i'm happy to recognize ronald reagan and i appreciate your report. i'll bring a resslution some point recognizing ronald reagan. there's a corner worth standing on. thank you, mr. chairman. these issues come before the united states congress. i think there's a time and place to recognize significant achievements within the united states of america. i am going to ask for a recorded vote on this. it will be an interesting question. my point is, the economy's struggling. we have real issues out there. like i said there is a time and place to make these kinds of recognitions. i just don't know that this rises to the same level as recognizing teachers or nurses who hold people's hands as they are there in the final days of their lives. there are a lot of things that i think we could unanimous consently look at and recognize. i for one don't think that hollywood needs more recognition and with all due respect i for one at leasttwill be voting against this resolution. with that i would like to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gen

the republicans claim that ronald reagan, the great communicator -- that was the best acting job he ever did as far as i'm concerned. as for george bush, jr., he was a thumb tack president. his father put him into office and his father's cronies' ran it. host: what do you think the president obama should do now? caller: well, what can he do? the corruption is so imbedded. george bush, a senior was involved with bringing drugs into the country. he was accused of it and then they all watched it to. the nixon administration -- the public outcry against nixon got him to resign. there is no more public outcry. the american people have become so blase. the corruption is so entrenched that the idiot from texas who apologized to bp -- that is how far it is. host: next, looking at what is going on in congress and some

remember ronald reagan? he said we need a coalition of the willing. well we have it. give that the party of big hand. -- given that the party of big hand. [applause] they have played an integral role in this victory tonight, and that is because they remember what "tea" stands for: "taxed enough already." we can take back our country. our country deserves better. we have the gun owners of america and nevada patriot as well. we have the nevada home school network. we have built this coalition, and tonight we are adding more. there were nine who were so wonderful in putting their lives forward, who were ready to be true patriot by sacrificing their lives, their fortunes and their liberty, and they are joining the team. and we welcome all of them, because we have kept the focus of this campaign, and that is to defeat harry reid. we also are adding one more group to the coaaition tonight. that is the international nion approved -- the international union of [unintelligible] employees. we are ready. we are armed and ready to go down into the most critical kind of a big camp

and it is because of the leadership of president ronald reagan. he was instrumental in bringing the breadth of freedom to mfls people around the world who spent decades under the yolk of tyranny. president reagan left a lasting imprinon american politics, diplomacy, culture, and economics. as a california rest didn't, i am honored to support h.r. 5278. it was introduced by our colleague, the gentleman from illinois, representative bill foster, on may 12, 2010. the measure was referred to the mmittee on oversight and government reform which ordered it reported by unanimous consent on may 6, 2010. the measure has the support of the entire illinois delegation. i thank the gentleman from illinois for introducing this mesh -- msheesh you are -- measure and i thank those for support of this bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time the gentleman from ohio. mr. turner: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. turner: i rise to

what we need to do right now is what ronald reagan did. cut taxes, give people more disposaale income and give business the ability to go -- to grow. that's how you create jobs. the speaker pro temppre: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. culberson of texas forrtoday and mr. platts of pennsylvania for today and june 23. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extends their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mr. burton for today, junn 23, 24 and 25, myself, mr. poe, for june 28 and 29, mr. bilirakis for today, mr. forbes for juue 23 and 24, ms. ros-lehtinen for today, june 23, 24, mr. jones for june 28 and 29, mr. gohmert for today and june 23 and 24, and mr. cao for

the only bill i remember being overridden was ronald reagan, when he sent back a bill to us which said you are not spending enough on defense. that was overridden pretty handily. >> let us take one last question back here. >> could you please address, as the gentleman earlier articulated, that some retirement -- some entitlement changes, such as raising the retirement age -- >> how did you preface that? >> an earlier gentleman started to address this. reform the entitlements in a way that impacts some american people. >> thank you. were you through? as i said in my speech, i think, and i hope you got that, was that i think we need to make sure that those who are in most need are protected. as we look at entitlement programs, we have to look at entitlement programs in the context of assuring those most in need of entitlement help get it. but that is what i have talked about in terms which are very controversial, and i understand that. some people on my staff do not want to say it. i said it. there you go. i agree with your premise, making sure those most in need affected by entitlements

