president, i started a great lakes truck driving school in 2008 in lorain county. >> i'm sorry, what kind of school? >> great lakes truck driving school. >> cross driving school? oh, truck driving school, i'm sorry. >> great lakes truck driving school. started in 2008. our first year we trained 287 people and we placed over 70 percent of those people into jobs. at that time there was enough money, through the workforce investment board, to train those people. in the past few months we've had a number of people on a daily basis coming into our school that's unemployed, but there are no training funds for truck driver training. and i want to know why that has changed. >> well, the recovery act put a huge amount of money into retraining. we are now preparing for next year's budget, and i know that we have actually allocated additional money for retraining. i don't know specifically what's happening that would cause those dollars to dry up with respect to a truck driving school. let me see if i can find out. i'll have one of my staff get your card, and maybe we can provide you some infor

ray church, your school president here at lorain county community college. [applause] listen, it is great to be here in elyria. thank you so much for the great hospitality, the wonderful reception. look, it's just nice being out of washington, let me say. there are some nice people in washington, but it can drive you crazy. am i wrong, sherrod? you know, for two years i had the privilege of traveling across this country, and i had a chance to talk to people like you and go to diners and sit in barbershops and hear directly about the challenges that all of you are facing in your lives and the opportunities that you're taking advantage of and all the things we face together as a nation. and the single hardest thing, the single hardest thing about being president is that it's harder for me to do that nowadays. it's harder to get out of the bubble. don't get me wrong. the white house is a wonderful place to work. you live above the store which means i got a very short commute. i'm having -- i see my daughters before they go to school and i see them at night for

president, i started a great lakes truck driving school in 2008 in lorain county. >> i'm sorry, what kind of school? >> great lakes truck driving school. >> cross driving school? oh, truck driving school, i'm sorry. >> great lakes truck driving school. started in 2008. our first year we trained 287 people and we placed over 70 percent of those people into jobs. at that time there was enough money, through the workforce investment board, to train those people. in the past few months we've had a number of people on a daily basis coming into our school that's unemployed, but there are no training funds for truck driver training. and i want to know why that has changed. >> well, the recovery act put a huge amount of money into retraining. we are now preparing for next year's budget, and i know that we have actually allocated additional money for retraining. i don't know specifically what's happening that would cause those dollars to dry up with respect to a truck driving school. let me see if i can find out. i'll have one of my staff get your card, and maybe we can provide you some infor

build your own business represents a statewide expansion of a highly successful program at lorain county community college where they offer education and support to budding small business people. and where 60 of the 62 businesses they have mentored are succeeding. build your own business is just one of four significant job training programs i think should be the focus of new revenue which ohio will receive from casino licensing fees. i would ask the legislature to consider implementing our co-op internship program to give college students an opportunity to get invaluable experience in their fields, and encourage our young people to stay and thrive in ohio. and we should support the highly successful ohio workforce guarantee because it avoids layoffs and spurs business expansion by providing resources to companies. and i look forward to working with the legislature to create an urban workforce initiative to provide incentives for ohio companies to immediately put unemployed ohioans back to work. i believe in ohio because we favor common sense solutions over ideological extremes. now with

i saw the great career job training program here at lorain county community college. obviously, i'm thrilled to be cured spending some time with you. >> i love you! >> i love you back. thank you. [cheers and applause] let's be honest. these are difficult and unsettling times. they are difficult times here, tough in ohio, tough all across the country. i walked into office a year ago in the middle of a raging economic storm that was wrecking devastation on your town and communities everywhere. we had to take some very difficult steps to deal with that mess. to stave off an even greater economic catastrophe. we had to stabilize the financial system, which given the role of the big banks in creating this mess was a pretty tough pill to swallow -- swallow. i knew it would be unpopular, and rightly so. but i also knew that if -- that we had to do it because if they went down, your local banks would have gone down and of the financial system had gone down, it would have taken more businesses and families with it. we would have been looking at a second great depression. so, m

president, i started a great lakes truck driving school in 2008 in lorain county. >> i'm sorry, what kind of school? >> great lakes truck driving school. >> cross driving school? oh, truck driving school, i'm sorry. >> great lakes truck driving school. started in 2008. our first year we trained 287 people and we placed over 70 percent of those people into jobs. at that time there was enough money, through the workforce investment board, to train those people. in the past few months we've had a number of people on a daily basis coming into our school that's unemployed, but there are no training funds for truck driver training. and i want to know why that has changed. >> well, the recovery act put a huge amount of money into retraining. we are now preparing for next year's budget, and i know that we have actually allocated additional money for retraining. i don't know specifically what's happening that would cause those dollars to dry up with respect to a truck driving school. let me see if i can find out. i'll have one of my staff get your card, and maybe we can provide you some infor

