at madigan army medical center in my home state of washington. a number of soldiers have their behavioral health diagnosis changed from ptsd, to other behavioral health disorders, that didn't come with the same level of benefits. however, following, as you may know, an independent review, at walter reed, a number of those diagnoses were change back to ptsd. that's really troubling. what's even more trouble to me and to many service members and their family members in my home state and a lot of people i've been talking to, issed allegation that the decision to strip those soldiers of a ptsd diagnosis, came from a unit at madigan that seems to have been taking the cost of a ptsd diagnosis, into account, when they were making their decision. now, there's an investigation going on into this. really to me one of the things is clear is that oversight within the army and the department level allowed this break from standard diagnosis process, to go unchecked. so i'm really concerned about how the services handle nonptsd behavioral health conditions, lik

president cullerton, speaker madigan, leaders radogno and cross, attorney general madigan, secretary white, comptroller topinka, treasurer rutherford, members of the general assembly, distinguished guests and fellow citizens of illinois, i'm here today to report to you on the state of our state. but before i begin, i know i speak for all of illinois in wishing our senator mark kirk a speedy recovery. [applause] we're all pulling for you, mark. and i also know i speak for all of illinois and all of america in thanking our servicemembers in every branch of service who have volunteered to protect our democracy. we're here today because of you. we are especially proud of the servicemembers of our illinois national guard. in the early morning last december 18, a convoy of the illinois national guard's 1644th transportation company led by their commander captain michael barton, crossed the desert of southern iraq into kuwait. their unit had made 73 dangerous convoy trips between kuwait and iraq. they drove nearly 4 million miles. their convoy was one of the very last to leave iraq. the war

i want to thank lisa madigan for helping us in the never-ending battle. thank you, lisa. [ applause ] i think we all believe in fighting for the moms and dads and children of illinois. and that's why for the first time in a decade we significantly increase tax relief for working families. thank you, barbara flynn curly and thank you senator dwight hutchinson. you helped get the job done with your colleagues. [ applause ] by doubling the value of the illinois earned income tax credit and improving the personal exemption, we are providing targeted tax relief to 1 million working families and their children. people like rhonda jones. rhonda is a single mom raising five children on the south side of chicago. she works as a public high school counselor for a modest salary. she knows what it's like to live from paycheck to paycheck. year after year, the federal and state earned income tax credit has been her saving grace. she uses that extra money to help pay bills and support her kids through school. three of her children are now in college and two more are on

patrick madigan from my office, debbie hagan of illinois. i mentioned debbie. matt budzig of connecticut. phil layman of north carolina, vicki butler of florida, jim gaross of texas, dave huey of washington and andy mccollin of colorado. they were the work horses on all of this. and then for the last seven years we've had another remarkable relationship. that's with the state banking regulators. we worked with them on the ameriquest case, household case, task force to deal with and prevent foreclosure. john ryan, their executive director is here. he has a great relationship party. party means nothing. and, you know, i keep trying to think of myself as a relatively young man. but i've been attorney general for 30 years. and during that time, i've had a lot of -- involved in a lot of multistates that work with the federal government, work with the federal government in a lot of ways. and have had good relationships and sometime not so good relationships working with the feds. that may surprise you. but it's true. but all -- of all that time, i've never seen such

lisa madigan ofin what we've done. through debbie hagan, her rshgable assistant and through own leadership and through her courage, you know, i don't think we see as much political courage today as we should. but we saw a lot with lisa. and she stood and supported and worked on this agreement under verytime. that's good stuff, lisa. and we respect it and admire you for that. george jefferson of connecticut who is here with us was on the negotiating committee and did a great job. attorney general dustin mcdaniel of arkansas, attorney general doug dansler of maryland, greg zeller of indiana are also here. they contributed in this effort as well. so we have this great group of attorney generals working on a

richard madigan of illinois contributed so much. through debbie a word, her leadership and -- hayward, her leadership, and her courage. we saw that with lisa as she supported and worked on this agreement during difficult times. that is good stuff, lisa, and we respect and admire you for that. george jefferson of connecticut, who is here with us, did a great job keeping the attorney general preston mcdaniel of arkansas -- the attorney-general of indiana, also your. they contributed as well. we have this great group working together on this bipartisan avenue. and you know, we must admit we do not do all the work in the attorneys general offices. we have a remarkable set of attorneys general who were done this in an incredible way. i would just like to mention their names. madigan from my office was remarkable, debbie hagen, matt from connecticut, phil layman from north carolina, phil butler. they were the work force is on all of this. and then for the last seven years, we had another great relationship. that is with the state banking

