mr. bush, when he took over, did not in fact inherit a recession, that recession happened after he was in office and it was a severe one. we started to come out of that and again the bush administration policies caused a second recession. when you look at mr. bush's term of office, he did not create all the jobs -- there were some jobs created but they were not private sector jobs as the gentlelady is so fond of talking about. in fact, if you look at the statistics, there were no new private sector jobs created during the bush administration and when mr. bush left office he in fact left a recession that was shedding 750,000-plus jobs a month. and when the good lady from north carolina talks about the fact that there has been job losses during the obama administration, many of those are the carryovers that it took us a while -- you don't turn around the economy overnight. mr. obama can't flip a light switch and create the jobs overnight. it took time to get the policies in place to start bringi

it voted twice for mr. bush and once for mr. mccain and i decided to come and live amongst them and so at first they didn't quite know what was going to happen but we've pumped about -- now in these six years, close to $50 million into the local economy between the film festival and this theater and all the revitalization that's happened in downtown. and there's not a day now where a republican doesn't stop me on the street and give me a hug or shake my hand. it's been a good experience for me to be amongst people -- we don't necessarily share the same politics, but we're all americans. we're all in the same boat and have to sink or swim together. >> larry: you know, mike, you capitalists constantly amaze me. anyway, you said you had a tough time finding -- finding american -- >> it's all non-profit. it's all non-profit here. >> larry: did you have a tough time finding american independent feature films this year? >> well, i have to say, it was more difficult. we have a great lineup of american films this year, but probably 50%

it voted twice for mr. bush and once for mr. mccain and i decided to come and live amongst them and so at first they didn't quite know what was going to happen, but we've pumped about, now in these six years, close to $50 million into the local economy between the film festival and this theater and all the revitalization that's happened downtown, and there's not a day now where a republican doesn't stop me on the street and give me a hug or shake my hand. it's been a good experience for me to be amongst people -- we don't necessarily share the same politics, but we're all too badk there are hundreds of millions of americans who would really like to go to the movies this summer. i don't know about you, i've only been twice, and i saw two good films, but there should be a great film every week coming out. i don't know why that is. do you ever hear that from people? >> larry: do a lot of stars come to this festival? >> yeah. we have stars that come here. the stars to us are the -- really the directors and the writers. we had paul m

he was a great friend to all of us, and became very close to the president and mrs. bush. the president had evan and his significant other, a woman named jermine bertrum, [laughter] [applause] together in the white house. at first, the secret service would not let them in the gate. this secret service called up and said she had a police record. janine was a weatherperson and had served time in jail where she was given awards for prison activism for the evengood, but e had a record. the secret service would not let her in. the president called down to the gate and said i want her in the residence and i want turnout. they let her in. the rest is history. that was one little anecdote. president bush was very patient about this, and would not take no for an answer. another person whose name i think should be mentioned is dr. henry bets. [applause] key runs a clinic in chicago, a rehabilitation clinic. -- he runs a clinic in chicago, rehabilitation clinic. he once said to me of all the politicians that have been connected to this issue, no one has the direct intuitive connectio

and lastly with mr. bush. mr. obama's immediate predecessor. and that perspective was, if the regulator would simply get out of the way things would be fine. mr. royce indicates that the market will take care of things. the market will discipline itself, he said. phil graham said that with respect to the derivatives. unfortunately i voted for that bill that mr. graham was for, i made a mistake. the market did not discipline itself. in fact, the market took extraordinarily irresponsible steps. what i hear, i tell my friend from new jersey, the people saying is, don't let the big guys trample on us. don't let the big guys put us at great risk. don't let the big guys make decisions that they take the risk and we take the loss. that's what i hear the people saying. and that's what i think this deal is designed to respond to. this week mr. boehner compared reforming wall street to killing an ant with a nuclear weapon. that may sound colorful, but this is the greatest economic crisis that any of us, and i'm looking around this floor, have experienced

