the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. mcgovern: i rise in very strong opposition to this resolution and very strong opposition to the very closed process in which we are discussing this resolution. once again i am deeply disappointed that instead of working to create jobs and strengthening the economy, the new republican majority continues to focus on reopening old wounds and fighting old battles. the resolution before us today is allegedly the replace component of the republicans repeal and replace strategy. i say allegedly, madam speaker, because this resolution is not a serious legislative effort. it is a series of talking points. it is a press release. what this resolution does is ask the committees of jurisdiction to hopefully, maybe someday, if they would be so kind, to report legislation to the house that meets certain vage goals. -- vague goals. instead of repeal and replace,

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i want to yield three minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, my colleague, mr. frank. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for three minutes. mr. frank: mr. speaker, i was unclear in my own mind which was worse, the terrible procedural abuse of this resolution or the serious substantive flaw. but i then realized they come together. because it is procedurally outrageous so as to protect a substantive grave error. first of all, it is a major piece of legislation and it's not amendable. just like the health care bill. you may remember, mr. speaker, what people on the republican side said about open rules. it will be a fond memory but apparently not a reality. we have a very important piece of legislation subject to no amendment and chaired a committee for four years and never would i have brought a bill to the floor with such an impact and had no amendments in order whatsoever. but i understand why they don't want an amendme

mitt romney has been in politics for 17 years, ran for the senate, lost to ted kennedy, ran for massachusetts governor and won. four years ago, he ran for president and lost. the party of "wait your turn," will they say, now it's mitt's turn? and finally, pin the tail on the donkey. house republicans will vote wednesday to repeal obama's health bill. the senate is never going to buy it, the president won't sign it. what's the deal? with us today, "new york magazine's" john heilemann, "politics daily's" alex wagner, nbc's kelly o'donnell and nbc's chuck todd. all the republican action is in washington right now but the real republican story is the fight to beat barack obama next year and on that front, the important action isn't here in washington, it's out there. right now, 12 armies are pitching tents, gathering strengge, gttinad rey.th today we launch our 12 for '12 series putting a sharp eye on the huge republican field. the possibilities are mitt romney, mike huckabee, sarah palin, newt gingrich, tim pawlenty, haley barbour, john thune, mitch daniels, john huntsman and rick santorem. many

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker, for maybe taining decorum in the house. at this time i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new yorkmr. weiner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. weiner: madam speaker, we are seeing today that after 75 or so hours of markup, hundreds of hours of hearings, 16 months of long debate, thousands upon thousands of meetings and town halls the republicans come to shington and don't know what they want to do in health care yet. . . should understand that this resolution says go bacand figure out what we want to do. ladies and gentlemen, i would remind you that last year during the health care debate the republicans had a ance to offer an alternative, they didn't. now they come to washington and say, oh, let's have the committees try to figure this all out. yesterday they were the party of no and today they are the party of we don't know how to go. who are these republicans? after months and months and months of the n

>> guest: massachusetts. >> host: way to go to college? >> guest: i went to harvard college. i took time off and went to the university of north carolina for a while and finished up at depaul university so it took me awhile to get there. >> host: a wall street journal and dow jones there are a number of competing cultures and one is the country of depaul. there were many, and the culture was the pragmatic culture. we had a number of hoosiers and it didn't seem to be the college so many of the hoosiers viewers may be remember george malone the great columnist of many decades. he headed that pragmatism i wish you were here to talk about the tea party now. >> guest: i mother is alive and is a left-wing democrat. my father was a more moderate democrat. the jewish and political party this democrat and i was supposed to be orthodox. >> guest: my family brought me to the new york think he's an and the giant san and the political views never got too far into the equations and the level in the republican leaned -- >> host: i should mention since i write for bloomberg news and work wit

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: yeah, mr. speaker, i'm glad my friend on the other side of the aisle are happy they voted to repeal the affordable health care bill but i'll tell you that there are real people in this country who are benefiting from the real protections in the bill, who are quite anxious about the fact that there are people who want to remove the protection, for example, to prohibit insurance companies from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions. there are parents who can keep their kids on their insurance until they're 26 who are not too happy about that repeal. there are senior citizens who are benefiting from the closing of the doughnut hole who are actually feeling some benefits from this health care bill that aren't too happy that the republicans want to repeal all that and on top that have c.b.o. said it adds considerably to our deficit. at this point i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. i'

