strategist and a conservative talk show host and organizer with the tea party coalition and back in l.a., stephanie miller, host of her own program and we go to las vegas with the libertarian talkative half playing at the hotel and casino in vegas. they also have a series on showtime. james, these hearings are pro forma unless someone speaks out on an issue. this is going through the motions, isn't it, james? >> pretty much. we do this every time we have one and everybody postures and at one of the hearings then senator biden asked a 24-minute question or something. we're going to have this. she's going to be confirmed and as she well should be and four republicans and one democrat will vote against her. it will be about the way it ends up. >> larry: dana, how do you feel? the previous conservative appointees took the middle road. she hasn't been questioned yet. they weren't definitive on any topic and they were approved. don't you expect this to go the same way? >> probably more than likely i expect it to go through. i'm watching lindsey graham to see what he does because he was one of

host: l.a., democratic line. caller: republicans are keeping things the way they were prior to the bailout. they have not done anything. host: would you like to see more regulation? caller: of course. we were on the verge of bankruptcy in so many people are suffering. host: are you resistant to more regulation on wall street? guest: i hate to say it, but he is wrong. we did have mistakes in the past, and we need to fix them. we are not fixing them in this republicans have made a proposal on how to fix the gse's. all of the bureaucrats and regulators who failed miserably to deal with the bernie madoff situation, the regulators at the fed -- you name the regulator, they made mistakes in the past. we all know that. what are the democrats doing? they are saying let's give them more power and more money and even more authority, without trying to fix the problem that got us here in the first place. i think it is a flawed approach to the problem. host: hope, new jersey, republican line. caller: we are going to try to ha

as the first african-american woman to the second largest school board in the united states, that's l.a. unified school district, and in the california state senate as the first ever. and i was so proud that members came to me to show me their membership in the naacp. i then knew that the work that was done over 100 years ago was of such vision for the future of this country and particularly my state of california, the largest in the union, and the first state to be a majority of minorities, that that vision, that hard work, that dedication brought about justice so that the california and the united states of america -- the state of california and the united states of america could be reflective of who we are as a people. the justice, the fairness, the freedom, the liberty all came about for people like me because of this organization and others who supported it. so i am pleased, i am pleasured and i do hope that all men and women of fair mindedness will support whole heartedly this resolution. thank you, congressman, and thank you, mr. speaker, for the time. the speaker pro tempore: th

if you have l.a. or new york covered that doesn't mean that you'll pick up a plot in denver or houston. i don't necessarily view the plots we have seen over the past year as indications of a radical inflution of ideology here. i think we're going to continue to see ups and downs in the coming years. i think the questions we will have is whether al qaeda central can regroup and whether we have a strategic threat and whether some of these in the al qaeda peninsula can organize some pretty heavy duty plotting against country. if you have safe haven and combine that with intent, wenal we're going to get hit. i'm talking out of both sides of my mouth. i believe that there is a -- an increase of plotting. but i don't think it is that we're sitting on a hotbed of revolution. i'm kind surprised this came this late. i would have thought we would see it in 2003, 2004, 2005. it is almost inevitable. i think we ought to take it in stride. one of them is going to get through. i guess, what's his name in new york.

this week and then we're opening in denver and palm springs, new york, and l.a.will be available on tv -- on dvd starting in august. >> how many people work on this with you? >> i don't know the total number of people. we had a small group. we had about seven people shooting the film. now we're wearing of hats. >> did you ever edit yourself i don't always recommend that but it does someone reflect my doing. >> we want to go to another clip. here is the but rigid eva talking about educating kids no matter the circumstances that come from. >> we have families in very challenging circumstances and we do our best to support them. but the main thing to do is educate the children, no matter what the circumstances. you still have to learn to read and write. we provide that in schools. we need to -- need to make focuses easy as possible for the child. can children be distracted and do they have trauma and their lives? absolutely, but we cannot change the hand that the child was killed or that we have been dealt as a school to get that child. and we get emotionally attach