and lastly with mr. bush. mr. obama's immediate predecessor. and that perspective was, if the regulator would simply get out of the way things would be fine. mr. royce indicates that the market will take care of things. the market will discipline itself, he said. phil graham said that with respect to the derivatives. unfortunately i voted for that bill that mr. graham was for, i made a mistake. the market did not discipline itself. in fact, the market took extraordinarily irresponsible steps. what i hear, i tell my friend from new jersey, the people saying is, don't let the big guys trample on us. don't let the big guys put us at great risk. don't let the big guys make decisions that they take the risk and we take the loss. that's what i hear the people saying. and that's what i think this deal is designed to respond to. this week mr. boehner compared reforming wall street to killing an ant with a nuclear weapon. that may sound colorful, but this is the greatest economic crisis that any of us, and i'm looking around this floor, have experienced

mr. blair or bush or anyone else. what a question is the good judgment, both bush and blair. >> he told the inquiry that about a month before the invasion, he won a tony blair that things had changed and that there might not be any wmd's after all. by then, late was too late britain, as he put it, was -- by then, it was too late. britain, as he put it, was a prisoner on the u.s. military train. >> just over $9 billion was allocated, but 6% cannot be accounted for. it is impossible to say what happened to the money. the minimum wage for workers in the garment industry, among the mourners paid are in south asia. -- among the lowest paid are in south asia. the african union has agreed to send another two thousand peace- keeping troops to somalia. it will bring the number to 8000. the african union is not changing the mission's mandate. we were told the should be strengthened to allow troops to engage in combat. a 14-year-old dutch goal has won a legal battle. she can now try to become the youngest person to sail single-

mr. bush's administration. when they took over the congress in january, 2007, the deficit happened to be $458 billion. and was on a trajectory to go to zero again. that would have been wonderful. now, let me say that's more of a deficit than i wanted to see, but it was not the $1 trillion deficit that they talked about which they created in the last two years of president bush's administration. at the end of 2008, the deficit was $1.4 trillion. in two years, the deficit quadrupled. it went from $458 billion to $1.4 trillion, the largest deficit ever. and what's it going to be this year? it's going to be the largest deficit ever again and be even laverager than the deficit that they -- larger than the deficit that they created in 2008. and my colleague was talking about the health care bill that passed with only one republican voting for it in the house. and we're all very proud of that. republicans are very proud of the fact that we all voted against the health care bill the first time. the second time, no repu

i will remind my colleagues on the other side, mr. bush was president for eight years and when we zun employment we did it on an emergency basis, we never paid for it one time and you guys had -- the republicans -- i'm not supposed to address them directly, they didn't pay for it, mr. speaker. they were in charge and their president was in charge but they called it an emergency. now under mr. obama it's not an emergency. suddenly we're going to -- we're going to tie up people's minds and try and confuse them but the fact is that for six weeks we have said to workers in this country, we are not going to extend benefits. now, we have never in the history of this country, when unemployment was at 7.2% or above, failed to extend benefits. until the republicans got a serious case of fiscal -- well, i'm not going to say exactly what i think. but fiscal disease has overtaken their mind. and they suddenly caught this thing, i don't know, it must be in the air around here, or somewhere down around the ohio river, between cincinnati and kentucky, th

the illegals and let's see if the american people will not take some of these jobs that your great mr. bush said that they are taking jobs that americans do not want to. guest: there is a lot there. i get the same sorts of messages at home about congressional retirements, salaries, but unfortunately, they are all inaccurate. members of congress on no work at least six days of the week in our district. retirement has not changed. now, it is the same as federal workers. 1.7% a year in salaries. it is much more comparable to what it ought to be. the point you made about foreign aid, i think people need to understand the severity of debt that susan was talking about. we are borrowing 43 cents on every dollar we are spending. think about that. if you are borrowing half of almost everything you burn every year, what a terrible financial position that puts you in. everything in the federal budget will have to shrink for us to get back to a balanced budget. we are going to have to change our thinking about the role of the federal government. what are our priorities? i do not believe people can stom