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the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. mcgovern: i rise in very strong opposition to this resolution and very strong opposition to the very closed process in which we are discussing this resolution. once again i am deeply disappointed that instead of working to create jobs and strengthening the economy, the new republican majority continues to focus on reopening old wounds and fighting old battles. the resolution before us today is allegedly the replace component of the republicans repeal and replace strategy. i say allegedly, madam speaker, because this resolution is not a serious legislative effort. it is a series of talking points. it is a press release. what this resolution does is ask the committees of jurisdiction to hopefully, maybe someday, if they would be so kind, to report legislation to the house that meets certain vage goals. -- vague goals. instead of repeal and replace,

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i yield myself 1 3/4 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlemanis recognized. mr. mcgovern: the problem with this resolution is has been said over and over again is that it is a press release. it contains no number. people on the other side talked about tough choices, it doesn't talk about any tough choices. it exempts defense spending from any cuts. so fraudulent defense contractors is somehow okay whereas it's not better than waste and abuse in domestic spending programs. everything should be on the table. when we're talking about getting this deficit under control. the reason why the number is so important is because that number determines -- that number determines how much we're going to allocate to the various appropriations committees. and that in turn determines really the severity of a lot of the cuts that will have to be made. cuts in medical research, research to try to find a cure to cancer, cuts in programs to help feed hungry children, cuts in programs that

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i enjoyed the pretty much speaker. i would simply say what is the problem with telling us what the number is and what you're going to cut? the number is important because that does determine what you're going to cut. it determines what the allocations will be to the veterans' affairs appropriations committees. and they have realonsequences and the notion that we're doing something bold by coming up with this arbitrary statement that 2008 or less levels are going to be to without any detail or numbers, without anything of anything, this is political posturing at its worst. with that i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from california, mrs. capps. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mrs. capps: i thank my colleague for yielding. madam speaker, i rise in strong opposition to this destructive resolution. thamerican people have charged us with creating jobs and strengthening our economy. my colleagues in the majority appear m

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr.ern: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. mcgovern: i rise in very strong opposition to this resolution and very strong opposition to the very closed process in which we are discussing this resolution. once again i am deeply disappointed that instead of working to create jobs and strengthening the economy, the new republican majority continues to focus on reopening old wounds and fighting old battles. the resolution before us today is allegedly the replace component of the republicans repeal and replace strategy. i say allegedly, madam speaker, because this resolution is not a serious legislative effort. it is a series of talking points. it is a press release. what this resolution does is ask the committees of jurisdiction to hopefully, maybe someday, if they would be so kind, to report legislation to the house that meets certain vage goals. -- vague goals. instead of repeal and replace, this i

this is lynn, massachusetts. the reason we're looking at this the chopper's flying over this, the roof there just collapsed. look towards the middle of your screen. a roof has collapsed over a garage and two people and a car are stuck underneath all of this. we have very few details. again, these are live pictures flying over this. we believe two people are trapped down there after that garage roof collapsed. this happened just a short time ago. they're trying to get to them. we're hearing the garage is reportedly owned by the greater lynn senior services nonprofit organization. it carries elderly residents to their appointments. we don't know if any elderly residents are among the two people who may be trapped there. this is a breaking news story from lynn, massachusetts. the snow, the weather back there has caused a roof to collapse down onto a car. and we believe two people are trapped underneath it. a rescue operation is taking place. now we're getting early word they may not be seriously hurt, but they're un

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: yeah, mr. speaker, i'm glad my friend on the other side of the aisle are happy they voted to repeal the affordable health care bill but i'll tell you that there are real people in this country who are benefiting from the real protections in the bill, who are quite anxious about the fact that there are people who want to remove the protection, for example, to prohibit insurance companies from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions. there are parents who can keep their kids on their insurance until they're 26 who are not too happy about that repeal. there are senior citizens who are benefiting from the closing of the doughnut hole who are actually feeling some benefits from this health care bill that aren't too happy that e republicans want to repeal all that and on top that have c.b.o. said it adds considerably to our deficit. at this point i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm

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in massachusetts, amateur video showed just how severely wednesday's snowstorm affected the northeasthen a power line caught fire and then exploded. yesterday's storm caused a wave of power outages with exploding transformers and downed power lines. thousands were left in the dark. >>> in california, a cliff tumbled down to the beach leaving some homes in danger of collapse. city engineers say the slide is part of an ongoing erosion problem that's a natural occurrence worsened by recent rains. residents on private property are working with officials to get permits to stabilize the wall. >>> and in texas, there are laws against drinking and driving, but drinking and riding? a cowboy clad in leather chaps and his partner, one on a horse and the other on a donkey, were taken in for public intoxication. police say the men were stopped in the middle of traffic inviting pedestrians to take pictures and pet the animals. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has your weather forecast. >> harmless fun. >> unless you're intoxicated,

