clerk, the speaker elects newt gingrich, aren't from georgia. >> newt gingrich pledged with passion tomerica's promise. he was the first republican speaker in 40 years. and everyone could feel the significance of that moment. >> we can find ways to reach out and break through the bureaucracy and to get every american child a better chance. >> and so began the most productive first 100 days of any time in history. we are on schedule. we are getting the job done with enormous help from the american people. >> middle-class tax relief, anticrime legislation, job creation, tort reform, small business incentives, and a balanced budget. but that's not where our story ends. newt gingrich is still one of the most active voices of our conservative movement. >> having the health system become more efficient, taking the waste out of administrative costs, drill here, drill now, pay less. and i believe we have to elevate fundamental break throughs in learning for all americans. >> armed with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, this former history teacher continues to not only inspire but educate a

i saw newt gingrich yesterday at that dinner. i would say that ye-- it is very scary, some of the things that he says. he is a very smart man. just disrespecting the world mainly because this is a globalized economy. we have to be cautious of that. host: tyrrone is joining us. guestcaller: i feel and lookingr is the republican party spokesperson, as he is setting forth the ideals and the agendas of the republican party. host: leanne in ohio, who speaks for your party? caller: sarah palin all the way. what happened with the republican party this last eight years is president bush was a social conservative, but we need a fiscal conservative in the white house. host: sarah palin on the fox news channel last night with strong hannity -- sean hannity. here's what the two talked about with regard to the rhetoric in american politics today. >> we are hearing a lot of good rhetoric. but we are not seeing those actions. this many months into the new administration -- quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seen those actions to rein

ladies and gentlemen, newt gingrich. [cheers and applause] >> november 1992, the democrats had just won control of the white house as well as a 82-seat majority in the house. and a near filibuster proof majority in the senate. republicans were in a deep minority. they were looking for answers. they were looking for a leader. in just two years, the democrats had taxed and spent and threatened to take over healthcare and expand the welfare state. our way of life, our freedoms were in yep are ditch. and so americans began a new revolution. and a congressman from georgia would lead the way. >> this is truly in a way that very few political events ever are a historic event. >> under the leadership of newt gingrich, republicans promised a new contract with america. sweeping reforms on a government that had grown too much. and for the first time in 40 years, republicans won control of the house and the senate. >> we're winning. we're winning. we're winning. >> this was a resounding victory for freedom. the republicans' revoluti

the great man behind that came in with his budget four times is newt gingrich. it was a republican house. all we do is fight back and forth. they should both be responsible for what they did with our national debt. both parties are wrong. we should wake up and demand that our debt be paid off, whether we use our own oil, whether we find solutions which newt gingrich has a lot of the solutions. i hope he runs for president. they all lie and they tell you what they want. people should wake up and stop fighting. our country is going down the tubes. host: how should we pay off the deficit? caller: taxes to bring back our companies that left. cut the corporate taxes from 35% down to 12%. capital gains tax, cut it out. in china, there is no capital gains tax. you will see the stock market go back up. we will start having a little bit more confidence. but nobody thinks like that. they better wake up. if you give stimulus checks, of course it won't work. you have to cut corporate tax. there are too many regulations in this country. i got a better stimulus bill. as ameri

we will show you in a moment the comments from newt gingrich on health care. iowa on the democratic line. caller: yes, my comment is basically, and i go back to 1992 when the debate between perot, bush, and clinton ran. perot knows a lot about health care from the blue cross companies in the software. his comment is that we should take a look at them and find out which one is the best inand apply it to the u.s. -- i think that should be used. host: the former speaker was asked about the administration's proposal. here's his reply. >> "the new york times" let out the cat this morning. the government will decide whether or not you live and severe restrictions on health care. a government plan so the government can take over and run the whole system. if you think the government cannot run general motors, why would you think the government can run health care? >> and the government is running health care companies? >> the we use that model to destroy all the health care companies. >> is it inevitable? >> no, i did nothing so. >> are there enough republican votes t

