mccaskill: for working folks now. these were working folks these weren't those folks at the very top -- these weren't like frankly my family is very blessed. it wasn't the tax cuts that were passed that helped my family. it didn't help some of the families that are out there that are now struggling with unemployment. and the rest of the stimulus that's out there. i've been interested in missouri -- in fact, i wrote a letter to the budget chairs in missouri, because they were kind of puffing up about how they were going to be able to balance the budget this year. and i looked into it and realized that the only way that they were balancing the budget this year was because of the stimulus money. it is in fact the stimulus money that has gone to kentucky and gone to illinois and gone to missouri and gone to oregon, gone to alaska, gone to rhode island -- that is what is allowing these state legislatures to keep from massive layoffs of public school teachers. there would be massive cuts in education in missouri this year,

nick watt as our report. >> reporter: danny mccaskill was a bike mechanic from scotland.osted a 5:38 clip on youtube. ♪ within hours, danny's phone was ringing. milli millions watched this. ♪ >> i got asked to be in the circus. i turned that one down. and i got asked to be on the ellen degeneres show, as well. i really didn't know what that was at all, so i said no to that, as well. >> reporter: danny is one in a long line of youtube sensations. but like his fellow scot, susan boyle, is one of the few to turn a flash of fame into, perhaps, a sustained career. >> i never had a goal at all to be a profession al. designers want to sponsor me. that might have made me money, but i don't want to end up looking like an idiot. >> reporter: instead, he's appeared in rock videos and tv commercials. like this one for volume kkswav. have you bought an apartment, do you have a car? >> no, no. yeah, not really. i've not been doing anything at all. i just buy myself nicer food. >> reporter: nicer food? anyway, now he's sponsored by an energy drink maker and travels the world. >> unfortu

the work claire mccaskill has done on auditing.ze out $5 million a year and $10 million year and make this program work a livtle good habits. ì(lc@&c+ restraint muscles in ways that will not affect programming for p*uá will affect our bottom line. so we are moving aggressively, we hope, this year to get that stuff done. but what we also have to understand is that if i take all the steps that i have put forward and congress follows my lead jrh non-defense discretionary spe&ding, if we are potent in terms of defense spending, and we do all the things we have talk about, we still have this structural deficit we have inherited. second, with my proposal does is to pay for the recovery act and the other extraordinary steps we had to take last year, so that i will have covered what happened on my watch. that is important to understand. whatever spending that i have to take that was extraordinary that you took with me, including the recovery, if we follow my budget outline, we will have taken care of and paid for what happened on our watch

. >> a spokesman for senator clair mccaskill, the missouri democrat who chair as subcommittee on governments continuing to investigate the circumstances behind this contract. in washington, james rosen, fox news. >> bret: we'll take a look at the president's budget and the massive federal spending with the fox all stars. that starts in three minutes. at the first sign of a cold... ( sneezing ) i didn't take zicam cold remedy... but i did. zicam reduces the duration of a cold. ( sneezing ) no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no... can you do it by 3:00 ? yes, i can. how about 2:00 ? hmm... ( sneezing ) ( moaning get over your cold faster. now try new throat-soothing liqui-loz and great-tasting zavors. >> we simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences. as if waste doesn't matter. because if the hard earned tax dollars can be treated like monopoly money. >> the president is going to have to be consistent and clear. he can't spend big part of his state of the union talking about more spending programs and then say that we're -- we have got a serious deficit problem. >> bret:

thank you. >> thank you, senator mccaskill. senator reid. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i want to follow up on the point that senator collins made, because it is my understanding that canada and the united kingdom have allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the case of canada since the early '90s and in great britain 2000, and they are fighting side-by-side with us in afghanistan and in fact, i would think that we would like to see more of their regimens and brigades there. does that, i think suggest as admiral mullen mentioned before that the combat effectiveness is not m pai m impair and we hav opportunity to work with them in joint operations, and does that add credibility or weight to the discussions that you are undertaking? >> well, it is clearly something that we need to address. with knee to we need to talk to those countries in the military formal and in depth way about their experience. i believe that their experience is a factor, but i also would say that each country has its own culture and its own society, and it has to be evaluated in those