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i'm glad the chairman of the budget committee finally joined this debate. and i would say two things. one is that last year we passed a budget enforcement act with real numbers in it and we voted on it and it was significantly less than the number that the president had proposed, number one. number two, one of the things that we proposed in the rules committee was an amendment to allow members of the house, on both sides of the aisle, to be able to vote on the number. and that was rejected on party line as somehow a radical idea. and then the chairman of the rules committee talks about this free-flowing debate we're having. we're having this debate today under a closed rule. and so there's no opportunity for amendment. and with that -- mr. dreier: will the gentleman yield? mr. mcgovern: i yield to the gentleman. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for yielding. i'd like to point to my colleaguings, madam speaker,

. >>> in massachusetts, heavy snow brought down the roof of a garage, trapping two men for three hours. firefighters dug through the snow and shredded steel until they were able to find the men and successfully pull them to safety. >>> and finally, also in massachusetts, a wild turkey may have some issues with the u.s. postal service. a mail carrier was on his daily rounds when he apparently ruffled the feathers of a local resident. the bird chased and lunged a few times at the carrier's mail truck before scurrying off into the woods. whoa. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. bill the beef? >> let the bird in. >> he is a wild turkey. get your shotgun. it will be fun. >> have to watch that wild turkey. i have learned that lesson, bill. let's talk about your weekend weather. good morning, everybody. we have a cold front that's knocking on the door with a move on this morning in washington state. let's get a break on light shower activity. ju too much. tlaz much bigger storm behind it that will

among the big states, massachusetts ranked highest, california, among lowest. executive director of san francisco exploratorium is a science, education and policy expert who worked in massachusetts. >> we're wr science reform is going and places have embraced this. and california used to be a leader here is that hands on experimental part. see what results are, then interpret those results and communicate them. >> noah is with usf school of teacher education claims the no child left behind law which pushed science out of the classroom to make room for reading and math. 50 we get to appoint where we're so heavy in reading, literacy, math in the standards and with our expectations on the standardized tests that many things can left behind. >> the obama administration is working on the next version of no child left behind now pending in congress. the hope is that there will be more emphasis placed on science in all nation's schools n san francisco, abc 7 news. >> and our political reporter will be coming this state of the union for us tonight on coffee tv 20 at 9:

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. moore. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. ms. moore: thank you so much, madam chair and thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise as the incoming co-chair of the congressional women's caucus to talk to you a little bit about the impact that repealing this health care law will have on women. as you all may be aware, women are twice as likely to be dependent upon their spouses for health care and they're less likely than men to have employer-sponsored insurance. as single female heads of household, this has a devastating impact on the entire family when there's no health insurance. all of us have heard stories from our dict about how the repeal of this law will have on women and i heard such a story just yesterday. meet nicole lipski, she's 25 years old, working part time and going to school part time because because of the health care law was able to remain on her dad's insurance an

god bless you all, and god bless the commonwealth of massachusetts. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> connecticut governor dan malloy was ig august rated as the state's 88th governor last week. he was the governor from 1995 until 2009. >> mr. president, mr. speaker, my fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen the general assembly, honored members of the jew decision their, -- judiciary, and honored guests and nancy wyman, and another special mention to my friend, the first, former first lady, the wife the late great governor bill o'neill. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> to all of the former speakers and leaders of the senate who are here, thank you very much for joining us as well. to my very extended family who are with me today and to all of my friends who have joined us today and to all the citizens of connecticut represented in this room and watching us on tv, i want to thank you for joining us, and to the four people who mean the most to me. my wonderful wif

i dot know enough about massachusetts that -- to really comment on that.can i just say as a small business other than with the way this legislation is set up right now, i only see rising costs to my company. i don't see where i'm going to gain lesser expense. whether that may happen in time bears it out, that could be. i just don't see it. >> thank you. really, all of you for coming day today and my time has interest pired. >> i thank all our panel liistso are here for your testimonies and also how this is affecting small businesses. i agree we're going to do something about 1099s. i've said men times theany time not the ten commandments written in stone. laws get changed. we modify things as poinformati comes to us. and so i'll refer to the health care reform bill as a starter home. got a pretty good foundation, a pretty good roof, about but maybe there's some other hinges immediate to be filled in and built into it. so that's why sessions like this are i think important fors to hear from people about some of the good things or maybe about some of the que