. >> cnn is confirming from the l.a.hat michael jackson is dead. >> he attempted to resuscitate him. they were unsuccessful. >> larry: the pain of michael's passing is with his brother every day. it was not easy for him to return to forest lawn for our interview, and it's not easy for him to talk about the circumstances surrounding his death. but he does. do you think your brother was killed? >> yes, of course. of course. >> larry: no doubt in your mind. >> no doubt in my mind. >> larry: have the authorities done enough? they have stopped at murray, haven't they? >> it's the d.a.'s office, and i just don't trust anybody. i really don't. we lost a brother. what really has really -- one of the hearings we went to, they were sitting there laughing. i felt like getting up and walking out. >> larry: who? >> i think first of all tmz was filming this, and they are all showboating for the camera, and they were talking about whether the license should be taken or not and there was chuckles and laughs, and we lost our brother. how

joining with us here in l.a., edward with james olm to os, the actor and active gist, just back from the gulf, he produced this short video. before we talk about that, what was your reaction to what you saw? >> devastation. i wasn't quite prepared for the humanistic understanding. i thought they would be angry. i thought there would be a tremendous amount of energy. >> larry: what did you see? >> people that had given up, the lack of hope. hope is the one thing that keeps us alive and that is why we need it and they don't have hope over there and i think felipe said it very well and so did anderson, we need to really understand this. this is a human issue now as well as, you know, ecological issue. but can i just say one thing is that we have an opportunity to help over there i love what you're doing, those two hours and i hope you will invite me to be here to help you raise funds. and i hope that everyone will give. but i hope that they will spend time this year going to that region along all the gulf, all of it and continue to use that -- the hotels, the restaurants, bring a lot of

she's the one whose g-spot was listed in the l.a. tour guide. and i love all the things you do, and i admire you. you're my favorite fie beta kappa. oh, pete doesn't have any idea how brilliant you are. a brilliant woman and thinking of the top of your head every minute. i love you, joan! >> i love her -- you don't know how gracious she is. a funny, never did a bad joke, always current. what a role model. she saw me when she was at the top of her game and i was just starting in new york. she sat in the front row and she laughed louder than anybody. she encouraged, she came back. phyllis diller has my heart. >> where's her place in this comedic history with women? or should we not even say women? >> no, as a comedian, one of the great stand-ups, one of the most current, always relevant, when she came on stage, when she talked, she talked about, what she read in the paper, and strong. i just think phyllis was an amazing and is an amazing performer. >> larry: and so are you. is there any area you would not go to? >> no. if i think i want to talk ab

joining us here in l.a. is edward james ole momos who is j back from the gulf, and produced this video, and what was it that you saw? >> it was devastation. i was not prepared for the humanistic understanding. i thought there would be anger and lots of energy poured out. >> larry: what gid ydid you see? >> a lot of people with hope. we need to keep the hope alive, and felipe said it well, and anderson, as well, we need to really understand this. this is a human issue now as well as, you know, ecological issue, but can i say one thing that we have an opportunity to help over there. i love what you are doing in the two hours, and i hope that you will invite me to be here to help raise funds, and i hope that everyone will give. but i hope that they will spend time this year going to the region along all of the gulf, all of it, and continue to use that hotels, the restaurants, and bring a lot of -- let's make it the best year they have ever had. >> larry: it is also a great place to go. >> yes. >> larry: and he

familiar with it -- el nino season, where the jet steam stays down south, but now we're going into a lot l.a. anyone yo season where the jet stream is moving north, which is going to open up just like a trough coming through. and nooa was talking, kind of a model of what would happen if a major hurricane got in the gulf. in some cases, it could help a little bit, but if the storm surge was big enough, and if it was a big hurricane, then you could have contamination inland for miles. that's what's scary. and then you don't know, and they can't tell us whether or not the rigs they have out there, drilling those two wells down to stop this flow, they can't -- they can't tell us whether or not those rigs will withstand the hurricane of major proportions. so this is going to be with us for a while. and the folks down in louisiana are going to be suffering for a while. our hope is that if the president keeps the pressure on him that they'll at least have a look. i hope congress has been putting the pressure on them as well. they have a new person, bob dudley, that's going to handle the long-term r

we're also in palm springs, new york, and l.a. an then it will be available in dmb vd starting in august. -- dvd. >> how much will it sell for? >> i don't know. that's a good question. >> and how many people worked on this with you? >> i don't know the total number of people. we had a small crew. we had about seven people shooting the film and we have a pretty small team now. we're all wearing a lot of hats. >> did you edit it yourself? >> yes, i did. i don't always recommend that, but i didn't have the budget somewhat reflects my doing lots of things. >> we want to go to another clip. we're running out of time. here is eva talking about the need to educate kids no matter the circumstances they came from. >> we have families who are in very challenging circumstances, and we do our best to support them. but the main thing we do is educate the children no matter what the circumstance is. they still have to learn how to read and write, and so we need to provide more at the school, we need to make focus as easy as possible for the chi