mr. obama inherited, which, of course, the situation from the bush era. how much do you blame the bush years for that kind of sit which in the country is in right now? what would have happened if we continue down the path? guest: well, listen, george bush has to take blame for that. no question. i am not going to make it a partisan thing at all. the financial meltdown, which was the singular fact -- first of all, but over easy federal reserve policy, the chief u.s. dollar, those occurred under george bush's watch, a housing bubble which i happen to think had a lot to do with easy fed policy, it had something to do with fannie mae and freddie mac and they're easy liberal lending policies, and it also had to do was mistakes made by mortgage lenders and wall street, who may or may not have reacted to easy money but they took risks they should not have taken and it knocks for the books right. these all occurred under mr. bush's watch -- whether he called them, i don't know, but they are on his watch. you had pretty close to a bipartisan policy in 2008 when a

mr. obama inherited, which, of course, the situation from the bush era. how much do you blame the bush years for that kind of sit which in the country is in right now? what would have happened if we continue down the path? guest: well, listen, george bush has to take blame for that. no question. i am not going to make it a partisan thing at all. the financial meltdown, which was the singular fact -- first of all, but over easy federal reserve policy, the chief u.s. dollar, those occurred under george bush's watch, a housing bubble which i happen to think had a lot to do with easy fed policy, it had something to do with fannie mae and freddie mac and they're easy liberal lending policies, and it also had to do was mistakes made by mortgage lenders and wall street, who may or may not have reacted to easy money but they took risks they should not have taken and it knocks for the books right. these all occurred under mr. bush's watch -- whether he called them, i don't know, but they are on his watch. you had pretty close to a bipartisan policy in 2008 when a

if you look at mr. bush and the deficits that he had, and then if you look at the deficits we have created, i think it is pretty much black and white. the refrigerator is one of the industrial inventions rudolph was talking about. caller: -- host: tony, who is your representative in texas? caller: [no audio] host: all right, tony is gone. "democrats are facing a final window for legislative accomplishment and little chance that they can get more than a handful of bills approved before election season slams shut. georgia, independent line. your thoughts about republicans possibly gaining control of the house of representatives? caller: yes, sir. thank you for c-span. i wanted to say that i did not think that the republicans would take back over the house. it is too many seats for them to take over and i do not see the democrats losing those seats. you have them just blaming the obama administration for overspending. you have to look at the situation that they came in on. we have just got to deal with it, that

i will remind my colleagues on the other side, mr. bush was president for eight years and when we zun employment we did it on an emergency basis, we never paid for it one time and you guys had -- the republicans -- i'm not supposed to address them directly, they didn't pay for it, mr. speaker. they were in charge and their president was in charge but they called it an emergency. now under mr. obama it's not an emergency. suddenly we're going to -- we're going to tie up people's minds and try and confuse them but the fact is that for six weeks we have said to workers in this country, we are not going to extend benefits. now, we have never in the history of this country, when unemployment was at 7.2% or above, failed to extend benefits. until the republicans got a serious case of fiscal -- well, i'm not going to say exactly what i think. but fiscal disease has overtaken their mind. and they suddenly caught this thing, i don't know, it must be in the air around here, or somewhere down around the ohio river, between cincinnati and kentucky, th

mr. akin: bush administration that brought hurricane katrina. everything bad thing that ever happened in the whole world. mr. graves: they fail to take responsibility that they took the majority in 2006 and sworn in their speaker in 2007 and yet failed to take responsibility for the actions in the unemployment and the job losses that we see today, but blame it on someone else previous. mr. akin: one thing that is hard to argue with is the numbers. in 2008, bush was president, but nancy pelosi was speaker of the house. this was the worst spending year of the bush administration. the bush administration spend too much money? i would say yeah, he did. $259 billion. mr. graves: we have branches of government, three of them, and spending and allocation and appropriations original nates in the house of representatives, not in the executive branch but the house of representatives. mr. akin: in 2008, that was bush's worst year, $459 billion. look at the first owe baum ave -- obama year here, talk about runaway deficits. this cannot continue without the n

