we will here from john boehner, eric cantor, and mike pense.ur invitation and came to the baltimore today to have a dialogue with our members. i thought that the dialogue went very well. a lot of discussion about the solutions that we have offered to the administration and to our democratic colleagues all year, and the fact that we want to continue to find common ground. we're not always going to agree. but i think it did become clear in the conversation today for the president -- with the president, that there are issues and items that we do agree upon. when they are lumped together in 2,000-page bills and 1,000-page bills, typically what we find is a lot of the things in the bills that we disagreed with. if we can break this down into smaller bites, smaller bills, we will be able to find that more common ground and find ways to work together. the american people are continuing to ask the question, where are the jobs? and that should be our focus of this year. it should have been the focus of the administration last year. but they seem to be g

here's john boehner making this point . is shutting down politics and demonizing. chris: how can he be both the problem? >> sure. president obama and the white house, may have a problem with that they've set themselves up. for instance, they've come out and saying that we're the most open white house. we're very open. we're releasing these visitor logs. blah,lah, blah, and the reality is, it's not that open. you saw what happened late last year when desiree rogers would not go and testify on cop to hill. you know there are so many different times where the white house has not been that open that's a storyline that could actually arm them. chris: we'll be out of gitmo. we'll be out of this by august. >> particularly saying he would get the health care plan passed by august. we heard this when jack kennedy was president was those tough boston politics. with john, it was those cowboys coming in. they want to get results. and if it takes tough guys to get results, they'll applaud. if you don't get results -- >> better tough than a pushover. chris: we agree. >> chris, t

. >> warner: but on the house side, minority leader john boehner says mr. obama's calls for bipartisanship and his criticism of republican opposition rang hollow. >> there was nothing last night in the president's speech to indicate that there was any willingness to sit down and work together. >> reporter: an indiana republican, mike pence, said the president still seemed tone deaf to the need to reign in the deficit. despite his call for a partial spending freeze. >> the president of the united states came to the well of congress and after apparently offering a nod to focusing on jobs, he renewed his embrace of the failed economic policies of this congress and h this administration to date, calling for one more so-called stimulus bill built on the same failed policies of the last stimulus bill. >> warner: for her part, house speaker nancy pelosi focused today on health care reform, something the president moved down his priority list in last night's address. >> we must pass this legislation , and we must take whatever time it takes to do it. some things we

house minority leader john boehner called it "a big win for the first amendment." now, the impact of today's ruling to sort that out, we're joined by steve simpson, the lead attorney on campaign finance law at the institute for justice. and monica yoon of the brennan center for justice at new york university's school of law. they both filed friend of the court briefs on opposing sides in the case. mr. simpson first, president obama said this is going to lead to a stamp pede of special interest money in politics. is that how you see it? >> it very well might lead to a lot more spending by corporations and special interest, but that is precisely what the first amendment was designed to allow. a lot of spending by a lot of different people and groups in an election is called a debate, and that is precisely what the first amendment protects. >> lehrer: miss yoon you agree there will be a lot more money? >> absolute. i have to disagree. the first amendment is about freedom of speech. it's not about freedom to spend unlimited amounts of money. it's that difference that m

john boehner understands that we are not -- they see it as clearly as an opportunity for them to capitalizeom this interview was when we asked senator dorgan any thought about the president's decision to push health care. he said he thought it was a mistake. there was an interesting comment from a veteran political figure. host: understanding party politics, it -- if it is a message that a country is feeling anti-washington, is it to find ways to work together? guest: it is an election year. you will see more partisanship. and something like a jobs bill, something where it is politically beneficial to qcompromise, you can see that. on almost every other issue, it will not happen. republicans are trying some in gains in november. there is no political motivation to help the majority. i think what you might see from the house republican leadership in d.c. a little bit of it from senate republicans is an attempt to triangulate and tuesday, we would like to work with the