braintree, massachusetts. thanks a lot.y the way, we were talking during the heart of this storm. there was lightning. >> call it thundersnow. something you hear and see maybe once every ten years. it's been like the five out of the six storms that we've had this. >> al, thanks very much. let's get a check of the top stories. >> if you're wondering what's causing the snow to keep on coming, we're talking to had a trouble i troubli troubling says that warmer temperatures are causing moisture in the gulf of mexico and that's the driving force behind this month's snowstorm. new information today about suspected arizona gunman jared loughner and the research police say he carried out before the january 8th shooting rampage. mike taibbi is in tucson with the latest on this story. hey, mike, good morning. >> good morning, ann. how are you? for all the people that came forward to say how far gone jared loughner was, information keeps coming out that he was someone who was preparing for a cataclysmic event. investigative sources ha

at one point, more than 100,000 people were without power in massachusetts before the governor declared a state of emergency. michael herstenburg reports. >> reporter: the snow outside boston was heavy enough to topple this tree right through the roof and into a bedroom where a teenager was sleeping. >> he told me, he thought he was having a dream. and he when he woke up, he was covered with all kinds of insulation and everything. >> reporter: parts of massachusetts were expected up to 30 inches, and more than two feet dropped on connecticut. armies of plows hit the streets, but even so police response to hundreds of traffic accidents. local officials can't remember a worse winter. >> we've had over 40 inches, which equals about the total we'll get in a typical winter. >> reporter: and in new jersey it was another back breaking morning of digging out. the third storm in less than three weeks. new york city got about nine inches, but people are feeling like they got off easy. compared to the christmas blizzard, this storm was just a messy inconvenience. >> it will work its way out. it's

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for one minute. mr. markey: this debate is about health care versus don't care. the democrats' health care law lowers prescription drug costs, helps middle-class families pay for coverage for their sick children and expands health care for 32 million more americans, reducing the deficit by $143 billion. the democrats' health care law helps grandma afford her prescription drugs. the republicans don't care about andma. they want to take back the drug benefits in the new law. g.o.p. used to stand for grand old party. now it stands for grandma's out of prescriptions. the republicans don't care repeal shows they don't care about sick children with medical bills, pushing families into bankrupy. they don't care about grandma and grandpa who need help paying for prescription drugs. vote down this rule so that we can help grandma, sick children and middle-class families struggling to pay for health care. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, at this point i'm happy to

the cambridge, massachusetts, school district changed its meal plan and in three years, 40% of overweightthy weight. >> they eat better. they're healthier. they're more alert. they're more weak. >> reporter: all across the country, 32 million students each school lunches five days a week, 11 million eat breakfast, too. the challenge: make those healthier meals affordable. will this increase the cost? >> i would think it would because you're talking about fresh food. therefore, they have less of a shelf life. >> yummy! >> reporter: but with kids consuming half of their daily calories at school, supporters say the cost, whatever it may be is worth it. michelle miller, cbs news, hackensack, new jersey. cbs news, hackensack, new jersey. nline an really need to do something with it... i'm just not sure what... what is it? oh just return it. returning gifts is easier than ever with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. plus i can pick it up for free. perfect because we have to get that outta this house. c'mon, it

the cambridge, massachusetts school district changed its meal plan and in three years 40% of overweightds dropped to a healthy weight. >> they're more alert, more awake. >> reporter: all across the country, 32 million students eat school lunches five days a week. 11 million eat breakfast, too. the challenge? making those healthier meals affordable. will this increase the cost? >> i would think it would because you're talking about fresh foods, therefore, they have less of a shelf life. >> reporter: but with kids consuming half of their daily calories at school, supporters say the cost, whatever it may be, is worth it. michelle miller, cbs news, hackensack, new jersey. >>> an arizona man is praising an airline pilot who held a jetliner at the gate so he could reach his dying grandson in time to say good-bye. mark dickinson thought he'd missed his flight. instead he found the pilot waiting for him and wishes he could have thanked him properly. >> i would have just told him, you know, i can't thank you enough for doing what you did, you know. it means a lot to me, it means a lot to my daug

