john boehner has great influence in the house. he can influence the pace at which the legislation is considered and he could rally the republicans to oppose house legislation. he can try to get his committee chairman to put inserts into a bill that affect corporations in a way that they would like. he is a good man to influence because he has influence himself. >> in your story that we were reading earlier, -- >> there is a lot more here and we will read some more. what is it about people that come to washington representing the public that makes them think that they have to be in limousines, private jets and at resorts? have you ever asked them? >> a big reason is that when you become a lawmaker, you have to swim in a sea of money to become a lawmaker. if you want to keep your job, you have to keep swimming in that same sea. who has the money? people with very lavish lifestyles who can afford to pay for political campaigns. you hang around with those people long enough and you begin to emulate their lifestyle. i think this is wha

john boehner, we're all thrilled to have you here. [inaudible] john boehner, we're all thrilled -- we know our opposition is rather be met, personally. we're all thrilled to have you here with us to receive this 2010 legislative leadership award, and we need more great leaders like congressman boehner all across america. thank you and goodbye. >> up next, the deputy on land securities secretary spoke at the addison -- apsen security forum. and in a speech by the director of the national counter terrorism center. journal" dan mccue with theon report on the effect of the current housing market on the economy. david savage with a look back at the supreme court recently concluded term. and we will talk with steven camarota about arizona's immigration law. although washington journal" begins like each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> but tv -- book tv continues in prime time all this week. the efforts to expand social business. and also, a nobel prize-winning economist talks about the 2008 economic collapse and what is next an open ca

it was led by john boehner.from pittsburgh, this is one hour. >> welcome to this session of the annual national righh to life convention. this year, we are faced with great challenges. we also have great opportunities. the threat to unborn children's lives have never been greater. yet there is an awakening across this country about the humanity of unborn children. they see the ultrasound. an unborn child.bortion does to this session is about what people are doing to protect unborn children and to make the government more responsible to protecting unborn children. of course, we are altering one of the leaders in congress of protecting unborn children. i would first like to introduce to you the head table, and myself, i and the co-director of national right to life. to my immediate right is charlene bayshore, the political direction of our convention here attorney general tom corbett -- [applause] you seem to be pretty popular here in pennsylvania. wait a minute. here we go. congressman tim murphy. [applause] repr

john boehner to play golf. city lawyer likes to ski. -- steny hoyer likes to ski and someone else is paying for it. you see people going to these places is someone else picks up the tab. it is easy if your a lawmaker to get someone to pick up the tab. >> you mentioned john boehner and others, but unions give a mega millions of dollars. will their rank-and-file like it if any of these people that we mentioned were doing the limousine, a private jet, resort deal? >>or do they know? what is the lawmakers that are living high. they are emulating the donors. most of the wealthiest donors are corporations. unions to give a lot of money also. we have not seen the same low level of luxury surrounding union related events. i think that there may be a cultural issue there, i am not sure why that is so. >> but they still give leadership pacs and once you have a leadership pac, you can spend the money anyway you want to. but you cannot spend the money on your campaign from a leadership pac. >> that is correct. the law only

i don't think you can do that with john boehner. i think what we are talking about is ambition in the republican ranks. i think eric cantor's ambition is not very well clothed. i won't say it is naked but it is pretty well exposed but as mar as michael steel is concerned, michael steel has had a gas filled year. he had his young donor meeting at the lesbian bondage club in west l.a. you must remember, that caused a stir, and caused the finance chief to leave, chief of staff to leave, political consultant to leechlt he predicted the republicans wouldn't win the house in 2010. it hasn't been sure footing for michael. i don't anybody looks to the party chairs to make foreign defense policy statements. and if it weren't the fourth of july weekend i don't know if the resignation would be news to tell you the truth. >> woodruff: anything about michael steel. >> it was historically inaccurate to say it was barack obama's war. it was stupid. he doesn't make policy. it was terrible all the way around. bill crystal my friend called for his re

john boehner made those comments to the pittsburgh tribune review. if you want to see the whole interview, they take it, and you can go to their website. in that interview that he gave to them, he said, we need to look at the american people and explain to them that we are broke. the story goes on inside "the washington times close " to say that besides raising the retirement age for full senate -- social security benefits to 74 people now 50 or younger, representative boehner suggested curbing benefit growth by tying cost of living increases to the consumer price index rather than growth in wages and providing benefits only to those who need them. he went on to say -- steny hoyer made similar comments in a speech he made last month. we covered the speech and we will show you a little bit about what he had to say in a bid. atlanta, georgia, and they come on the democratic line. caller: thank you so much for taking my phone call. but i think it is ridiculous -- hello? i think it is ridiculous for them to -- talking about raising phone call, retirement