he didn't go to l.a. he didn't talk to bob ney. he didn't talk to adam kidan.k to a lot of people. my view is that i did a pretty thorough job of reporting and filming this story, and i just >> by the way, he calls -- in here, the work that susan schmidt did sleazy. what's his point on that one? >> that's a good question. gary, in his book, is very angry about sue schmidt's reporting. he believes that she grossly misrepresented the tigua affair. that was the attempt to lobby for the tigua indians of el paso. i think gary's argument is overwrought. susan schmidt and her colleagues won a pulitzer prize. i don't think it was sleazy. >> lasttclip before we say goodbye. you use "mr. smith goes to washington." let's watch. >> it has become so accepted, so part of our political culture now that it's normal. your average citizen doesn't would expect to have because these voices are much louder and they're much better financed. ♪ >> this is the story about human failure. i mean, i don't thhnk that corrrption as a part is an issue. the corruption i was involved in as the

." >> the "l.a. times" in 1910 was saying electric cars were just around the corner.these technologies fail time and time again for a very good reason-- it's hard to replace oil and fossil fuels. everything is not metal, glarks or wood is probably made with plastic, and that comes from oil. so to say i want to get away from oil, i want to do these kind of simple, failed technologies, it takes our eye off the real ball which is how do we make this safer? >> we're going to be using the fossil fuels. how do we make the extraction , production, distribution, safer and protect the environment better without deluding ourselves that there will be a new fuel. >> brown: that really reframes the entire conversation. but you don't want to go there, right? you still want to look at the issue of energy and oil dependence. >> well, i happen to be a very optimistic person. i believe that american ingenuity and entrepreneurship can solve problems once they have the right price signals and the right help from government to do so. it's interesting-- you may not want to have electric ve

this has been very well put by your guest from the l.a. times. this is a real problem for cnn. i don't think that the solution is to go one way or the other. the solution is to stay where we are, stay in the middle of the road. but the network needs to create some appointment viewing in programs during prime time that are not clones of what the others are doing. they've taken one-hour programs and made excellent news/interview programs out of them. but by 8:00 at night, people have gotten their fill of news. clearly that's not what they're looking for. i think there are some other opportunities but clearly the direction which they've gone has not been ... not worked right now. larry king has gotten older on the air. he's had the oldest demographics for years on the air. that's not good for cnn. the advertisers want younger demographics. >> brown: matea, fill in the rest of the picture for cnn how does all this affect their financial situation, their ability to keep what they've done so well for so long. the bureaus going, the reporting going to be able to run and stay on the gr

and the places that we face in our network, from l.a. to new york, that does not mean that you could pick up a plot in denver or houston. i don't necessarily view the plots thht we've seen over the past year as indications that a radical infusion of ideology is here. i think we will continue to see ups and downs in the coming years. i think the questions we have our weather al qaeda central can regroup and whether we have strategic threats, and whether some of these affiliate's like al qaeda in the arabian peninsula get comfortable not because they can organize have you plotting against this country, because if you have said havens and combine that with capability and intent, eventually we will get hit. i am talking about sides of my mouth. i do agree that there has been an increase in plotting that we've seen over the past year- and-a-half. i don't think it is a statistical aberration but it is not reached the level in my mind where we're sitting on a hotbed of revolution. i am surprised it came this late. i would have thought we would

he quotes the "l.a. times" as saying, obama's speech, there's a pipe spewing a ga zillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more wind mills. now, i know that sound as little humorous, madam speaker, but that sounded like what the president's speech was all about last night. there was no real solutions in dealing with the problem. everybody's concerned about it, everybody feels empathy and sympathy for the people in the gulf, the thousands of people who have lost their jobs and who are out of work, the environmental problem that's been created, but what people want is they want a solution to the problem. it has now been 57 days, 57 days since this tragedy occurred. and what did the president do? he has suspended oil drilling in the gulf for six months. now, that's going to result in as many as 150,000 people losing their jobs and for the oil people that work on those out in the gulf, that's 150,000 jobs phat it not only affects them, it affects almost six times that number of people who have ancil

elsewhere in the washington, confirmation hearings get under way for supreme court nominee l.a.get taken. she will appear before the senate judiciary committee. it will be on our companion network, [captioning performed by national captioning institute] -- it will be on our companion network, c-span3. tonight, a look at the fcc's efforts to reclassify the internet, which two members of the house communications subcommittee. that is tonight on c-span2. president obama to questions on afghanistan and the global economy at a news conference at the end of the g-20 summit in canada over the weekend. he pledged to cut the u.s. does it in half by the year 2013. >> please, everybody have a seat. good evening. i want to thank our wonderful hosts the first and foremost, my friend and partner, prime minister harper, as well as the canadian people and the people of toronto for their extraordinary hospitality. the success of these summits, the g-8 and the g-20, is a tribute to canadian leadership. i also want to thank my fellow leaders for the sense of purpose that they brought to this summi

