spending side of the equation and none of us want the across- the-board cuts you would get with the sequester. americans would like congress to do its job and try the areas that need to be cut. that is a two-way street. the white house has never set down on the oth

then representative henry waxman of california. your phone calls and tweets everyday day at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. president obama announced his plan for a series of automatic spending cuts -- and for avoiding a series of automatic spending cuts scheduled to begin march 1. it included both short-term spending cuts. the president spoke to reporters for over five minutes. >> good afternoon, everybody. i wanted to say a few words about the looming deadlines and decisions that we face on our budget and on our deficit, and these are decisions that will have real and lasting impacts on the strength and pace of our recovery. economists and business leaders from across the spectrum have said that our economy is poised for progress in 2013. and we've seen signs of this progress over the last several weeks. home prices continue to climb. car sales are at a five-year high. manufacturing has been strong. and we've created more than six million jobs in the last 35 months. but we've also seen the effects that political dysfunction can have on our economic progress. the drawn-out process for r