john boehner. >> today we honor our 15th president, abraham lincoln.also honor the work of the lincoln bicentennial commission. there are holding hundreds of events encumbrances across america to celebrate -- all across; american to celebrate lincoln. he spoke about equality. as we all know from our history, our entire went after the invention of the cotton in jim prada -- after the cotton gin. families were torn apart and sold. abraham lincoln's rise to the white house paralyzed the tension in america over slavery. by 1854, the republican party was formed to oppose slavery and then spent in the territories. by 1858, lincoln himself warned that a house divided could not stand. like most leaders, lincoln could see but could do little to slow the downward spiral of our union. six weeks after his election in november 1860, the union was dissolved and [unintelligible] the war claimed more american lives than all other wars that we have been involved in. between 1861 and 1865, 620,000 americans died in battle or by disease. this was 2% of the entire u.s. po

very jensen ran john boehner's first campaign.rry jackson came back, so i would not read anything into this being the contract got rid this is somebody who hired paul and the first place, and now has come back to put his team back together after this crushing loss. host: bahn bruce, you are on with mr. bryan. democrats line. good morning. start over again, please. caller: yes, my question is, i know we need health care reform. but people whose doctors have ruined them, who are mentally disabled, it takes two years to get disability prefer those two years they have no health insurance. they have to use emergency rooms. why can't something be done for people applying for disability? host: thank you, terry. guest: that is a really good point. i was on the ways and means committee come -- the ways and means committee, which oversees this. there is a new package of reforms without this ability is administered that i and democrats have been advocating and pushing first in the bush administration, now the obama administration. they are s

on "meet the press" will be david axegÑrod and john boehner.he web at c-span.org, and follow us on twitter. >> on the first time stu art benjamin. >> today on "newsmakers," senator byron dorgan. >> senator, a moment ago you mentioned health care, do you think that the president made a mistake mentioning this? >> i do, not that health care is not important, but the timing is not good. to put together a health care proposal that can get through the congress. i personally would have said let's work exclusively on restarting the economic work engine again and put people back to work. i am sure that the president would say that he is working on that too. but i would have said that first. but the president won the election, and his position, you can't fix that without fixing the health care. and we found a variety of menu health care changes. >> you can see the entire interview on "newsmakers" on c-span. "washington journal" continues. host: our guest rolf mowatt larssen is c.i.a. agent. thank you for being with us. guest: thank you. host: you have a

john boehner there. massachusetts, elva, good morning. caller: good morning. you need to create jobs in the private sector, not the government. that is all they have been concentrating on is government jobs and health care. we need health care reform, but not government-run health care. that is not going to help anybody. the government jobs are going to run out when the stimulus runs out, and we are going to be right back where we started. in the private sector jobs, and that is nothing that the government can do -- you need private sector jobs, and that is nothing that the government can do we need small business, not government-controlled jobs. without the private sector, you are not going to have improvement in this country. host: "the philadelphia inquirer" writes, the president's next big chance to shift the political climate comes next wednesday with the state of the union. last week he used muscular populist rhetoric in proposing a new tax on big financial institutions to recover bailout money. slow starts, it seems, are less the exception than the rule

john boehner said it's his waterloo. i told you a million times, the man is david copperfield.hat they're doing. lights, please. the man is david copper field. it said to you over and over again, just watch the other hand. see the money? see the money? here is the money. watch the other hand. the guy is a physician. the -- the guy is a magician. instead of putting the spotlight on fox, and have you watch us, what else is happening. if we turn the lights back on, oh my gosh! as you were watching this, healthcare was snuck in the back door! >> money is coming from all over the world. this is the engine of any big company. >> the law puts them first in line. >> correct. >> then you have what? stockholders are next. or preferred shareholders. >> with a we have done here if i'm not mistaken, these people are gone. they're out. theme people are put here. >> you need another train. >> got to be jenga there. he blows. >> speaking of game players, what are your favorite lawmakers you've talked about this year from washington? >> do you have a choice? i can't think of a single one. is th

the aisle and put forward a series of plans from stimulus bill to health care plan in the house john boehner has kept his team together working hard in a common cause. and you have to look at someone like sara palin galvanized our party she continues to do that i expect people across the party. get great what is going on in your home state? you have an aggressive senate race for senator kennedy's seat january 19th, is the voting day. tough race for both of them? >> i think this is surprising a lot of people. most people expected that a democrat would just roll into ted kennedy's seat has ted kennedy has year after year. massachusetts is not as monolithic a liberal state as people think. they voted for reagan twice, elected a republican governor 16 straight years. right now there's a lot of anger among independents in particular about the obama health care plan. what are seeing is people are flocking to scott brown. he has narrowed the race it is a single race now. he's raising money from across the country. he could very well win this thing. he's an independent-minded republican not a rubber