. >> former speaker of the house newt gingrich was among the featured speakers at the annual congressional gop fund-raising dinner held last monday hearing in washington. his remarks are just under an hour. >> thank you all very, very much. and i'm going to thank

remember newt gingrich when he said we have an obligation to work with the imf.this is not a partisan issue. we can and we will pass funding. i urge you to join this. i urge you to forget the partisan rhetoric. think of ronald reagan and george bush and the second george bush and newt gingrich, and so many other republican leaders who have said this is a critical component of of security. we know how the legislative system works. i believe it is good legislation and many in this house do as well. tonight use this addition by the united states senate as a reason to say i cannot vote for what 80% of this bill does supports those young men and women and some not so young deployed abroad in the defense of freedom and the furtherance of bausch security. on numerous occasions as most of you know who have served with me, i have put my car in the slot or raise my voice on behalf of republican presidents besought the security of this country. i am proud of those voices and boats. i ask you to join me today for our troops. support our troops and national security. we do no

guest: newt gingrich initially described judge sotomayor as a racist and back off on that charge, and rush limbaugh has also spent a lot of time talking about her comments, about how wise latina judge would it -- would eventually make better decisions than a white male judge. i think it is a tricky issue for conservatives, and i think one of the things that is going on here is that this is a huge distraction because in fact, whether or not it makes any sense to think in terms of race and judges this way, i do not think it is even true that her decisions had been affected by her ethnicity. she is in essence a conventional liberal, and if she were a conventional white male liberal, she would be making the same decisions on affirmative action, for example, ended is a mistake strategically for republicans to look at the first latino judge who is nominated, and end of making it a debate about race. making it a debate about race. guest for senate republicans, that has always been the focus. as they become more center stage of the conservative concerned, that is going to happen.

our speaker tonight, newt gingrich. thanks for being with us, newt.y, very radical agenda. it's been pushing hard and we've been pushing back. they may have the numbers but we've had some successes we can be proud of. for example, a couple of weeks ago, they came up to capitol hill saying they wanted to transfer terrorists from guantanamo. well, i'll tell you something, there's a better place for those terrorists than virginia or kentucky or kansas. it's right where they are in a cell in guantanamo. let me tell you something else, the administration got the message when 90 senators agreed with us on the senate floor. they've been real busy at the white house, the same folks who brought you the department of motor vehicles now want to make your vehicles. we've watched them take over banks, insurance companies, car companies, and now as jon voight indicated they're interested in taking over your health care. so americans will have to wait in line for surgery or have some bureaucrat tell them they can't get the life saving care they need. look, we need h

newt gingrich and a lot of republicans bought into the de- regulation and bought stock. guest: many folks these days are very angry at the hands-off approached the republican lawmakers have largely pursued over the last couple of decades. it goes back to the point where people say that the government removed its hands from the situation, presumably hoping it would allow the free market system to thrive. instead of the system collapsed. you have democrats who want to push regulation far. republicans in both the house and senate said something needs to happen. they say you cannot go too far. we do still have a free-market system. to put the governments hands too deep would be to cut off innovation. caller: good morning. your guess is very informative. i'm concerned that we have more czars than russia. from the 1960's on, once we went off the gold standard we make up numbers and the dollar is not worth anything. if your company does not succeed, the best medicine is the failing of the company. when we talk about bailouts, i believe any company -- the best thing for the soci

. >> what do you think of what newt gingrich said? >> we will talk about that. >> ok. thank you. thank you, senator. >> thank you for coming. good meeting. a very nice person. i was as direct as i knew how to be. the judicial temperament will be covered in more details when we get more information at that time. she has accomplished a lot in her life, and i was very direct. i said i have got to decide how to play this game, quite frankly. if i used to senator obama's standard, i would never vote for her. he basically said, and you can look it up, that something to believe is what the president wins the election, they should have great authority to appoint the nominee, and the only thing you look for is whether rights will be taken off. he went on to say you have to do more. you have to look at the judge's record. and when i look at the ideology, when i look at her record and philosophy, i am deeply troubled. that is my standard. a talented person, no way that a conservative republicans would have picked her to be on the supreme court. and i think that is what senator obama was try

