and my buddy john boehner has done a great job holding those house republicans together. ete sessions, an outstanding job at the nrcc and finally, i want to thank probably the best idea man we've ever had is back in action and providing great suggestions. sometimes on a virtually hourly basis. our speaker tonight, newt gingrich. thanks for being with us, newt. as jon voight indicated this new administration has got a very, very radical agenda. it's been pushing hard and we've been pushing back. they may have the numbers but we've had some successes we can be proud of. for example, a couple of weeks ago, they came up to capitol hill saying they wanted to transfer terrorists from guantanamo. well, i'll tell you something, there's a better place for those terrorists than virginia or kentucky or kansas. it's right where they are in a cell in guantanamo. let me tell you something else, the administration got the message when 90 senators agreed with us on the senate floor. they've been real busy at the white house, the same folks who brought you the department of motor vehicles

nancy pelosi is office declined to comment on the jack from john boehner.ut one democratic aide said what do expect a guy who thinks global warming is caused by cow manure. go ahead, on the democrats' line. caller: no, i do not believe there's a media love affair with barack obama. i'm not surprised that because a republican wrote that article -- i would like to make a comment, and i don't want to sound rude to anyone, make a comment on an african-americans -- the person from pennsylvania who talk about the distance with you live close to african-americans are far away, i think there was a racist comment. getting back to the question, i think the media is having difficulty talking about anything. it is like they're trying to find something that is newsworthy. if obama makes a mistake i am sure the will start talking about it. nonstop host: thanks for calling. here is one of tweet. it's as the present obama once walked into window at the white house and if there was no coverage by me. bush tried to open a locked door 1000 times. host: eric on the republican

[applause] john boehner was first elected in 1990. taking on the democratic establishment ever since. john was instrumental in drafting the contract with america which was so effective that it helped bring republicans to the majority in 1994. we are going to need to do that in 2010. when i first met john, i think i met him out in california. the first thing that impressed me were those eyes. and then that tan. that skin. i mean, and i'm used to seeing that stuff in california. but there was something riveting about john's appearance, and then i realized actually, that he reminded me of my dad who was a golf professional. and john loves golf as well, and my dad was that kind of gracious, you know, figure, very, you know, elegant. but down to earth tough, principled. that's who john is. and i'm very honored to introduce him to you tonight. ladies and gentlemen, john boehner. >> thank you, jon for the introduction. i appreciate you all being here tonight. and doing what you do to help promote our party and our values. let me also welcome

john boehner went page by page reading around what those pieces were and kind of just, i think, it was an opportunity for him to just extend the debate and make sure his points were heard. as the votes were being counted later, you heard the republicans chanting "b.t.u." on the floor, a reminder of the 1993 energy tax vote that the democrats in the house took under the president's urging, and a lot of people say that vote in 1993 went to the republican takeover in '94. the republicans are trying to bring back some history. the john shad ok said this was the first step for the democrats to go back into the minority in 2010. >> thanks for bringing us up to speed with the p process so far on the energy and climate change bill. >> happy to do it. take care. public funded. >> donations, maybe. i don't have any idea. >> government. >> c-span gets funning through the taxes. >> i don't know. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiative, no government mandate, no government money. >> this morning we'll talk wi

obligations to our constituents, our children, god's creation, and future generations. >> i'm john boehner, house republican leader. when i am home in ohio, i get an earful about the debt democrats are running a. they claim a spending binge is necessary to put americans back to work. the promise unemployment would not rise above 8%. our nation has lost nearly 3 million jobs this year. unemployment has soared above 9%. now the president admits that unemployment will soon reach double digits. after all this spending, all this borrowing from china, our children and their grandchildren, where are the jobs? it is about the worst for middle-class families and small businesses. democrats are pushing a government takeover of our health-care system that will cost at least $1 trillion. the president has claimed that americans will be able to keep their doctors under the democrats' plan. the budget office reports that of these 23 million americans will lose their current health coverage and their doctors. another report projects that nearly 100 million americans may be forced onto government rules. o

john boehner is asking the press conference other going to be any more bailouts and his answer is that's a good question. in i was suppose that the head of the republican party and house of representatives should probably have a world do and whether should be more of a loss in the future are not. and so i have been surprised there are exceptions. there are people that come on both sides that are very good at what they do and don't just talk and news clips talking points. >> host: when you think of smart politician right now were let's pejoratively say it smart and intelligent political figure in america, is there one person you think of right away? >> guest: no. i think on the house side, the house republicans signed i think paul ryan is a guy that i really impressed with. he is a conservative that doesn't scare the kids. >> host: you hear a lot about him, he's having a moment. >> guest: use of wisconsin guy and i'm a believer that if we republicans are going to win outside the south that might be good two have leaders and don't talk with a southern accent. this comes from a guy who live

signed sincerely, john a. boehner, republican leader.