you saw john boehner and eric cantor, they were stone-faced so often when the democrats were enthusiastic. if yur a real political news junkie, as all of us are, you love this stuff. >> larry: john king the host of "state of the union with john king." they borrowed this tonight from your show. >> they came before me on this one, larry. >> larry: how did you see it, john? did he hit it out of the park? >> it's a fascinating speech. we won't know the answer to that. part of the answer will come in november's elections. he clearly understands he's lost the bond he had with the american people during the campaign. many said he wasn't just a politician, he was the leader of a movement. now he's struggling. he receive a time-out in the health care debate. he understands in this environment he needs to prove to people he's spending most of husband time and energy on jobs and the economy. now, this is not helicopterive -- representative of the country. but this is on twitter. we took nearly 200,000 twitter messages and our friends at crimson hexing aen helped us with this. blue means support. 31%

after, we will hear from john boehner, house minority leader.his is one-half hour. >> good morning. here we are. back again in this room. it looks like we need a bigger room. many of you have asked questions about where we go from here. let me congratulate senator brown from massachusetts. the new senator. while this is also the massachusetts election, there were 58 senators. instead now, there are 59. it has not diminished the need for affordable, quality health- care reform and for health care to all americans as a right, not a privilege. we want to end discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. to stop decisions that when people are sick, even though people with health insurance, their policy is to pay premiums -- and the list goes on and on. your insurance will not be cancelled. the idea of medical loss ratios, the insurance comice should pay a percentage of what they collect on benefits. these and other issues " will --

host: the day after the election last week, we have these comments from john boehner. >> the people frommassachusetts -- these comments from president obama. >> the people from massachusetts spoke, that is the first point. no. 2, it is important to look at the substance of this package. for the american people to understand that a lot of the fear mongering around this bill is not true. i would advise attempting to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package the parts that they refund. i will not get into legislative strategy. my job as president is to send a message in terms of where we need to go, not to navigate congress. identifying those core elements in this package, getting that done. host: when this administration for not to make the mistakes of the clinton administration, they may have made different mistakes but bigger ones? guest: the short answer is yes, right. there's this whole history of the clinton brand and his staff, a widely understood failure, they wrote this plan in secrecy and drought that on congress. so, the approach here was the exact opposite. t

we will begin with the minority leader in the house, john boehner. here is what he had to say. >> i think the supreme court decisions today are a big win for the first amendment and a step in the right direction. i have always believed that sunshine was the best disinfectant. when you look at our campaign finance system and what happened under mccain fine gold -- feingold we put money out of the light into the dark. the money was still being spent but no one could see where it was coming from. i think what they do in virginia is the most sensible way to have a real campaign finance reform. have no limits, but allow every dime spent on behalf of a candidate or issue to be published so that the american people have a clear view of who is supporting which candidate or who is opposing which candidate. let the american people decide how much money is enough. sunshine really does work if you allow it to. host: the white house yesterday also issued a response. here is what the white house said -- but the ruling the supreme court has given a green light to n

caller: i would expect john boehner to set the tone. there was a press conference in washington before the republicans left for baltimore. he did government's words. he said that he was eager for the president to come to the retreat, but that republicans were looking to roll over other principals. he kept repeating his criticism of what he called the president's job-killing agenda, a health-care bill that the president is trying to shove down the throats of the american people, so that gives you an idea. host: you have covered washington for a while, do expect a culture of change conversation to take place? caller: i think that the republicans are talking about how many seats they're going to pick up in the election this fall. that has changed from the republican point of view. anytime you get the kind of anger in the electorate that we are seeing this year, you tend to be a fairly large swings. republicans saw that in 1994 when they picked up the house from the democrats. the democrats had a fairly good year in 2006 and to get back. i

