the honorable kathleen sebelius.secretary sebelius, we a you are recognized for five minutes for an opening >> so much mr. chairman and ranking members pallone and mr. waxman. members of the committee, i'm pleased to be with you today to discuss the president's 2013 budget for the department of health and human serv helps to create an american economy built to last by strengthening care and support the research to tomorrow's cures and lead to american children and families so every one has a fair shot to reach his or her potential. it makes investments that we need right now while reducing the deficit in the long run to make sure that the programs that millions of americans rely on will be there for generations to come. i look forward to answering your questions, mr. chairman, about the budget but i want to just take a few minutes to share some of the highlights. over the last two years, we have worked to deliver the benefits of the affordable care act to the people. we have americans already getting coverage through

. >> hhs secretary kathleen sebelius speaking last week. and we're live now for remarks from secretary sebelius at the museum here in washington. she is here with the u.s. surgeon general and the director for the september ecenters for control. the new tobacco education ad is called tips from former smokers campaign. it features people who are currently battling smoking-related illnesses. some of those people will be at this event this afternoon. this is live on c-span3. we expect it to get under way in just a moment. . >>> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us to day. i'm delighted to have the chance to share this stage with two of our great health leaders at health and human services, dr. regina benjamin, surgeon general and dr. tom freeden who heads the centers for disease control and i also want to personally thank the individuals who are here, some of whom you're going to h former smokers whose real life story inspires this effort and outreach. we're here today to announce the latest step this administration is taking in o

and a very special thank you to secretary sebelius in her exceptional leadership in this critical issue and a public health issue. she really regrets to have to leave for another commitment because she's really been very involved in this initiative from the beginning. being here today is personal to me. as many of you, it's also personal to you. as i mentioned took this position, my mother died of lung cancer from smoking. when she was young, she started smoking because she was a girl, she wasn't allowed to smoke like her twin brother was and she said as soon as she got to be old enough she would. and she started smoking as a teen-ager and it took her life. i then watched my uncle buddy, her twin brother, a world war ii survivor sit tight to an oxygen tank, struggling for each breath because of emphysema until not long ago his lungs gave out. i don't want others suffer dues dew to the use of tobacco use. over the two year i've had the privilege of releasing two surgeon general reports on tobacco. the first one, which is known as the heart stopper report because it showed that one cigare

. >> on thursday health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius unveiled the tips from former smokers campaign. that's a new federal campaign against tobacco use. she was joined by the surgeon general and the director of the centers for disease control. from the museum in washington, this is 35 minutes to present some of the ad you're about to see are graphic and then maybe upsetting to some viewers. >> good afternoon, everyone, and thank you. i'm delighted to have the chance to share the stage with two of our great health leaders, in health and human services, dr. regina benjamin, surgeon general, and dr. tom frieden, who heads the centers fester i also want to personally thank the individuals who were here, some of them you will hear from, the former smokers, whose real-life story inspires this effort and outreach. we are here today to announce the latest step this administration is taking in our fight against the number one cause of preventable death in america. the new ad campaign we are launching today will feature some of the most moving and attention-grabbing stories ab

and that pronouncement by kathleen sebelius was not about birth control. it's about government control. it's about government dictating what everybody should do in this country. at fordable care act is a mechanism for the federal government to basically control everything in our lives, whether it's what kind of food we eat, what kind of car we drive, anything else. if obama care, if the affordable care act goes into full force, kathleen sebelius can be a tyrant in a skirt. just dictating to us every american across this country how we can live our lives and use health care as the os pisses of their government control. it must be ripped out by the roots and replace wtd something like my patient option act which would truly give patients the option. it's a market based patient centered health care program that will literally lower the cost of health insurance for everybody. and it will take care of the people that who uninsured today and make a lot of people who can't afford insurance, be able to buy it at a price that they can't afford. so that's the kind o

watch senator mccull ski's speeches. >> health and human services connect kathleen sebelius unveiled a new federal government campaign against tobacco use. it features people who have lost limbs and lungs because of smoking. secretary sebelius is joined by the surgeon general and the director of the centers for disease control. this is 35 minutes. and please note that

until then, a clip from an event last week with secretary sebelius outlining the results of a new report looking at smoking use among youth. >> first surgeon's general report on tobacco was published in 1964. the good news is we've seen the percentage of americans who smoke steadily decline. in 1965, over 42% of americans smoked. by 2004, it had fallen to just under 21%. and that's very good news. but for all the progress we've made, tobacco use remains the biggest single threat to american's health. it kills an estimated 443,000 americans every year. 443,000. and every tobacco-related death is replaced by two new smokers under the age of 25. today's report brings more troubling news. it's the first of its kind to explore the causes and consequences of tobacco use among youth and young adults. it shows us just what we're up against. today, all over america, there are middle schoolers developing deadly tobacco addictions before they can even drive a car. and the younger a child is when they try cigarettes, the more likely they are to get and stay addicted to nicotine. one child picking up