going back and reading a little bit about history, i learned that ronald reagan quadruple our deffcit. he increased military spending, and eventually i learned that he'd quadrupled our budget deficit. bill clinton got us out of that mess, and bush jr., $200 billion in a rat hole. i am not saying obama is doing everything right, but i do note the republican house, the republican administration left the car in a deep ditch. i do not know about a man who is supposedly a democrat, why you are railing againss obama when we should be trying to come -ptogether. it feeds the republicans and as the republican whom it has kind of seen the light, i am trying to understand where you are coming from. guest: ccming together is good, but not money policies hat are escalating the war in afghanistan, costing us a tremendous amount of national treasure and allies of plunge -- the lives of young people and making us less secure in afghanistan and around the world. coming together is not a great policy when its failure of basic regulatory functions hat lead to allowing outfit slight bp to do whatever the

jerry brown followed ronald reagan as california governor.ason is joining us from kentucky on the republican line. go ahead, jason. >> i used to live in a city of kentucky. chris fromined from the bronx. a shout out to c-span. >> thank you. >> we will watch for a moment in anaheim california or the former hewlett-packard ceo and winner in the republican senate primary. >> in short, i think barbara boxer will succeed. i think ried over angle and that think meg whitman might win because of the deficit. ad none politician in california to jerry brown might win. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. my good friends, i have heard your message loud and clear. the people of california have had enough. [applause] in fact, i think they can hear you all the way in washington d.c. [applause] from the moment i declared my candidacy, over 7000 volunteers come up over 20 coalitions, 12,000 donors, and a tireless and hard-working staff have made this the greatest team effort by have ever had the privilege of being a part of. all of you worked togeth

i had the privilege of working with ronald reagan. we are spending more on that and the cold war is over. let's bring it back to that level. finally, and this is not going to be easy, somebody has to take a look a the personnel costs and thdepartment of defense. if we doot, the pentago is going to end up with general motors. we talk about ppasing in some of the things. when you decide on a military pay raise, they are using base y. any of you in the service know that base pay is only less than half of your compensation. we said let's use the pentagon's own reviews which have said calling relatively military spending. tricare is a great program tha people were's -- retire and not take the health care. care beforellowing you to do that. was passed in the waning days of the clinton adminisation. whenou urn 65ou can stay in it. when this commission is done, they will be means testing a lot of the other benefits. those are all things you can do that saveubstantial amounts of money and in keeping with things thsecretary of defen and the esi

you might want to have a beer with ronald reagan rather than jimmy carter. you would rather have a beer with george bush or senator kerry. that personality factor in the political world is overlooked because we are motivated by issues. with the scott brown campaign and how we used on-line video is to make a personal connection, is possible for all types of voters. that is something that cannot be overlooked, flexibility is a huge. >> i will ask you the same question. we will take q &a from the audience and a couple of seconds. something we have not talked about tonight and that is an important thing. it is hard to like some of these people if democrats are successful in talking about their record and successful in talking about health care, not just as a record of achievement but what it means -- young voters are no different than the rest of thh american. american they still don't understand the nuts and bolts. there are young parents to have 22-year-old coming home from college who do not have a job and need to stay on their parents' health care plan. they

the lution has been donstrated by j.f.k., by ronald reagan, by bush. they've tued enomies around. inead of doing what f.d.r. did, what henry mor again thaw told us would t work -- henry morgenthau told us would not work, you've got to drop ending, but the problem with cutting spending is y can do giveaways to everybody or bailouts to everybody. america is inhe cross hairs of the choice,ne u.s. had the idea the government is going to ovide health care and education and jobs and food and housing, and the other.s. said, we believe that the job of government is to provide life andiberty and the pursuit of happs. that's a very narrow description o government, just national defense and a lev playing field. one is the u.s.s.r. and that didn't work. the other is the one th's worked f hundreds of years we need to geback to that idea of a limbed government doing just what it's supposed to do constitutionally d not trying to be the ilout king of the entire world and e fire country. i thank my good friend congressman giney from georgia for your insight, not only your medical profesonalisbut t

this explains the appeal of ronald reagan, whose cinematic percent suggested that he would of lassoedhe satellite and hurled it back into space." guest: it emphasizes how chance plays a role. no one would claim that three mile island was jimmy carter's fault, but the president is not -- the presidency is not fair. you are responsible for what happens on your watch. the clock is ticking on obama. he avoided katrina-scale blame so far. if we are in august or september, the and this oil well is not kept in these pictures are not changed, the blame will go to obama, fair or not tfair. host: it is not really one crisis, as much as a succession of crises. this may be the real danger for the administration -- is a theme that the media love to see -- the white house not able to manage events. obama is trying to portray an image of competence. but then it in the media, the switch around and say, he is not showing enough strain and emotion. it is a very moving target. host: talking about what the criteria is for judging a good president. guest: that is a very large question. crises are only par

