also, scott brown on his troubled childhood and rise to public political figure. get our schedules by e-mail. sign up for our booktv alert. >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius testified thursday on her department pottery 2012 budget request and the health care law. the house energy and commerce subcommittee on health is chaired by jim pitts. this is 2.5 hours. >> the chair recognizes himself for an opening statement. i would like to welcome our distinguished witnessed today, the hon. kathleen sebelius, secretary of the u.s. department of health and human services. madam secretary, thank you for your time and testimony today. the department of health and human services is a large department with broad authority and jurisdiction. with the enactment of the patient protection and affordable care act, we have found there are several sections of this new law that require mandatory funding. hence, bypassing normal appropriations processes. this hearing will give us a chance to consider the budgetary act and make -- implications and administration of

. >>> republican senator scott brown of massachusetts recounts his personal and professional life which includes his tenure in the massachusetts state senate and his election to the u.s. senate on january 19th, 2010, filling the term of the late senator ted kennedy. senator brown spoke of the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. [applause] >> well, before i get started i just want to say i had an opportunity to go around and try to meet everybody and say hello, and i know you talk about the weather here, no offense. [laughter] snow as high as the flags. i did get a chance to tour this facility and be part of history. it's a wonderful opportunity for not just young people but every person from every walk of life and i am so honored to be here. i want to thank you all for the very warm welcome and john, i appreciate kind introduction and the chance to visit the ronald reagan presidential library. this is my first time here, and what an honor it is for me to meet a living legend, obviously and nancy reagan herself it's wonderful to be with you, thank you. [applaus

if scott brown sticks with you guys on defending funding for planned parenthood, does that mean you don't get involved with his eventual democratic opponent? how'd you make the sale and how you will you be involved in the next election? >> through our action fund, we advocate for health care for women with everyone, with democrats, independents republicans. i believe myself that support for family-planning. support for government not getting into the private medical decisions of women is not a partisan issue. the irony of all this is that so many planned parenthood's were started by republicans. the goldwater family in arizona is one. there was a day in which women's health care was not considered a political issue. unfortunately, times have changed. i think we are seeing help -- women's health care used as a political issue. >> you have a part in that. planned parenthood takes a political position. >> we do on behalf of women. we are not aligned with tea party. we support anyone who supports women's health care access. we are seeing this played out in this congress. the decisions that co

also scott brown on his troubled childhood and rise as a political figure. get our schedules by e-mail. sign up for our booktelevision alert. >> the senate will debate the spending bill for the rest of the year. stracke the house and senate timeline, and find a full video archive for every member. >> now come president obama's visit to miami central high school to talk about the importance of education. the president toward some of the classes with the education secretary and a former florida gov.. and one science class, the students showed the president some of the project have been working on. here is a look. >> that's great. how are you? are you going to do a little demonstration? >> these are the robots we have been working on. [inaudible] >> this is programmed to do a step ladder. >> ok. all right. >> the program we use is on the board. >> you did this yourself? >> yes, using the code. >> how long did it take you? >> [inaudible] >> it took half an hour or so. >> it might take me longer. >> what we have here? >> this moves upwards and then it moves up or

. >> governor barbour, i know that senior senator john wyden and scott brown has teamed up to give states more flexibility. the president seemed to embrace that concept. i'm curious, does that go far enough? to give you the earlier out at 2014? if not what should we be doing? >> of course, the devil is in the details. the things that concerned me is the thing that is are in statute we are told the states will still have to do. and governor patrick has been talking about and answered your question how his cost didn't go up and he didn't have people drop insurance. massachusetts already had a very, very expandive mandatory standard benefits package. most states, particularly rural states don't. we get saddled with a standard benefit package like massachusetts, that's why our employers will drop coverage. their premiums will skyrocket. if it doesn't give us relief from that and similar things, it really not much help. >> right. governor herbert? >> as i mentioned earlier, how flexible is flexible? there is not absolute flexibility. it is a maintenance of effort, still required the essential