as newt gingrich has rightly pointed out and i don't quote newt gingrich that often, we do a better job tracking a fedex package in this country than we do tracking a patient's health records. [applause] you shouldn't have to tell every new doctor you see about your medical history or what prescriptions you're taking. you shouldn't have to repeat costly tests. all that information should be stored securely in a private medical record so that your information can be tracked from one doctor to another even if you change jobs or move or have to see a number of different specialists. that is just common sense. [applause] and that will not only mean less paper pushing and already administrative costs saving taxpayers billions of dollars, it will mean for all you've physicians you will have an easier time doing your jobs. it will tell you what drugs a patient is taking so you can avoid prescribing a medication that can caw a harmful reaction. it will reduce medical errors that lead to 100,000 lives lost unnecessarily in our hospitals every year. there shouldn't be any argument there. we want

coming up, former house speaker newt gingrich at the 2009 annual congressional g.o.p. fundraising dinner. and then on "q and a," larry arnn, president of hillsdale college in michigan on not accepting state or federal funding. and later on prime minister's questions, british prime minister gordon brown on his proposal to reform british parliament. >> tomorrow, a look at efforts to prevent polio around the world and lessons that can be applied toward developing other vaccines. the world health organization is the host of this event. you can see it live at 1:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. former speaker of the house newt gingrich was among the featured speakers at the annual g.o.p. fundraising dinner held last monday here in washington. his remarks are just under an hour. >> thank you all very, very much. and i'm going to thank mcconnell and john baner for inviting me on behalf of the two committees. i want to thank john corner and pete s for having been such gracious hosts. i also want to thank governor pay lynn and todd for coming tonight and for being part of this -- go

as newt gingrich has rightly pointed out, and i do not quote newt gingrich very often -- we do a better job tracking effects package in this country than we do tracking patients' health records. [applause] you shouldn't have to tell every new doctor use the about your medical history or what prescription you are taking. you should not have to repeat costly tests. all of that information should be stored securely in a private medical record so that your information contract from one doctor to another, even if you change jobs, even if you move, even if you have to see a number of different specialists. that is just common sense. >> and president obama a bit earlier this afternoon in chicago. you can see the entire set of remarks that president obama made to the american medical association later this afternoon right here on c-span as soon as the house is finished debating some 19 suspension bills. the house comes in in just a moment. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> maybe some government grants? >> donations. >> advertising for products? >> public money, i'm sure. >> my taxe

thank you so much, connie chung said to newt gingrich's mother, just between you and me. there are notable exceptions, but i am surprised my how bad a lot of politicians are at getting their message across. how effective they are. >> host: effective because they don't know how to to mitigate or are they not that bright or not to that well read on their subjects to or are they in an ideological or philosophical to graft? what is their problem? >> guest: you tell me, has the quality of senator gone down over the past 20 years? >> guest: i don't know, the quality of house guy gone down prexy used to be in their. >> guest: i don't know. i am surprised by some questions that have that can be inserted by leaders of both parties appear gum. i work with nancy pelosi a good bit. we interviewed her and i was surprised by some of the answers. i was surprised and how terribly she handled the cia issued. john boehner, again these are people i genuinely like, but surprised by how republicans have been simmering and staggering. john boehner is asking the press conference other going to

campaign, by senator mccain during the campaign and as i mentioned earlier, by former speaker newt gingrich and many other people. they're concepts that have been approved by 77% of the american people and what they do is substitute for taxation of the american people the concept of innovation and trusting the ideas and the ingenuity and the imagination of people across america. and we talked about what this bill can do, if we reach just one of these goals, just one of these goals it could change and save us as much as $100 billion. but most of all, madam speaker, this trusts the american people to do what they always do and that is find a way to win if we don't quit before they have a chance -- win if we don't quit before they have a chance to win and it sends them a message on a time when they need some winds, that we trust that they, with their imagination and their innovation, can do things that this body can't do and that can't dictate to them. perhaps it was best said by mr. friedman in a "new york times" article he wrote, i don't agree with everything he says, but i agree with this.

you know, newt gingrich is a great idea man. had a lot of problems with him in the house as far as leadership but one of the smartest people there are in the country. rush limbaugh does not speak for the republican party. he speaks for a conservative thought. i don't listen to rush limbaugh. but he has a viewpoint that a lot of americans follow. dick cheney is probably up there now because of what he's been saying about the war on terror and defending past administration's actions. so i think you can manipulate that all you want. to get kind of the outcome based on what's been in the news cycle. the fact is there's a lot of people who really love this country, who believe the government can be a lot better, a lot more efficient that we really ought to pay attention to the constitution and what the powers said which gives the very list of what the federal government is supposed to be doing. and also believe in the 10th amendment that says whatever isn't in this list is supposed to be for the states or the people. that's a legitim