i think the correct year was 1976 part he was vice president for ronald reagan when he ran for the presidency, dick and clear schweigert are here. he was the senator from pennsylvania and secretary of hhs a few years back. we are heavily loaded with pennsylvania's. tom ridge is here tonight. we are delighted to have the governor here. [applause] the former secretary of the department of homeland security. i want to introduce two people who are very important to us because they helped us with the appropriations of the wilson center at the united states congress. they may be the most important people here so far as i am concerned. [laughter] janey james and chris tobeck are here. [applause] they do marvelous work on the step of the appropriations committee. i am delighted that jim leach is here who is chairman of the national endowment of the humanities and a former colleague of mine on our board. [applause] i will be introducing sam donaldson in a moment, but i want to say that his wife jan is here and we are delighted to have you here as well. [applause] we have the president of s iemens usa.

as i write my book, what washington can learn from the world of sports, in the days of ronald reagan who is my hero and i have pictures of ronald reagan when he was governor and came to practices and that is what got me interested in politics. here is a great governor. he knows what is important, football. i liked his ideas as well but in the days of ronald reagan when he turned our country around, our competition for america, for a few western european countries and japan. our competition now is all of the countries of europe, japan, south korea, china, malaysia, india, singapore, australia, brazil. the rest of the world. if we can have a government as i write in this book, while other countries are going pedal to the metal and starting to lap us so we need to have that competitive spirit and they do have a winning energy game plan in here. another thing about sports, no one ever goes to a game, no one pays to watch officials officiate. you don't go there to say gosh i hope that zebras figure out to-- who will win this game but too often in washington may come up with manipulations

when ronald reagan took office, the stock market started to move in prices got cheaper. with obama in office, it seems that when the stock market is higher, so do the prices. nothing gets cheaper. everything gets more expensive. is that related to the fact that we have such a small, young tax paying base than when we did in the past. so security is in danger with that. guest: i am not sure about the inflation rates. there has been fear of hyper inflation kicking in. it has not yet. that is something that economists are constantly watching. i am not so sure that the rate has gone up so much. host: this is from the campaign section. guest: it is a marked difference. when is the last time the republican base has been fired up? you probably have to go back to two dozen for when george bush beat john kerry. since then, the party has been in the doldrums. the dealing of katrina was a disaster. they suffered in the polls. you see these numbers, but democrats want a special election. we will see what happens. republicans think they have a good shot of taking back the house and p

ronald reagan did after the challenger crisis, really wound up the nation, at a terrible time. and president clinton going out and welcoming back the caskets from the embassy assassinations and murders. i mean those are important acts for a president. and i really think that that's part of the job description. it's not-- he doesn't have to emote, he doesn't have to pretend to be what he isn't. but i think there is a sense of communicating that at the highest levels of power and authority in this country, there is an understanding of the human factor in this. david mentioned the fishermen in particular. >> woodruff: in addition to blasting b.p. which is what he was doing again today. saying they are spending a lot of money on advertising but they need to spend money on the people here. >> and i think that is moderately effective, i'm not sure. but people want to know that the communication with the government is two-way. and that doesn't mean you just sit with a series of government officials in your shirtsleeves around a table it means you are in a nongovernmental setting where

i thought ronald reagan was the greatest man who ever lived. >> in thisspresent crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. >> where do you find things like that clip of karl rove or dan roorabacher? >> oh, man, we just dig and dig and dig. our eyes when we saw those things. that's one of the fun things3 you start looking and you start believing that stuff is out there that hasn't been seen something. you usually find >> how do you find it? if i were sitting in your shoes, who would you call to find something like that? >> well, the first place you start is you go to the networks and you say, you know, send me all your material that has stuff about either jack abramof3 sometimes you get stuff. but then someeimes there's certain incidents you're interested in, and there's another incident in the film about this famous sort of right-wing woodstock that jack abramoff held in ngola. we knew about it, the networks had a tiny clip, but we kept asking people who had been there if they knew of anybody who was shooting it. and lo and behold, we got a name,

