in an hour and a half, a town hall meeting with republican representative paul gosar from arizona's first district. after that, but that obama's comments about the situation in libya followed by israel, egypt, and middle east unrest. >> this weekend, the governors will talk about their state's economies, education, and cyber security as they gather in washington for the annual meeting of the national governor's association. we'll have live coverage through the weekend on c-span. >> tennessee representative jim cooper talking about congress and redistricting. he also talks about lobbying, fund raising, and congressional pay. this is a little less than one hour and a half. >> welcome. i am the director of the center. in two weeks, we will be fromming barbara harmerman ucla. it is my great pleasure to welcome back to the law school, congressman jim cooper. congressman cooper is from tennessee's fifth congressional district. he graduated from this law school in 1980. he received a degree from oxford in politics and economics. in 1982 at the age of 28, he was elected to a version of the distri

congressman paul gosar was surrounded by tight security at the meeting in prescott.here was no real mention of the shooting. >> now, that does not mean any intensity has changed with me and the fervor and passion that i have behind the issue. not at all but we can get our point across without yelling. >>> giffords is recovering at a houston rehab center in texas. >>> the second bedbug summit is underway in washington right now. the ale seed sized insects live in the folds and keviss of sheets and mattresses and are -- crevices of sheets and mattresses and are difficult to detect. >>> a san francisco couple is offing a generous gift. ray dolby donated for the campus. they university plans to name the building after them. the new building opens next wednesday. >>> gamblers weren't the only ones losing money in nevada casinos last year. a new report shows the casinos themselves ran in the red during 2010. gaming establishments lost a total of $3.4 billion. but that's only about half of what they lost the year before. the five casinos in state line in lake tahoe finished

i'm joined tonight by a good friend of mine from arizona, freshman congressman, paul gosar. let me get that pronunciation right. correct me, please. i yield to you, my friend. mr. gosar: thank you, my good friend from missouri, it's gosar. mr. akin: we had a chance to talk about this last week. i invite you to jump in, i hope people are starting to understand here that we have got a big financial problem down here. our entitlement and debt service is equal to how much revenue we take in, that's assuming you have zero for defense an zero for other nondiscretionary, there's no money to run the government with. that's a fairly significant problem. let's talk about it, my friend. mr. gosar: that's right, my good friend from missouri. when we're talking about making cuts, we can't legislate from c.r. what we have to do is just make the plain cuts thatst why in the budgetary process, that's the second step in which we have to address the entitlements is looking at how we legislate directing, redirecting an making cuts. i think that's an important thing the american people need to

paul gosar from the great state of arizona. paul. mr. gosar: i thank the gentleman from california for yielding me time. mr. speaker, i stand here today to honor president ronald reagan and to commemorate his hope, optimism and eternal belief that america is truly the greatest country in the world. reagan once said, it is not my intention to do away with government, it is rather to make it work. work with us, not over us. stand by our side, not ride on our back. government can and must provide opportunity, not foster it, not smoggetter it, foster productivity, not stifle it. ky think of no better time than the present to listen to the wisdom of reagan's words. we are at a turning point in our nation and the american people are asking for our government that works with the people, not one that picks winners and losers. i am forever encouraged by the words of reagan and will always be inspired to keep his dream of a smaller, more nimble government alive. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. mr. gallegly: diane black,

known as doctor paul gosar as a dentist from him because he has been back and ressional throughout thisentire past year. and this is where coming back here, literally within his firsa month in office is what our democracy is all about. literally holding more town halls in the first 30 days than the prior congressman held in two years in office. and this is where, whether we agree with the congressman or not, he's our representative and he needs to hear from us. and that's what one of his priorities is to come up here and listen to what we have to say. and we can't ask for more than that. so big pinal county welcome. and i it wouldn't be right if i was able to give him a sheriffs had -- and welcome you to pinal county, our congressman, paul. [applause] >> i've always wanted to be sheriff. [laughter] [applause] >> well, thank you folks. thank you very, very much. thank you for upholding the constitution. your first liberty, your first right, your first amendment, coming here peacefully being able to talk. and -- by congressman gabby giffords did just about three weeks ago. she was assembl

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