. >> the highlight of our final season was the newt gingrich and james carville show. this was on the outlook of liberal and conservatism in this country. >> the power of the media to carry messages from the party to the voters. >> i think the media, the traditional elite media is a fact. i think where it became a surprise if you go back to the 1940's and 1950's and early '60s, there was this belief that you could go to journalism school and you could be valued neutral and cover the news. that began to break out in the mid 1960's. that began to break up because younger reporters for anti- vietnam war. "reporters were pro integration very young reporters for anti- watergate. he began to get a judgmental personality that began to replace the so-called object to the of the edward r. murrow generation. what has happened with the rise of fox and rush limbaugh and all the others, you are going back to 19th-century model. you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you were a democrat, you subscribed to your democratic newspaper and if you're a repu

and former house speaker newt gingrich at the annual g.o.p. fundraising dinner. later on "q&a" larry arnn, not accepting state and federal funding. >> tomorrow on c-span 3 a look at efforts to prevent polio around the world and a look at efforts in developing vaccines. the world health organization is the host of this event and you can see it live at 1:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> maybe some government grants. >> i would say donations. >> advertising for products. >> public money, i'm sure. >> by taxes. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. as a private business initiative, no government mandate, no government money. >> now israeli prime minister netanyahu calls on palestinian leaders to prestart peace negotiations without preconditions. he made the call on sunday during a major policy speech. he also said palestinians must recognize israel as a jewish state. this is about 30 minutes. >> honored guests, citizens of the state of israel. peace has always bee

against an imperial congress under democratic speaker jimw wri ght and the republican speaker, newt gingrich. there was the so-called dictatorship of abraham lincoln . then there was what some dubbed "congressional government." is this pendulum swing built into the constitution? is it an invitation to struggle? does the constitutional separation of powers in power and bumbhumble presidents and congress? we found the anti-federalist opponents of the constitution careful of the presidency. the federalists responded that energy in the executive was a leading characteristic of good government. federalists alexander hamilton and james madison found themselves at odds over it shortly after the ratification of the constitution. they did such an effective job of drafting the constitution. they found themselves at odds over executive power across the constitutional divide that is now defined by the length of pennsylvania avenue. he criticized and defended washington's proclamation in the 17 nineties. who is right? prior to the 2008 presidential nomination contest, an article was written about the as

former house speaker newt gingrich lays out his vision for the gop. later, the creator of hbo's "the wire" on the future of journalism. on tomorrow's "washington journal," we will talk with the republican congressmen and independent senator bernie sanders. then, university of maryland professor shibley telhami. then, and guest on north korea from the american enterprise. that begins a 7:00 a.m. eastern with your calls and the day's news. later, the troubled assets relief program, also known as "tarp." elizabeth warren will be there. we will show a portion of the joint economic committee hearing which begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern until the house gavels in at 10:30. >> how is c-span funded? >> private donations? >> i do not really know. >> from public television? >> donations. >> i do not really know where the money comes from. >> federally? >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private initiative, no government mandates, no government money. >> president obama and vice- president biden la

newt gingrich and dick cheney and rush limbaugh. and what somebody like john boehner will say they are not on the ballot, they are filling a vacuum. we had a presidential candidate last night who was clearly the last stage of his national career, however long he remains in the senate. the leaders in the house and senate are fairly skilled players, but they're never going to be national spokesman. you have to look around outside washington to see who is going to grab the mantle. there is no obvious candidate. governor bobby jindal tried to respond to the president, and sarah palin -- [laughter] >> she had a moment in november of last year, she was the second most well-known, most popular politician in the country and has done nothing with it for 7 months. david letterman -- every -- the you hear about sarah palin is about her daughter's or a fight with david letterman or she is on some websites attacking someone else. she is not going to rise to international leadership that way. some governors -- >> it is okay to have a sigh of reli

