ms. pelosi and ms. taylor are implying it was racial component to the governor's appearance in houston. and a fair country, that innuendo absolutely unacceptable. that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from houston hillary shell ton washington bureau director for the naacp. so, mr. shelton, what say you? >> well, you can't dismiss what either of these women said. i mean, quite frankly, the way that mitt romney came to the naacp was clearly not to garner support. if you have a better idea and quite frankly keep in mind the naacp is is nonpartisan and he e always invite candidates from at least both parties. sometimes the green party and other parties as well. if you want to garner support you at least meet people where they are at. we know that the biggest issue that got the strongest rebuke from our audience was the issue of healthcare. and it very well we knew that at the time that what mitt romney referred to as obama care which many found to be quite offensive in the manner in which he presented it was the affordable care act. at the time that bill was p

ms. pelosi: thank you very much. i'm very sad to join my colleagues in expressing the deepest sympathies of the house of representatives to the families and loved ones of the victims in aurora, colorado, and the entire community as it grapples with its grief. my colleagues have spoke very vingly from the standpoint of faith and hopefully that plathe will be a comfort to those -- faith will be a comfort to those who are affected. as you know, mr. speaker, when we learned of this tragedy, the president ordered flags to be flown half-staff for one week to commemorate the tragedy that aurora, these individual families, and our country had suffered. that was done as a mark of respect for the 12 innocent victims and all who were affected. the victims who were murdered, that's just the word, that day, the vast majority were very young people. the one, gordon cowden was a father in his 50's. the others were very young whose last words to his daughters were, to tell them he loved them. a story that deserves to be told, each w

ms. pelosi: thank you. i urge my colleagues to think about them and to think about stacy and her children when they cast a vote to take away their rights and protections. here's what the affordable care act is about. strengthening the middle class, honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of our country, putting medical decisions in the hands of patients and their doctors. this is about innovation, prevention, wellness. it's about the good health of america as well as good health care for america. it's about restoring and reigniting the american dream and living up to the vows of our founders, of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. a healthier life. for liberty and freedom to pursue happiness and defined by your own talent, your own skills, your own aspirations. you want to start a business, if you want to be self-employed, if you want to change jobs, are you not job-locked -- you are not job-locked because your decision about your job, your career, and your life has to be predicated by your health insurance

ms. pelosi has assured me she is going to be coming back. i'm going to recognize mr. webster and read the rule here. each committee shall apply the five metal during the question and witnesses until such time as each member of the committee who so desires has had an opportunity to question each witness. ms. slaughter is right we don't subpoena members for the committee but that is the rule of the house. >> mr. webster? excuse me? i'm sorry? [inaudible] >> i said the rule says that each member of the panel has the right to question any witness who is here. >> thank you mr. chairman to it i would like to relate a real-life story someone can clean with the soldier and 50,000-dollar price tag has been put on the rich than let's see if that is true. 51 years ago my father started our small business and he started leaving a really good job and i was 12-years-old at that time. he took everything he had and put it into a business. he took no salary. my mom worked as a -- she is a registered nurse that worked in the hospital on the nights and weekends she was the secretary dur

ms. pelosi: thank you very much. i'm very sad to join my colleagues in expressing the deepest sympathies of the house of representatives to the families and loved ones of the victims in aurora, colorado, and the entire community as it grapples with its grief. my colleagues have spoke very movingly from the standpoint of faith and hopefully that plathe will be a comfort to those -- faith will be a comfort to those who are affected. as you know, mr. speaker, when we learned of this tragedy, the president ordered flags to be flown half-staff for one week to commemorate the tragedy that aurora, these individual families, and our country had suffered. that was done as a mark of respect for the 12 innocent victims and all who were affected. the victims who were murdered, that's just the word, that day, the vast majority were very young people. the one, gordon cowden was a father in his 50's. the others were very young whose last words to his daughters were, to tell them he loved them. a story that deserves to be told, each

ms. pelosi: thank you. i urge my colleagues to think about them and to think about stacy and her children when they cast a vote to take away their rights and protections. here's what the affordable care act is about. strengthening the middle class, honoring the entrepreneurial spirit of our country, putting medical decisions in the hands of patients and their doctors. this is about innovation, prevention, wellness. it's about the good health of america as well as good health care for america. it's about restoring and reigniting the american dream and living up to the vows of our founders, of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. a healthier life. for liberty and freedom to pursue happiness and defined by your own talent, your own skills, your own aspirations. you want to start a business, if you want to be self-employed, if you want to change jobs, are you not job-locked -- you are not job-locked because your decision about your job, your career, and your life has to be predicated by your health insurance