kathleen sebelius speaking out against the blunt amendment labeling it as "dangerous" in a statement she said the obama administration believes decisions about medical care should be made by a woman and her doctor not a woman and her boss. we encourage the senate to reject the cynical attempt to roll back decades of progress in women's health. that from kathleen sebelius. >>> ben bernanke is offering a stern warning when it comes to the economy suggesting that recent signs of recovery could be compromised by what happens in washington. in testimony before congress yesterday, bernanke warned that a one-two punch of spending cuts and tax hikes may be more than the nation's economy can handle. >> monetary policy is not a panacea that it can help offset cyclical fluctuations and financial crises like we have, but the long-term health of the economy depends mostly on decisions taken by congress and the administration. i think you also have to protect the recovery in the near-term under current law, on january 1, 2013 there will be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax incr

surgeon general regina benjamin and house and services secretary kathleen sebelius spoke about the report last week for about half an hour. >> what a well behaved group. well, good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us here today. i'm delighted to be here to kick off the announcement of the 2012 surgeon general's report on tobacco use among youth and young adults. and i want to start by acknowledging some of my terrific colleagues, dr. regina benjamin, the surgeon general who you'll hear from in a few minutes, dr. david satcher, who is with us, a former surgeon general who has been involved in this effort for a lot of time. dr. howard coe, my assistant secretary for health who you'll also hear from. we have key members of the office of the assistant secretary of health staff, leadership, a wonderful team here from cdc, dr. perry, who's the author of this report who comes from texas to be with us today, and lots of you have been involved in this effort for a long time. since the first surgeon general's report on tobacco was published in 1964, the good news is we've seen a percen

caller: our insurance commissioner, osmgen hediner said he sent a letter to kathleen sebelius saying that georgia would not participate. i'm one of those people that needs insurance because of preexisting conditions. is there -- is the federal government going to take that over? guest: yes, sheila. you're right. he was the first commissioner to come out and say he would not go along with the high-risk pool in his state, sort of another aspect of the states' rights opposition we're seeing in a lot of states which has mostly taken, manifested itself in people saying they're going to sue about this mandate that's in the law, the mandate that everyone carry insurance. when the insurance commissioner came out and said he would not help in setting up the high-risk pooght, kathleen sebelius said the federal government would be able to do that for the state, that there is a provision in the law that high-risk pools, states will not be left without them just because their state is refusing to cooperate. there is going to be everyone more of a problem with states not being cooperative when it

we'll begin with the announcement early today from kathleen sebelius. >> we're here today to announce the latest step this administration is taking in our fight against the number one cause of preventable death in america. we have a new ad campaign that we're launching today and i want will feature some of the most moving and attention grabbing stories about smoking's devastating effects. these stories really haven't ever been seen in popular media. and we expect it will lead to more than a half a million smokers seeking out the resources they need to quit. now when we look back on just a few decades to the days of smoking on airplanes and elevators, it can be easy to focus on how far we've come since then. it can be easy to be lulled into a sense of comply scenecy and start to think that tobacco use is a problem that will go away on it's own. but unfortunately we know better. and the numbers actually tell a very different story. tobacco in this country continues to kill 443,000 americans every year. and for every person who dies from smoking, at least two new young smokers take their

story is available on his website and today at the newseum joined by secretary can the kathleen sebelius, part of an effort by the hs department and the federal government to take aim at smokers with real life stories about what happens when they smoke. >> i started smoking when i was 15 years old, peer pressure drove me to pick up that first cigarette. just three years later at the age of 18, i was diagnosed with buer ger's disease a disease that affected younger smokes between 20 and 40. it causes inflammation and clotting resulting in reduced circulation. i suffered extreme pain, multiple sores and even gangrene. by the time i was 19, i had lost my left leg, i had lost my right leg at the age of 23. and because of my poor circulation, both my index fingers are now shorter than the rest of my fingers. off and on throughout this ordeal, i continued to smoke. at the age of 27, i was finally able to quit. the use of nicotine replacement therapy helped me in this process. but a home health care nurse gave me the will power and strength to finally quit successfully. that nurse is now my wif

this policy announced by secretary sebelius tramples on the religious liberty of american christians who are now informed that our colleges, schools, hospitals and other service organizations must violate conscience in order to comply with the affordable care act. its exemption announced by the obama administration is so intentionally narrow, so intentionally narrow that it will cover only congregations and religious institutions that employ and serve only members of our own faiths. this exemption deliberately excludes christian institutions that have served this nation and its people through education, social services, and health care. the new policy effectively tells christian institutions that if we want to remain true to our convictions and our consciences, we will have to cease serving the public. this is a policy that will either require millions upon millions of americans to accept a gross and deliberate violation of religious liberty or to accept a total s.e.c. hrarzation -- secularization of all education and social services. christians of conscience are now informed by our