newt gingrich and his friends have some great ideas like decrease texas's -- decrease taxes on businesses, things that encourage them to stay in business instead of worrying about the low percentage of people who are not working. half of them are usually unemployable people. so that is one of the major problems now, they are trying to worry about spending money instead of solving the issues that are causing a lack of our economic growth. host: you are in central ohio. what is it like for you live? caller: i work in the health- care industry. that is another good point, because i have heard several people say two factions of the economy are doing fine, the health-care industry. that is a bogus statement because what is occurring in our area is hospitals are cutting employees hours. hospitals are not getting reinforced -- they are not getting reimbursed. the hospital where i work is calculating that we are getting $1 for the government for every $1.25 of care they are giving. this is not working because people are not being paid a reasonable cost for their care. host: thank you for the call

as newt gingrich has rightly pointed out, and i do not quite -- quantum very often -- i do not quote him very often. [laughter] you should not have to tell every new dr. you see about your medical history or what prescriptions' you are taking. you should not have to repeat this. this information should be stored securely in a private medical records so your medical information can be tracked from one doctor or another, even if you change jobs or move. [applause] that will not only mean less paper pushing and lower administrative costs, saving taxpayers billions of dollars, it will mean all of you physicians will have an easier time doing your jobs. it will tell you what drugs a patient is taking so you can avoid prescribing a medication that causes a harmful reaction. it will reduce medical errors that lead to 100,000 lives lost unnecessarily in hospitals every year. there should not be any argument there. we want to make sure we are helping providers computerized so we can get the system up and running. the second step we all can agree on is to invest more in preventive care so we c

newt gingrich at the 2009 annual congressional gop fund-raising dinner. that is later. tomorrow on "washington journal" a look at the fiscal policy with bruce stokes. and phil mattingly will also be speaking. secure flight is a new program that will be discussed after that. that is with a former tsa administrator. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> let me be clear mr. speaker about what we think of electoral reform. we want to keep the existing system. we support the link between

newt gingrich has one. here's a little bit from it. to truly bring down costs and expand coverage we need to focus on three things -- improving individual health by incentivizing prevention, will miss, and early health, suddenly, incentivizing providers through fair and proper payments to adopt in best practices, and reforming public programs to rudolf fraud. here's a little bit of representative jim mcdermott's op-ed. it's as we must address and comprehensive reform is an overall primary care in this country from how we recruit and train doctors. the pyramid has to be turned right side up with a solid and broad base that is built upon primary care moving up to the specialty practices. primary care is the key to reforming health care in america. here is a democrat from new york, senator charles schumer. in many areas of the country, one or two insurers have struggled on the entire market producing cost of premiums and health care decisions that may not always serve the best interests of the patient. this is why public health insurance

later, former house speaker newt gingrich at the 2009 annual congressional gop fund-raising dinner. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," and look at the fiscal policy with bruce stokes. then a discussion on financial markets and institutions with bill mattingly. later, a look at the new program secured flight, which checks passengers names against the terrorist watch list. "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> let me be clear, mr. speaker, about what we think of electoral reform. we want to keep the existing system. we support the link between one mp and one constituency and we back our system because you can throw out we, tart, and is credited governments.

the most obvious and silly example is the response by newt gingrich and company to the hatination of judge sotomayor. he thinks 200 years of having a white male judges means it is without gender and without race, apparently the fact that she mentioned the fact that she is a bet tino woman says that she is a racist. but he is not a racist for the silence about being a white man. it is a double standard. women recognize it, people of color recognize it. but it is an effort to stir a pot and divide. merkley melanie, please go ahead. feingold talk about corporate greed and what happened during katrina. i read court documents, absolutely blown away by what i was finding out. i blog on the insurance journal, the untouchables. it is heartbreaking to me to find out that we can have the worst thing happen in this country, and in the courts, our judges, the insurance industry, it doesn't matter. they raped these poor people and nobody cares. i am sorry--i am not far that i am upset, i am shocked, i am sickened by it. i called over 800 newspapers to try to get them to write the untouchables, no