notion of democracy and debate is something that i believe would lead as the republican leader, john boehner, said earlier today, thomas jefferson would be spinning in his grave. it would leave james madison to be horrified. the notion of casting aside democracy and debate because we have to maintain our schedules. and i will say again on this scheduling notion, madam speaker, last week, rather than 127 amendments i believe we would have had 30 amendments. and before we had gotten to consideration of the legislative branch bill i'm sure that hours and hours and hours ahead of that we would have been completed with the work of the commerce justice, science appropriations bill. i urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to stand up for the rights of democratic members of this institution who are being denied this, reject this rule, let's come back with what has been the case for 220 years under both politicalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala

, congressional republicans hold a fund-raising meeting in washington be and we will hear from john boehner and mitch mcconnell. actor john point was the emcee -- john hoyt was tehe emcee. >> please join me in welcoming our head table guests. mikechael, ken -- [reading names] thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome congressman paul ryan. [applause] >> and good evening, everybody. thanks for coming to washington, d.c. we have a special guest tonight who would be emceeing a lot program. one of the most courageous acts in society today is for a hollywood actor to stand up and declare that he is a conservative republican. [cheers and applause] you know, what is even more surprising is that he keeps getting prominent roles. i am sure that is more a reflection of his gifts and acting and not his political beliefs. this friend of ours that is going to be with us this evening, ladies and gentleman, is our beloved actor john hoyt. [applause] -- ladies and gentlemen/ . he has a long and distinguished career as a leading man and as a character actor. he came to prominence in the 1960's with a

. >> [unintelligible] >> today, john boehner spoke about unemployment rates and an energy bill skidded for debate in the house tomorrow. his weekly briefing is about 10 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> washington has made plenty of promises of putting americans back to work. the question is where are the jobs? we all remember the $1 trillion stimulus bill. the democrats in congress to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs. so far, it has been about spending, spending, and more spending. only 1% of the highway construction dollars have left washington and gone to the states. remember all the shovel-ready project? the question is about jobs and where are the jobs as a result of all the money that has been spent. this week, democrats continued to shut down debate on the house floor for a republican amendment on spending legislation. they cannot spend taxpayer funds fast enough. where are the jobs? we have lost 3 million jobs so far this year. with all the spending that is going on, where are the new jobs? they just have not shown up. jobs and not come from government. they co

host: john boehner called the bill -- caller: i heard it, but i do not remember it of hands. host: it was a little of profanity. he said it was a pile of something. caller: yes. there is no provision whatsoever to limit the co2 emissions by china and india, which are both increasing the amount of carbon dioxide that they are putting into the atmosphere. they are increasing it at far greater rates than we could possibly turn around and lower our own. i do not see that this accomplish thies any thing at a tremendous cost to the united states. it does not make logical sense. host: thank you for your call. front page of "the financial times" -- the bernie madoff story. that win andee twister, and from a viewer -- susan is on the phone from four words. -- from fort worth. caller: i have been watching these clowns in congress on c- span and it is amazing. everything is run by the corporations and a lobbyisthe l. health-care reform is run by the insurance companies and the pharmaceuticals, so we will never really get a good change. i wish i could have gotten on with the gentleman fr

president obama followed by house minority leader john boehner. we have seen our reliance on fossil fuels to jeopardize our national security. it pollutes the air we believe -- we brief. of the nation that leads in the creation of a clean energy economy and leads the global economy. now is the time for us to realize this. now is the time for us to leave. the energy bill that passed the house will create the incentive that will spark the clean energy transformation in our economy, will spur the development of low carbon, everything from wind, and thermal power and a cleaner coal. it will reduce heating costs in the winter and cooling costs in the summer. it will make possible the creation of millions of new jobs. we are already seeing investments -- proof of the investments. people will be employed to build a new solar plant, that will create 1000 new jobs. in michigan, investment in wind technology is expected to create over 2600 jobs. in florida, three new solar projects are expected to employ 1400 people. the list goes on. this legislation will