. -- in l.a. and also one other position with b.p. before she came back. i canned the acting inspector general, now that we have found out that she's back with the interior department, now we know you surely have asked her why that language was pulled out. what did she say? oh, i didn't know she was part of any of that what struck me, and call my cynical, but she came back to -- we found the press release from interior june of 2009, how ironic. that's 10 years after the 1998-1999 leases, during the clinton administration, had that language pulled out. 10 years later, she comes out from british petroleum and goes to work for the interior department for minerals management. really interesting. 10 years that always rings a bell. oh, yeah, unless it's murder, the statute of limitations is normally a maximum of 10 years. so that's probably good news. if there was anything that went wrong back there that was done that shouldn't have been done, 10 years, just answer the question. you know. why did you pu

host: if you go to the "l.a. times" website, they have the information posted there.ostcaller: i know that i cannot call in for another 30 days, but thank you. host: we will have discussions about what this means tomorrow in the midterm elections. go ahead. caller: i'm here to take a few moments on the oil spill. host: and we will thank you for joining us tonight. we will be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. we want to let you listen to some of the speeches from earlier in the evening. blanche lincoln holds on at the democratic nominee in arkansas. it was a closely watched rates. many people thought the lieutenant governor bill halter with an influx of labor money would lead to victory, but the -- but lincoln is the democratic nominee. she will face john boozman. this is from earlier tonight in little rock, arkansas. [no audio] [applause] >> you are great, arkansas! i cannot begin to thank each and every one of view across this great state. such a tremendous job in letting a message out loud and clear. and that message was that the vote of this citizen -- senator is

l.a. times: senate g.o.p. blocks extension. business week: republicans thwart bill with unemployment aid buyout. boston globe: filibuster halts bill-boosting jobless benefits, aid to states. mcclatchy newspaper: g.o.p. blocks jobless extension. "usa today" senate bill again blocks job extension and tax breaks. those tax breaks were for middle-class americans. seattle times: republicans continue blocking a federal aid bill. the republicans in the senate have made the decision to do everything they can to turn the country upside down to, do everything they can to stop any economic recovery because they think it may help barack obama. it may help some of their people trying to run for senate seats around the country. so they figure as bad as they can make the economy, the better off they will be. that's a pretty difficult view for people who are united states senators. the presiding officer is a senator from the state of oregon, and that is your prime responsibility, is to take care of their state. but also as a united states sena

subject to a couple of front page stories including the "l.a. times." kagan's not so leftist liberal. this is what it looks like and the "orange county register"ster. kin e again, the confirmation hearings getting underway. michael joining us from philadelphia, the editorial from the inquirer in that pennsylvania city. good morning to you michael. caller: good morning to you and c-span. the caller from massachusets kind of took the wind out of my sail. patriotism has gone out the window. people are fighting with one another. it's disturbing. one thing i wanted to point out is i have a 30-year-old son whose fighting in afghanistan. and his best friend is black and republican. and my son is a democrat. but they stand shoulder to shoulder. i'm sorry. host: it's ok. caller: and uh, i i can't take it anymore. host: michael how long has your son been in afghanistan? caller: about 1 1/2 years. host: how much time left on his caller: four months, god willing. host: michael, thank you for the call. then the war in afghanistan is the story front page of the washi

we will get a chance tomorrow to l.a. with the progress we are making through the jobs report on our economic recovery. we have had a very full agenda, not just in the past 44 or 45 days but for the past 16 months. there are a lot of people working on a whole lot of things in the white house. we are able to do more than several things at once. >> it is clear that the u.s. government knew about the flotilla before the israeli navy stated. does the obama administration it was on a humanitarian mission, are trying to provoke israel into a reaction? >> i can try to -- there is a blockade to ensure that weapons are not brought in for hamas. yet heard the president and the secretary of state discuss what we believe is an unsustainable humanitarian presence in gaza. >> i assume the president knows that one of the deaths was an american. what was his reaction? >> i am told that he expressed his deep condolences, and we certainly expressed our deep condolences to his family. obviously, this is extremely horrible news for them. our