primary in south carolina has gone on to win the republican nomination going all the way back to ronald reagan so south carolina na lot of ways has been a king maker. so i think there's going to be a lot of interest in south carolina particularly if state representative hail seable to beat state senator shaheen to see who she might back going into a republican presidential primary in 2012. >> woodruff: all right, we're going to leave it there. adolphus belk, with winthrop university, and amy walter, with the hotline. thank you, both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: finally tonight, six weeks after a devastating flood, nashville looks to make a comeback. jeffrey brown has the story. 7 ♪ >> brown: if it's nashville and there's a need to rouse the community what, better way than music? last night, the capital of country music staged a special benefit concert dubbed, "nashville rising," to aid victims of the floodinging that hit this city and early tennessee in early may. in a 24-hour stretch, beginning may 1, nashville and the surrounding area got drenched in 13 inches of rain, causing the bank of the

if the bill -- the only bill i remember being overridden was ronald reagan, when he sent back in 1983 of bills it -- which it you're not spenddng enough on defense. that was overridden pretty handily. >> let's take one my question back here. -- one last question back here. >> good to address [unintelligible] raising the retirement age? >> how did you preface that? [unintelligible] >> lower income people? thank you, i'm sorry. as i said, in my speech, i hope that you got that, was i think we need to make sure that those who are in most needed are protected. as we look at entitlement programs, we also look at entitlement programs in he context of assuring those most in need of the entitlement help getting at. that is why talk about in terms of progressivity, which is controversial and i understand that. some people said doonot say and i said it. there you go. in any event, i agree with your premise in making sure that those most in need are affected positively by and talk about its are not adversely affected by any reforms. let me thank third way for giving me this opportunity. ann than

he is in 19th and 93 -- he is a 1993 appointment of ronald reagan. 20% is far below the more than 90% required to build a nuclear weapons. but u.s. officials are concerned that iran could be moving closer to the ability to reach weapons- grade level. toyota motor corp. and honda motor corp. said today they have stopped production of some of their car assembly plants in southern china after a parts supplierrwas hit by more labor unrest. the walkouts of the japanese carmakers are slowing output and adding costs when both companies have been ramping up production to meet strong demand. finally, a deal that would resolve lawsuits, filed by nearry 10,000 police officers, firefighters and construction workers over their exposure to toxic ash following the 9/11 attacks. they will go before a federal judge in manhattan today. the juuge has indicated he is in favor of the deal but that he would give opponents a chance o speak. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> this weekend on c-span2's book tv, alex heard recalls the 1995 trial of wil

he was the vice president for ronald reagan when ronald reagan ran for the presidency, dick end clareschweitzer, would you stand up? [applause] he was the senator from pennsylvania and also secretary of hhs a few years back. we are heavily loaded with pennsylvanians. tom ridge is here tonight. we are delighted to have a governor here. [applause] the former secretary of the department of homeland security. i want to introduce two people who are very important to us because they help us with the appropriations of the wilson center at the united states congress. they may be the most important people here so far as i am concerned. [laughter] jenny james and chris topeck are here. would you stand? [applause] they do a marvelous work on the staff of the appropriations committee. i am delighted that jim leach is here who is chairman of the national endowment of humanities and he is a formal college of mine on the board. -- former the government on the board. sam donaldson's white is here. we are delighted to have you, jan. we have the president of siemen's usa. [applause] we have several amb

i can remember back in 1980 when you beloved guy ronald reagan said we do not need -- if you don't want to pay the wages for employment here, we'll subas i dies you, which meant public money to send the jobs out of the country. now how did barack bok cause these jobs to be lost? >> well, one of the things we talk about in our book is that period from the early 1980's, we called this the greatest period -- we've never seen anything like that. anywhere, anytime, at any place in the history of mankind. it was an awesome period of expansion. we createed in this country, peter, about 40 million jobs over the last 25 years. the tragedy is we lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 million-to-10 million in this resession. but reagan unquestionable turned this economy around. i'm not making a partisan point. i think bill network, i think prosperity continued in the clinton years and we had a balanced budget. those are the kinds of ideals we have to get back to. i pray president o'ballet sees the wrongness of his debt policies an we get this budget under control and start putting america back to