we have lisa madigan from my home state of illinois. and dustin mcdaniel from arkansas.gory is a lawyer from indiana. and tom miller from iowa. i also want to acknowledge bob ryan who worked with sean donovan on this issue. and i will also acknowledge gene sperling who does not get the credit he deserves for doing such outstanding work. the housing bubble that burst three years ago triggered the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. the cost millions of innocent americans their jobs and their homes. it remains the biggest drag on our economy. last week, i urge congress to pass a plan that would help millions more americans to refinance and stay in their homes. and i indicated that the american people need congress to act on this piece of legislation. but in the meantime, we can't wait to get things done and to provide relief to america's homeowners. we need to keep doing everything we can to help homeowners and our economy. and today, with the help of democratic and republican attorney generals from nearly every state in the country, we are about to take a major step o

president cullerton, speaker madigan, leaders radogno and cross, attorney general madigan, secretarywhite, comptroller topinka, treasurer rutherford, members of the general assembly, distinguished guests and fellow citizens of illinois, i'm here today to report to you on the state of our state. but before i begin, i know i speak for all of illinois in wishing our senator mark kirk a speedy recovery. [applause] we're all pulling for you, mark. and i also know i speak for all of illinois and all of america in thanking our servicemembers in every branch of service who have volunteered to protect our democracy. we're here today because of you. we are especially proud of the servicemembers of our illinois national guard. in the early morning last december 18, a convoy of the illinois national guard's 1644th transportation company led by their commander captain michael barton, crossed the desert of southern iraq into kuwait. their unit had made 73 dangerous convoy trips between kuwait and iraq. they drove nearly 4 million miles. their convoy was one of the very last to leave iraq. the war

to save money and investigation has been launched after a disturbing memo was made public where a madigan army medical center psychiatry has said that a soldier who retires with the p.t.s.d. diagnosis could eventually receive one point five million in government payments and he claim that the rate of such diagnoses eventually could cause the army and the v.a. to go broke he continued by stating that psychiatry is have to be good stewards of the taxpayer dollar and have to ensure that soldiers aren't being quote rubber stamped with diagnosis of p.t.s.d. so what does that say when the health of those who served it's being measured by dollars discuss this with me is jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger at black. jim thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess you know thanks for drawing our attention to this story now before we get into some of the larger implications of the bigger statistics here can you just give us more details about this pacific incident i mean was this just a one off or i guess we should say that it's good that somebody notice

>> i was very concerned when i got the report about what happened at madigan. i get reflects the fact that, frankly, we have not -- i think it reflects the fact that, frankly, we have not learned how to effectively deal with that, and we have to. we need to make sure that we have at the psychiatrists, the psychologists, and the medical people who can make these evaluations, because these are real problems. i have met with men and women who severed this problem. i met with a couple last night. they had to go through hell in order to get a diagnosis that was required here. that should not happen. we are investigating, obviously, what took place, but i directed our personnel undersecretary to look at this issue and to correct it, because it is unacceptable to have the process we have in place. >> i appreciate the attention given to this. it is going to take a lot of work. i am deeply concerned that when someone comes home from war and they pack to go through a diagnosis like this, it is hard enough after you have been told to man up for your time of service to the

in addition you have tensions in the middle east, we talked to richard madigan about that on power lunch, there are a lot of cross currents in the market and economic data is looking a little bit better but i don't think anybody would say we're completely out of the woods right now. number of traders we talked to yesterday and also today say if you have decent profits in the market, take a rest, take money off the table you will have opportunities to get in the market again. >> you have to wonder what it that will pull the institution of the individual investor back in the market. what is the catalyst at this point? sure we have better and strong earnings, but with all the insert ti -- uncertainties. >> i'm not sure what the all clear would look like. maybe simon would address that. i think time will heals the wounds from the financial crisis down the road. >> i think we have the exact po sit of all clear coming from europe. we had a meeting of the coalition government in greece, and it would happen that from that today, importantly the man that may be the next prime minister of greece,

began and our guest today with over 100 calls so far city hall lined attorney general's office lisa madiganrubbly in a moment sharing the stage federal counterpart eric colder and the president and washington >> this is neither a deep again ignore the end halting banks and other institutions accountable constructions that cost families your duty and country process takes months to get going homeowners need answers now can get some of them at the end of the white homeowners hot line at national foreclosure settlement with information on the website wgntv.com. the criticism here government helping a lot to await small portion of millions of americans facing the real prospect of losing their homes. >> coming up astonishing video a girl snatched by a stranger in sot at wal-mart how she was able to fight wed and steve jobs files keeping a close eye on the apple co-founder. tonight's medical watch cancer jock according to the unit united states journal of science stopping the spread of plaque robbing patients of memory used in mice raised with alzheimer's after taking it-rapidly grew smarter and

