rahall. >> good morning. >> caller: i have two points. first, the xl pipeline is not paid for by taxpayer dollars will create a number of jobs. >> true. >> caller: second, we're going to cross the allegheny river. in order to do that they're going to have divers go in. they marked every plan in the area where the bridge is going to be built, move them down the river and then return them to the exact spot when the bridge is done. is that responsible use of the taxpayers' money? i expect it will be built. regardless of what the final word of the congress is. as i referenced also, earlier, it's just turned into a political football, unfortunately, in the congress. and it should not be allowed to stop the transportation bill which is going to put many more workers to work and many more states across the united states in the keystone project would. but, yes, the keystone project does mean jobs. as i said in the beginning i support the keystone project. >> just to explain, you said it's a private company. is that because of the trans border cro

i race graham rahal and i might not survive. >> would you be made if i bet for rahal?ack seat. >> welcome back. florida senator and potential v.p. pick marco rubio fired up a crowd of republicans this weekend. >> occupies the white house and is running for president is a very different person. we have not seen such a divisive figure in modern american history as we have over the last 3 1/2 years. >> our next guest was in the audience that saturday night in south carolina. so does he think rubio has the effect on voters romney needs to win the election? >> governor mark sanford, former governor of south carolina and a fox news contributor is on our guest this morning. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> what was the reaction of hearing senator rubio in that forum? >> it was awfully positive. you know, a little over 1,000 folks there. and what i saw was a fired up crowd as rubio spoke. i think that for romney to win in the fall, he needs to have conservatives fired up and i saw rubio absolutely fire up that crowd on saturday night. >> senator lindsay graham this wee

fledgling real estate recovery, you are literally affecting the economic recovery and social and kalt rahal aspects. i can't tell you how important this piece of legislation and how important your efforts are are to get it extended for the fire years. >> just a real quick follow-up. you may not know this on a national basis but you may know it from a southern florida basis. if this thing were too expire, what kind of impact as far as percentage of homes would it have, say, in southern florida? >> well, i can't be certainly about that, although i'll get you those numbers. >> i just want to get an idea. >> nationally we were about 1,300 a day, about 47,000 across the board but in florida where we would be specifically impacted because the entire state for all intents and purposes is a flood plain, it would impact every one of those sales and even the existing mortgages. percentage-wise i'm going to guess at least one out of every two. >> thank you very much. from roar perspective, if it is to expire, how does that impact the mitigation efforts? >> clearly we're seeing more and more increased

the daily mail promotes itself as the voice of england, the guardian, the leb rahal intelligentsia, but i don't think that's in a sense where what you call their power necessarily comes from. i think it's a useful thing for them to say. i'm not sure it's necessarily right. >> i'm going to read -- if you have a view on a particular issues, particularly if it's -- at which point the viewpoint is already in a direction by the direction the paper has taken. you say your own assessment, this is three lines down that, they have more influence on the terms of the debate than actual power to dictate policy. >> yup. >> so the terms of the debate went into areas such as the culture of negativity and matters you've outlined elsewhere. >> it's also what's important, i mean, a news bulletin running order is a set of decisions that are made by executives. if a at the moment pornography on the internet, for example, involved in a campaign, perfectly legitimate, serious issue, is that more likely to make the politicians think that they might look at it, try to address it? yes. is there anything wrong w

rahall, that's it for our time. thank you for being here this morning. >> thank you. enjoy it. >>> we're up to the white house coverage this weekend on c-span. senator lmarco rubio gives the key note address. we'll also hear from the two u.s. senator, lindsey graham and jim demeant. that's live tomorrow starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span radio and online at c-span.org. >>> bonnie frank is the top democrat on the financial services committee. he was first elected in 1980 and retiring at the end of his current term. congressman frank it was first congressman to acknowledge being gay. 2010 he and former senator christopher dodd wrote the financial regulation law that bears their names. barney franks joins us on "news makers" on c-span sunday. >>> when people are saying to him don't take the vice presidency right now you are the most -- you are a powerful majority leader. don't take the vice presidency. you won't have any power. johnson says, power is where power goes. that is i can make power in any situation. his whole life i said, nothing in mislife pre

rahall. it's an expanded program which leverages dollars 30-1, so that's an additional million jobs. so i want you all to know from the house in particular, this is, this bill, a real reform bill. it consolidates 90 programs just in the highway part alone into 30. it eliminates earmarks. i have gives states flexibility. it establishes performance measures, accelerates project delivery that i know is so important to you, and it sets up a new freight program. the country needs us to pass a surface transportation bill so we can fix our aging infrastructure, put people back to work, boost the economy. the health of our businesses and our workers depend on it. and again, why do we have the wind at our back? look at some of the groups that are supporting us. just look at this. things really amazing. just a few of the 500 triple-a, afl-cio, the public transportation association, the transportation building, the civil engineers, the truckers, the general contractors, the equipment dealers, the distri