vice president for ronald reagan when ronald reagan ran for presidency. dick, would you stand up?applause] he, of course, was senator from pennsylvania, also secretary of hhs a few years back. we are fairly heavily loaded with pennsylvania ends. tom ridge is here. -- with pennsylvanians. tom ridge is here. [applause] i want to introduce two people who are important to us, because they help us with the appropriations at the wilson center, and they may be the most important people here, as far as i am concerned. would you stand? [applause] they do marvelous work on the appropriations committee. i am delighted that jim is here. he is now chairman of the national endowment of humanities. [applause] i am going to be introducing sam donaldson in a moment, but i want to say that his wife is here. we are delighted to have you, as well. [applause] we have the president of siemens usa. we are delighted to have him with us. [applause] we have several ambassadors with us. one from the republic of korea. over here. the ambassador from the swedish embassy. the ambassador from japan is here. [ap

ronald reagan, mr.bush, and bush ii, middle-class wages are the point where it takes two incomes now, sometimes three to keep a household going. guest: nobody will say that over this recession the middle class is not gotten pinched. but if you go back to 1980 in particular will find the rich have gotten richer, the faster than the poor and middle-class have. you can look at certain years and said the middle class has stagnated. if you look over the broad sweep of the past few decades to find americans have generally done better, but the rich have done better fastest. so, income inequality has gone up. the bush and reagan and clinton and clintonii administration is working on helping the middle- class thrive, to help all americans to flourish -- bush, reagan, and clinton, and bush ii. it is about the execution of policies. host: here is a story about the tea party. one not recall them now? putting their efforts and to getting a bunch of senators recalled the in a half a dozen states. do you agree? guest:

then a guy came along by the name of ronald reagan he cut taxes like mad, then along comes bush, cuts taxes, recoverly ry again, we've seen it over and over, this is counterintuitive, why in the world if you cut taxes could the government have more revenue and get the econy going, here's what happens. think about it a little bit like this. say you're king for a day, congressman broun, and you're allowed to tax loves of bread. you're thinking, now uff been technically trained as a doctor, you're a scientific thinker, you've got loves of bread, how much are you going to tax a loaf of bread, first you think maybe penny, nobody would complain about a tax of a penny of a loaf of bread. you say if i tax it more, i can get more money. maybe they wouldn't pay $10 tax. somewhere between $10 and a penny, there's an optimum tax to tax a loaf of bread to raise money for the government. the same kind of thing goes on on a larger scale. what this guy understood was if you drop taxes, what happens is the economy gets going. when it gets going, there are more transactions so even the lower tax rate w

ronald reagan created saddam hussein.case - he gave him tens of millions of dollars in military aid and when the monster got out of control, papaw bush added to take them out.. that is what started al-qaida and the jihad movement and that has gotten us where we are. the fact that you can casually sit there and defend your ridiculous behavior. we have strength in iran and almost destroyed america and the process with thesezú" ridiculos illegal foreign wars that are against what this country was founded on we have no business interfering. we are using is real as our hezbollah over all these years. host: major point, let's hear from the ambassador. guest: that is a point of view. i was present at the time of the 1990-1991 and desert shield and desert desert storm event. i was director of the iraq- kuwait apart from the state department. i would take a different point of view on that. president george h. w. bush's decision to use u.s. military forces to liberate kuwait was a critical step not only in and of itself but also i

i was a republican, but i have seen -- i thought it started under ronald reagan using phony accountingonly in the last couple of days have they covered real unemployment novels -- numbers around 18%. instead of having these corporate people making billions of dollars and providing little service to their country or people, instead of one man making $2 billion the trickle's them, that should be 200,000 $100,000 jobs. we need one person who teaches at the university of texas to come in near and stop putting up these numbers. they need to stop storing it felt the people in louisiana like they did with the last thing people with the exxon fell dead. they gave exxon money after the oil spill, but after a while, those people were dead. host: and this is the "washington post." a ceremony will take place at the rose garden today. you can see that on c-span. there is already some reaction on that and congress. here is a ". -- quotation. queens, new york. caller: good morning. i am a master plumber just like the other caller. my last work was in 2008. even though i am retired, things are kind of

ronald reagan looked at that and said, you never see something like that except in the soviet union. i hate to say this, but in 2007 o.m.b. did staudy and said that of that $18 billion worth of that property is excess. it is useless it is needless. this year peter orszag updated that report and said there are 14,000 buildings that the federal government buildings own that are excess and 55,000 buildings that are underutilized and not necessary. "the washington post" did an editorial and said until the district of columbia can get hold of all the excess land and buildings owned by the federal government and put those to economic use, the economy of the washington, d.c., would never grow. those of us in the west have been saying that for a long time. in fact, this year i introduced two land transfer bills. in each bill both the forest service and the b.l.m. as well as the army corps of engineers owned land that they did not use, they did not need, they didn't even know about it. one par sell of land was sold to the federal government in the 1940's for $1, and the forest service did not