thanks. >> i am house republican leader john boehner, speaking to you from the capital, or next weekma will deliver his first eight of the union address. this is a fitting time to take stock of where we are. nearly a year ago, the president signed into law a stimulus with promises that jobs would be created immediately and unemployment would stay below 8%. just then, roughly 3 million americans -- since then, roughly 3 million americans have lost their jobs. my own state of ohio has endured nine straight months of double- digit unemployment. for the better part of those nine months, democrats from washington have focused on the government takeover of health care that working families cannot afford and want nothing to do with. this is what happens when government overreaches and stops listening to the people. washington democrats believe government knows best, how to spend your hard money. democrats believe with one more tax, one more czar, where one bureaucracy away from solving all your problems. that is not the america i know. as i travel the country, i meet a lot of people who see

. >> a different view from republican house minority leader john boehner.e called officer the obama administration job filling policies and wasteful spending. trace: james, good news as always. we want to hear from you. log on to foxnews.com. we want to hear about the economy. log onto the home page and answer the question, with unemployment holding steady, do you think the job stimulus program is working? you can choose from yes. the numbers would be much worse without it. no, the president should help businesses grow the economy, or too soon to tell. you can see how others are voting. click on the view results tab. martha: how do most -- i want to bring you this breaking news. this has just come through in our urgent file. abdulmutallab entered not guilty pleas on all six counts in the u.s. district court in the eastern michigan district of detroit. we'll continue to follow this story. when we come back we'll have a report straight from that courthouse in detroit. not guilty on all counts. trace: how do most americans identify themselves politically? take

john boehner is a enjoying it in the eighth district of ohio. we need to be honest and truthful.his program has not been proven to raise the academic level of the participating students to the degree resent studies show clear advancement in reading. i've been there. i'm proud of my record. i made sure dhs public schools got more money than ever, teachers got the highest pay while i was there. i'm to the point now where i look at the cheal evenings and deficits with children of color. in some areas. 80% of the black boys drop out. in our city, in seventh grade, 70% of our black boys aren't reading at grade level and can't produce math at grade level. i'm really talking about throwing a lifeline out to all we can. to me, it's not a policy debate. i'm talking about the role of educationing these kids. that's what i support. host: randall here on the dracks line. you are on now. good morning. caller: this is worth waiting for. overall, i like what he's saying. i don't like the way city council tries to force these things on us. our education system in the district has a good example.

from a spokesman to minority leader john boehner. the white house, quickly fired back, noting non-security discretionary funding nearly doubled between 1995 and 2006 when the house and periodically the senate was in republican control. belle glade, florida, jay. thank you for waiting. you're an independent. the spending fe, what do you think? >> caller: i think it is a little bit too late. caller earlier mentioned how we should have a spending freeze when they were time to bailout big banks deemed too big to fail which is hypocritical in its own right. i think very areas left untouched by this proposed spending freeze are very areas we need to start trimming fat and start cutting back. for example, prior to september 11th, it was made known that over 2.3 million or trillion dollars was announced missing from the pent. and -- pentagon, and that had something to do with the -- corporation. we need to look at stuff like that. mismanagement of funds in this very area left untouched by proposed spending freeze we'll if we're going to talk

still, republican house minority leader john boehner casts these new figures as more evidence of what he called the obama administration's quote, job-killing policies and wasteful spending. jon: james, thank you. >> thank you. jon: what do you think? is the president's $800 billion job stimulus working? go to foxbusiness.com, click on the link for you decide. there you can cast your vote in our unscientific poll. we've gotten more than 13,000 votes so far, 97% of the respondents say this stimulus simply not working. jane: we're still watching this breaking news out of southern california, out of l.a. county. this truck, as you see, is about 50 feet down in this canyon. harris is watching it, the driver is still trapped. they're trying to get him out of there. he's got some injuries, we're told, we're not sure how severe at this point. also authorities are telling us there's a small fuel leak as well, we'll be right back with more. anncr vo: with the new geico glovebox app... anncr vo: ...you can get help with a flat tire... anncr vo: ...find a nearby tow truck or gas station... anncr

