[applause] >> well, my name is kathleen curry, and i'm a former state representative from rural westernolorado. i served in our legislature for three terms, from 2005 to 2010, and be i ended up being second in command, speaker pro tem. i also chaired the agricultural committee. i've been a lifelong democrat, hadn't really questioned it. but i became unable to stomach the direction that the party was going. the democratic leadership thought that it was okay to tell representatives like me how to vote. i did not run for office to have the party tell me how to vote. my loyalty is to the people in my district and my state. the speaker accused me of being off message, and in colorado we say off the reservation as well. [laughter] so in 2009 i decided to leave the party and become an independent, and, frankly, joelle was my inspiration. [applause] okay, so after we lost the lawsuit last summer i i ended up running as a write-in candidate for my house seat, and in colorado we have term limits, so i could only serve for one more term, and i was bound and determined to do that. i lost my electio

attorney general kathleen, friends of robert kennedy, friends of his legacy.s to be here today. i don't think i can walk into this building without thinking back on the first time i came here, and it was before the swearing-in that we witnessed on tape a moment ago. it was shortly after the president and bob had talked about finally is becoming attorney general of the united states, and attorney general bill rodgers, who was his predecessor and his friend offered him a suite of offices and they came over the first week in december and we lost just a few days ago as we did sarge and i came down with him and with regular ready to help make the transition easy. and there had been criticism of the president's appointment of robert kennedy as attorney general. the media echoed words like nepotism. there were members of conservative bar, who questioned whether someone who hadn't been a courtroom attorney while what he had done as a government attorney was qualified to take the job on and he was cognizant of that. i remember on the day general rogers left, he gave bo

[applause] >> thank you, kathleen, for those wonderful words.hat is a very fitting way for us to end the commemoration and tribute to our nation's greatest attorney general. i would like to invite all of you to join us on the fifth floor, where we're going to have a reception. i'd like to say in my office, but it is not truly my office. it is his office. the only -- he only lets me borrow it. please join us upstairs on the fifth floor and we'll continue this celebration of attorney general robert f. kennedy. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> coming up, c-span's documentary "inside the white house," following that, at about 3:00 eastern, a look at wikileaks, we begin with a discussion of how it impacted newspapers with the editors of "the new york times" and "the guardian" and then a look at wikileaks' influence on foreign policy. and then at 5:30, how politics affect the judiciary. we mentioned the discussion coming up on the wikileaks website, here's ho

kathleen alioto. giants managing general partner and ceo bill neukom and his wife sally. the giants' president and chief operating officer larry fehr and his wife pam. giant's senior vice president and general manager brian sabian and his wife amanda. the wife of our skipper, mrs. kim bocce. former giants managing general partner, peter mcgowan. clubhouse manager mike murphy is here with his wife carol. also with us today, the giants' training and medical staff, the clubhouse staff, the front office staff of giants executives, and the players' families are here as well. i would like to introduce the of the giant broadcast team. tito puentes. dave flemming. mike cruco and dwayne kriker. hall of fame broadcaster jon miller. and finally, two giants living legends, hall of famer mr. willy makati and hall of famer, the greatest mr. willie mays. [applause] how about a big hand for all of our special guests, everyone? [applause] we would like to thank the city and county of san francisco and our community partners, bank of america, caw, levi's, coors and miller, sales force.com,

"dear kathleen. the middle of registering two negro's at the university of alabama despite the opposition of governor wallace. i hope that by the time you get to college these problems will be far behind us. love to you, daddy. one of those students, as you heard, is dr. vivian malone. her sister is with us today. once again, good going on choice of a wife. my father worked hard to get the 1964 civil rights act passed. he was pleased that they decided it should come under the commerce clause when he was 48 my father predicted that in 40 years that america will let an african-american president. dealing with these tough challenges like the collapse of our economy, health care, and nuclear arms control. like president obama, my father also understood that justice is not simply about passing and enforcing laws, but by creating a country that is just, acting fairly and equitably. understanding that some children are born fortunate while others are not. he said there is another kind of violence. slow, but

