[applause] host: the words of abraham lincoln as delivered by actor sam watterson yesterday. this year marking the 150th anniversary of his swearing in of our 16th president. the entire programming as always available on our website at c-span.org. tomorrow a look at governors and the white house and a showdown. also a conversation with nancy gallagher, the board chair of the national organization for marriage. and brian walton with human rights campaign to talk about the issue of gay marriage and the decision by the obama administration on the domestic marriage act. that's tomorrow morning. some of the topics on "washington journal" heard here on c-span and c-span radio. enjoy the rest of your weekend and hope you have a great week ahead. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> welcome to "news makers." we have a budget and appropriations reportser with the national journal. julie has the first question. >> hi, mr. chairman. good to be with you. i wanted to ask the vice president, vice president biden, went to the hill to jump start talks on how to fund th