years of the 1960's nd 1970's and broadcaster liberal presidents to conservative presidents like ronald reagan. and cast our financial system sound. in the 1990's clufthese whiz-kid wizards of wall street t devised ways of developing monday. they had no way of evaluating it. they had no way of making or maximizing their promise. what they said was to do this, all we can do is do it through the investment banking system. in order to make a loo of money, we need access. access to the money that is in the insurance industry. we need access to the money in depository banks. wall street led the effort in 1999 and i might say aided and abetted by the clinton administration.. i am proud of the fact i am one of 82 voted against it. what these whiz kids in wall street did is they put this together. deposit banks and investment houses. and it is this stew that made a sick. to my way of thinking, some say you cannot put the genie back in the bottle. i happen to believe you can. i happen to be in a small minority who believes if you want to straighten out the system we have to go back to glass stiegel and

in the book i read that president reagan, i am not young but not old either, ronald reagan was my first election. -preading about history, i am learning that he quadrupled our deficit. he cut taxes and increase military spending and eventually but to of a lot -- quadrupled our budget deficct. bush jr. was handed a surplus and they have us in a rat hole. i am not saying that obama is doing everything right but i do know that the republican house, senate, and administration drove the car into 1 d ass -- deep ass ditch. why are you railing against obama when we should be trying to come together? it feeds the republicans and it turns the democrats away. as a republican who is kind of seeing the light, i am trying to understand where you are coming from. guest: fair enough question. coming together is good. but not bind policies that are escalating a war in afghanistan, costing us a tremendous amount of national treasure in the lives of young people, including enormous suffering and making us less secure around the world. coming the other is not a great policy when it is a failure of basic r

ronald reagan was one. but those instances are few and far between. starting in 1992, when you had the first wave of populist rejection of the establishment embodied in the campaign of ross perot, came out of nowhere and drew 19% of the vote in a presidential election and bill clinton won over the first president bush, two years after they electeded bill clinton for chan change, they threw the democrats out of congress and elected republicans. republicans thought they would use that to capture the white house, bill clinton made a comeback in 1996. you have seen that in the last couple of years with the swings. first, the people outraged by president bush, put the democrats in control of congress and white house within months after president obama takes office and the democrats have complete control of the federal government. there is this wave back. so you have a base party about a third of the electorate each then the group in the middle called independents not affiliated with either party but within that group there are a number who are either mainl

if we let jimmy carter continue his program with retphubls we would be farther ahead than when ronald reagan took over. my question is, is the oil that comes out of the united states deep water, who is it sold to, the united states or the international market? guest: if i understood the question, who buys the oil that is imported into the united stat states. different companies. those are all private company transactions. the government doesn't buy oil and distribute it among companies. host: what about the oil that comes out of the gulf? this is a b.p. well. is that exclusively b.p.'s oil or do they sell it? guest: the oil is shared among the partners according to their working interests. and until recently some oil produced in the federal offshore went to the government under the royalty in kind program of the interior department. now secretary salazar has terminated that program, so the government gets its share of the production in dollars rather than barrels. but the companies themselves own the oil. now, they can sell it or take it to one of the refineries and turn it in gasoline and d

over hundred times to get tax -- taking cases all the way to the supreme court, and getting the ronald reaganedom agenda. and building a coalition based on that record. they have measured the record and said "she is the one." fromalso heard conservative democrats and republicans. groups are going to have me do this. i cannot do it alone. >> we are out of time. i pre sure -- i appreciate willingness to come out. >> on the next face to face, one of the most powerful seat in the state. for democrats are competing. we will find out where they stand in an exclusive debate. that is in the next face to face. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> today, president obama said bp could face criminal charges over the gulf of mexico oil spill. he also named avp inquiry commission. then we will hear from eric holder air who is in the gulf region. akmal fatmarks from abnorm allen. -- admiral that allen. >> on "washington journal, "daniel weiss joins us to discuss the government's response to the p oil spill. after that, paul light

didn't this start with ronald reagan?e say for us not to have any restraint on business but with the restraint on the people, i.e. a person going fishing in the gulf of mexico could only catch so many fish. that is what i mean by the different economic models when they relate to the economy and restraints on businesses and people. guest: thank you for the happy birthday wishes. we know that government can spend money and we know that it can -- by spending that money you keep some people employed. the question that we want to know is whether we are creating sound footing for the economy going forward. we7t