. >> i was at a party where he sat there and every time food came around he made kathleen taste it first to make sure it was safe. i could never like a man who a wife -- you know who loved him dearly having her sample food in a social setting before he would eat it. you know when you really analyze the history of the panthers you will find that it was the women who did the work. >> when we come back velda investigates charges of racism in the oakland police department in the 80's. >>> and later she shares a pain. story about racial discrimination in her own east bay neighborhood. 123450 we continue our look back at the career of velda davis. in 1968 she covered robert kennedy. she said her opinion of him changed during a campaign stop in which she spent time with him talking privately. >> like many i judged him from his days as the attorney general and his response to the efforts in the south, he was pretty hard nosed trying to protect his brother, didn't want to offend the south and all of that. then later in life he really developed this deep compassion for the poor and the under privi

kathleen? >> thank you. >> i'm going to start by also thanking the dean and president knapp and those of us on the g.w. faculty and staff and students for having us back here. the last time i was here we were making an important announcement on tobacco and we are back to talk about the new dietary guidelines. i think it's appropriate to be here at g.w. which has had such a leadership role in the health of all americans. and it's great to be here with my good friend and partner, agriculture secretary tom vilsack. you have heard the dean say that we both were governors and we are governors from food states, kansas and iowa. so our work on these issues did not begin with our new assignments. they have been long-standing and a great collaboration. we also have worked on issues from food safety to making sure we reach out to children with healthy insurance programs and the partnership with usda has really been invaluable and continues to be, i think, an important initiative moving forward we have ha

kathleen sebelius is the secretary of health and human services. i spoke with her earlier this afternoon. madam secretary. >> hi, judy, how are you. >> woodruff: i'm well. how are you. >> pretty good. >> woodruff: thank you for doing this for us. >> sure. >> woodruff: caused quite a stir over there at the white house. >> i met with two or three governors the last couple of hours who want to do programs that bring all the private payors and medicaid and others to the table, work with doctors and providers. states want to look at regional exchanges. they're looking at all kinds of innovative ways to cover everybody, but they they can actually lower costs and have some even more effective delivery system changes. what the president said today is this innovation waiver has always been part of the affordable care act. since it was passed. it was not scheduled to start until 2017. but the more we got input from states around the country who were eager to roll up their shreves and get going, why not put this on the table from the outset. why have a state

francisco's most high-profile and baffling killings of the year is due in court this week. 46-year-old kathleen horan was kill in the her upskill russian hill apartment last october. investigators say the killer tressed as a pg&e worker and convince her to let him in to check for a gas leak. gary scott ol land is accused of the killing. police say he was on parole after serving more than a decade in prison for attempted murder. he's due in court tuesday. garvin thomas will have a lack at that case tonight at 11:00. >>> across the bay in oh laaklan ex-con is in jail after police say he shot two officers inside her patrol car. police say they responded to reports of a man with a weapon near martin luther king jr. way. when the officers arrived 31-year-old bennie raymar tin jr. allegedly began shooting at their cruiser. the officers were not hurt. they called for backup and officers responded setting up a perimeter that closed streets. once in custody investigators say man tear admitted to shooting at the cruiser and another car. another man was allegedly arrested for trying to drive martin away f

. >> to my wife, kathleen. will appreciate this, i'm sure. >> reporter: new york city, 3:00 a.m. in a street known as the flower district, flowers from around the world are arriving. here in manhattan's flower district even before the sun comes up the flowers from japan are coming in. and here as you see we have glor yoesa. and that is from aichi. and we also have flowers coming in from wakayama. the days leading up to valentine's day are the busiest time of the year for flower sellers. stores are bringing in large orders of flowers to meet customer demands. japan began exporting nflowers o the u.s. two years ago. compared to wholesale prices for other flowers, those imported from japan can cost five to ten times more. despite the high cost, the flowers are popular with customers. farmers in japan devote a great deal of time and energy to raising these small flowers. with that amount of care and quality come the high price tag. >> you pay a little bit more, but all ten of them open up beautifully. so you really

. >> reporter: assistant public defender kathleen pose says it is not the usual suspects. >> good families, good decent kids that i'm hearing were college bound had everything going on in their lives. >> reporter: but when they start using ocs she says -- >> the addiction level is almost immediate. they will do anything to get this drug. >> reporter: like alex johnson, 27 years old. his sister rose says alex was an energic kid who grew up to love fishing and outdoors until oxy took over his life. >> i wouldn't hear from him for weeks. he was ashamed of himself. >> reporter: johnson was arrested on a misdemeanor. two hours after getting out of jail he was found dead in the bathroom of a gas station just down the street. >> he had overdosed. it is just like horrifying. >> reporter: she says johnson's death is just a precursor. >> i fear that they are going to end up dying. they are certainly going to start using again or they are going to commit more crimes. >> reporter: allen martin, cbs5. >> and just yesterday police in morgan hill told us that they think that oxycotin addiction is behind