. >> former speaker of the house newt gingrich was among the featured speakers at the annual congressional gop fund-raising dinner held last monday hearing in washington. his remarks are just under an hour. >> thank you all very, very much. and i'm going to thank mcconnell and john baner for inviting me on behalf of the two committees. i want to thank john corner and pete sessions for having been such gracious hosts. i also want to thank governor pay lynn and todd for coming tonight and for being part of this -- governor palin. [cheers and applause] >> i came in with sarah and todd. we came to the bottom of the steps over here. john mccain was there very gracious,ly welcoming us. i have to tell you. despite every effort of the elite media to prop up joe biden and pretend he actually knows what he's doing, i felt looking at john mccain and sarah pail lynn this country would have been amazingly better off had they been in the white house. [cheers and applause] >> i also want to say that i think on behalf of both campaign committees that john voice has given you your battle cry for the next y

. >> newt gingrich says the media has to pretend that joe biden knows what he is doing? >> should i speak on behalf of the elite media? the vice president is among the most trusted advisers that the president has, in the role that he plays is very significant, from his efforts to implement the recovery plan, through the efforts on foreign policy, we are grateful to have him, as the country is for his service. >> when you briefed the president, did you have any information about the suspect? >> this was, about one out of 55, 2:00. all that i knew was, somebody had gone in with a gun, shot at the security guard, the individual was fired at, the individual was 89 years old, or 90 years old. i did not have the age when i was talking to the president. i assume he has been given more updates. if there is information -- >> 90 years old? >> that is what i have seen on the way out, the age of the gunmen who entered the museum. i saw this on television, i have not been on the e-mail or blackberry. >> did you have an indication that this was a hate crime? >> at that time i was just

newt gingrich is one of them. and this was a great speech. [applause] >> as for my contribution, personally i'll get as many hollywood friends to join me in putting the republicans back in the white house and i will continue to fight to protect our constitution with newt and i will never be silent. no one can threaten me in any way to stop speaking and believing what i know to be the truth. [cheers and applause] >> there are quite a lot of people in show business who believe what i believe. we have to be leaders to give them the strength strength to speak up for the truths. may god lead us on the right path back into the white house and may god bless america. thank you very much, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> there's still time to get your copy of c span's 2009 congressional directory with information on house and senate members, the cabinet, supreme court justices and the nation's governors plus district maps and how to contact commitees and caucuses. it's 16.95. online at c span.org/products or call 1-877-on-c span. >> josh voorheis o

there were several times that newt gingrich started to threaten me and say get in line or else. i said or else what? are you going to campaign against me? i got 62%. please, come to my district and campaign against me. so again the opportunity to team up with democrats when i wanted, go after democrats when i wanted. and what i found was that that sort of independence, listen, i'm a very, very conservative guy but that independence from partisanship from having to play as a republican with every single thing i did actually work very well with voters. doing, my gosh, how radical. voting the way i believe, doing what i believe, not calculating on what party leaders would think. i got reelected, 72% got reelected, 80% the next time and nobody ran against me the last time. and so when i got i thought hey, all these great lessons i learned in congress, i'm going to bring to tv. and then of course i got to msnbc and i was told that i was the token conservative. i still am the token conservative at msnbc. and so i would get calls from the 50 second floor from 30 rock say you need to be

some charges against imperial congress under democratic speaker jim wright and republican speaker newt gingriche were told was micromanaging expected its. going further back in history we witnessed the constitutional dictatorship of abraham lincoln during the civil war followed by decades of what scholar would for a wilson dubbed congressional government. is this pendulum swing built into the constitution? is the constitution and invitation to struggle as edward cohen suggested? was the constitutional separation of powers in power and humble presidents and congress? going back further in the ratification debate over the constitution, we've not antifederalist opponents of the constitution fearful of presidential office that, quote, squints towards markey, end quote. with federal lists responding, quote, energy and executive is the leading character in government, end of quote. yet federalist alexander hamilton and james madison's madison found themselves in odds over the revocation debate in the constitution. in drafting the constitution madison hamilton is such an effective job joining in the i

so i give you just the most -- to me the most obvious and silly example is this response by newt gingrich and company to the nomination of judge sotomayor. he thinks somehow that 200 years of having white male judges means that it's been without gender and without race? apparently. apparently the fact that she mentions the fact he some is a latino woman means she is a racist but he is not a racist for the silence about being a white man. it's a double-standard and i think women recognize it, peek of color recognize it but that's the effort to stir the pot and divide. >> host: melanie in pullman, washington, go ahead. >> caller: to talk about corporate greed and what happened during katrina. i studied state farm for four years, eight to nine hours a day, reading court documents, absolutely blown away by what i was finding out. so i blog all the insurance journal. i wrote the untouchables, and it's heartbreaking to me to find out that we can have the worst thing happen in this country and in the courts, our judges, the insurance industries, it really doesn't matter. they raped these poor pe