and nothing on the front page of the l.a. times about the lakers win. obviously, we got an early edition here. doretta from georgia on the democrats line. what did you think of the hearings? caller: what he did, he was all lawyers of. -- euan all lawyehe was all law. host: what are your thoughts about the questions that members of congress were asking? caller: i think they were asking a lot of questions. he was just not going to answer them. i'm sure his lawyers went over them with him. host: do you think that he had a those questions ahead of time? caller: they said that they gave them to them ahead of time. and he probably went over them with his lawyer and his lawyer told him how to respond. host: the great falls, south carolina, please go ahead. caller: i have not been following it too much, but last night i definitely watch. -- i definitely watched. he definitely dated a lot of questions and i am thoroughly appalled. -- he definitely he dated a lot of questions and i am thoroughly appalled. if you're the ceo, why aren't you informed of these decisi

she spoke to supporters in l.a. >> thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you so much.t a great night. [cheers and applause] this victory is your victory. [cheers and applause] now i just received a very gracious phone call from steve piosner conceding the race. [cheers and applause] and i want to commend him and his supporters for the energy they brought to this campaign. it has been a tough campaign, i must say. but i am a stronger candidate tonight because of it. [cheers and applause] you know, i am battle-tested now, and i'm ready to give jerry brown the toughest election. [cheers and applause] now, let me take a moment to congratulate our great republican senate nominee on her victory. [cheers and applause] you know, career politicians in sacramento and washington, d.c. be warned, because you now face your worst nightmare. [cheers and applause] two business women. [cheers and applause] who know how to create jobs, balance budgets and get things done. [cheers and applause] i have so many people to thank tonight and so many who made tonight possible. first, let me th

it takes out a tremendous amount of our energy capabilities, chicago, new york, big financial hubs, l.a., washington, wouldn't take but a handful of nukes and we're in big trouble. we may not be able to respond. we got to take this stuff seriously. some have referred to israel as the minner's committee for the world and when they're under assault, the world is going to be next, that may be true. but we have got to take it seriously and got to support our friend israel. mr. carter: first thing i would say amen to everything you have said and i thank you for saying it. you know, it's become a strange world when our closest ally in the middle east, israel, sends its prime minister over here and taken in through the back doors of the service entrance of the white house and told no photo ops and he is basically slighted by the leader of the free world and then passed forward to just a couple of weeks ago when the leader of the palestinian movement comes in here and we see photo ops, meetings and a big chunk of money headed to the palestinians promised by the president of the united states. i

l.a. county, who made themselves an open city and san francisco, have come down hard against arizona. the big thing is, we don't have enough politicians with any backbone to protect the american worker. i think when we get people in there for the politicians, we need to get people from cis, center for immigration studies, to freeze up all of the lies that are -- that are being put out. host: the next call is from queens, new york. mary on the independent line. caller: first of all, it is the oil spill. that concerns me greatly because it is going to affect our entire country down the line. not only in terms of jobs and better going to be lost, but there will be major health issues -- jobs that are going to be lost, but there would -- -- because there will be major health issues. the second is illegal immigration. i don't know why they are going after -- they are not going after the employers. and we are in two wars, that concerns me, very heavy on my heart. lastly, i am just so concerned a

host: we have a policy director for the judicial crisis director to talk about the election of l.a. neck taken to the supreme court. the hearings will start --elena kagan. the hearings will start july 8. talk about why you are opposing her. a clear opposed or in favor oft- position. the big problem here is that elena kagan is a blank slate. she has never been a federal judge or a state judge. she has very limited practical experience before she became solicitor general last year perry should never argued in cases in court. she had experience in the clinton administration doing policy work at most of her life has been spent in academia. that is a very political environment. deans were the great scholars of the academic world but in today's world, they are more fund-raisers. thissis a concern to think about her judicial philosophy and how she will be able to switch from a mode of policy- making to a position of a judge where you need to look a lot first. you will need to come to a fair result instead of thinking what you would vote for if you were a politician. host: there are hundred