i will remind my colleagues on the other side, mr. bush was president for eight years and when we zun employment we did i on an emergency basis, we never paid for it one time and you guys had -- the republicans -- i'm not supposed to address them directly, they didn't pay for it, mr. speaker. they were in charge and their president was in charge but they called it an emergency. now under mr. obama it's not an emergency. suddenly we're going to -- we're going to tie up people's minds and try and confuse them but the fact is that for six weeks we have said to workers in this country, we are not going to extend benefits. now, we have never in the history of this country, when unemployment was at 7.2% or above, failed to extend benefits. until the republicans got a serious case of fiscal -- well, i'm not going to say exactly what i think. but fiscal disease has overtaken their mind. and they suddenly caught this thing, i don't know, it must be in the air around here, or somewhere down around the ohio river, between cincinnati and kentucky, the

mr. blair. what i questioned was a good judgment of bush. >> he told the inquiry one month before the invasion he warned tony blair things had changed and there might not be any wmd;s, but it was too late. britain was a prisoner on the u.s. train. >> an american watchdog criticized the military for failing to account properly for $9 billion of iraqi money. the money consisted of the proceeds from the sale of iraqi oil and gas, as well as assets. the u.s. military says funds went mrs. -- records may have gone lost. bangladesh doubled the minimum wage for workers in the garment industry. take-home pay will increase to $40 a month. there have been a violent clashes in recent months with workers complaining of poor conditions. the garment industry produces 80% of the country's exports. american and south korean forces are taking part in joint military exercises. they have been taking place at sea and in the air. they involved the dozens of ships and thousands of personnel. a south african judge found four former students guilty of humiliating a group of black domestic [unintelligible] it was recorded

about her current book the people first bush and the possible aura of impunity that surrounds american presidents thank you very much for sitting down to speak. mr that you have been on an on line campaign to prosecute george w. bush members of his administration for what you call violations of international law domestic law the constitution. why have you not given up on this because the administration of george w. bush was particularly lawless i don't think there's ever been a time in american history when we had the highest officials in government so flagrantly break the law and show no respect at all for the rule of law they just created laws just out of whole cloth they created laws in secret behind closed doors that were in them a cold to american democracy and and shameful to our international image some of those laws for instance redefined torture so that it made it ok for the c.i. a to brutalize prisoners and detainees. supposedly even doing it legally for instance allowing waterboarding to be done legally one in fact it is a violation of international law and u.s. law but it didn't matter provided that they did these laws in secret do y

about her current book the people first bush and the possible aura of impunity that surrounds american presidents thank you very much for sitting down to speak. mr that you have been on and on relentless campaign to prosecute george w. bush members of his administration for what you call violations of international law domestic law the.

bush administration. and for those eight years change did not occur. sadly, mr. secretary, during the year and a half of your administration, change did not occur. i know that it seems like a very little bit of time but if in fact the 20 or so findings that have occurred by your own igs and g.a.o. had been put together with the work of this committee sooner and the urgency put on to it, i believe this could have been prevented. having said that, we need to look to the future. we need to look to real change in the mineral management service. i personally would not like to see it broken into three even smaller parts but rather have the real focus either as an independent agency or as one that has a level of clarity to the american people much more similar to the e.p.a. we need to have that. we need to have the american people under that the proper revenue that does not come to the american people is a factor. the proper controls and safe zpwaurds are a factor. chairman waxman, mr. cuse niche, mr. towns, and the rest of us have all seen hearings but we haven't seen

mr. speaker, during the first decade of this century, the bush economy destroyed the middle class. mr. courtney: today we are at a point where 72% of social security retirees have elected early retirement age 62 because they have no other financial choice. but despite the fact that they have voted with their feet in the unprecedented numbers, what is mr. boehner's proposal for social security, which he told "the pittsburgh gazette" a couple years ago, he wants to raise the retirement age to age 70. if there is a more out-of-touch statement with what the middle class of this country is going through and what an out-of-touch proposal to basically totally knock the stuffing out of the retirement security, mr. boehner's proposal to raise social security retirement age to 70 to -- would disamate what's left of the american middle class. we can't let that happen. democrats will protect this system, which is celebrating the 75th anniversary this august, a problem that is solvent until 2037, and with moderate, balanced changes can protect the solvency for far future years and generations. i yi