. >> kathleen's excavation of this city mentioned in joshua showed the walls had been repaired 17 times. watson? >> what is jericho. >> correct. >> reporter: well enough to play jeopardy at the highest level. with top money winner brad rudder and ken jennings who won 74 games in a row in 2004. jennings' amazing run caught the nation's attention including i.b.m. executives who were looking on for a follow-up to their man versus machine triumph. the computer they called deep blue beat the grand master in a celebrated tournament in 1997. they wondered if a machine could beat the best humans at jeopardy. >> we knew it would be hard. we knew it wouldn't be easy but to have an opportunity to get the resources to sort of push the limits in advance of technology was just irresistible. >> reporter: getting machines to truly understand language is the holy grail of a field called artificial intelligence. you know, making computers more like us. able to comprehend, learn and solve problems. in the early days of computing, it seemed so easy. >> i confidently expect within 10 or 15 years we will fin

kathleen? >> thank you. >> i'm going to start by also thanking the dean and president knapp and those of us on the g.w. faculty and staff and students for having us back here. the last time i was here we were making an important announcement on tobacco and we are back to talk about the new dietary guidelines. i think it's appropriate to be here at g.w. which has had such a leadership role in the health of all americans. and it's great to be here with my good friend and partner, agriculture secretary tom vilsack. you have heard the dean say that we both were governors and we are governors from food states, kansas and iowa. so our work on these issues did not begin with our new assignments. they have been long-standing and a great collaboration. we also have worked on issues from food safety to making sure we reach out to children with healthy insurance programs and the partnership with usda has really been invaluable and continues to be, i think, an important initiative moving forward we have ha

accused of one of the city's most high-profile and baffling murders of the past year. 46-year-old kathleenen was killed in her apartment on russian hill last october. as the legal fight against her accused killer begins, friends and family still struggle with their loss. >> reporter: there are those who come to san francisco and fall in love with the city. then there are a special few who the city in turn seems to love right back. >> oh, definitely. >> reporter: karen says her close friend kate was just such a person, the kind people stopped to watch when she entered a room. >> just the way she carried herself when she walked in, you knew when her presence was there, just because she was -- she was very classy and very elegant. >> reporter: horn was what many would call a fashionista. she consulted about fashion, wrote about it, traveled the world looking for it. sadly, it's after returning from one such trip to argentina that kate horn's life ended on russian hill. >> i kept saying not kate, not kate. >> reporter: it was the night of october 29th. she was in her apartment when a man showe

and then you're going to hear from kathleen sebelius. you remember her. she's the waver-granting secretary of health and human services giving wavers to friends in high places. last week, the department of health and human as much as granted more than 500 -- and human as much as granted more than 500 waivers. they don't have to live under the law that everybody else needs to live under. you know who got a lot of the waivers? union members. union members who actually supported, lobbied and contributed to work to get this law passed. ia, why don't they have -- yeah, why don't they have to live under the law? they're the ones with the waivers. union workers are 7% of the private employees in this country yet they've gotten 40% of the waivers. if kathleen sebelius can give waivers to 2.2 million people who have friends in high places, i think everybody in america ought to be given a waiver against this health care law. [applause] on election night, the exit poll said 59% of american voters wanted this law repealed. people know what they want. and they don't w

i will turn it over to the experts now. >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius also spoke with reporters about her department's budget for next year. nearly $900 billion. this is about 45 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome. i am the assistant secretary for public affairs. welcome to the humphrey building. thanks for joining us as we released the president's fiscal year 2012 department of health and human services budget. today we are joined by the department's leadership, who will help us what do the president's proposals. i am pleased to welcome the deputy secretary as well as the heads of the secretary staff division to receded in the front row. i would like to introduce to you the leader avert divisions your joining me on stage. administration for children and families, administration on aging, agency for health care research and quality, tom friedman from the centers for disease control, peggy hamburger from the food and drug administration, the indian health service, national institutes of health, office of inspector general, and substance abuse and i