president cullerton, speaker o madigan, leaders radogno and cross, attorney general madigan, secretary white, comptrollerdke topinka, treasurer rutherford, members of the general assembly, distinguished guests and fellow citizens of illinois, i'm here today to report to you on the state of our state. but before i begin, i know i speak for all of illinois inrise to wishing our senator mark kirk a [cheers an would you please stand. [cheers and applause] give to my family, thank you for all the support that you have given me in standing by my side every day for the last three years. the military herald this evening, thank you for your alsl courageous service to our great state and our great country.ajor i would also like to recognize . and thank major mark stevens. major stevens, please stand. [applause] to wait next month, major stevens will be leaving on translating his soldiersm to kuwait abortive operation enduring freedom for the third time. in the middle east supporting our great country. not only is major mark stevens the commander of the net, but he is also the marketing manager o

lisa madigan from my home state of illinois and former seat mate of mine in the state legislature togethercdaniel from arkansas. gregory zeller from indiana and tom miller from iowa. i also want to acknowledge bob ryan who worked with with shean donovan extensively on this issue as well as tim masiff of treasury and gene sperling who doesn't always get the credit he deserves for doing outstanding work. the housing bubble that burst nearly six years ago triggered, as we all know, the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. it costs millions of innocent americans their jobs and their homes. it remains one of the biggest drags on our economy. last fall my administration unveiled a series of steps to help responsible homeowners refinance their mortgages to ache advantage of historically low rates. last week i urged congress to pass a plan that would help millions more americans refinance and stay in their homes. i indicated that the american people need congress to act on this piece of legislation. in the meantime, we can't wait to get things done and provide relief to america's homeowners. we

lisa madigan from my home state of illinois.mer seat mate of mine when we were in the state legislature together. dustin mcdaniel from arkansas. gregory zoeller from indiana. and tom miller from iowa. and i also want to acknowledge bob ryan, who worked with shean donovan extensively on this issue, as well as tim mathis of treasury. and i'm going to acknowledge also jean sperling, who doesn't always get the credit he deserves for doing outstanding work. >>> the housing bubble that bust nearly six years ago triggered as we all know the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. it cost millions of innocent americans their jobs. and their homes. and it remains one of the biggest drags on our economy. last fall, my administration unveiled a series of steps to help responsible homeowners refinance their mortgages to take advantage of historically low rates. and last week, i urged congress to pass a plan that would help millions more americans refinance and stay in their homes. and i indicated that the american people need congress to ac

. {>>} president cullerton, speaker madigan, leaders radogno and cross, attorney general madigan, secretary white, comptroller topinka, treasurer rutherford, members of the general assembly, our distinguished guests and fellow citizens of illinois, i'm here today to report to you on the state of our state. but before i begin, i know i speak for all of illinois in wishing our senator mark kirk a speedy recovery. [applause] we're all pulling for you, mark. and i know i speak for all other one away and all of america in thanking our service members in every branch of service who have volunteered to protect our democracy. we're here today because of you. we are especially proud of the servicemembers in the illinois national guard. in the early morning last december 18, a convoy of the illinois national guard's 1644th transportation company led by their commander captain michael barton, crossed the desert of southern iraq into kuwait. their unit had made 73 dangerous convoy trips between kuwait and iraq. they drove nearly 4 million miles. their convoy was one of the very last to leave iraq. the

>> i was very concerned when i got the report about what happened at madigan and reflects the fact we have not learned how to effectively deal with that and we have to. we need to make sure that we of the psychiatrists, psychologists and the medical people who can make these evaluations because these are real problems. i've met with men and women who have suffered the problem and just met with a couple last night and they had to go through hell to get the diagnosis that was required here and that should not have been to reduce we are investigating what took place, but i've directed our personnel under the secretary to look at this issue and to correct it because it is unacceptable to have the process we have in place. >> i appreciate the attention given. it's going to take a lot of work and i am deeply concerned when someone comes home from a war and the have to go through a diagnosis like this it's hard enough after you've been told to man up during your time of service to then face the fact you have ptsd and then to have that reversed and changed back and told there's nothing wrong

president cullerton, speaker madigan, leaders radogno and cross, attorney general madigan, secretary white, comptroller topinka, treasurer rutherford, members of the general assembly, distinguished guests and fellow citizens of illinois, i'm here today to report to you on the state of our state. but before i begin, i know i speak for all of illinois in wishing our senator mark kirk a speedy recovery. [applause] we're all pulling for you, mark. and i also know i speak for all of illinois and all of america in thanking our servicemembers in every branch of service who have volunteered to protect our democracy. we're here today because of you. we are especially proud of the servicemembers of our illinois national guard. in the early morning last december 18, a convoy of the illinois national guard's 1644th transportation company led by their commander captain michael barton, crossed the desert of southern iraq into kuwait. their unit had made 73 dangerous convoy trips between kuwait and iraq. they drove nearly 4 million miles. their convoy was one of the very last to leave iraq. the war