john boehner sat for an interview?>>> the republican party has to make peace with latinos on immigration, and the republican party has to make peace with latinos, in general. if they do not, they are going to lose the election after election after election. it is that simple. where is john mccain right now? i interviewed in john mccain, not many times, but once in september 2008, and back then, he told me that he was in favor of a path to citizenship, in he considered all undocumented immigrants as cox children. now, spicuzza -- and he considered all undocumented immigrants as god's children. are they not god's children anymore? president barack obama cannot do it anymore. where are the 11 republicans who voted for immigration reform years ago? the republicans are going to lose them, and they will lose the power for many, many generations from now. it is said that latinos are all republicans, but they do not know it. they are against abortion. they are against big government, very suspicious against big government, so

think about what would happen in this country if john boehner was making the decisions. the decisions about what was covered. or mitch mcconnell. that is how it would shake out. we have had these problems over the years where high-profile exhibits cannot -- cannot -- came up with any number of barriers between the funding and the practitioners. you will have greater government control over content. the issue that i wanted to address, sandy, you talked about being connected to the diversity. ron, you talked about the current toxic atmosphere. you'll mentioned -- several of you have mentioned that quality journalism is happening in this country. there is no question about that. the global post and in international areas, there is quality journalism. the question to me is not whether there can be quality journalism, but how as the news media becomes increasingly atomized around the country, how can anyone get a comprehensive view of the world? it used to be that we could pick up the chronicle and hope to find at least as close to a comprehensive review as possible. no longe

. >> and house minority leader john boehner shot back saying republicans are just as concerned about adding to the federal deficit and that president obama, quote, continues to offer only disingenuous attacks, not answers. >>> and now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. a pilot in arizona is recovering from minor injuries after his plane clipped an suv during an emergency landing. officials say the pilot was on a test flight after doing repairs on his plane when it started having mechanical problems. the driver of the suv was not hurt. >>> in florida, american airlines is assuring passengers they were never in any danger when damage to one of their plane's wings got progressively worse during a recent flight. a passenger onboard snapped pictures of material peeling back from the wings. he says he alerted a flight attendant but the flight still took off. airline officials insist the tearing is a rare occurrence that does not affect the safety of the flight. >>> it took about eight alabama deputies to corral an alligator discovered in one resident's

the president says congressman john boehner of ohio wants to repeal and replace the president's healthe reform and preserve tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals set to expire at the end of the year. >> they are the same policies that led us into this recession. they won't create jobs. they will kill them. they won't reduce our deficit. they will add a trillion dollars to our deficit. they will take us backward at a time when we need to keep america moving forward. >> reporter: during his weekly radio and web address, the president hailed the financial reform bill passed this week as a victory for consumers and small businesses. >>> many veterans will soon have greater access to medical marijuana. the department of veterans affairs this week is sending out new guidelines to hospitalsed a clinics in 14 states where medical marijuana use is legal, including here in california. the new policy says that veterans can use marijuana for medical treatment, though it cannot be prescribed by the va. in addition, patients who use it will not be denied other pain medication which has been the po

john boehner, we are all thrilled to have you here. mr. boehner, we know our opposition is rather be him and occasionally. -- rather vehement occasionally. we're thrilled to have you here with us to receive the 2010 legislative leadership award and we need more great leaders like congressman boehner all across america. thank you and goodbye. [applause] >> today, the national governing proxy association annual summer meeting focuses on redesigning state government. he will hear from "the wall street journal"and the governors of vermont and west virginia. that is live at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> the senate judiciary committee returns next week to vote on the nomination of elena kagan as the newest supreme court justice. watch coverage on the c-span networks and learn more about the nation's highest court in this keyspan's latest book, "the supreme court -- candid conversation with all of the justices current and retired." it is available in hardcover and as an e-book. . >> the third, we need to have more vessel of opportunity goin

john boehner didn't suddenly become a great communicator. barack obama didn't suddenly become a brad communicator. the reason the democrats are in trouble is first the reason mark mentioned that unemployment is still very high, the economy is still terrible and maybe trending down. so that's one. but two we had a country that was-- that has no faith in government, 22% of the people think the government does the right thing most of the time. we saw an increase in the role of government in area after area. second, a country that had just come out of a big debt caused recession or fiscal crisis. and we piled on debt. those two things were bound to scare the country and they have. and i don't think the messaging really made a difference. >> the president, and this is a criticism from democrats everywhere, he has run against washington being broken. now that is great if you are an outsider challenger candidate as he was in 2080 seeking the white house. once are you there and are you the head of the democratic party and the democratic administrati