our goals should be to reach out to the american people in every possible way, to make sure that john boehner becomes the speaker of the house in january of 2011. [applause] that mitch mcconnell becomes the senate majority leader. [applause] and that this is a one-term presidency in the jimmy carter tradition. [applause] host: that is from new gingrich at the fund-raiser for house and senate republicans. $14.5 million for the 2010 midterm elections. it is election day in virginia. the front page of "richmond times dispatch." a three-way race. polls showing it dead even in primary day. the winner of this primary will face bob macdonald. howie is on the phone from philadelphia. good morning. caller: thank you for bringing this up. this is the fact that the republican party is a dark horse and newt gingrich is wrong. the first time that we were under such conditions is one reason for hays was president. the democratic party took over the party. we needed james garfield. we know what happened with that. i believe that representative steve locke is for the populist republicans. nixon tried to brin

measures is too late important event their reasoning they say is because of the i am finding. 1998 john boehner said that given the crisis we have around the world of the u.s. needs to provide leadership, the only real avenue is the imf. interesting change of position. >> have you gotten his response on that? look, again -- the president made a commitment at the g20 to ensure that as we watched an economic downturn, we watched an even steeper downturn in exports which hurts not only, it hurts all countries but it hits particularly developing nations. this is important relief to ensure that we have strong global trade. i don't think given where we are in the world economy that we would want to see a pullback in that commitment and i think we should understand that exports create jobs right here at home. >> robert, what is the recent delay week after rick and some are saying because we're losing ground in this world in discussions. >> unfortunately the scheduled year is always a work in progress and for those reasons the meeting has been i think rescheduled to i think the 25th and i have it off t

and what somebody like john boehner will say they are not on the ballot, they are filling a vacuum. we had a presidential candidate last night who was clearly the last stage of his national career, however long he remains in the senate. the leaders in the house and senate are fairly skilled players, but they're never going to be national spokesman. you have to look around outside washington to see who is going to grab the mantle. there is no obvious candidate. governor bobby jindal tried to respond to the president, and sarah palin -- [laughter] >> she had a moment in november of last year, she was the second most well-known, most popular politician in the country and has done nothing with it for 7 months. david letterman -- every -- the you hear about sarah palin is about her daughter's or a fight with david letterman or she is on some websites attacking someone else. she is not going to rise to international leadership that way. some governors -- >> it is okay to have a sigh of relief. [laughter] not that i have any political prejudice. >> if the republican primaries were held 6 m

tarp program as did the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, the house republican leader, john boehner. the bush administration was the one who came up with the tarp program. it was supported strongly by the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke and bipartisan leadership. the rank and file never liked the program much. to the caller's other point, with the federal reserve -- one of the interesting questions is just how powerful the fed is. it has been very aggressively getting the financial system stabilized. most people think they have done a good job, but will have a difficult time removing programs to return to more normal operations. there are a lot of questions on the separation between the fed and treasury. mr. bernanke is asked that a lot when he testifies. he responds that it must be independent but during a serious financial crisis id must work with the treasury and government in power to keep the economy stabilized. host: our guest is with market news international ,john shaw has joined us to give us insights and answer your questions. florida, scott on our independen

as co-chair of the commission of wartime contacting and was appointed by house minority leader john boehner. from 1987 to 2009 mr. shays served in the house of representatives where he represented the fourth district in connecticut. during his time in congress mr. shays served as ranking member of the subcommittee on foreign affairs as well as chairman of the committee. mr. shays holds a bachelor of arts from principia colleges wallison nda and mpa from new york university. mr. charles deaver serves as a wartime contrasting appointed by senate majority leader harry b. pirg aliza professor university of baltimore school of law, specializes in government contracts and contract legislation. from 1993 to 1994 he has served as acting general counsel on the house of representatives, from 1984 to 1995

later we will hear about health care from house speaker nancy pelosi and the republican leader, john boehner. the president was in green bay, wisconsin this afternoon for this town hall meeting where he put forward his health-care proposal that includes a government insurance plan that would compete with private insurance. this is a little more than an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, to introduce the president. [applause] >> good afternoon. 17 months ago, my life drastically change when i found out i had staged three breast cancer at 34 years old. i had a fairly average life prior to that, being a working mom with a husband and two young kids. the diagnosis altered everything in my life. with so many awful side effects from the treatment, i often tell myself unable to work both at home and at my job. fortunately, my husband, peter, had a full-time job, and carry the insurance for our family. because she worked for a small company, though, the insurance plan has a high premium with high deductibles and out-of- pocket expenses. although we felt fortunate to have insurance, we soon found that we

rangel, speaker pelosi, and leader hoyer, will listen to our leader, john boehner. the republican task force has worked diligently over the last three months trying to come up with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of thank you for joining us. >> @ noon, the u.s. house devils in four legislative business. on the agenda, a bill that provides federal rebates for purchases of fuel-efficient vehicles. we spoke yesterday with the capital and reporter for the view of today's debate. >> joining us on the telephone is just aoshj. cash for clunkers, how would it work? >> it would offer americans up to $4.5000 to trade in a gas guzzler for new vehicle. there is a discrepancy on the threshold. the house proposal, which came out of the energy and commerce committee, was issued, the threshold for older vehicles would be 15 miles a gallon. to qualify for the credit, i think it is " 0.5 mile an hour for cars. one or two miles a gallon for trucks, depending on the size. >> the house is set to consider a bill on tuesday. will it to get two-thirds support require