i took this inequity to federal court and was joined in the lawsuit by representative kathleen curry. but very sadly we lost. it was crushing news. we were both incumbents who wanted to continue to represent the people. we just wanted to be independents. almost instantly, though, i knew that instead of running for office, a way to make a bigger difference was to build the independent movement. so i formed independent voters for colorado. and one of our first goals is to bring a open primaryry initiative to our state. and once again this is one of the most important things you can do to improve your life, of the people of colorado. i am so anxious to take what i'm more in this conference back with me and put it to use. thank you for your inspiration. >> my name is kathleen curry, and i'm a former state representative from colorado. i served in our legislature for three terms, from 2005, to 2010, and ended up being second in command, and i also chaired the agricultural committee. i have been a lifelong democrat. but i became unable to stomach the direction the party was going. the democ

astronaut, kathleen coleman staged a weightless concert on board the international space station, playingne of four flutes she brought with her. coleman has a doctorate of science and engineering. she says she sometimes finds herself bumping into things as she floats around playing with her eyes closed. >>> one bay area city has been chosen the sexiest city in the united states. plus, making a case when a california lawmaker told a high speed rail summit today about why the state of california needs high speed rails. >>> san francisco has been chosen as the sexiest city in the united states. the online site, orbitz conducted an online valentine's surveys. san francisco got the most votes, thanks to its top rated restaurants, night life, celebrity residents and wine country. miami and las vegas ranked as the second and third sexiest cities. >>> just 24 hours after president obama proposed new federal grants for high speed rail, california's bullet train was back on the agenda in washington today. california lawmakers told a national high speed rail summit today that the system will be cruc

. >> coming up on c-span2, health and human services secretary kathleen sebeilus -- >> it's a three-day presidential weekend on american history tv on c-span3 live from the truman little white house in key west. what it's like to be related to an american president. we hear candid conversations with deuces sents of four u.s. presidents. live monday historians, friends, and associates on president kennedy on the place in history, the lessons, and their application today. we'll visit the smithsonian to learn the art and politics of presidential portaits. experience it every weekend, all weekend. for the complete holiday schedule go to c-span.org/history. and to have it e-mailed to you click the alert button. >> kathleen sebeilus testified before the senate finance about the 2012 budget for her department. it requested $79.9 billion for discretionary hhs spending. a slight drop from fiscal 2010. senators asked questions about implementing the new health care law as well as the rising cost to states of medicaid. this is an hour and a half. >> we will come to order. president harry truman on

but also, it was stolen from him in florida-- from tallahassee in all kinds of ways with kathleen harris and jeb bush. >> hinojosa: but you got 90,000 votes in florida, right? >> yeah. >> hinojosa: so if those 90,000 votes had gone for gore, then he would have won the state of florida. >> that's not the way to look at it. the way to look at it is how did i affect gore before the election? did i push him to take more progressive stands which got him up in the polls, where he actually got more votes than whatever went to the green party? but you see, even the most sophisticated political analyst never looked at the preelection day dynamics. there have been some social scientist studies who have concluded that i actually, by pushing him to do what lieberman didn't want him to do... >> hinojosa: mm-hmm. >> ...by challenging the drug, oil, you know, insurance companies in speeches-- remember "the people, not the powerful," that was his slogan-- that he got more votes than if i wasn't even in the arena. but it's such a ridiculous discussion, because let's all put our best foot forward to the v

assistant public defender kathleen pose said it is not the usual suspects. >> good families, good decent kids that i'm hearing were college bound, had everything going on in their lives. >> reporter: when they start using o.c.s -- >> the addiction level is immediate. they will do anything to get this drug. >> reporter: like alex jackson. >> we would crack each other up. >> reporter: his sister said oxyx took over his life. >> and i wouldn't hear from him for weeks. he was ashamed. i know he was ashamed of himself. >> reporter: johnson was arrested on a misdemeanor in the jason kasel investigation, two hours after getting out of jail found dead in the bathroom of a gas station just down the street. >> he had overdosed. it is just like horrifying. >> reporter: pose say's johnson's death is just a precursor. >> i fear they will end up dying. they are certainly going to start using again or they will commit more crimes. >> and just yesterday police in morgan hill told us that they think oxycotin addiction is behind the new rash of robberies there. >>> oakland's police chief and mayor will be