according to the "l.a. times," on june 26, 2010, it stated the propose red form bill won't help protect small banks, nor keep competition alive in our banking system. a return to prudent banking would address this concern. reinstating and strengthening glass-steagall would move our financial system to a more competitive mode. the bill that's proposed from everything i know about it will not do that. i wanted to reference a report from bloomberg business week, that i -- that has two sentences at the beginning of the article that are important, and i quote, legislation to overhaul financial regulation will help sur b -- curb risk taking and boost capital requirements. what it won't do is fundamentally reshape wall street's biggest banks or prevent another crisis. if we can't do that, why would i want to vote for it? so i want to ask my colleagues this -- does the proposed bill make the necessary change to be able to prevent the financial crisis of 2008? if it can't, why vote for it? too many experts don't thi

and i can't solve the problems like the city of l.a. is having at this point.ut isn't it real easy, all accounting is in elect format. cabinet you post the financings? maybe the state for the california state lottery? doesn't that seem like a solution so we can avoid these fiscal crises because we can catch them right away? guest: well, it's certainly an interesting solution. and it raises one of the interesting things of course about a chapter 9 bankruptcy. because in a sense the stigma is different from, say, a company filing for bankruptcy or an individual filing for bankruptcy. again, up here in harrisburg people talk about it every day. how did the city get into the mess? who was running the city? why did they do this? and people have a real interest in what's going to happen. now, tosk bankruptcy code formally does not give the residents of the city, i mean, the bankruptcy code doesn't give the residents of the city the right to vote on the plan. but the residents of the city of course ultimately have the right to vote on who is running the city. so, yeah

there is 126 members of congress, something like that, representing l.a. county. what does that tell you whether you're in the district or out of the district? it doesn't tell you anything. except that you do live in that city and i suppose someone could look up the name of the individual and the home address of the individual perhaps to protest at that individual's residence. i mean, we are getting a little silly here. we are talking about disclaimers that will take the entire time of a commercial. i don't like these commercials as much as anybody else does. you know. i got commercials that have been running against me for the last two years by the dccc. radio commercials suggesting i've done this, that or the other thing. do i like that? no. what the heck? it's part of the game. but i have seen people harassed after campaigns. i have seen people at their homes have protesters show up at their houses. now, maybe you think that's part of the robust debate we want around here. but what are you really doing by making the res. -- resident's hometown available there?

l.a. county, who made themselves an op city and san fransco, have come down hard agains arizona. the big tng is, we don't have enough politicians wh any backbone to protect the american worker. i think when we get people in there for the politicians, we need to get people from cis, center for immigration studi, to free up all of the lies th are -- that are being put out. host:he next call is from queens, new york. mary on the independent line. caller: first of all, it is >> arizzna gov. damper has been meeting with president obama about her state. she is speaking out. we have been reading about -- >> we have been reading about border security in arizona. with that, i will take questions. >> [inaudible] >> we know we are not going to agree on certain issues until other issues are worked out. we will have more direct dialogue in a couple of weeks. people are going to come out to arizona to brief us on what their projections will be. 1200 national guard and the $500 million he has indicated he is going to send down there. we will see how that is going to get distributed. we will see

, that is a brief that supports the efforts of the virginia attorney attorney general, ken pooch in l.a., to try to have a provision in the health care bill struck down as unconstitutional. the number one reason that i think this legislation is bad is we simply cannot afford to make additional promises to the american people that the federal government simply cannot keep. we have right now many, many programs here that benefit many american citizens that are on automatic pilot that they are going to cost far more than the government has the ability to raise revenues to pay for. when i talk to young people i ask them to questions. one, who is going to have to pay for this and invariably they know the answer. they know it is going to be on their shoulders. what they often do not know is how much money we are talking about. the economic stimulus package that i voted against cost close to $1 trillion by the time you add in the money in the budget to pay the interest on it. it is about a trillion dollars. the health care bill of the president claimed would cost $1 trillion, most people now i

l.a. times: senate g.o.p. blocks extension. business week: republicans thwart bill with unemployment aid buyout. boston globe: filibuster halts bill-boosting jobless benefits, aid to states. mcclatchy newspaper: g.o.p. blocks jobless extension. "usa today" senate bill again blocks job extension and tax breaks. those tax breaks were for middle-class americans. seattle times: republicans continue blocking a federal aid bill. the republicans in the senate have made the decision to do everything they can to turn the country upside down to, do everything they can to stop any economic recovery because they think it may help barack obama. it may help some of their people trying to run for senate seats around the country. so they fure as bad as they can make the economy, the better off they will be. that's a pretty difficult view for people who are united states senators. the presiding officer is a senator from the state of oregon, and that is your prime responbility, is to take care of their state. but also as a united states senator

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