ms. sebelius you've crossed the line. >> this is a particular gift of the modern republican party. this is why the word conservative is a misnomer. the word means you don't want things to change, right? you want to conserve things the way they are. you want to stand shouting stop, conservative, right? in the modern republican party, change is an art form. they are not only happy to turn against their own ideas and quickly, they are happy to denounce anybody who espouses what used to be their own ideas as the anti-christ for having allowed the previously republican idea to cross their mind. today, a group of students from universities affiliated with the catholic church held an event at the national press club. they did it to let the cat out of the bag. to let the cat out of the bag on the actual position instead of the political position of institutions like catholic hospitals and universities. remember, the purported outrage is any catholic university would ever provide health insurance that covered prescription birth control. that is supposedly the outrage. >> i have four daughte

ms. sebelius, have you crossed the line. you have violated the first amendment of the constitution. you will be held accountable. we must fight what is happening here in this country where our freedoms are being taken away from us one by one. >> shepard: this controversy is creating tension in the president's own party as well. at least seven democratic congress members have spoken out against the mandate or called for the white house to change it. for his part, the president stayed quiet on this issue again today. but we do d. hear from the first time vice president biden. the nation's first catholic v.p. he spoke to a radio station in cincinnati. here listen. >> there is a lot of misunderstanding. there is not enough focus on the fact that we have decided that there is a year to work this out. i'm determined to see that this gets worked out. and i believe we can work it out. >> shepard: the vice president said the president is also committed to finding some sort of solution to the controversy. something the top democrat in congress may have hinted at today. listen to the majority

sebelius and people at the white house they can ride it over. this time they went too far. >> sean: so santorum gets missouri, colorado and ms. , big night and big nbc how did they respond. they gave them a platform that blasted santorum as a crazy man. >> there are certain things that it's hard to be realistic to do in a novel. if i were to create a character who say had been the senator from pennsylvania as rick santorum was. he does not appear in the novel but i had a character get up at the debate and that global warming was a hoax wooden we had to change the doogs limit the rights of gay people. no one would believe that. if the entire republican establishment, no one stood up and said that is crazy man talking. would it seem like i was being biased. >>> this guy is the son of nbc senior correspondent is the only reason they gave him a shot on the show. what an insult. this is what republicans have to put up with. santorum, can you imagine in a million years when obama won three primaries a news report would call him a walking crazy man. >> sean: than the nbc liberal obama news, what did they run next? many of our founders may have been wro

sebelius. and i yield to the great congresswoman from the great state of california. ms. lee: thank you very much. i want to thank the gentlelady for yielding and also standing up for women's health, not only today and during these very difficult times, but each and every day of your life. as a former devout practicing catholic, i fully understand and respect the church's doctrine on contraception. and even though i disagree with it, i fully respect it, and i understand it. but also, i know that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle that we must maintain. mr. speaker, the administration's decision to provide choices to access to quality, affordable health care, family planning services, including contraceptives are vital to women's health and well-being. this isn't really about a mandate. the rule would not force anyone with a religious objection to use a prescribed f.d.a.-approved contraception. the fact is the catholic bishops know that the 335,000 religious institutions and organizations and places of worship, they are exempt, and in fact, no wo

according to secretary sebelius, an estimated 15 million americans will need some kind of long-term care and fewer than 3% have a long-term care policy. ms. hahn: because medicare and other existing programs do not cover these services, we must work together to find a solution. and my republican friends know, however, the class program as enacted will not be implemented. secretary sebelius informed congress last october that she did not see a viable path forward for class implementation at this time. so in other words this legislation we're debating today is not needed. instead of legislation to create jobs and grow our economy, our republican friends are focused on repealing a program that's already been suspended. i want to encourage my friends on the other side of the aisle to take a step back and focus on the things we can be doing together to make long-term care more affordable and accessible. the issue of providing long-term care, i've encountered this in my own life. my dear sweet mother, before she passed away last summer, received long-term care services for years before she passed away and i -- and i will always remember the wa

ms. jenkins: i thank the gentleman for yielding. there aren't many areas where the former kansas governor and current secretary of health and human services sebelius agrees on. with you thing that we can agree is that the class act needs to be stopped. that's why i was glad that the secretary backtrack and pull the plug on the program and that's why i support a statutory repeal of the class act today. this act was designed as a new national entitlement for purchasing community living assistance services and was used by this administration as a pay-for to substantiate their faulty claim that obamacare was going to reduce the deficit. however, as i and many others pointed out at the time, the deficit reduction claim was bogus and based on budget gimmicks that proved false when h.h.s. began implementation. you see, the c.b.o. can only project the cost of bills in a 10-year window so the obama administration used a budget trick by setting up the class act to begin collecting premiums in 2012 but not paying out benefits until 2017. a great for years one through 10 but bad later. this led c.b.o. to report that the program would reduce the deficit but it