rahal. it is a program which leverages dollars 30 to one. that is an additional million jobs.so i wants you all to know from the house in particular, this is a bill reforms bill. it consolidates 90 programs just in the highway part alone. and eliminates air max and give states flexibility. it establishes performance measures, accelerates project delivery so important to you and sets up a knew for a program. the country needs us to pass the surface transportation bill so we can fix our agent infrastructure. the house of our business and workers depend on it. again, why do we have the wind at our back? look at some of the groups that are supporting us. just look at this. this is really amazing. just a few of the 500. aaa, afl-cio, and state highways and transit officials, public transportation association, civil engineers, general contract years, equipment dealers, distributors, u.s. chamber of commerce, and the u.s. conference of mayors. and again i say, if the afl-cio and the chamber of commerce can work together, surely we can work together to. in addition to our core mission

i don't think it's quite as advice rahal as it is odd tonight. >> listen to the 7:00 and 6:00 news, stevened onnence home -- >> want to stand up for the statistic state official scum. >> i didn't say it was a conspiracy. did you it didn't given the rise in the unemployment rate didn't read the elt m-- >> you know what, steve, back up your words with some facts. it's been a disturbing trend for people really worried about people finding jobs and not political spin. i say it's a problem no matter what side of the aisle they control. >> what's the problem? >> the on that we count people pays tarkes. >> no, what you do see is that tonight the headline number that people are going to talk about is 8.1. they're not going to talk about some of these underlying issues -- >> i think "nbc night live news" -- >> what's your view on that? >> austin? >> it's not a lock it's going to go down that much in the economy rate. if you saw the include -- >> guys -- >> the question is how much does it flow, how much do we pick up? if we see in the two and a half range, whun very small couldn't, which is i thin

rahall in this bipartisan effort, mr. lucas and mr. peterson, mr. gibbs for their actions. these bills do not change or roll back any current protections under the clean water act. they simply stop the e.p.a. and the corps of engineers from moving forward and making these unprecedented regulatory changes through a guidance document. the e.p.a. needs to withdraw this guidance document immediately if it wishes to make changes to the clean water act, it should go through a complete and proper rule-making process under the administrative procedures act. that's why it's there, so that people will know in america the cost of what these regulations mean to them and what they do and do not do. so why do it under the veil of guidance when they should be doing it out in the open? and that's what we want. and that's all, really, that we are asking for. now, i mentioned that i'm introducing a bill today. going back and refreshing my memory on what happened with the overreach of the e.p.a. we might remember the -- it was from this podium i guess two weeks ago -- it was on a friday -- th

i'm not rahal sure where at that ipo business is going.world now and i think of the companies just killing, amazon, apple, google, twitter, microsoft, zenga, that's are all american companies. that's the exciting part of it. the scary part is if you look all their employees, i think you could fit them all in yankee stadium. >> i don't think there was a single moving part. there was no metal, no smoke stacks. not even any trucks with facebook. i don't think at the need any trucks. >> so they create enormous wealth, a noum of tools for other people. >> didnbut you need lots and lo and lots of these. our vision is that america today would be to the world what america of the 60s -- what cape canaveral story was to america of the 60s. we're in the going to have one big national moon shot anymore in what we want america to somebody the launching pad where everyone in the world would want to launch their moon shot. >> it sounded like when you listed those five things, a lot of it is because we're aging we're an older society. and that's created c

i also want to thank governor tomlin and congressman nick rahall for their tireless work on this issue, aas long as with congressman vern buchanan of florida, who's doing excellent work to end the pill mills. as we all know, last night's vote gives this amendment a solid step forward, but there is much work remaining to give our communities the right tools to fight this epidemic. that's because all too often, we all hear stories like this one, in which the ohio county substance abuse prevention coalition in my state shared with me. a young boy was injured and was prescribed prescription painkillers containing hydrocodon't. after the injury, he began using the opiates with the other teens in his school. they began by taking pills and event way by -- eventually by graduation, snorting the pills on a daily basis. one day he was convinced by a friend to try i.v. use. he was married, he was able to hold down a job until he began using it through i.v. his wife was addicted to painkillers and their child was born addicted to drugs. he wanted more than anything to be a hardworking father and h