until the mental at january 2010 when the special election in massachusetts elected republican scott brown. drought that time they couldn't get health care done can even the 60 seats in the senate in 70 or 80 c. for majority in the house. and their own party's president. he thought that would've been an apartment which would make it likely for the party to do its premier issue. but they only were able to do it after they lost the senate race in massachusetts before brown receded in getting something done. now, we had an election in the meantime in november 2010. we now have divided government and we have a party with -- two parties are fundamentally different values, priorities, assumptions, beliefs. fundamentally different. tom is right, the bubble we have been named in december and january, first the result of a frenzy of congressional activity in the lame duck him an extension of the bush tax cuts, american publics about congas can do something in that we had during the shooting in tucson, arizona and the president came out on as a policymaker, but as a figure of unity and represented t

president was referring to was introduced by democratic senator ron wyden and republican senator scott brown and it allows states to create their own health care systems in lieu of the affordable care act sometimes called obamacare as long as those states cover as many people with the same benefits as that law mandates this could be helpful for states like vermont and oregon that are talking about creating single payer health care systems it also put more pressure on republican lawmakers who are opposed to the health reform law to create alternatives in their own home states says president obama reading the handwriting on the wall it says the best way to a national single payer system may be through the states ron pollack joins me now to offer his take executive director and vice president of families usa ron welcome to the program good to see you tom great to have you here with us are we seeing the saskatchewan set up here for our listeners who we don't know maybe you'd like to describe that or i can but first i think it's very important to understand that what the president did today is no

the us which is what you talk about in your press statement they were pretty good financier's of scott brown but you know they're not the only ones so now should anybody to perhaps help finance a campaign for governor of the now taking on unions should they all be concerned that they might be targets as well. i'm going to go ahead and say yes the separation expand become a lot bigger than it is here in wisconsin however as stated before it necessarily. lay out an entire game play here it's really played out well now this is another going to say your press release says that you know you're asking people to boycott coke paper products while you search for other vulnerabilities and you what kind of hold her abilities are we talking about sounds like you're searching for a plan. oh yeah coach. h.p. to build these new systems. and you know a lot of things came to light when we found out what they were up to exactly. some of the abilities people are looking for so the you just could sum it up as just. necessarily doing anything a listen. all right. ok so maybe sometime soon we'll see a leak of tho

don't you love scott brown's supercilious love you guys insult historical hotels of risky culture in the city in the sky because malls. may do as a good up until the club is struck for mr tropicana hutto. fresh fire fights break out across libya as the country spirals towards civil war incumbent one look at garfield time soon extinguished the upsurge of opposition force amidst fears of a mounting threat from abroad we have the latest for you tonight. the u.s. is amassing its needles this is getting closer to libya as international voices continue to raise concern as a sign intervention. we are in an information war and we are losing that war the u.s. state department says it needs billions of dollars to fight off the onslaught of global media outlets including a party. and you know russia close up series this half hour we take you to the ancient city of gatos level chosen his story taste good. very good evening from moscow i'm kevin owen you're watching the r.t.e. news channel at eleven pm moscow time how top story the international criminal courts launching an investigation into the

[applause] >> for more information on senator scott brown, visit his web site, scott brown.com. >> you're watching book tv on c-span 2. 48 hours of nonfission authors and books every weekend. >> the problem with monopoly over the long term is while it starts promising and results in the golden -- often resultness the golden age organization the long term, entrenchment leads to paranoia, stag nancy and bermuda over the long term. cbs and nbc when they started had a lot to say for them. by the 1970s, things had again too far. i suggest in my book, it is important to have the institute, the structure that can support quality things, but not at the cost of entrenching for so long they lose any sight of what they have to do. and i think that's what happened with the media organizations in this country by the '60s and '7s. >> i'll do the descriptive one first. you do a wonderful job in the book of describe this tragic process you just described briefly where a new communications medium comes along, all things are possible, there are these wonderful dreams of how fabulous. the title comes from t

you know, this particular piece of legislation has been proposed by a republican senator, senator scott brown and a democratic senator ron widen along with a third senator larry landrieu. so it's a bipartisan approach saying let's move up the timetable. let's let innovation be part of this strategy from the outset. >> woodruff: one other thing the governors as you know very well say their most immediate concern with regard to health care costs has to do with medicaid the government program covering the poorest people. more than half the states are ready to take hundreds of thousands of people off the medicaid roles if the government will simply grant them the flexibility to do that. is that something the administration is prepared to do? >> well, judy, i think that nothing could be worse for the prosperity of this country than to have millions more americans without health coverage. we've seen the toll that that takes on families and on personal budgets, on states. that is the worst of all outcomes. i think what we're trying to do is really work flexibley with states. we have sent teams out a