thanks. >> i'm house republican leader john boehner.eaking to you from the capitol, where next week, president obama will deliver his first state of the union address. this is a fitting time to pause and take stock of where we are. nearly a year ago the president signed into law $1 trillion stimulus with promises that jobs would be created immediately and that unemployment would stay below 8%. since then roughly three million americans have lost their jobs, while red ink and bailouts have piled up as far as the eye can see. my own state of ohio has endured nine straight months of double-digit unemployment, and for the better part of those nine months, democrats in washington have now focused on this government takeover of health care that working families just can't afford and want nothing to do with. this is what happens when government overreaches and stops listening to the people. washington democrats believe government knows best, how to spend your hard-earned money. democrats believe we're just one more tax, one new czar and one gi

after speaker pelosi, we'll hear from house minority leader john beohener. -- noehner. -- boehner. this is half an hour. >> in the morning. it looks like we need a bigger room. many of you have asked questions about where we go from here. let me congratulate senator brown from massachusetts. while this is also the massachusetts election, there were 58 senators. it has not diminished [unintelligible] health care to all americans is not a right -- is a right, not a privilege. we want to end discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. even though people with health insurance, their policy is to pay premiums -- and the list goes on and on. these and other issues " will hold insurance companies accountable. there is exemption to the antitrust law. there are people in this country without health insurance. the most important point is that the present system is unsustainable. families can't, businesses can't, the economy can't in terms of competitiveness, and the federal budget cannot. it will move us in a direction to lower-cost, hold the insurance companies accountable, to make sur

. >> john boehner has also spoken negatively about the idea.an you assure that the commission would be bipartisan in any way without getting their support of the leaders? >> i can't assure what the republican leaders do. senator mcdonell repeatedly said during this year that the conrad-gregg approach was the best chance of dealing with the debt challenge system of he'll have to explain why he did a u-turn at the last minute. yes, sir. >> if i recall, the way your commission work, it would require a supermajority on the commission to approve the recommendations and supermajorities in both houses on the bill. how is that more likely to result in changes you want to see than just using the budget process that wouldn't be subjected to all those choke points? >> first of all because it assures a vote on the recommendations. it assures a vote on the recommendations of the commission. that's the most important thing , as i analyze the way these things have worked in the past. we don't need another commission report that sits on a dusty shelf somewhere

host: the day after the election last week, we have these comments from john boehner. >> the people fromassachusetts -- these comments from president obama. >> the people from massachusetts spoke, that is the first point. no. 2, it is important to look at the substance of this package. for the american people to understand that a lot of the fear mongering around this bill is not true. i would advise attempting to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package the parts that they refund. i will not get into legislative strategy. my job as president is to send a message in terms of where we need to go, not to navigate congress. identifying those core elements in this package, getting that done. host: when this administration for not to make the mistakes of the clinton administration, they may have made different mistakes but bigger ones? guest: the short answer is yes, right. there's this whole history of the clinton brand and his staff, a widely understood failure, they wrote this plan in secrecy and drought that on congress. so, the approach here was the exact opposite. th

when john boehner and eric kanter presented some substantive job creation, and the attack machine beganarticulating today. moving forward, i think all of us want to hit the reset button in 2009. how do we move forward? on the job creation peace in particular, you mentioned columbia. you mentioned panama and south korea. are you willing to work with us to make sure those get called and ultimately that has to put more errors in your quiver. the obstacle is the politics of the democratic caucus. >> first of all, peter and i did work together effectively on a whole host of issues. one of our former colleagues is now running for governor on the republican side in illinois. in the republican primary, the ads did not say nice things about me. poor guy. is a point we made earlier. we have to be careful of this say about each other's and times. in boxes us in and make it difficult to work together. Ñiour constituents are believing these could of -- these did they do not know it is just politics. just a tone of civility incident slash and burn would be helpful. we have a media that responds only

is it him or john boehner or mitch mcconnell? it john mccain who has a record number of twitter followers? is it sarah palin? they do not have one clear leader. for 2005 after senator tom-0 and senator kerry lost, then the democrats did not have a face either. it did not hurt them for 2006. host: daytona beach. caller: good morning. host: you have a big senate race coming up in florida. caller: yes, we do. independent intellectuals understand with regards to the history --the senate of the country began under the rule of law that no one is above the law. over the past 200 years society has evolved into different groups of people. the senate reflects them. when the majority get into power the bring forth their agenda here regardless of the law. instead of advocating for health care, although law and first get the amendment. most intellectuals i know -- that is where my interest is is looking more for the principles of people. i just view the senate as a reflection of people. over the past 200 years we have gone from believing in pr