>> as i began to explain a minute ago, i was ronald reagan's first attorney general in the company. -he country. my first elected position was attorney general. we have to have a team working together that know all the areas did know about problem you're trying to solve. what i would do is economic development, do something that has not been done before. we need to reform and change the way that we do it. we had -- in this to be a strategic and i have one on how to get there are you need to have all these assets. we have one of the best ports in the country, a deep water port. our agricultural proposal -- potential is second to none but

i worked for ronald reagan. we have a $1.5 trillion deficit this year. the last thing that we should do is to raise taxes. the first thing that we should do is cut spending. as many folks here know, the republican side has been offering five different proposals every week for the last month or so letting folks across america vote on the proposal that they think merits the most sense. this week was my proposal that, one, that is we are going to tell the i.r.s. that we're not, not going to hire another 15,000-some i.r.s. agents in the next couple of years to monitor health care, and we will save the taxpayers $5 billion to $10 billion. billion as in big. that's not a bad proposal. save the taxpayers some money by not hiring 15,000 more bureaucrats. what are these folks going to do? they're being to make sure that every american verifies they have health insurance? maybe they'll look at page 737 in the health care bill which says that every business will have to file a new 1099 with the i.r.s. for any $600 business-to-business transaction. if you're a home

exploited even more by ronald reagan when he tried to stop the american economy from being taken overy foreigners. one-third of the economy was given to the japanese because of their incompetence. tax-cut exacerbated things. i know you did not go the harvard and you have no idea about how the economy works, but i will tell you what will happen. americans will get to a situation where the currency will be so worthless is that the only way that america can be saved is by destroying capitalism. you had better get it together soon and stop acting like a bunch of schoolgirls. guest: i stand by everything i have said of the program. host of pensacola, florida. -- host: pensacola, florida. caller: i keep hearing you talking about the tripling of the budget under obama over 10 years, but bush and reagan also tripled the national debt. every time you get into office you do the exact same thing. how does that make it anything but hypocrisy? guest: number one, the president himself cannot spend a dime without the approval of congress. i am saying that the president has proposed a budget that tri

what i'd love to see if i had my brothers right now, madam speaker, is somebody like ronald reagan who could come in and cut taxes and cut spending and stimulate economic growth like he did and as a result we had 20 years of economic growth. right now what we're looking at is more unemployment, more jobs and now they're talking about, because of the way the gulf is being handled, the possibility of more double-digit unemployment. this is something that we can't tolerate right now. we need to be positive, we need to move ahead and the president is not moving in that direction. and a perfect commentary is what was in the "los angeles times," not a conservative newspaper. you heard liberal commentators all across the country last night saying the president is not addressing the problem. and he's way late in the first place and in the second place and in the third place. and so i just like to end by saying once again, i think the "los angeles times" was right on the money when they said obama speech, there's a pipe spills a billion gobs of oil in the gulf and he's talking about more taxing

but ronald reagan came in and pushed the resurgence of our national defense, built the missiles back up again and in the process of doing so, november 9, 1989, the berlin wall came down. that's the power of an economy and power of an ideology over a managed economy, a communist economy, a central command economy. that's the power of it all. this country has been a strong superpower in the world. and the only unchallenged superpower in the world in the pftermath of the wall coming down in 1989 and implosion of the soviet union. took it another year and a half to get itself wound down. so -- but we are here standing here as the unchallenged superpower in the world a + significant and central part because we have a free enterprise economy. well, we had one. and now we are getting a managed economy and someplace over there, europe is lecturing to us, don't spend so much money. they're guilty of that, too. but a lot more of dollars nationalized by this president than by hugo chavez. and that's not a stretch, mr. speaker, but simply a fact that as hugo chavez is blown hundreds of billions

exceptionalism and charter ourselves down that path that goes down the shiny hills of america that ronald reagan spoke of that we can see just beyond our horizons right now, madam speaker. so truthfully, i didn't come down here to talk about the things i just spoke of in the last half-hour. there is a seg way into this. i -- segue into this. i mentioned obamacare issue and here's where we are. whether it was two months or three months ago today that obamacare passed, i think this is a monthly anniversary of the tragic day when this congress refused to use its common sense and refused to listen to the will of the people. somehow they seem to be shut up here in washington and couldn't -- that our constituents couldn't get to them. and they hammered through and forced fed an obamacare bill on the american people that today is the law of the land. and there was a cry that went out for almost a year from this country of the people that said i couldn't want my health care taken over and nationalized by the federal government. and bills that came in that 1,994 pages dropped on us last november, near th