. >> kathleen's excavation of this city mentioned in joshua showed the walls had been repaired 17 times. watson? >> what is jericho. >> correct. >> reporter: well enough to play jeopardy at the highest level. with top money winner brad rudder and ken jennings who won 74 games in a row in 2004. jennings' amazing run caught the nation's attention including i.b.m. executives who were looking on for a follow-up to their man versus machine triumph. the computer they called deep blue beat the grand master in a celebrated tournament in 1997. they wondered if a machine could beat the best humans at jeopardy. >> we knew it would be hard. we knew it wouldn't be easy but to have an opportunity to get the resources to sort of push the limits in advance of technology was just irresistible. >> reporter: getting machines to truly understand language is the holy grail of a field called artificial intelligence. you know, making computers more like us. able to comprehend, learn and solve problems. in the early days of computing, it seemed so easy. >> i condently expect within 10 or 15 years we will find

eastern, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius will testify before the senate finance committee chaired by democrat max baucus. we will take your questions and comments and look at the day's headlines in a few moments, live on "washington journal." the house will be in session at 10:00 a.m. eastern for general speeches with members returning at noon to continue the at noon to continue the

only the bigger companies and unions have access to kathleen sebelius and the white house. if you of our friends in high places, you have an opportunity to get a waiver to get out of the mandates of the health-care law. 40% of all of the waivers have gone to union workers, but union workers are only 7% of the work force in this country. thatst doesn't seem right people can do that. i want to have the waiver for every american, which is part of the health-care law, the state health care choice act. if the states as we want a waiver, out of the whole thing, they should have the same opportunity as friends of the administration have who are now saying, i have read the bill -- nancy pelosi said you have to read the bill to find out what is in it. i have read it, i don't like it, let me out. host: you are on with the senator, go ahead. caller: hi, greta. i would like to say that i'm with john barrasso. i like everything he is saying. this one guy who asked about how they are going to enforce the individual mandate -- i have a question just like that. when i was a young man, got

secretary kathleen sebelius decides to go back to kansas. she calls you in and says, -- he called you in and said, i would like you to take the hhs job, but your first assignment is to tell me what to say in the state of the union speech about cost containment. what -- and you only get a couple of lines because everybody else wants a couple of lines. so, let's start down the road. tell me -- you don't have to tell me whether you would take the job, but what you would tell the president, what you would tell the president to say about cost containment in his second term speech. he wants that to be the lead on health care in his second term. >> i don't have to think about it. change party identification. [inaudible conversations] >> you know,. >> president obama. >> i think that i would suggest to him at one level do not open promise. try to get a sense of what we all know, and that is that it will not be easy. try at some level to engage us all because we all have to be involved. >> i would say the same thing. a call to action. somebody has to

. >> kathleen parker in the "washington post," cairo's courage os witnesses. "to speak for peace this morning in the "washington post" focusing on many of the journalists who have been detained and are leaving for fear of their own safety because of the situation in cairo. >> egypt is a place where you have independent voices flourishing, independent newspapers, very strong intellectual debate. where this stopped was at the place of organization. you couldn't organization. or you had real trouble if you wanted to get people together. certainly in any kind of large scale. that's when the regime would kind of clamp down and harass you. what we've seen over the past couple of weeks in the streets of cairo have been attacks on foreign journalists. interestingly, the egyptian press have maintained its extremely active role. if you look at egyptian publications, they're covering this from the various points of view, many of which are very sympathetic to the demonstrate. >> nathan brown is a former fulbright scholar in egypt, has studied -- now director of middle eas

secretary kathleen sebelius decides to go back to kansas. she calls you in and says, -- he called you in and said, i would like you to take the hhs job, but your first assignment is to tell me what to say in the state of the union speech about cost containment. what -- and you only get a couple of lines because everybody else wants a couple of lines. so, let's start down the road. tell me -- you don't have to tell me whether you would take the job, but what you would tell the president, what you would tell the president to say about cost containment in his second term speech. he wants that to be the lead on health care in his second term. >> i don't have to think about it. change party identification. [inaudible conversations] >> you know,. >> president obama. >> i think that i would suggest to him at one level do not open promise. try to get a sense of what we all know, and that is that it will not be easy. try at some level to engage us all because we all have to be involved. >> i would say the same thing. a call to action. somebody has to

you find that kathleen sibila is has written 117 pages of rules and regulation.u go through all of that half of the americans to get their insurance through work will be able to keep it and 80% of the people who get it to small business card going to be able to keep what they have. the other thing you will hear from, the elusive doctor brick who got a recess appointment, a recess appointment by president obama to have medicare and medicaid without ever having a single hearing in the senate. if you remember him, he said when he said he loves the british health care system. the fair and equitable welfare system. you remember that one. they're going to your. the waiver-granting secretary of health and human services giving waivers to friends in high places. last week the department of health and human services granted more than 500 new wavers. 729 washington wafers. 2 million people don't have to live under the law that everyone else they still live under. you know who got a lot of the waivers? union members. union members who actually supported, lobbied command con

