ms. edwards. ms. edwards: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 4 of rule 1, the following enrolled bills and joint resolution were signed by speaker pro tempore lewis on monday, september 24, 2012. the clerk: h.r. 1272, h.r. 1791, h.r. 2139, h.r. 2240, h.r. 2706, h.r. 3556, h.r. 4158, hor 4223, h.r. 4347 h.r. 5512, h.r. 618 , h.r. 6215, h.r. 6375, h.r. 6431, h.r. 6433, house joint resolution 117, senate 300, senate 710. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house sundry communications. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on september 21, 2012 at 4:21 p.m. appointments, public safety officer medal of

ms. edwards, i know that the house, as you said, doesn't compromise at all. but 30 bills have been passed on jobs over to the senate, which nothing has been done to, in the senate, to come back into conference so that the house and the senate can pass a jobs bill. hasn't the president, who says he wants his jobs bill passed, been -- his jobs bill been brought in front of the senate five weeks after he did the joint house and senate speech, and it was defeated in the senate with 47 republican votes. host: let's get a response. guest: we can see the inertia that happens in the senate because of the filibuster rules. but i want to talk about what goes on in the house. the caller mentioned the american jobs act that the president put forward which would have created millions of jobs, i think a million and a half jobs, almost a million and a half jobs in this economy when we sorely need them. it's been deep sixed in the house of representatives. not even seen the light of day. i think the president and the american people deserve that consideration. and then we, y

ms. edwards a very important question. she's been sick a very nice person, a christian person. i want to ask her if she would remember president obama giving us a speech about accountability and transparency. now that we're going on the next four years, i hope that he will remember that speech in the future. i'm planning to vote for him because i think there's very importance to that speech. but this is a question i want her to ask. she's a very truthful and honest person, would she be a consumer advocate? and if she would be, then i want to answer this other question. issue as a whistleblower, would she be anonymous person to tell the truth about what is going on in our government? because i see c-span doing that for us. at the other thing is if you go on youtube and just look under whistleblowers in our government , you would be shocked to find out what is really going on in america. there's so many problems in people trying to make our government accountable and they're being punished for it. >> caller: first of all, i do think this administration has imposed on it though mo

edwards. anyway, my husband is bedridden with ms. his income has not changed since 1995. and everything -- we had a for most things ourselves. like now, this is our third mattress that he is laying on. so he doesn't get bed sores. it's $1500. been in my shoes, i have to special build of shoes on one side because i was born with a congenital hip disorder. those are $206. >> i apologize but we are just about out of time to grab only seconds left but because you talked about the effects of how spent on your health, let's close with his. >> the third component of this report was looking at health insurance and the uninsured rate, people living without health insurance but you can see the uninsured rate for all people with 15 points 7% in 2011, down from 2010. the uninsured rate for children in the blue is only 9.4%. and not statistically different from 2010. you can see the gap has increased over the entire period. the uninsured rate has fallen over the period where for all people it has gone up. >> comments? >> we mentioned earlier the reason for health insurance is included

edward, good afternoon. >> caller: good afternoon. >> host: go ahead, sir. >> caller: i'd like to thank c-span for booktv. i'm a great fan. i'm not familiar with any of the works by msen. i'm going to hark back to the comments on the pro-choice debate, and perhaps i took your statement wrongly, but it seemed to me you were discounting any of the opinions that men may have on this topic. one of the things that i've run into in discussion with women who are of the pro-choice philosophy when i point out to them that if a woman who decides to have a baby and the husband is the one who wants to have the abortion, doesn't want anymore children, that's out of the picture because of the pro-choice, and at the same time, he's expected to support this child after it's born. there seems to be -- >> host: edward, i think we got your point. anna quindlen? >> guest: the point is absolutely accurate. if a woman is pregnant, wants to carry it to term, the law says he has to help support that child, but that if she has an abortion, she gets to make that decision on her own. all i can say about that is one of the hard things about this issue is that in some ways, it is thee most comp