i urge you to think of ronald reagan and george bush and the second george bush and newt gingrich and so many other republican leaders that i won't take the time to quote, who said that this is a critical component of our security apparatus. we did not have it in our bill, but we know how the legislative process works. the other body, particularly when it does so by 2/3 vote, adds legislation. the president of the united states believes that's good legislation and very frankly i believe that's good legislation and many in this house do as well. would we have added it? we didn't. but it's here. do not use this addition by the united states senate as a reason to say i can't vote for what 80% of this bill does, support those young men and women, as i said, some not so young, deployed abroad in the defense of freedom and the furtherance of our security. i will tell you, my friends, on numerous occasions, as most of you know who have served with me, i have put my card in the slot or come to this well or raised my voice on behalf of republican president who sought to further the security of

republican fund-raising event from last night which includes remarks some former house speaker newt gingrich. tomorrow morning, the treasury secretary in the irs commission will testify about the budget for next year. live coverage begins at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. later in the day, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius talks about their budget request for next year. live coverage begins at 2: 30 p.m. eastern on c-span3. now we marks from national intelligence director dennis blair. he talks about his priorities for the intelligence community as well as his recent trip to asia. the intelligence and national security alliance hosted this event. >> hello. i want to welcome all of you for what i am sure will be an interesting discussion. tonight's event is part of an ongoing series of events that will -- that is bringing together leaders that will lay the foundation for the national security and intelligence community and for our future. we have brought together an exciting group of leaders working on some of the nation's most challenging issues which includes cyber secur

bill clinton, let me throw you this -- you are part of newt gingrich's class of 1994. you were part of the impeachment process with clinton. looking back 10 years later, to the republicans go too far? did the republicans be smirch themselves out of? >> guest: i am reminded of jesus christ superstar. mary matalin saying i don't know how to love him, i still can't get my arms around bill clinton. i do know this that i was given to ron by anger, rage and bill clinton. i thought to bill clinton represented everything that was wrong with america. i am loath to emma. i had no use for hillary clinton. and i think it goes back to being a kid raised in the atlanta suburbs looking at the '60s radicals and looking at the world from my parents died in. of course, 10 years later i read about this in the book -- i'm embarrassed by some of the things i said about bill clinton that my goal and i think i have gone there in 46 now as opposed to being 30 when i started campaigning to understand everybody has something to bring to the table and understanding while they couldn't understand

newt gingrich and some of his friends have some great ideas like decrease in the taxes on businesses down to where ireland did, 12.5%, things that encourage them to stay in business, keep in plain people, instead of thrashing around and whirling about the low percentage of people who are not working. as half of them by statistics are usually unemployable people. so i think that is one of the major democratic problems right now, is they are trying to worry about spending money instead of solving the issues that are causing the economic -- lack of economic growth. host: let me ask you. you are in central ohio. what is it like where you lived in dayton? on the come i work in the health-care industry -- caller: well, i look in health care industry. a good point -- people say two parts of the economy doing fine -- the health-care industry. that is a bogus statement. because what is occurring in our health care. is hospitals are cutting employees hours, hospitals are not being reimbursed reasonable amounts of money for the caregiving, the hospital where i specifically work calculated they

weddington be get winning coverage when newt gingrich led the conservative revolution in 1994, he was on the cover of news magazine that said that the gingrich who stole christmas, so i'm not buying this winning begets winning coverage nonsense for one second. and even that was the reason, even if to be generous say, well, maybe winning does begin winning coverage let's assume a congressional race once upon a time between david duke and martin luther king, it's not hard to imagine in some places at a certain time and david duke leading in the polls. does any decent person and think that if david duke were leading martin luther king, david duke should get favorable coverage in the media because of winning begets winning coverage? is just nonsense argument that we shouldn't take seriously and am only mentioning it to get it off the table. because when you get down to it, it really comes down to a simple understanding of what the press is there for. is there to give us the facts, it is there to tell us what's going on, it really is there to be the impartial referee, and let us decide. th