ms. pelosi: thank you very much. i'm very sad to join my colleagues in expressing the deepest sympathies of the house of representatives to the families and loved ones of the victims in aurora, colorado, and the entire community as it grapples with its grief. my colleagues have spoke very movingly from the standpoint of faith and hopefully that plathe will be a comfort to those -- faith will be a comfort to those who are affected. as you know, mr. speaker, when we learned of this tragedy, the president ordered flags to be flown half-staff for one week to commemorate the tragedy that aurora, these individual families, and our country had suffered. that was done as a mark of respect for the 12 innocent victims and all who were affected. the victims who were murdered, that's just the word, that day, the vast majority were very young people. the one, gordon cowden was a father in his 50's. the others were very young whose last words to his daughters were, to tell them he loved them. a story that deserves to be told, each

ms. pelosi: it will come to america with a fitting theme, turning the tide together. there's a long history in 1990, expert scientists and political officials from across the globe gathered in san francisco, in my district, for the international aids conference to turn our promise of leadership into progress. since that time, however, the conference has never returned to an american venue for two deck kids. -- for two decades. next week when the conference assembles here in our nation's capital, the world will see how far we've come. together we will commit to turning the tide, as the theme indicates, toward the next phase in our fight, a cure and an end to h.i.v.-aids. consider what this congress has done. creating housing opportunity for people with h.i.v., expanding access to medicaid for people with h.i.v., but not full-blown aids, that's an early intervention, increased investments in research, care, treatment and prevention by more than half a billion dollars and response to global challenge and the leadership of congresswoman barbara lee we have supported globa

ms. pelosi was elected speaker of the house and since then the budget deficit has bloomed up to 1.3 trillion8 times as much. we have had lots of stimulus, lots of spending. we have had democrats have gotten what they wanted. we still have high unemployment and young people graduating college. high students simply can't get good jobs. they have failed. by her standard, they all should go. >> alisyn: peter morici, economist from the university of maryland. good to see you. >> take care. >> clayton: at war apparently not amount the same amount of pay as those who stay at home. we will talk to a retired army captain about this pay discrepancy in the military next. >> alisyn: not your typical bandits, these bear cubs wanted for breaking into more than a dozen cars. [ laughter ] ♪ hit the road, jack. >> alisyn: can't bear it. ♪ hit the road, jack. it's time to live wider awake. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils to promote proper sleeping posture all night long. the revolutionary recharge sleep system...

ms. appeal yowsies -- -- miss pelosi and mr. schumer favor favor $1 million the cutoff. mr. schumer has said people are not likely to spend the savings and help the economy. administration officials at the white house said they did not believe that the difference between the white house and the democratic leaders was a big obstacle. charles, republican in new york. hi. caller: how are you doing, ma'am? host: good. how are you? don't think that we should raise tax on anyone. that's my feeling. not with the unemployment rate the way it is. there was an advocate -- i don't know if it was your show, a few weeks ago, talked about the when the unemployment rate is above a certain amount, we shouldn't raise tax on anybody. i think he said around 5%. if the unemployment rate is under 5%, maybe raise taxes on everybody a little bit to help bring in revenue. i don't know who the advocate was, but i thought that was a good idea. i think this is just election year ploys. the camp has both houses. that's all i have to say. host: let's look at the breakdowns of the tax increase that could

minority leader nancy pelosi arranged a forum in which sandra would be able to present her testimony, and at that forum, representative elijah cummings asked her directly, he said, "ms. fluke, what can you tell us, what is it that makes you qualified to speak to the issue of contraceptive coverage?" and sandra -- i saw the video of this, sandra looks directly at the panel, and she says, "i am an american woman who uses birth control." [ applause ] and that said it all, with that one simple, dignified response. sandra fluke claimed power for every single woman in the united states. [ applause ] because what she was signaling to us all is that any time we are effected by policies of powerful elites, we have a right to speak and to be heard. sandra's claim to power scared a lot of people. it really, really scared rush limbaugh. and you know, rush limbaugh is not just any blowhard -- i mean extremist right wing radio host. in fact, rush limbaugh is one of the most feared power brokers in the entire republican party today, and that comes not from any left wing person. that comes from a republican party operative who worked in the george w. bush white house saying that ru

house, john boehner, majority leader, eric cantor and our minority leader, nancy pelosi, minority whip, steny hoyer, and ms. ros-lehtinen and mr. berman, john kline and george miller, chairman smith and ranking member conyers, chairman doc hastings and ranking member ed markey and certainly senator jeff bingaman and senator murkowski who serve as chairman and ranking member of the senate committee on energy and natural resources for all they have done on behalf of the insular areas. i cannot thank my colleagues enough for standing with me because i know that passage of this bill is only possible today due to their support. i thank the committee and staff leadership for their working in close association with my office which will benefited the associated states of micro neice yeah and the territory of american samoa. as my chairman alluded to about the section, it is very simple. this is located -- for the benefit of information to my colleagues, the area is located in the marshal islands. this is where we exploded 43 of our nuclear bombs out of the 67 nuclear bombs that we exploded in our testing program f