. >> of iran, republican leader john boehner said we should lead -- does the president think that is a good idea or are there other concrete steps the u.s. could take -- >> i didn't see those before i came out. we could have somebody look into that. sanctions is something that we discussed. the president authored a bill i can give you the details on. as i recall it was blocked last year by a republican to put some strong burst sanctions on iran and we will give you some information on that. >> the sanctions now inappropriate response to how they are taking from investors? >> i think the president -- i don't want to get into the tit-for-tat on that. >> to follow quickly use of sanctions are something we discussed you mean generally. >> yes, thank you, yes. >> i have three topics but one question on each. >> don't tell me. [laughter] >> does the white house believe the congressional budget office is an effective and reliable arbiter on the scoring of health care proposals and does it have -- >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> does it have any say about the house speaker and kristoff who are

rangel, speaker pelosi, and leader hoyer, will listen to our leader, john boehner. the republican task force has worked diligently over the last three months trying to come up with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of all americans, especially those who, through no fault of their own, are out there with no health insurance coverage. host: congressman phil gingrey, thank you very much for joining us. joining us in just a few minutes, senator bernie sanders, independent from the state of vermont. we will also turn our attention to foreign policy, the situation in the middle east, the elections in lebanon, and also shibley telhami will join us from the year sever city of maryland -- from the university of maryland. it is tuesday morning. "washington journal" continues in just a moment. >> harvard law professor elizabeth warren heads to the congressional oversight panel which monitors the spending of the $700 billion troubled asset relief program. she will testify this morning before the joint economic committee on the recent bank stress tests. we w

following that, house minority leader john boehner on the same issue. then a forum on new developments and challenges concerning mental health care. >> the government funding of colleges, direct aid to colleges and their students really is a late 1950's, early 1960's thing that has grown rapidly since then. >> hillsdale college has never accepted government funding and today not even government-backed student loans are permitted. >> title 4 is rufle 40050 pages long. we have a lawyer here trying to keep the government from giving us money and i asked him to send me title 4 and he said there wasn't any use, i wouldn't be able to read it. >> tonight at 8:00 on c-span's q and a. at a town hall meeting on thursday, president obama spoke out in favor of a so-called public option for health care legislation but he also expressed a willingness to listen to alternative propoflse from congress. this is just over an hour. >> good afternoon. i had a fairly average life prior to that, being a working mom with a hubs and band and two young children. the diagnosis al

. >> live now to the capitol where house republican leader john boehner, joined by republican conference member mike pence and mississippi governor haley barbour talking about government-run health care and its impact on states. >> that's 852 pages that ought to tell you something, that it's not just tweaking the current program. i do think at the end of the day, that their bill is going to ration care, it's going to raise costs, and it's going to force tens of millions of americans out of their current health care plan into a government-run plan. i believe that house republicans have a better solution, a solution that will preserve the doctor-patient relationship, reduce cost, and increase affordability of health insurance for all americans. governor. >> thank you for inviting me to be here. first, as a governor, i can tell you that states are worried about the idea of the great expansion of medicaid even though the house bill says that it'll all be paid for by the federal government, they also say they're going to make $300 billion of unspecified cuts in order to make that happen. as s

that is the yearly amount that house republican leader john boehner says the legislation would cost each household by 2015. between $98.100 $40 and -- we will hear from fred, on the phone from carleton, texas -- carrollton, texas. caller: good morning, steve, and thanks for c-span. i am not a believer in co2 being a global warming gas. it does hold some heat energy, but i read a book by james p. hogan one time, and in their he described basically there are 33 degrees celsius of greenhouse gas effect on the planet. 32 degrees celsius comes from water vapor, and one degree comes from all other gases. that includes co2. so i did a little bit of checking myself, and when i ran the numbers for heat energy -- i mean, it seems to be exactly right. i would like to request from the congressman and congress, for that matter, can you guys just published a breakdown of the heat energy in the atmosphere contained by the gases? i mean, nitrogen is going to be first because it is the most abundant gas. oxygen is going to be second because it is the second most abundant gas. water vapor is going to be t