the bush administration said there was a problem and i think you are fixing to show us an article. mr. akin: this doesn't say rush limbaugh here. this says the "new york times." "new york times." not exactly a conservative newspaper, september 11, 2003, the headline is, bush administration today recommend the the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. a in agency would be created in the treasury department to assume supervision of freddie mac and freddie mac going on. this is 2003. they saw it coming. this then resulted in republicans in the house passing a bill. what goes then? we sent it to the senate. what happened in the senate? you needed 60 votes to pass it? and what happened? the democrats killed this in the senate, just like they killed the energy bill in the senate that was designed to help us with gas prices. justs as you know, gentlemen, to reduce health care costs. they killed the society the health plans time after time here on the floor to allow small businesses to pool their employees to get a

mr. mcclintock: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. i would say in response that, yes, george w. bush was responsible for what was then the worst debt in the nation. that was a terrible public policy, and i make no apologies for it, but it needs to be pointed out that this administration and this congress in just two years have run up as much debt as the irresponsible bush administration did in all eight years combined. yes, that was irresponsible fiscal policy. why in the world would you want to exacerbate and continue that bad policy? republicans have learned their lessons. it appears that lesson has not yet been learned on the other side of the aisle. mr. speaker, anyone who's experienced firsthand the quiet panic that stalks every waking hour of an unemployed family knows how frightening and debilitating is chronic unemployment. you watch your savings evaporate, you watch your children going without the material things that their friends enjoy and you count down the months or even days until you won't be able to make that crucial rent or house payment. that unemployment check is a

in short, it's all president bush's fault but mr. obama's assertion fails on three grounds. first, the wars, tax cuts and prescription drug programs were implemented in the early 2000's yet by 2007 the deficit stood at $161 billion. when our colleagues across the aisle took over the congress, the deficit stood at $161 billion. i go back to quote. how could these stable policies have suddenly caused trillion-dollar deficits beginning in stpwhine obviously what happened was collapsing revenues from the recession along with stimulus spending. second the president's $8 trillion figure minimizes the problem. recently, c.b.o. data indicated 10-year baseline deficit closer to $13 trillion if washington maintains today's tax and spend policies whereby discretionary spending grows with the economy, we're spending, obama care is implemented and congress spends the bush -- extends the bush tax cuts. and the medicare doc fix. thunder realistic baseline the 10-year cost of extending the bush tax cuts $3.2 trillion, the medicare drug entitlement, the iraq and afghanistan spending add up t

and how many jobs were di vested in the bush administration and one would think that the bush administration, mr. speaker, would be a distant memory. but it's not because we're reminded of it every day, including today, by the president, president obama, when he came forward to demand that the republicans get out of the way and extend unemployment benefits, even the president, apparently, doesn't understand how he pass odd because macare he pass odd draw -- obamacare without any republican votes anywhere. republicans don't have the votes to block any of these ideas. if the president had enough to marinate and figure out how to pass obamacare, how can he with a straight face have the temerity to say to the american people, the republicans are blocking the extension of unemployment benefits? we don't have the votes to do that. all it takes is nan city pelosi, harry reid, barack obama, the ruling troika, to decide they want to pass unemployment benefits and th can do that, mr. speaker. it is -- there's no doubt about it. they have proven it. they proved it in march of this year when they pass odd b

mr. malley, stephen hadley the former national security advisor to president bush was quoted last week as saying this meeting between these two was doomed to success. he's speaking about the atmosphere of it. is that right? >> that is right. i think both president obama and prime minister netanyahu had one overriding objective which is to overcome what had been a very troubled relationship in the past. they paint a very different picture. they had different reasons for doing that. in the case of president obama, the fact that he reached the conclusion that the months of tension over the issue of settlement construction between his administration and mr. net netanyahu's government had not been particularly beneficial to the u.s., a fight that the u.s. administration picked perhaps at the wrong time on the wrong issue. this was a meeting that was , as steve hadly said, doomed to succeed because both sides wanted it. >> ifill: did that work? >> by all accounts it has. they clearly evidence new friendship, a new desire to move forward. this is a prerequisite for being able to make serious pro