a republican who stumped for massachusetts senator scott brown, she sees increasing inequality in america, her growing distance from those on top. >> they don't get what is happening to this country and i feel like we're creating a third world country subculture within this country. >> reporter: the stock market's up, corporate profits, too. things are supposedly improving. but tell that to community organizer cheri andes. >> my husband and i together make what i would consider to be good money. and yet we're really struggling. we've got $26,000 worth of debt. the latest of that debt is $5,000 that we've put on a credit card to put braces on my middle son and the interest we're paying on that is 29.25% >> reporter: while the u.s. economy returned to its long- term growth rate last quarter, tens of millions of americans feel left behind, immobilized. like security guard bobby hicks. >> i am the most insecure security officer you'll meet because i'm worried. right now, i live paycheck to paycheck. and i do, i want better for my daughter, but i mean she realizes that daddy can't get it for h

republican senator scott brown of massachusetts on his personal and professional life, including his election to the u.s. senate to fill the term of the late senator ted kennedy. at 8, richard whitmire examines former washington, d.c. school chance michelle rhee's efforts to reform the school system. on after words, rubin carter talks about the 20 years he spent in prison and his work for the innocence since his 1935 re-- 1985 release. we conclude with mr. west who served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs durgd reagan administration. he argues that a reliance on counterinsurgency strategies has led the u.s. astray in afghanistan. >> in this time we win, senior editorial writer robbins argues that the tet offense offensive was a failure for the vietnamese. from san diego, this is about an hour. >> thanks, t.j.. good morning, everybody. happy to be here. thanks for inviting me. i'm really delighted. i noted on your web site that it identified me as writing for "the washington post" and not the washington times. i'm not offended. maybe they are. [laugh

senator scott brown, all right. i understand that, but i guess i'm asking do you have any accounting or budgetary experience, aside from dealing in policy matters? higginbottom, i'm not an accountant, but the president's budget is an articulation of his policy agenda. i think that's a -- that fails to evidence an understanding of the difficult role of that o.m.b. -- that the o.m.b. has. my staff director for the minority in the senate budget committee served in o.m.b. for a while. such a wonderful person, and one reason he came to my attention was because a member of president bush's administration that i know well said he had to go to him and try to ask him to approve additional funding for the department and he said he could say no, and he would do it in a way that he showed he understood what we were talking about, but he wouldn't give in, and he made you respect him for it. well, that's just kind of the nature of the o.m.b. all these agency -- agencies and departments, they want to ask for more money for their d

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also, massachusetts senator scott brown on his child -- childhood. look for a schedule on booktv .org, and get our schedule by e- mail. sign up for our booktv alert. this weekend on american history tv, the 150th anniversary of abraham lincoln pulled the first inaugural address and his oath of office, re-enacted by actor sam waterston, with remarks by harold holzer. we will go to s street, and this is the home of woodrow wilson. american history television, how we can, every weekend. to get the complete schedule of mind c-span.org/history, or you can press the c-span alert button, and have the schedule in mailed to you. >> the people of libya have made themselves clear. it is time for gaddafi to go now, without further violence or delayed. >> as on rest in the middle east and libya continues, rhode leaders speak out. listen to their comments in their entirely of mind at the c- span video library. watch what you want, when you want. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome back to c-span senator dick durbin, the said it.mocrat in th

parties until the middle of january, 2010 when the special election massachusetts elected republican scott brown. throughout that time they couldn't even get health care done even though they had 60 seats in the senate and a 70 or 80 seat majority in the house. and the party's president. he would have thought that would be an environment likely for the party to do its premiere issue. but the only were able to do it after they lost the senate race in massachusetts but before brown was seated in a frenzy of trying to get something done. now we've had an election in the meantime in november of 2010. we now have divided government, and we have a party with -- to parties with fundamentally different values, priorities, assumptions, the leafs, fundamentally different. this double we have been in in december and january, first the result of the frenzy of congressional activity in the lame duck they said well, congress can actually do something and then we have the horrendous shooting in tucson and arizona and the president cannot not as a policymaker but as a figure of unity and represented the nationa