there was a bridge down in massachusetts, it was one of the new covered bridges -- it was built in theidge. and there were interests in the town who were involved in trucking. in fact, one of them sat on the board of selectmen, and so the bridge disappeared. there's now a steel-and-concrete bridge there. oregon lost so many of its covered bridges due to the pressure put on the counties by the timber and logging industry to provide bridges that could carry the heavy truck traffic that carried the logs to the mills. at the beginning of that program, typically, the covered bridge was just removed and replaced with a new concrete bridge. after some negative reaction by the local residents around the covered bridges, they started building new concrete bridges immediately adjacent to the historic covered bridge, which essentially destroyed the setting and the aesthetic of the covered bridge. now, you know, everyone wants to be able to drive their vehicle, whatever the size it is, you know, whatever load it is, and sometimes it's real hard to convince those guys that they should go a couple o

i fought a project like this when i live in a silk mill in massachusetts. they wanted to turn this beautiful building -- an art historian wrote a beautiful book about it. they wanted to turn it into 26 apartments. the little village got a lawyer. we fought at city hall. we came close to stopping it. i got them to reduce its to 19 apartments. it is now an incredibly depressing slump. one of the most beautiful buildings in massachusetts. it is going to happen here again. we can keep the community that is here and not destroy it. please do not do this. [applause] commissioner miguel: before the next speaker, because we have been here this length of time, we are going to take a 10-minute breaea commissioner miguel: if you'll pardon me, with this brightly shining, i cannot necessarily read this correctly. >> hi like to introduce my next- door neighbor at two years, nellie delaware bottle. >> thank you very much. i have lived here for 21 years. my husband, my two children, and me move from a two-story apartment. we ran away from there, and we found this beautiful

guest: indeed the structure of the law was based on what they have in massachusetts. which is an individual mandate. that was proposed by the then republican governor, mitt romney. that was developed in the 1980's as to what the democrats were pending the employer mandate. the one thing that has not worked that well in massachusetts, they haven't been able to hold down health care costs. that's not something you can do at a state level. massachusetts is an expensive health care and have prestigious hospitals. it's difficult to do. and that's the argument will this law will able to bring down health costs. and no one knows and probably not. that's the big argument going forward, and the problem is no one really knows how to do that. without taking things away from people. that is going to be the difficult issue going forward. host: robert joining us from new york city, with julie rovner, thanks for waiting. caller: hi, a couple of more general points. and then maybe (inaudible) and you eluded to this earlier, someone did. it's a big philosophical divide should all of t

this is a live shot from massachusetts. they haven't army of emergency workers out there with the plows, assaulting and clearing the roads. getting ready for another punch from the store. the weather service predicting a foot of snow, across most of the boston area and massachusetts. connecticut expected another foot of snow, because of that we see flight delays at the eastern airports. a look get sfo for example, if your head east you may find you are stranded or delayed because of the cancellations. we will follow that live in a few moments. ♪ let's go out to the dmv ♪ it's ok that we're number four hundred and three ♪ ♪ we'll find ourselves a comfy seat ♪ ♪ and watch some shows and stuff ♪ ♪ ♪ let's follow that lady with the laptop ♪ ♪ and watch day-time dramas at the bus stop ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your laptop and smartphone with at&t u-verse tv. now get up to $300 back in promotion cards. at&t. rethink possible. jerry brown is paying up this date issued sulfone. and he is ordering half o

he's followed by sarah palin, former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, and former house speaker, newt gingrich. as always, name requisition counts a lot in early polls. the three, leading candidates had plenty of exposure in the 2008 race. >>> republican lawmakers in the house have made good on a campaign promise to repeal health care reform. the 245-189 vote was largely along party lines. gop senators have argued the law would cut american jobs. >> this new law is a fiscal house of cards. and it is a health care house of cards. >> republicans are not offering a single solution to this problem. it's part of the harry houdini health care strategy. now, you have health care. now, you don't. >> debate on the issue was, for the most part, pretty civil. that's until democrat steven cohen of tennessee compared republicans to nazis. >> they say it's a government takeover of health care. a big lie. you say it enough. you repeat the lie. you repeat the lie. you repeat the lie. and eventually, people believe it. the german said enough about the jews. and the people believed it. and you had the