for instance, john boehner has been out there saying i've got nothing against charlie rangel, but it means that nancy pelosi is bad because she promised to drain the swamp. >> exactly. that was the rallying cry to which the democrats came to power in 2006, that they were going to drain the swamp. so it is now, i think, incumbent on them to prove that they have shown some results on this. because, of course, their argument in this midterm is you don't want to go back to the bad old days of the republicans and their policies. so it's very important for the democrats to prove that some change has taken place. but this week they afountainsed that they will be putting -- announced that they will be putting significant amounts of money into 60 different congressional races. 54 of those are seats that are currently held by democrats. they are playing defense across the map and in places, i think, where they weren't expecting to be nervous. >> isn't the plan, in spending all this money, just to stop the amount of damage? they don't actually expect to be able to win the majority of seats. the

republicans need 10 seats to gain control, and everybody claims the expectation in washington, john boehner said that maybe 100 house seats are in play. is lack of a majority -- failing to win the majority and disappointment or defeat for john cornyn? assuming there are republican gains in november, do you expect president obama will reach out more to republicans in 2011? >> i think in terms of the expectations gain, right now we are either leading or tied in eight seats currently held by democrats and all of the seats currently held by republicans, are candidates are leading in. if the election were held today, that would be very good. it is not 10, but eight. i am pleased with the direction we're going in. i think it will be a two-cycle process. if we are elected with a number of reinforcements in 2010, in 2012, there are only nine republican seats up. 23 democrats. we have a structural opportunity there. i am praying for a tsunami. i hope the wave hits. i want to be realistic about expectations. my biggest concern, to be quite honest with you, is going to be the met -- to be the money di

minority leader john boehner is telling his fellow congressmen to stop the partying according to the new york post the ohio representative was caught has caught on to his fellow conservative lawmakers talking to the enemy and no i don't mean democrats apparently two republican lawmakers have been spotted having drinks with attractive female lobbyists that's winkie club here in d.c. representative lee terry of nebraska was seen at the capitol hill club in d.c. with a lovely looking lobbyist and reportedly giggling about getting drunk that is until he realized he was being watched and missouri's sam graves has pictures on the internet of him. adding it up with a blonde lobbyist at a d.c. restaurant now these are the only two lawmakers that have been caught in the act so to speak that doesn't mean that there aren't many more that are guilty of this habit it's one of those hush hush issues here in d.c. where politicians will meet up with lobbyists to discuss those very pressing issues either way boehner who called out his conservative lawmakers is very worried about these meetings if the

after that, john boehner and the gop members talk about their opposition to the opposition parties -- to the democrats' policies. >> and arizona senate primary debates among senator john mccain, hayworth, and jim deakin. the state primary is august 24. that is here on c-span. >> for a snapshot of washington and the 111 congress, and reference guide to every member of the house and senate, supreme court justices, and state governors. order online at c- span.org/store. >> c-span is now available in 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs, politics, and history. it is created by america's cable companies. >> president obama warned americans to not make too much of the fact that oil has stopped flowing from the well in the gulf. they may have to be reopened. the president says the new cap will allow up to 80,000 barrels of oil to be capped every day. he spoke to reporters briefly before leaving for the weekend. >> good morning, everybody. a new cap was fitted over the wheel well earlier this week. it is larger and more sophisticated. it is designed to give us great

[inaudible] >> why do you think john boehner did this? >> they need latinos. the republican party has to make peace with latinos and immigration. if they do not, they are going to lose the election after election. it is that simple. where is john mccain now? i interviewed him once in september, 2008, and back then, he told me he was in favor of this issue, and now he is running a tough primary, so are they not god's children any more? when we need republicans, president barack obama cannot do it alone. the republican party does not make peace on other issues, they are going to lose done, and they are going to lose the power for many generations from now. they used to say all latinos are republicans. they just do not know that, because latinos tend to be more conservative. they are against abortion, very suspicious of big government, so in terms of value, latinos are very concerned. >> you have several quotes, and this is the last of five very good -- of 5. barack obama, 2007. the time to fix our broken immigration system is now. what did you think? >> it was n

and house republican leader john boehner used the rangel matter to issue a broader attack. >> this is a sad moment for our institution. and, this isn't about charlie rangel. this is about speaker pelosi's most glaring promise that she's broken, when she said in '06 that it was time to drain the swamp. i think speaker pelosi owes the american people some answers to their questions. >> reporter: rangel already stepped down as chair of the tax writing ways and means committee last march. that was after the ethics panel found he improperly accepted caribbean trips from corporations. >> lehrer: and we get more now from "newshour" political editor david chalian. david, there is a deal on the table. the lawyers have accepted it but that is as far as it's gone at this point? >> well, the rangel lawyers have put forth a deal. but the ethics committee staff, the nonpartisan lawyers and the nonpartisan staff there still reviewing it. and that may take some time. republicans are not eager to jump and accept this deal. they said today in the hearing, jim, you know, he had... charlie rangel had tim