president obama's first, followed in five minutes by house speaker nancy pelosi, then minority leader john boehner in about 20 minutes. >> on washington journal tomorrow, we'll preview and energy bill with two members of the energy committee, arizona republican representative john shad degree and representative jay infree from washington. and we'll hear about issues facing puerto rico. washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow morning. the sarah mcclinton group is hosting discussions of allegations of justice department misconduct during the bush administration. representative john con years and nan aaron, president of the alliance for justice. that's on c-span 3 and 8:00 eastern. at 9:00 eastern on c-span 2, a discussion on the future of healthcare. panelists include robert reishauer, and mark mclen lon, former head of medicare and medicaid. >> as this year's supreme court term comes to an end, hear chief justice roberts talk about the court's work. then a panel of experienced court watchers, including linda greenhou

our leaders, to our leadership in the house, to speaker nancy pelosi, and our minority leader, john boehner, also to majority leader of the senate, harry reid and senate minority reeder, mitch mcconnell, the national coalition on benefits, madam speaker, talking about the opposition to a public plan. the strong opposition to a public plan. i don't have time to stand here and read the names, madam speakerings, of all of these firm -- madam speaker, of all of these firms, but just to mention a few, wal-mart stores, xerox corporation, well point incorporated, wire howser company, national restaurant association, bank of america, national association of health underwriters, signa corporation, chrysler l.l.c., nike. i could go on and on. that's just maybe 5% of the number of companies that are part of this national coalition on benefits that are so opposed to this idea of a public plan which our colleagues at the 30-something group just an hour ago touted so strongly. at this point i would like to creeled to my good friend and colleague from georgia, dr. paul broun. mr. broun: i thank, dr. gingr

speaker, that's all our minority leader, the gentleman from ohio, john boehner, the respected leader of the republican house conference, that's all he said that should be done. let's get to the bottom of this thing, put it to rest and tell the truth. the truth will always serve you well and the truth is not painful. so -- mr. carter: reclaiming my time. i don't want to keep belaboring this issue, but someone ought to think about this before they light the first firecracker on the 4th of july. and a country said they are back at war with us, and going to fire a missle at one of our 50 states and going to do it on the 4th of july. let's assume we will get intelligence on that. let's start off with them saying, doesn't carry a war head . and the man is going to have to make the decision is the president of the united states. this isn't a decision you do by committee. that's why we have an executive branch. he will collect that data. and the question is do we shoot it down. pretty sure it doesn't carry a nuclear missile. but he says, wait a minute. wait a minute. wait a minute. they lied

that these bills that come before this congress have sometimes thousands -- well you saw the one john boehner dropped on the floor, it's about that thick. i mean, they got thousands of pages of things in them. so how you vote on a bill doesn't necessarily tell you what's in the weeds like a couple million dollars for missile defense or a couple of billion dollars for missile defense. it doesn't tell that you and if it's not discussed you don't know. and there's not any way we can tell you. that's why the openness of this house is so important. but its open rule, it's so important. mr. king i yield to you -- mr. king, i yield to you. mr. king: i thank the gentleman from texas and i'm watching the clock tick down here but -- i'll just conclude in a couple of minutes, but as i said, i just came from the rules committee and there's really not room in there for a tripod and camera and not really room for the press to operate the way they need to and not room for staff to come and make sure they're there to run the err ands we need and i know the gentleman from georgia knows this very well, he serv

rangel and obviously speaker pelosi and will listen to our leader john boehner, the doctors caucus, the 15 of us of the republic and doctors caucus, the republican task force has worked diligently over the past months to come of with alternatives so that we can work together for the good of all americans especially those few to no fault of their own air out there with no health insurance coverage. >> congressman mr. gingrey of virginia, thank you. >> we continue our discussion on health care system, vermonts center bernie sanders launched, join us on "washington journal" for 30 minutes. >> host: i want to introduce bernie sanders, thank you for being with us. your single payer plan, how what were? >> guest: it begins to do the major problems that exist in our current health care system and i think understands that the current system is disintegrating with 46 million without any health insurance, more who are underinsured and at the end of the day off we end up spending despite those results far more money per capita almost twice as much as any other country and our health care outcomes

signed sincerely, john a. boehner, republican leader. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin rise? mr. obey: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table the bill h.r. 2346 making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2009, and for other purposes. with the senate amendment thereto and agree to the conference asked for by the senate. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2346, an act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2009, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> madam speaker, i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: mr. lewis of california moves that the managers on the part of the house at the conference on disagreeing votes of the two houses on the senate amendment to