like governor scott walker. >> brown: that came after president obama reiterated his support for public employees yesterday. >> i don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon. we need to attract the best and brightest to public service. these times demand it. >> brown: in fact, two new national polls offered some comfort to embattled unions. the "new york times"/cbs news poll found that 60% of americans oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions. 33% support the effort. and a few research... pew research poll released yesterday found 4% of adults surveyed nationwide sided with the union while 31% sided with governor walker in their dispute. a deissue in the national debate the public sector workers do better than those in the private sector. or to put it more bluntly are state and municipal employees overpaid? numerous studies have been done but researchers draw different conclusions. partly due to factors that make direct apples to apples comparison difficult. those incl

soon enough, so a few weeks ago the oregon senator ron wyden, democrat and massachusetts senator scott brown, republican, and louisiana senator mary landrieu, the proposed legislation that would accelerate the provision so that would apply for such a waiver by 2014 instead of 2017. i think that's a reasonable proposal. i support that. it will give you flexibility more quickly while still guaranteeing the american people reform. if your state can create a plan that covers as many people as affordably and comprehensively as the affordable c.a.r.e. does without increasing the deficit, you could implement that plan and we will work with you to do. i said before i don't believe any single party has a monopoly on good ideas, and i will go to bat for the works, no matter who or where it comes from. i also share the concern about the medicaid costs. i know there's been a topic of significant conversation over the last couple of days. we know that over half of all medicaid costs come from just 5% of the enrollees many of whom are called what is the will eligible, seniors and medicare as follows and m

january 2009 until the middle of january 2010 when the special election in massachusetts elected scott brown. throughout that time they could not even get health care done even though they had a seven seat majority in the house. he would have thought that would have been in an environment which would make it likely for the parties to do its premiere issue's, but they were only able to do it after they lost the senate race in massachusetts in a frenzy of trying to get something done. we have had an election in the meantime. we now have divided government. we had a party with fundamentally different values, are these, assumptions -- priorities and assumptions. the extension of the bush tax cuts. the american public said congress can actually do something. then we had the shooting into some -- shooting in at tucson. the president came out as a figure of unity and represented the national sympathy. now suddenly what is happening is we are talking about the budget and spending. we are back to politics. you will see those numbers change again because this country -- although we have had these thre

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also, scott brown. look for scheduling information aspect booktv.org.id our schedules through e- mail. signup for our booktv alert. >> there is a new way to get a concise review of the events of the day. washington review on c-span radio. every day be will take you to capitol hill, the white house, and many where the news is happening as we put the day's events into perspective. the stories that matter to you the most. even listen in the washington baltimore area at 90.1 fm, nationwide on satellite 132, or go online apple c-span.org -- at c-span.org. you can download the program every evening as a pot test. -- podcast. host: let's begin with and the gang of six. you are a part of it. a bipartisan group of six senators working behind the scenes planning on tackling the deficit and the debt. including kent conrad, dick durbin, mark warner, yourself, three democrats and three republicans. this is the headline coming out of yesterday's meeting. a gang of six, mum is the word. why? guest: you cannot negotiate these things in the press. it is difficult to tak

also, scott brown on his troubled childhood. look for schedule information at booktv.org. get our schedules by e-mail. sign up for the booktv alert. this weekend on c-span3, live from the u.s. capitol, the 150th anniversary of abraham lincoln's first inaugural address, and we will go to s street to visit the home of woodrow and edith wilson, and an author will talk about dwight eisenhower and the buildup of the nuclear arsenal. it the complete schedule online at c-spanlorg/history. >> erection now to it yesterday's ruling on protests at a military funerals. this is about 20 minutes. -- t of the supreme court. we have been talking about the case in this morning with our callers. one of the things that stuck out is that there was room in the supreme court decision -- or language in the supreme court decision that seemed to indicate that states could further regulate your activity. do you agree with that interpretation, and if so, do you have plans to prevent that are combat that? >> well, i think there is language that hypothetically that -- they can. there is also language

also, massachusetts senator scott brown on his troubled childhood and rise as a national political figure. look for schedule information at booktv.org. get our schedules by e-mail. signup for our booktv alerts. >> with a two week extension in place, republican and democratic leaders keep working on a spending bill. what's the debates on c-span's congressional chronicle. we transcripts of the recession. find a full video archive of every member. c-span.org/congress. >> on wednesday, the supreme court heard oral arguments. u.s. citizen claims he was detained as part of a plan to arrest muslim men expected -- is suspected of having terrorist ties. a lower court's rejected mr. ashcroft's assertion that as attorney general he was immune from prosecution. this is about one hour. we'll hear argument next this morning in case 10-98, ashcroft v. al-kidd. general katyal. >> thank you, mr. chief justice, and may it please the court -- this lawsuit seeks personal money damages against a former attorney general of the united states for doing his job, allegedly with an improper motive, yet the attorney