we talked to people like claire mccaskill who would tell stories about obama campaign for her in 2006nd when they came to st. louis, not only did they have to have the fundraiser for the 2000 were 3000 people, but it would need to get a separate room for 15,000 people, because everybody wanted to see this guy. his fund-raising ability was at the core of why, as we talk about the democratic establishment being behind him, that was part of the political appeal, part of the wheat they demonstrated that he could be a serious candidate. anita dunn, in some sense, along with david plouffe, initiating a similar strategy for deval patrick in massachusetts, started to think about how this could be capitalized on to build the grass-roots@@@ they call them a dime if they see a thread. -- call them dumb if they see a threat and with that sarah palin -- left comedians like joy behar and bill maher attacker all the time did she had more experience than barack obama. iit is how they try to be little their opponents. they say that europe is this or that. europe is made up of different countries with

a peck on the cheek for claire mccaskill. the president shaking a few hands. this will be opening remarks by the president and then we are expecting that he will take some questions about strategy and how the democrats will try to move forward on things like health care reform. let's bring in real quickly while harry reid delivers his opening remarks, columnist for politics daily.com and, lynn, as far as what the senate does next, it's now been pretty emphatically made by house speaker pelosi if the senate will pass the fixes to health care reform, she believes she can round up the votes to pass the senate bill as is. in other words, they have to make some fixes in a separate bill. is that the leading question for the senate democrats and what do they do with this? >> well, it could be. the big question is will they accept the compromise because the house won't vote wholesale on the senate bill. if they would, it would eliminate the need for a super majority on it. so one of the things i'll be listening for, the book end to the republican question and answer s

don't think until we report in the book we had a clear sense and we start talking to people, claire mccaskill who would tell the stories about obama coming to campaign in 2006 and they would have to when he would come to st. louis they would get an overflow because not only did the of the fund raiser for the 2,000 or 3,000 people who were going to pay money they also need a separate room for 10,000 or 15,000 people because everybody wanted to see this guy. his fund-raising ability was at the core when we talk about the democratic establishment sickly behind him that was part of, they could see the political appeal. the was the way he demonstrated he was someone who could be a serious candidate. anita dunn in some sense along with david plus, who was initiating a similar strategy for the deval patrick of massachusetts, they started to think about how this could be capitalized on to build what became the grassroots army so people would come to obama defense and ask for e-mail addresses and that was the beginning of building a database for the help fund the eventually became the database that ev

that is the question senator mccaskill raised. you have to either look at the ones that are separated or voluntarily resigned to talk to them as former service members or have -- everybody would agree and i can't imagine my colleagues who favor the don't ask don't tell policy would not agree to a request from somebody to talk to a current gay member. that is in response to a question particularly by someone authorized to ask a question. i think everybody would agree that opinion should be solicited but not penalized. she raises a very significant point. this point would need to be addressed, an accurate survey. you have to talk to a broad cross-section of people. >> the comments today were strong. >> i had previous conversations and indications of personal belief, very strong belief in not allowing people to be themselves and integrity is the nature of our army and armed forces that people want integrity and respect integrity. asking people to be something other than they are. i wasn't surprised by it. we have come to rely on mike

across the country -- here we are, we're trying to save billions of dollars, cut waste -- claire mccaskill been all on top of how we can audit our spending and we could save billions of dollars in ending old leases that do not work or renegotiating them or consolidating buildings and efficiencies. but i do not have a gsa administrator even though i nominated someone who was well qualified several months ago. nobody can tell me that there's anything particularly wrong with her. they are blocking her because of some unrelated matter. i do not know, you guys may know better than i did. that has to end. it has to win. [applause] -- it has to end. let's have a fight about real stuff. don't hold this woman hostage. if you have an objection about my health care policies, then let's debate the health care policies. but don't suddenly end up having a gsa administrator who is stuck in limbo somewhere because you do not like something else that we are doing, because that does not serve the american people. then they do not know what the argument is about. it's a plague on both your houses because it

mccaskill: you know, i haven't -- my pal from tennessee -- and in fact the senator from tennessee and the senator from vermont and the senator from rhode island and i all came here in the same class, and the senator from oregon just arrived in january. so we haven't been here for a long time to watch how the senate works. and how the senate traditionally has worked. and i know it appeared to my pal from tennessee that this looked like some organized ambush. -- ambush of the senator from kentucky. and i got to till the truth, we're not that well manufacture organized. if we were that well off organized, we probably would have been doing more of this a long time ago. i -- i honestly came down to the floor, understanding a deal had been made to give senator bunning a vote. -- a vote on this amendment. i expected that vote to occur. i hadn't talked to my office. i was surprised when i got to the floor and realized that senator bunning, which you can do nders the rules, was going to hold this. and i walked up, as i was finishing voting on the third bill and i said to dick, are you going to

