. >> warner: and gwen ifill talks with two senate veterans-- new mexico's jeff bingaman and maine's olympia snowe about their decisions to quit. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: hour after hour, french police waited today for an accused gunman to surrender. he was wanted in a series of fatal shootings, including monday's attack on a jewish school. the shootings took place in and around the city of toulouse, where today's standoff played out. we begin our coverage with a report from jonathan rugman of independent television news. >> reporter: at around 3:00 a.m., polic

. >> tomorrow morning's "washington journal" jeff bingaman looks at the health care oral arguments before the supreme court and senate debate on tax writeoffs for the oil and gas industries. and after that, georgia congressman, tom price on the republican 2013 budget proposal which the house will vote on tomorrow. washington journal live thursday at 7:00 a.m.te reagan was leavie hotel after delivering a speech. hinckley can't believe he is this close. 15 feet from the president. he shoots. six shots. first one hits jim brady the press secretary. he falls down. second, a d.c. police ofer the president's progress the he gets hit in the back. screams i'm hit. hi tohe the president is clear. wide open. hinckley has an effective range. he has done target practice. he can hit stationary targets. >> march 30, 1981, would be assassin, john hinckley fires six shots. this weekend, the raceo president. sunday, 10:00 p.m. eastern. >> follow c-span's local content vehicles throughout the weekend ad american history tv explore history and literary culture of little rock arkansa eastern on book tv on c-

. >>> on tomorrow morning's washington journal any, senator jeff bingaman will have a debate. and after that, georgia congressman tom price on the republican 2013 budget proposal which the house will vote on tomorrow. washington journal live thursday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on cspan. >>> from earlier today, remarks from vice president joe biden on manufacturing in the middle class. he also criticizeded republican presidential candidate mitt romney for supporting tax breaks for companies that create jobs overseas. the vice president spoke at pct engineered systems in davenport, iowa, it's 35 minutes. >> r. >>> good afternoon, it's an honor to be here. my name is chuck park and i'm living proof that manufacturing jobs are still alive and doing well here in america. [ applause ] worked at quad city dye casting. i made parts for gm and ford vehicles, but when the rekregsz hit, the company went under in 2009. i was laid off just like a lot of other people were around here in the quad cities. for the next six months, my full-time job was looking for a job. i would get up every morning,

we can see the chairman on the right, new mexico senator jeff bingaman, who we saw on "washington journal" this morning. he is the chair. we'll have live coverage here on c-span3. >>> we're just about to get started with the senate hearing on rising gasprices. >> also republican leaders trying a different approach, going for a simple majority to pass. that would them to get to final passage. the senate working on limiting debate on a bill that would repeal tax breaks for o also senators resuming debate on the tax rates for high-income earners. this hearing on gas prices getting under way here on c-span3. >>> okay. why don't we get started. thank you all for coming today. this is an oversight hearing of the senate energy and natural resources committee on the current and near term future price expectations and trends for gasoline at the pump. as we all know, americans are facing high prices when they go to fuel up their cars and trucks at the pump. they're struggling with the impact of those prices. the high prices are also a significant drag on our entire economy as we work to increase gr

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>host: we want to welcome jeff bingaman. the news of the day is the supreme court oral arguments. we had a chance to listen to six and a half hours. guest: i did not hear the full six hours. i tried to follow the news on it, but i was not at the hearing. host: if you look at what the justices will have to look at, how do you think they will come down? guest: i don't know. i certainly hope they will uphold the law. it certainly seemed to me that it was constitutional when we were enacting the law. i did not hear anything during the three days of arguments that persuaded me there was any serious problem with the constitutionality of a lot. a lot of the discussion did go to the merits and whether or not something was a good idea or not. that was the kind of thing we debated for many months in the congress. and i'd think the congress is the right place to have those issues debated. host: we have been asking the question this morning, was the intent of the founding fathers, we have had three branches of government really coming at this intersection on the issue of health care. guest: i

. >> on your screen is senator jeff bingaman of new mexico. solyndra filed for bankruptcy last year, two years after receiving government backing for a loan. they will also hear from herbert allison, the former treasury department official, who was chosen to lead the white house review of the program. this program has just started. >> it is easy enough to just eliminate government support for american efforts to compete in developing and deploying these new technologies. unfortunately, our efforts to support domestic players have been caught up with many election-year issues. my impression is overall the program is doing what it is designed to do, that is to take on risks that private investors are not willing to take on, not the private-sector has not taken on risk. every investment the private sector has -- the government has made has followed risky investments by the private sector. private companies are selecting the companies they believe will be winners, and the garment is stepping in to help them achieve the scale necessary to compete o

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable jeff bingaman, a senator from the state of new mexico, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president, i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, following any leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business for an hour. the republicans will control the first half, the majority the final half. following that morning business, the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to the repeal big oil tax subsidies legislation. this will be post cloture. at 12:30 today, we'll recess to accommodate the weekly caucus meetings. senators are reminded that the official photograph for the 112th congress will take place at 2:15 today in the chamber. mr. president, s. 2237 is at the desk and its due for its s

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable jeff bingamanrm the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: following leader remarks the senate will be in morning business until 4:30 this afternoon. the filing deadline for first-degree amendments to the substitute amendment to h.r. 3606 is 4:00 this afternoon. following morning business the senate will begin consideration of h.r. 3606, the capital formation bill. there will be no votes today. we'll have a couple of votes in the morning. mr. president, this week the senate resumes debate on a measure to improve innovator's access to capital. this bill passed the house on a bipartisan vote and has president obama's support. we can make this legislation even better by passing a modest consumer protections included in the substitute amendment we'll consider tomorrow. members of both parties agree we should pass it quickly to finish work on this legislation this week. it's nice t

. >> on tomorrow morning's washington journal, new mexico senator jeff bingaman look at the health care oral argument and the debate on tax write-offs for the oil and gas industry. after that, a georgia congressman tom price on the republican 2013 budget proposal, "washington journal" like thursday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> live sunday on "in-depth," our founding fathers and political politics. richard brookhiser. people take your phone calls, e- mail's, and tweaks sunday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> the supreme court will decide whether the health care law is constitutional. earlier, the court talked-about whether the law could stand at the individual mandate portion is rolled on to predict unconstitutional. the seventh circuit court ruled that the mandate is unconstitutional, but the rest of the law is permissible. this oral argument is one hour 45 minutes. >> we will continue argument this morning in case number 11- 393, national federation of independent business vs. sebelius, and case 11-400, florida vs. the department of hhs. mr. clement? >>if the individual ma