host: in the boston globe this morning, kathleen pierce writes about some painful food for thought. grocery prices surging. u.s. food prices are expected to jump between 3 and 4%, about twice the general rate of inflation after rising last year by the slowest rate since 1962. the increase is due to unusually inclement weather, high worldwide demand for u.s. agricultural commodities and rises gas prices. so is that going to put a ca bash on the consumer confidence? guest: absolutely. anything that hits home to the wallet. and you're if you're on a tight budget of course that's an absolute on your confidence levels. we have to see where the food levels are going, and we have to see the harvest figures aren't bearing very well for consumers. so absolutely that will definitely have an impact. host: not bearing fruit, so to speak. fairfax, virginia. caller: good morning. i want to touch base on the first of all the guy that talked about having the government run gas stations. he clearly doesn't know that the united states post office was $5.2 billion under water last year. beyond that, y

live at c-span3, the senate finance committee will hear from health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius about her performance proposed budget. >> heard apartments for -- her department's proposed budget. democratic senator max baucus is the chairman. >> jonathan l. on of politico, how are democrats reacting to the proposed budget? >> republicans are charging him with spending and borrowing. on the democratic side, there is mixed reaction. most democrats have praised president obama for attempting to address deficits in the future. at the same time, some of the planes has been lukewarm. -- praise has been lukewarm and targeted by criticism by some people. emanuel cleaver question why he was cutting programs, particularly those for the disadvantaged at a time when you have such high unemployment. >> now that the president has unveiled his vision for spending, when and how well congress began its work on crafting a budget for next year? >> the joke was that the president's budget is dead on arrival when it gets to congress. the committees do not have to pay any attention to anythi

video tribute from our palin's discussion and from the words and memories that his beloved daughter kathleen is sure to share, we have a chance to see a fuller picture of robert kennedy and to expand our understanding of this man and his vision as well as our ability to emulate his actions. half a century ago, robert kennedy proved that a single person has the power to improve the world around us. 50 years later, his example remains emblazoned on the hearts and souls of the american people, and his voice echoes through the generations, calling on us to shoulder our responsibility to serve, to serve, and to serve. this lesson and this message still point us down the path that robert kennedy never finished traveling, so let us keep going. let us continue to fight for a world free from injustice. let us move forward despite the obstacles before us and the cynics around us, toward progress. let us act with optimism, without delay, and with adherence to the high standards of professionalism, the very standards that attorney general kennedy established. let us signal to all the world that in ameri

later in the day, kathleen sebelius will take questions about the president's requests for hhs for 2012, that includes mandatory spending for medicare and medicaid. she'll be at the senate finance committee, and that's live at 2:30 eastern. >> when i was sworn in as president, i pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term. the budget i'm proposing today meets that pledge. >> president obama sent congress a $3.7 trillion budget that would reduce the deficit by clash 1.1 trillion over the next ten years. this week hear the details from the administration including cabinet officials and watch reaction from house and senate members online at the c-span video library. search, watch, clip and share anytime. it's washington your way. >> secretary of state hillary clinton spoke with reporters at the u.s. capitol following a meeting with house speaker john boehner. they talked about the federal spending levels for the rest of this fiscal year and the president's 2012 budget request. secretary clinton said that proposed cuts by house republicans would be, quote, detrimental to

eastern time, hhs secretary kathleen sebelius will testify about her agency's budget. and if our viewers are interested we will cover house ways and means. they will talk to tim geithner, the treasury secretary. said a budget committee will be there. if you are interested, go to our website, c-span.org, for more information when those are slated to air. i wanted to show our viewers the "wall street journal" headline about all of this. if i can find it here -- let me paraphrase. president obama's budget proposal is a challenge to the gop. i am just wondering, because it does not exclude it entitlement reform. guest: i think what the president has tried to do is perhaps laid down a marker for the left engine of the budget debate we will see starting this morning in the house for 2011. the republicans in the house decided to try to cut $100 billion from the request the president put forward just a year ago, for the current year. that would be $58 billion cut from the current trajectories spending for the current year. i think that -- that fight was going to be big enough