>> well, that is the question that senator mccaskill raised, so you have to either look at the ones who have separated or voluntarily resign and talk to them as former service members or i would assume and everybody would have to agree, and all of my colleagues even those who favor the "don't ask, don't tell" policy would have to agree to a request by somebody to talk to a current gay member. i mean, if that is in response to a question by somebody who is authorized to ask the question, everybody should agree that opinion should be solicited and not penalized, but she raises a significant point. it is a point which would need to be addressed in any survey that is an accurate survey. you have to be able to talk to the broad cross section of people. >> were you surprised by mullen's comments today? they seemed strong. >> i had in the previous conversation with him an indication that that was his personal belief. very strong belief in integrity, and not allowing people to be themselves, and the integrity is the nature of the army and the armed forces and people want integrity there and res

across the country -- here we are, we're trying to save billions of dollars, cut waste -- claire mccaskillas been all on top of how can we audit our spending -- and we could save billions of dollars in ending old leases that don't work or renegotiating them or consolidating buildings and efficiencies. but i don't have a gsa administrator, even though i nominated somebody who was well qualified several months ago, and nobody can tell me that there's anything particularly wrong with her. they're blocking her because of some unrelated matter. i don't know, you guys may know better than i do. and that is -- that has to end. it has to end. [applause] and the american people want it to end. let's have a fight about real stuff. don't hold this woman hostage. if you have an objection about my health care policies, then let's debate the health care policies. but don't suddenly end up having a gsa administrator who is stuck in limbo somewhere because you don't like something else that we're doing, because that doesn't serve the american people. then they don't know what the argument is about. then i

. >> thank you, senator mccaskill. senator reid. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i want to follow up on the point that senator collins made, because it is my understanding that canada and the united kingdom have allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the case of canada since the early '90s and in great britain 2000, and they are fighting side-by-side with us in afghanistan and in fact, i would think that we would like to see more of their regimens and brigades there. does that, i think suggest as admiral mullen mentioned before that the combat effectiveness is not m pai m impair and we hav opportunity to work with them in joint operations, and does that add credibility or weight to the discussions that you are undertaking? >> well, it is clearly something that we need to address. with knee to we need to talk to those countries in the military formal and in depth way about their experience. i believe that their experience is a factor, but i also would say that each country has its own culture and its own society, and it has to be evaluated in those

all across the country, here we are, we're trying to save billions of dollars, cut waste, clair mccaskill has been all on top of how can we audit our spending, and we could save billions of dollars, in ending old leases that don't work and renegotiating them or consolidating buildings and efficiencies but i don't have a gsa administrator. even though i nominated somebody, who was well qualified, several months ago, and nobody can tell me that there is anything particularly wrong with her. they are blocking her because of some unrelated matter. i don't know. you guys may know better than i do. and that is -- has to end. it has to end. [applause]. >> and the american people want it to end. [applause]. >> let's have a fight about real stuff. not -- don't hold this woman hostage. if you have an objection about my health care policies, then let's debate the health care policies. but, don't suddenly end up having a gsa administrator, who is stuck in limbo somewhere. because you don't like something else that we're doing. because that doesn't serve the american people. then they don't know what

chairman, i think i would like to reserve 44 seconds for the next round so mccaskill on the question. >> you may even have longer than 44 seconds. senator rockefeller. >> senator grassley, you were actually just 31 seconds. [laughter] >> he's a good man, we will give him more. >> that's true. that's true. a secretary geithner, i want to go right to coal in the energy part of the budget. let me just say this colin grow i come from state of west virginia that has a hostile attitude toward any changes in current practices with coal. which is against cap-and-trade and any change at all. not in all cases. i am trying to change that and this budget is going to make it hard for me. let me explain. ç abouti] 6.7% of its electricity. q coal gives itçóç about 85%. but you gotç all kinds of tax credit elimination's in about coal, which come out of the meeting in pittsburgh of the g- 20, and i understand that. but also don't really believe that china and india are going to be part of that. çóso on top of thatç, a relatiy small thing but a nettlesome thing, you shift costsw3 of osm onto the co