alan greenspan should let all of former president bush's two thousand and one and two thousand and three tax cuts expire to cut the long term deficit mr greenspan support of course helped persuade congress to pass these tax cuts in two thousand and one it's trillions in tax cuts and yet spending wasn't reduced now their revenue was reduced to the government but spending accelerated because of as you pointed out the beginning this huge expansion of the fourth branch of government now which is the surveillance state with borrowed money you know reagan wasn't a tax and spend politician he was a basically a borrow and spend politician and he borrowed the country into the it's current state of bankruptcy well now alan greenspan is saying oops i shouldn't have persuaded you to do that of course this is his like deathbed conversion saying oh i'm sorry i sinned the maestro is a fraud we've been saying that for years his policies are really on on work the ball and that all he did was stoke the biggest bubble in history and particularly after nine eleven they brought interest rates down to levels that increased the borrowing spigot to levels no

mr. gemma, which of the bush tax cuts should go? >> we are facing a $1.4 million deficit in -- $1.40 trillion deficit in our country. the real problem is about creating jobs. we're working on creating a jobs plan to bring real jobs to the people of our state and our nation. we want to lessen the burden and the pressure. i do believe that the middle class is the one that is really suffering. we have to help them. >> you started that answer by citing the deficit. are you saying that the bush tax cuts are taking a heavy hand in the deaths at? >> the real issue with the books-cuts -- the bush tax cuts is that they probably need to be repealed. >> all of them? even the child tax credit, the marriage tax, the death tax? >> all of them. $1.4 facing a deficit of million -- hard decisions will need to be made. i believe the tax cuts should be allowed to expire. >> according to the government site, $266 million in stimulus money has been spent on grants, loans, and contracts in rhode island, in the first congressional district alone, which ne

mr. speaker, the democratic majority, are about to let the bush tax cuts expire. representative graves talks about marginal rates. he didn't have a chance yet, i'm sure he will, to get into the estate tax, to letting the dividend, instead of being 15% tax on dividends, to let it go up to the marginal rate, indeed up to 39.6%. and let capital gains go back up from 10% or 15% to 20%. these are the job killers. all of these regulations, union wages, giving them special deals, paying them, in many instances, far more and indeed even letting them work federal jobs and negotiate union activities while they're supposed to be working for the taxpayer. i could go on and on but i want to yield back to the gentleman controlling the time and look forward to my colleagues as we go through this hour. mr. graves: let's take a quick glance at where we are from a perspective financially and then the positive solution of balancing the budget. imagine that. balancing the budget, balancing the checkbook here at the federal government. here's the truth of where we are and we heard ear

mr. gohmert: i keep hearing our friends across the aisle end up talking about george w. bush. they keep forgetting that got them in the majority in november of 2006. my friends across the aisle have been in charge ever since 2006. time to do something besides blame people who are not in office. take responsibility. that's a good thing. then we hear our administration, our friends want to give 500 million more dollars to pakistan because we are not worried. we have already given them a billion bucks. i have the new result from last year. they voted against it at the u.n. 87.5% of the time. you don't have to pay people to hate, they'll do it for free. let's gets the money where it will do good instead of helping our enemies. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> request permission to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. green: i rise today to speak in support of the most successful program in the united states government has ever create

cuts expire, if the bush tax cuts expire, then what's going to happen is that the farmers are going to have to sell their farm in order to pay the taxes. you heard him say that. mr. broun, fineman, but we disagree bitterly on the issues. he said that if the bush tax cuts are not extended or if they are allowed to expire, then farmers will have to sell their farms to pay payroll taxes. you know, this is the whole debate about the estate tax. and it's very important to remember that the republicans argued this thing before. and they were challenged. the reporters said, ok, you guys are talking about saving the family farm because it's always about poor people and saving the family farm, but it never really is. but the fact is, they were challenged, save one family farm that has been taken away for taxes. they couldn't find one because it just isn't so. these bush tax cuts, the ones that help the middle class, the democratic caucus, believe need to be saved. the rich folks who -- they ought to expire and be similar to what they were during the clinton days. it makes sense to me and it's what we should do. now, i want to talk about unemployment extension insurance.

