. >>> republican congresswoman and deputy house with marshall blackburn of tennessee gives her faults on the economy, jobs and the relationship congressional republicans have with president obama. from today's washington journal, this is 45 minutes. pascrell john, washington journal this morning from her home state representative marsha blackburn avoiding the snow in washington. how did you get to do that? [laughter] >> guest: thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> guest: i'm happy to be with you. >> host: we started our program this morning by showing people a brand new "new york times" cbs poll that suggests anchor at phill law makers is at an all-time high. are you and your colleagues and house republicans aware of the public sentiment and what do you propose to do to address it? >> guest: the american public is angry and i think rightfully so. the interesting thing is they are upset with both parties and with the bureaucracy in washington, d.c. and that is not lost on us. one of the things we are doing, indeed i am starting it today sure in west tennessee, we are doi

relations with iran and we focus on the economy and jobs with republican representative marshall blackburn and bruce reed, head of the debt -- leadership council. "washington journal" is next. . . . yesterday senator conrad had a hearing where he invited experts on spending and during that made a bit of a speech about the role of congress in dealing with this with the line that history will judge them. here are the phone numbers if you would like to be a part of the discussion about washington and the approach to budgets and deficits. before we get -- we have a couple of things to put into context. you probably heard yesterday that the president's council of economic advisers chairwoman christina rumor released a report about the economy to the president -- christina romer. unemployment likely to stay at near double-digit through the year. we have the continuing jobs problem. but the question on whether or not or how to spend federal money to stimulate jobs is in washington now, and an opinion çpiece in "the wall street journal" rights of this. the obama budget takes publicly held debt --