a few weeks ago, oregon senator ron wyden, a democrat, and massachusetts senator scott brown, a republican, and louisiana senator mary landrieu , they proposed legislation that would accelerate that provision. it would allow the states to apply for such a waiver by 2014 instead of 2017. i think that is a reasonable proposal. i support it. it would give you flexibility more quickly, while still guaranteeing the american people reform. if your state can create a plan that covers as many people as affordably and comprehensively as the affordable care act does, without increasing the deficit, you can implement that plan. and we will work with you to do it. i have said before, i do not believe that any single party has a monopoly on good ideas. i will go to bat for whatever works, no matter who or where it comes from. i also share your concerns about medicaid costs. this is been a topic of significant conversation over the last couple of days. we know that over half of all medicaid costs come from just 5% of enrollees, many of whom are what is called dual eligibles -- seniors in medicare as wel

pares until the middle of january, 2010 when the special election massachusetts elected republican scott brown. throughout that time they couldn't even get health care done even though they had 60 seats in the senate and a 70 or 80 seat majority in the house. and the party's president. he would have thought that would be an environment likely for the paty to do its premiere issue. but the only were able to do it after they lost the senate race in massachusetts but before brown was seated in a frenzy of trying to get something done. now we've had an election in the meantime in november of 2010. we now have divided government, and we have a party with -- to parties with fundamentally different values, priorities, assumptions, the leafs, fundamentally different. this double we have been in in december and january, firs the result of the frenzy of congressional activity in the lame duck they said well, congress can actually do something and then we have the horrendous shooting in tucson and arizona and the president cannot not as a policymaker but as a figure of unity and represented the national

scott brown on his troubled childhood. look for a schedule and permission at booktv.org. get our schedules by e-mail. sign up for our book tv alert. journalists and political analysts in london discussed the recent uprisings in the middle east. they talk about the state of the west relationship with libya. this runs about an hour and a half. >> thank you very much. there are a few seats at the front. please make your way to the front. and i am from the bbc. thank you all for being here. welcome back if you are a regular. i consider this one of my favorite places in london. there have been a whole series of events on what is happening in the arab world. it has been a remarkable few weeks everywhere. clearly libya is the discussion tonight. we will spend the next 90 minutes focusing on libya. i will ask each of them to introduce themselves and give us an opening fought on what we are seeing in libya. then we shall end at 8:30. >> i am david hill from the london school of economics. i have been in a media storm over the last 10 days. i had explained several times i am not in

scott walker. >> for real, why was jerry brown not there? >> you're looking at a person who is consumed with one thing and one thing alone and that's to get the budget the way he wants it. he's got to get the legislature to put that series of tax continuation proposals on the ballot. that doesn't happen. we are toast as far as this governor is concerned. >> now there's a lot of concern from the other states about the loss of the federal stimulus money, how that's going to affect us, but also what about this idea of him being there and building relationships to try to get some money to california. >> no question about it. you're going to be missing something, but california has a series of lobbies -- lobbyists there, jessica, all the time, lobbying for this, lobbying for that. they don't wait for jerry brown to walk into town. the other fact is, look, there's no more federal money to go around. all the pressure right now is to cut back and that's what this deal is in washington and to go there, brown has to say do i go there and have the phot

scott wiener? [applause] thank you for being here. we have our district attorney mr. gascon. public defender jeff a adachi. and our fire chief, joanne as white. [applause] acting city administrator, amy brown. [applause] port director monique moyer is with us. [applause] and from senator mark lino's office, susan slim. [applause] from assemblyman tom ammiano's office. thank you for joining us in the celebration. we will have the final performance of the evening from the chinese american international school. they helped to start this celebration earlier this evening. i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> [inaudible] [applause] this is really a unique performance. before we end tonight's program, i want to, on behalf of the city, thank at&t again for your generous sponsorship, making the celebration happening. we would liked everyone to join us for the reception. we want to thank owner of moonstar. we want to tha