the complaint was that some of the deals worked out for example with the pharmaceutical industry, phrmas it is called, there were no c-span cameras inside when the white house officials negotiated with the representatives of the pharmaceutical lobby to get their support. >> wolf, i can't -- i can't disagree with that, but whether you are on the left or the right, why are we surprised when politicians play politics. this is what had to happen to get the republicans to the table. this is not a bill with the public option and that is what the democrats wanted and the president wanted and i wanted and that was not going to get the republicans to the table or get the votes to pass it. >> dr. weil, you are a doctor and you want people healthy and get the access to medicine they need and to get the right treatment, and you hear this debate going on, what do you think? >> well, i am happy that more americans will be covered. i'm happy that there is at least an attempt to make it harder for the big insurers to kick people out on the basis of pre-existing conditions. as i said, this is a step in

phrma-ing for favors. democratic staffers were huddled behind closed doors over the last few weeks with phrma lobbyists as they crafted the final bill. coincidentally phrma has now decided it will run expensive tv ads in the districts of 38 waivering democrats. cao biocash -- cowboy cash. some states stand to get extra federal cash for their state's medicare rolls. and the louisiana purchase that we've all heard about, $300 million extra for medicaid payments to one state is still in the bill. so that's why -- that's just yet one more reason we should reject the health care bill tomorrow. at this time i would like to yield three minutes to my colleague and friend from the state of georgia, representative kingston. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for three minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding. as a member of the defense committee who represents four military installations, someone who has gone to afghanistan and iraq five times and never without going t

double-digits on some of them, and biotech with the rumors of the phrma industries needing to get in here. and loan levels leveling off, and we need to see loan growth, and industrials up, on the recovery and airlines up on the revenue turn around and more planes flying with fewer people on them, and retailers with strong sales in the stores. and ipo news, for two weeks great news, and today primerica maybe coming. 18 million shares and 12 to 14 and you know them essentially spun off from citigroup, and 12 to 14, and i'm hearing 4 to 5 times overprescribed and could go over 14 and maybe $15 and this is confirmation that ipo market is a comeback. that will be a big story. just because this quarter is good, it doesn't mean the next quart ler be good. let's highlight concerns in april. interest rates. call it the building the wall of worry. where interest rates could move up quickly regardless of what the federal reserve tells people it should be doing. housing is another issue out, there and no signs of the turn around yet, and the fed ends the mortgage purchasers and higher rates in t

and the reason they don't talk about big phrma and the drug industry is because big phrma helped write this bill because it protects them. they know that they are going to get a windfall out of this bill and they, again, our colleagues across the aisle are wholly owned subsidiaries of them. madam speaker, we -- our colleagues, my colleague from louisiana brought up a very, very important point that i think needs to be mentioned again and again. what chairwoman slaughter has proposed and what will be done here is to use a rule providing for consideration of both the senate and reconciliation bills to deem the senate bill passed. avoiding the political problem that stems from taking a true up or down vote on the horribly unpopular legislation. if this legislation would be -- is doing so much good for the american people, then our colleagues should be proud to be voting for this in an up or down vote. they keep saying it, but you know saying it doesn't make it so. even though, again, speaker pelosi said on page 23 of her new directions for american documents issued in the 109th congress t

for example, the pharma -- the phrma deal. there was a story in "the new york times," -- i quote from the "new york times" story -- "drug industry lobbyists reacted with alarm this week to a health care overhaul measure that would allow the government to negotiate drug prices and demand additional rebates from drug manufacturers. in response, the industry successfully demanded that the white house explicitly acknowledge for the first time that it had committed to protect drug makers from bearing further costs and the obama administration had never spelled out the details of the agreement. we were assured, we need somebody to come in first. if you come in first, you will have a rock-solid deal. billy tauzin -- "by the way i understand salary of over over $2 million a year -- former republican house member from louisiana who now leads the group said wednesday who is ever going to go into a deal with the white house again if they don't keep their word? they are just going to duke it out instead." the deputy white house chief of s

purchase and $100 million for a hospital in connecticut and the sleazy deals behind closed doors with the phrma and special interests. everybody was there but the american people. they don't feel their voice was heard. >> it sounds like you're rejecting any connection that there is any fanning of the flames as we heard from representative slaughter. if that is true, what is your message this morning to anyone who participated in that violence and who may be contemplating more violence, sir? >> of course i condemn it. of course we need to -- it is unacceptable in america but what we need to do, we who oppose this legislation and worry about the future of our children being mortgaged, we should be translating that in to voter registration and preparing for the next election and working towards repeal and replace this terrible piece of legislation which has been passed in the most unethical way that the american people soundly reject. >> republicans are not talking about repealing the law. you said you will challenge it in the courts, towns, cities, farms all over america. how exactly are you goin

phrma was there, the people who make medical devices, the american health insurance plan and the international union, all gathered at the white house and the president came out and said that these groups have offered up $2 trillion in savings to the american people in order to get this health care bill done. so the america -- and i don't know i wasn't there. i can't get information on these meetings. mr. shadegg: wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. are you telling me these insurance companies went into the white house and struck a deal? and the deal says if you'll pass a bill forcing everyone in america to buy our product, we, the health insurance industry, will support your bill? that's a pretty good deal. could i take like, maybe some other company, a lumber company or auto company and say, if you strike a deal, we'll support a bill you want, you just have to force every american to buy our product? it seems to me the health insurance companies must have very good lobbyists tied very closely to the democrat party. because if i remember correctly, the health insurance industry wanted two thin

you get the insurance and the phrma lobbyists.republicans, if they were in power, knowing they are pro- corp., would there be true costs contained? i have something to i have to sit, and i'm very disappointed in c-span. i hope he will give me -- i hope you will give me a moment. there is a bill about so-called immigration reform, and i believe it contains mandates so that we all take government id cards and probably will involve legalization of illegal immigrants. you had a representative gu tierrez on for quite a long time, a sponsor of this legislation. two other people you had on were pro-immigration reform journalists who were offering softball questions, and you had no one who is opposing the bill or informing us about details in the bill, and no one followed the program with a representative but here as -- rep gutierrez. one other thing, and i thank you so much for the time -- this health-care bill specifically said it did not cover it illegal immigrants. it was a political decision, because they knew that legalizing immigra