among the big state massachusetts ranked highest. california among the lowest. the executive director of san francisco exploration is a science education policy expert who worked in massachusetts. >> science rae form is going in places like massachusetts really em pwraitsed this. california unfortunately used to be a leader here hand on experimental part science i get to do and see what the results are and then interpret the results and communicate them to my teacher and classmates and somebody else. >>reporter: about he's with usf school of teacher educatio education. he blames the 2002 no child left behind federal law which pushed science out of the classroom to make room for reading and math. >> we get to a point where we are so heavy in the reading literacy math in the standards and with our expectations on the stand arrested test that many things get left behind. >>reporter: obama administration is working on the next version of no child left behind now pending in congress. the hope is that there will be more emphasis placed on science in all of the nation'

massachusetts. michigan. minnesota. mississippi. misery. -- misery. -- missouri. montana. nebraska. >> of nevada. new hampshire. >> new jersey. new mexico. new york. north carolina. >> north dakota. no. mary on us. ohio. oklahoma. >> oregon. >> pennsylvania. pr. -- puerto rico. rhode island. south carolina. south dakota. tennessee. texas. >> i have been asked, if you could sit down after us vote, that would be helpful for the individuals trying to load. -- trying to go out and get back to their seats. -- vote and get back to their seats. utah. vermont. virgin islands. >> virginia. washington. west virginia. wisconsin. and wyoming. >> are there any members of the rnc will have not exercised their opportunity to vote? any members who have not voted? please proceed with the accounting of the ballots. i declare this session to begin formally at peace. the floor remains closed to non-members with the exception of the individuals holding proxies' and non-member candidates for rnc chairman. please do now leave the room. the counting process will not take long. when it is complete

it was those massachusetts family ties that would define shriver's life.the chicago schools. then years later, a massive job for his brother-in-law the president, director of the peace corps. jfk's outreach to the world. >> the peace corps represents one of the most effective methods of demonstrating what democracy is all about. >> after kennedy's assassination, a phone call from lbj, he wanted shriver to take on a second job, running the war on poverty. the telephone call was recorded and shriver resisted at first. but against johnson he didn't stand a chance. >> i'm going to make it clear, i don't care who you have run the peace corps. if you can run it, wonderful. if you can't, get oshkosh from chicago and i'll name him. >> the only person who could possibly do it, mr. president -- >> can you write your ticket. i want to get rid of poverty. >> shriver took on even more of the machinery of government. new parts of it like vista, head start, job corps. he was later named u.s. ambassador to france and continued to champion all of the kennedy family's socia

, boston, massachusetts. lureen mcneil, director, bureau of recovery services, new york state office of alcoholism and substance abuse services, new york, new york. carlos hardy, director of public affairs, baltimore substance abuse systems, incorporated, baltimore, maryland. john, what role does language play in forming public opinion on addiction and mental health issues? i think language plays a critical role in the way that, after all, it's the, it conveys the meaning of, of what we're trying to express. and so i think it plays a very important role and we should think carefully about the terms that we use because of that. so, why does some language impede the understanding, lureen, of, of our field and the way we refer to people? well i think particularly now that we have this new recovery framework, people are holding on to the old language. and the new language really holds the fullness of the framework, it really shows the validity of the framework, it shows the reality of recovery. and so the fact pe

senate race in massachusetts. massachusetts has a full -- at the time 100% congressional delegation all democrats, the strongest democrat state in the nation that i know of. so i thought it was a bit of a presumptuous thing to think about -- asking the lord to intervene in massachusetts, which is the message that i got. but i took a look and he cited, that's our best chance. i ended up going to massachusetts and scott brown was elected what is known as the kennedy seat in the united states senate for massachusetts. he pledged to vote no and kill obamacare. that made it the veto proof republican minority in the senate. most people thought on that night that obamacare was dead. that was january 19 last year. well, subsequent to that, the president held a health care summit at the blair house february 25. that's where he identified his health care plan as obamacare. and in that health care summit there were certain selected republicans that were invited to sit with the democrats around this big table and there were r

>> well, i think that the president's strategy-- like our own here in massachusetts, based on education on innovation and on talk from which you are-- is a strategy that works. it's worked historically, it will work right now and it will play to our strength. i don't think any of us democrats believe that government should try to solve every problem in everybody's life, ray, but we do think government has a role to play in helping people help themselves, in advancing the american dream. and that is a fundamental difference with some republicans but not with all. most republicans i think do understand that government does have a role in expressing those things that we as a national community ought to try to do together. and that's where the unity, i think, has to be sought in this country and what the president, i think, is trying to do for us. >> suarez: douglas holtz-eakin, same question. what does the right relationship between government and the economy look like? >> government has a role but i think the fundamental message of congressman ryan was that we need to identify that role a