host: john boehner has issued a statement that is available on his website saying that the president should start reconsidering a series of things that have made us less save. he also says the christmas day bombers should be detained and tried as an enemy combat and of the united states, not as a common criminal, and the president should reverse his decision to keep guantanamo bay open. that is from the republican leader of the house. from florida on the democrat line, go ahead. can you turn your volume down? caller: i think what needs to happen, in order for us to stop terrorists, we need to learn to stop migration around the world. you do not know who these people are. if the united states wants to stop terrorists from coming into this country, i think everybody coming into this country needs to be registered with their own country first. they need to identify the reason why they are coming to this country. if you want to stop them abroad, instead of coming here first, and also make sure they have a three-month period before they come here, that is the bottom line. we need to stop

. -- john boehner. white house officials said it was them. this the president obama will appear. he wants press coverage and unlike previous appearances of this kind, where the press is as to remove itself from the room, with a q&a begins, the white house said leave him in there. they portrayed that the q&a session be open. it was in it was on live cable moves yesterday afternoon. host: was it an easy decision by the gop to let it be open tex? guest: i suspect they were trying to spare the president of the bears the because he was going -- he gets a very blunt questions. apparently he wanted to be seen pushing back at republicans, standing on his son, by showing that he wouldn't be bullied. he suggested to them that perhaps they need to make some concessions in order to help to get some of his agenda done. i am not sure he was able to obtain any converts. he gave as good as he got, put it that way. host: we could only see the president's exchanges. since you were in that room, anything in that room that was worth noting as far as things that we didn't see? guest: house members wi

is it him or john boehner or mitch mcconnell? is it john mccain who has a record number of twitter followers? is it sarah palin? they do not have one clear leader. for 2005 after senator tom-0 and senator kerry lost, then the democrats did not have a face either. it did not hurt them for 2006. host: daytona beach. caller: good morning. host: you have a big senate race coming up in florida. caller: yes, we do. independent intellectuals understand with regards to the history --the senate of the country began under the rule of law that no one is above the law. over the past 200 years society has evolved into different groups of people. the senate reflects them. when the majority get into power the bring forth their agenda here regardless of the law. instead of advocating for health care, although law and first get the amendment. most intellectuals i know -- that is where my interest is is looking more for the principles of people. i just view the senate as a reflection of people. over the past 200 years we have gone from believing in

one would be minority leader john boehner's substitute bill, which they already knew was going to go down and it would get the votes of the republican party and none of the members of the democrat party. the other one was the stupak amendment because that was demanded by every republican and enough democrats that they had to allow it to go to the floor in order to get the bill passed. but every other bill that was sponsored in good faith by democrats and republicans alike, rank and file, were rejected and not allowed to go to the floor and were essentially blown off in the rules committee. that's not government of the people. that's government the way that king george ran it. that's government that the people of massachusetts rejected. and i yield back. mr. king: this is an ex exhilirating day and many of us have powered our hearts and souls in this. even when you vouppeded, there's no time to give up because you don't know when they will come over the hill. they came over the hill in massachusetts. there was a fellow that gave up and this is important to put this into the congressio

when john boehner and eric kanter presented some substantive job creation, and the attack machine begantoday. moving forward, i think all of us want to hit the reset button in 2009. how do we move forward? on the job creation peace in particular, you mentioned columbia. you mentioned panama and south korea. are you willing to work with us to make sure those get called and ultimately that has to put more errors in your quiver. the obstacle is the politics of the democratic caucus. >> first of all, peter and i did work together effectively on a whole host of issues. one of our former colleagues is now running for governor on the republican side in illinois. in the republican primary, the ads did not say nice things about me. poor guy. is a point we made earlier. we have to be careful of this say about each other's and times. in boxes us in and make it difficult to work together. Ñiour constituents are believing these could of -- these did they do not know it is just politics. just a tone of civility incident slash and burn would be helpful. we have a media that responds only to that file