mr. schauer said 600,000, 700,000 jobs were lost during the last months of the bush administration and he pointed out that over the last five months the average has been 1770,000 jobs a month that -- 170,000 jobs a month have been added. my colleague from florida said 120,000 jobs per month. but we won't haggle over 50,000 jobs per month. we would love to have those jobs. but unfortunately, to get to an average, whether it's 125,000 or 170,000, you have to have things like we did in june, 430,000 jobs created in the month of june. great news, 431,000 actually. unfortunately, 411,000 of those were temporary census workers. oh, yeah. economy's just booming, isn't it? it gets tiresome hearing my friends across the aisle talk about that last year that bush was in office and the damage he did to the economy. it's deeply troublesome, because the fact is in november of 2006, our democratic friends took the majority by promising america that republicans would not control spending, but they would . they promised that we will get rid of this ridiculous $100 billion deficit for one year of spending

economy into the ditch, the worst economy in three quarters of a century wrought by the bush economic pocies to which mr. sessions, the chairman of their campaign committee, says they want to return to the exact agenda. i'm so pleased i had the opportunity to come and respond to my friend from texas. it does demonstrate the difference between our two parties, absolutely. jon kyl who says we ought to borrow $686 billion from the chinese to give it to the wealthiest in america and democrats who say we want to borr $34 billion to give it to the children of america whose families are in need, yes, that is the difference, if my friend from texas wants to make that the difference this is about saying that we have an emergency, and historically from ronald reagan to today, ronald rean i, bush i and bush ii, what did you do when you were in charge? you borrowed during times of economic trouble to give unemployment insurance. we're doing the same thing. why did we do that? because we perceived it to be an emergency, an emergency that peop in the richest nation on the face of the earth were about to run out of th

mr. gemma, which of the bush tax cuts should go? >> we are facing a $1.4 million deficit in -- $1.40 trillion deficit in our count. the real problems about creating jobs. we're working on creating a jobs plan to bring real jobs to the people of our state and our nation. we want to lessen the burden and the pressure. i do believe that the middle class is the one that is really suffering. we have to help them. >> you started that answer by citing the deficit. are you saying that the bush tax cuts are taking a heavy hand in the deaths at? >> the real issue with the books-cuts -- the bush tax cuts is that they probably need to be repealed. >> all of them? even the child tax credit, the marriage tax, the death tax? >> all of them. $1.4 facing a deficit of million -- hard decisions will need to be made. i believe the tax cuts should be allowed to expire. >> according to the gornment site, $266 million in stimulus money has been spent on grants, loans, and contracts in rhode island, in the first congressional district alone, which netted a

bush shutting their opinions of mehserle supporters. there were heated arguments but never turned violent. >> i'm for the family oscar brand icahn side for him but i'm also for mr. mehserle. it was a horrendous tremendous mistake. does he have to be but it was a mistake. what we wanna do is make a point. >> only want people to know that your badge number does not give you the right to shoot people and the back. to date response to certain protections not eliminate. >> officer showed kennedy sure road for about 45 minutes till about some of the crowd began to disperse. >> investigators following up on another major incident that happened over the weekend. this incident involved a sniper shooting at police officers. >> this is the scene around 1130 last night after someone opened fire on police officers. >> in the car stop the investigation and found that there was a large amount of crack cocaine inside of the vehicle. they're investigating someone from the apartment complex started to fire a weapon at the officers. >> police backed off and called in additional officers. they ended up searching the office part of building only to find nothing. >> any to any have

bush. isn't at correct? >> that is correct. >> which mr. brady voted for. so when he talks about the skyrketing tax increase, it is a plan they voted for. one of the great weaknesses of that plan was that the numbers were gained so that the ten-ar and 20-year numbers would look better because it came to an abrupt end. they didn't have the nerve to carry it out. that's a plan they voted for. they voted for skyrocketing tax rates in 2013, not congressional democrats, certainly not signed by president obama and not recommended by dr. christina romer. >> absolutely. and by structuring it the way we did, we didn't -- it allowed them -- the debt, you know -- to hide the impact that it was going to have on the defic over time. >> that was the big reason for it. >> yeah. >> frankly fooled the american people. i want to get into this -- we use this word stimulus. we've kind of ignored the word countercyclical, but i'm a te h teacher. if this was the consumption of -- by state government before the recession, jobs drop off, that's what they're -- if this was the cons