mitch mcconnell and john boehner are certainly the establishment leaders in congress and they have to set the tone and have to appeal to both factions in here. i don't know that the establishment side has necessarily one leader. but certainly any of the moderates in the senate, the few that are left, would fit into that wing of the party. but the jim demints and the, of course sarah palin who is active with the tea party movement, i spoke to one senior strategist in the party today and he said listen those guys, they make all the noise, they get all the attention, they get on all the shows. they don't necessarily represent as large of a swath in the party as the attention they get may make many believe. >> lehrer: so the big struggle, the big mission is going to be to put all the republicans back together when humpty-dumpty -- never mind that analogy. anyhow, put them back together, right, come november? >> no doubt about it. and barack obama and nancy pelosi are doing all they can to help that effort because they really do unify around opposition to the president's agenda, to the spe

. >> lehrer: but house republican leader john boehner said it's one more big spending bill that's dragging down the economy. >> for 18 months, we've had a government that believes that change is only possible by passing 2,000 page trillion dollar monstrosities one after another. americans are still asking the question: "where are the jobs?" and all president obama has to offer them is more stimulus spending, more debt, higher taxes and more job killing regulations. >> lehrer: the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke, weighed in as well. at a house hearing, he warned against major spending cuts or tax hikes for now. >> in the short-term, i would believe that we ought to maintain a reasonable degree of fiscal support, stimulus for the economy. there are many ways to do that. >> lehrer: bernanke said if a new recession threatens, the fed could take its own stimulus actions- buying government debt or trying to spark new lending to business. for a closer look, greg ip, u.s. economics editor of "the economist" magazine. greg, welcome. corporate earnings, they were higher than expected.

you don't see john boehner joining this caucus, but you do see the number three leader or the chairmanf the house republican campaign committee, pete sessions, they are joining this caucus so i think we're seeing the divide of how closely republican leaders want to associate themselves with the tea party. >> david, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> woodruff: in the gulf of mexico today, retired coast guard admiral thad allen warned a storm system may move into the area this weekend. that means b.p. might have to stop testing the cap on its blown well and let the oil resume flowing. meanwhile, local authorities and federal scientists are butting heads over how to block the oil that's already spilled. "newshour" correspondent tom bearden has a report from grand isle, louisiana, on how this is playing out in a bay along the coast. >> reporter: massive amounts of oil flowed into barataria bay in late may, contaminating marshes, beaches, and wildlife breeding grounds. local and parish officials had seen it coming, asked for help and didn't get it. so they took matters into their own hands. b.p.

you could imagine if charlie rangel had cole uded with john boehner, the house minority leader and said want to help you guys out, as a secret republican, what would be the best way to handle this and the best timing, it would be let's have a trial, a full-fledged trial with witnesses and open hearings and testimony in september, rit before the election. so we can hear a lot of clips on republican commercials about from nancy pelosi the speaker about how she is going to drain the swamp. unbelievable. and it's not that that is going to energize... i am a little bit contradicting myself. >> lehrer: it's okay. happens all the time. >> those voters are already unhappy. but it just diminishes a sense that these guys, the democrats are any different from the other guys. the other sleazy guys who got kicked out. that anything can ever change in washington that they are all corrupt it is just the last thing on earth the democrats need. >> i think these scandals actually do have a big cum lative effect. it certainly does on the republicans. i saw it in britain to the tory party. when you have en

my colleague from the house, john boehner and mitch mcconnell, i want to acknowledge the presence of the members of the congressional caucus and the ssc members of the caucus. the black caucus and john lewis had been called the conscience of the congress and, today, the challenge to the congress that this injustice has presented is at least partially corrected by getting the recognition that we do. it has been an honor to worked on this endeavor. i would also like to recognize two other leaders from the african-american community. loraine miller, the clerk of the house, -- [applause] and kerry ralph, the ceo of the visitor center. where is loraine? she is still working making sure everything is going ok. over the past decade, the slave labor task force were to document the history of slave laborers who constructed the walls of the united states capitol. we all know that by now. it was a dark chapter in our past. rights were refused. a dream was not yet realized. these masons, carpenters, painters, and others gave us this house of liberty and hope for our nation. up until now, their st