but i want us to focus on helping mitch mcconnell and john boehner in the congress pushed through the legislation we need to keep america going the right direction, not the wrong direction as we see on health care. and the folks on the grassroots fuel this party is going to be true to its principles and lead from those principles during this century. >> host: there was a new poll out singing who was the leader or the face of the republican party and john mccain came out on top. do you believe he's still the face of the party? >> guest: john mccain is one of many leaders in this party and i admire his run for the presidency because i remember that july when john mccain was up against the wall. i remember the july seeing john mccain at the airport in 2007 by himself catching a flight and no one paying attention to him and his determination and perseverance through that campaign to come out as the nominee is something i think a lot of people at buyer and should admire. he represents so much that this party has to offer along with, you know, mitt romney and sarah palin and governor pawlen

paula nowakowski had that relationship to john boehner, and indeed to others as well. earned respect throughout the congress for her political skill, for her work ethic, and her dedication to her ideals. i particularly remember her kindness and cooperation during the transition from a republican majority to a democratic one in november and december of 2006. clearly a difficult time for those who were moving from the majority to the minority. i've been there. i understand how it feels. it was a disappointing time for her and for mr. boehner. and for her party as well. however, throughout that time she maintained a professionalism, a courtesy and a kindness that i will always remember. paula's premature passing reminds us all of the uncertainty of our future and the importance of today and now and how important it is to be nice to one another, respectful of one another so that we do not lament tomorrow what we did not do today. the absence she leaves behind reminds us that congress is not simply a branch of government. but a living and vibrant community of public servant

when john boehner and eric kanter presented some substantive job creation, and the attack machine begannt to hit the reset button in 2009. how do we move forward? on the job creation peace in particular, you mentioned columbia. you mentioned panama and south korea. are you willing to work with us to make sure those get called and ultimately that has to put more errors in your quiver. the obstacle is the politics of the democratic caucus. >> first of all, peter and i did work together effectively on a whole host of issues. one of our former colleagues is now running for governor on the republican side in illinois. in the republican primary, the ads did not say nice things about me. forpoor guy. is a point we made earlier. we have to be careful of this say about each other's and times. in boxes us in and make it difficult to work together. our constituents are believing these could of -- these did they do not know it is just politics. just a tone of civility incident slash and burn would be helpful. we have a media that responds only to that file is a type of politics. -- to that type of

guest: in the spirit of bipartisanship, our leader john painter -- boehner and others invited the president to have lunch. i hope, as a position member, i hope to have an opportunity to specifically address health care with him. he said his door was opened. he said medical liability reform should be a part of any solution. cbo said that it could save $54 billion over the next 10 years. i want the president to be true on his word and see if we cannot come up with a bill that will truly lower the cost of health care. but let us not let the federal government takeover. host: we begin in florida. daniel on the republican line. caller: all we hear of the health care is insurance. my neighbor had a heart attack and went to the hospital. no surgery. he was built $80,000. -- billed $80,000. how come we don't talk about that? guest: that is a good point. it is those people who do not have health insurance who gets stuck with these sticker prices, if you will. if you are under a negotiated rate, you would pay about a fourth of that. i think in would be a good idea to speak to the hospital and say, an

this morning and john major, the house of -- boehner, the leader of the republican party, just said,blame us. you find that republicans are standing foursquare against the president on many issues. it is frustrating for the administration. to reach across that the vine is an extremely important thing but it is also an extremely difficult thing. host: one of the callers from of joe wilson. we are gathering tweets from house members. here is one from joe wilson this morning. you can find members of congress tweeting during, before, after the speech tonight. next phone call. patty from dallas. caller: everyone is talking about jobs. where were these people with clinton and bush? everyone is talking about taxes. you cannot run a household if you do not have everything in. if there are no taxes, what have tax cuts have done for us? nothing. if you have no revenue, how can you sustain anything? it does not matter what president obama says, tries to do. we just have to get down to the nitty gritty. this is a hateful, racist country, and it is going to be that way. no one is going to work wi