my home county in oleary county, the first presidential visit since 1948 when harry truman came to lorain county, ohio, and spoke about how congress wasn't doing any of the things that mattered to fight -- to fight the problems of that day. and the president was not partisan, but the president made it clear that -- that republicans' reluctance to help get this economy back on track, help with job creation is what set us back. that's why the president was in lorain county, to talk about job creation, talk about helping small businesses, talk about helping with exports, talk about helping unfreeze credit because so many companies can't get credit. the president has also thrown his support behind what many of us in ohio are seeing as our states becoming the silicon valley of alternative energy. toledo, ohio, has more manufacturing jobs than any city in america. i was in cincinnati this week, yesterday, in fact, and cincinnati -- in cincinnati there's a steel company that was making steel drums for oil fields is now making steel components for wind turbines. i could take you around my state a

on friday the president will travel, as we previously announced, to loraine, ohio, on the next out ofo meet strict war and he will hold a town hall at the lorain county community college with workers, business leaders and small business owners for ideas on continuing to grow the economy and putting americans back to work. one more thing before we take questions. çççmartin of the king. how are we doing this? the website -- this is the website that is now active for people to donate on behalf of the relief and building efforts of haiti that is being coordinated by former president clinton and former president george bush, georget( w. bush. that will be the centerpiece of the event here at the white house tomorrow. as soon as we have details on the timing of that, we will ensure you all have that to appropriately plan your weekends. >> barney frank says that if brown wins on tuesday health care is dead. you agree with that? >> i don't think scott brown is going to win tuesday. >> it is looking like you might be wrong, so what are you guys doing to prepare for that eventuality and what

memo president obama is in ohio today hosting a town hall meeting in the county of loraine, and localcommunity college. we expect the focus to be on jobs, the economy and health care. you can see it live right here on c-span, and it will start at 2:00 p.m. eastern. anti-abortion protesters are gathered in moscow and today marking the 37th -- gathered in washington today marketing the 37 conversely of rover's is way. we are watching this. >> children will be killed every day, and they must adopt that kind of activity in this country. the focus of our coming today is to try to find a way we can take more cases up to the supreme court. we can also come to our congress and try to get bills introduced, which the march for life indeed will be doing. and our effort, then, is to educate washington officials them, what a pre-born child looks like who has unfortunately been killed by a surgical abortion and get those washington officials to say that they want to stop this evil in our country. so, the message is here, the letters are out to our president, more letters will go to congress for mar

president obama to date in lorain county, ohio, touring a wind turbine plant in speaking at a community college there. >> wednesday, president obama delivered his first state of the union address to congress, laying his vision for the country. the state of the union address, wednesday night. our coverage begins at 8:00 eastern. you can also listen to the address live on your iphone with the c-span radio app. >> each year thousands of students and the washington to with this new workings of government firsthand. sunday night at 8:00. host: steve hoersting is the vice president for the center of competitive politics. jamin raskin is the constitutional law professor at american university. they are here to talk about this court ruling from yes today. let me begin with you, mr. hoersting. let me show you this opinion piece by russ feingold. "usa today" referring to corporate money coming into campaigns in the future. here is the "new york times" editorial -- your reaction? guest: i think if you would check the "wall street journal" you would see that it is a victory for free speech. getting

>> lorain county. happy new year to you guys.as a recap of what the government has done since the incident? >> let me break up the meeting, which is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. in the situation room. the meeting is scheduled to go almost an hour and a half. at the conclusion of the meeting, the president will make a public statement. not getting ahead of what people say, but i think you will hear the president give a candid update on where we are in the review, outlined the specific steps that have been taken to strengthen security in our country, particularly our airports, over the past several days. and go through some timelines about additional security announcements that may be forthcoming. say again? no, he is just making a statement. >> not necessarily steps to be announced today. >> correct. >> will he be challenging the agency heads about in their purview what went wrong and seeking some accountability there? >> as you know, the president requested this review right after the incident that took place on christmas day. many of

build your own business represents a statewide expansion of the highly successful program at lorain county community college where they offer education and support to budding small business people. and where 60 of the 62 businesses they have mentors are succeeding. build your own business is just one of four significant job training programs i think should be the focus of new revenue which ohio will receive in casino licensing fees. i would like the legislature to consider and limiting our co-op internship program to give college students an opportunity to get invaluable experience in their field, and encourage our young people to stay and thrive in ohio. and we should support the highly successful ohio workforce guarantee because it avoids layoffs which spurs business expansion, by providing resources to companies. and i look forward to working with the legislature to create an urban workforce initiative to provide incentives for ohio companies to immediately put unemployed ohioans back to work. i believe in ohio because we favor common sense solutions over ideological extremes. now with