.+ ronald reagan created saddam hussein and gave him tens of billions of dollars in military aid. papa bush staated to take him out. that is what started allocated and the jihaddist movement. that is what got us where we are. the fact you can casually sit there and defend your ridiculous behavior, we have strengthened iran and have lmost destroyed america in the process with these ridiculous illegal foreign wars that are against what this country was founded on. we have no business interfering. we are using israel as our hezbollah over all these years. host: you have made your point. >> we leave this "washington journal" to return to the house. they consider three resolutions today to change the implementation date of new rules for gift cards. live coveragg now on c-span. offed be chapla chin coughn:tnal d, ever presento th lea in our midst, increaseu awareness that yoare th as nation today we cbrate america's unity anpurpose, syol by the fagofhe uni st of america. thugh all ourwars, international mundersanction an nal disasers erhe dust a dstction rej en we s th flave i noe ue a

i had the privilege of working with ronald reagan.are spending more on that and the cold war is over. let's bring it back to that level. finally, and this is not going to be easy, somebody has to take a look at the personnel costs and the department of defense. if we do not, the pentagon is going to end up with general motors. we talk about ppasing in some of the things. when you decide on a military pay raise, they are using base pay. any of you in the service know that base pay is only less than half of your compensation. we said let's use the pentagon's own reviews which have said calling relatively military spending. tricare is a great program that people were's -- retire and not take the health care. care before allowing you to do that. you have tricare for life which was passed in the waning days of the clinton administration. when you urn 65 you can stay in it. when this commission is done, they will be means testing a lot of the other benefits. those are all things you can do that save substantial amounts of money and in keepi

ronald reagan is a huge rt of it.that kind of ldershi helped to bring the voices toverage, ordinary iranians --mericans, sorr reag wasreat communicator. and he didn't just commute his eas but ideas from theople behind the irocurtain very we to the american public. president obama, whom i vote for, does not do that. he does not conv our message. he does not coey the hopes and the dreams of the irann people to the american electorate. it's not a priity for him. and it just aifferent tim inmerican politicst seems cold war politics were about. but another reaso maybe more significant is t reasonsave to do with iranian polits. one is that iranians tend to be very insular. they don't reach out and they dot kw how to reach out in effective ways. we need learn.d something i'm hopghat the iernet and a new generation iraans inside and oside of the country can help with that. but anothereasons stragic and tactal. is moveme, t green movementis headless in many ways mousavi is the leader and hoti is leader butnone of the is rlly l

today ronald reagan would be kicked out of the republicann party. he and bob bennett might have a partnership. conservatives abandoned n. my opinion, the first president budget agreement, which was part of the reason we got to surplus. the budget agreement of 1990 that -- political of 1993 which was totally partisan and 1997-1998 agreement to re-authorize and continue with pay-go. for the same reason any tax crusader -- anti-tax crusader said this about a budget compromise. at some point conversation -- this is quoting grove, at some point conversations about unicorns are tedious because they don't exist in the real world. he went on to say that budget deals where they actually restrain spending and raise taxes are unicorns. i'll only say a budget agreement is entirely possible between two parties that look at reality as it is. not through the prism of 30-year-old ideologyythat lead to defeatist falsehoods like budget deals don't xist. as i have pointed out to you, they have existed to good effect. the good news is that after three decades some on t

ronald reagan was one. but those instances are few and far between. starting in 1992, when you had the first wave of populist rejection of the establishment embodied in the campaign of ross perot, came out of nowhere and drew 19% of the voten a presidential election and bill clinton won over the first president bush, two years after they electeded bill clinton for chan change, they threw the democrats out of congress and elected publicans. republicans thought they would use that to capture the white house, bill clinton made a comeback in 1996. you have seen that in the last couple of years with the swings. first, the people outraged by president bush, put the democrats in control of congress and white house within months after presidt obama takes office and the democrats have complete control of the federal government. there is this wave back. so you have a base party about a third of the electorate each then the group in the middle called independents not affiliated with either party but within that group there are a number who are either mainly repu