bill: health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius says if we just had fewer babies we couldor health care. is that what she said? >> the reduction in the number of pregnancies is -- compensates for the cost of contraception. >> bill: well, that sparked a heated exchange with our next guest, this man here. congressman and doctor tim murphy took issue with that. we'll ask him about that in a moment. martha: and a bank heist in broad daylight, folks. watch this video. how this brazen thief clearly underestimated the local s. w. a.t. team. stick around. we'll show you what happened. we'll be right back. we're america's natural gas and here's what we did today: supported nearly 3 million steady jobs across our country... ... scientists, technicians, engineers, machinists... ... adding nearly 400 billion dollars to our economy... we're at work providing power to almost a quarter of our homes and businesses... ... and giving us cleaner rides to work and school... and tomorrow, we could do even more. cleaner, domestic, abundant and creating jobs now. we're america's natural gas. the

sebelius says she will look into that.capitol hill to speak of president obama's budget request for $10 million to eliminate food deserts. to push to get america more energy self-reliant has been long and expensive. now taxpayers in one region face the prospect of spending millions to reverse course. correspondent dan springer explains from seattle. >> wind farms in the northwest built with government subsidiaries and maintained with tax credit for every megawatt are getting paid to shut down. the volatile power administration, federal agency that manages 31 hydro electric dam and delivers power to eight western states says the problem in early summer there is too much wind and hydropower for the demand. >> it's one system in the world where in realtime, moment to moment you have to produce as much energy is consumed. >> last summer, during the snow melt and hydroproduction peak, bpa cut off wind farms for 38 days. nearly 200 hours in the windiest time of the year. now bpa is offering to split the loss. up to $50 million p

he's successfully challenged the secretary of health and human services, secretary sebelius, on some numbers. the situation was quite troubling. senator johnson, maybe you could tell us about your concern, what you raised last week, the economic impact of what's happening, jobs and on the american economy and debt of our country, and maybe we can begin our discussion springing off from where you're coming off and what you observed from your exchange last week. mr. johnson: well, sure. well, first of all, senator sessions, thank you for those kind comments. you mentioned that speaker pelosi famously stated that we need to pass this bill in order to figure out what's in it. you know, what i know you and i are dedicated to, to make sure that the obama administration doesn't make sure that this law is fully implemented before we understand the true cost of the bill. we simply can't afford not to have the american people, not to have members of congress understand the true cost of the health care law. and i would just remind everybody that back in 1965 when they passed the medicare bill,

bullies with support from the likes of oprah winfrey and health and human services, secretary kathleen sebeliusshe called the anti-bullying event up with of the best days of my life. congratulations to her well. kls 5 news in nearby philadelphia. one mom has decided to tie a world record. she is a new brother and gave birth for the fifth time but what is remarkable here her third child born on february 29th! leap day! yes! this is true! the odds of having just one baby born that day are 1 in 1,500. mom says the first child's birthday was a fluke and admits putting in effort on the timing for the other two and she says at least one of the babies, one of the leap babies, that is, will get a car when they turn, take dah dah, 4. >> at least it's in the month of february. >> what are you going to do? so unfair. but really cool at the same time. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. consumers today have a legitimate concern about the chicken they eat. they want to know more about how they were raised, what they were fed. we spend a l

bullies with support from the likes of oprah winfrey and health and human services, secretary kathleen sebeliusshe called the anti-bullying event one of the best days of my life. >> all right. this comes to us from kiss l 5 news in salt lake city, utah, where in orum one mom has tied a world record. she gave birth yesterday for the fifth time, but what is remarkable is it's her third child born on february 29th, leap day. now the odds of having just one baby born that day are 1 in 1500. mom says the first child's birth date was a fluke, but admits putting in effort on the timing for the other two and says at least one of the leap babies will get a car when they turn 4. poor kids. you know, they're drawing -- >> they're special. they're different. >> but they don't get to celebrate as many days. >> do it on the 28th. >> the 1st. how do you make that decision? >> i would want to do it in the same month, i think. >> got it. >> so odd. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz, this is "early today," your first stop of the day today, on your nbc station. >>> two belgium explorers went to extreme lengths to remot

kathleen sebelius was just on the house side being pummeled on this very subject. >> well, a couple of facts about the provision that the president did put in place. religious institutions are exempted, and he broadened that exemptions for religious organizations to opt out of providing contraception for their employees, although those women would still have access to it. what we're talking about through the blunt/rubio amendment and all of the efforts being waged by republicans is something much bigger, and it's much more ideological. i mean, the thought of putting your boss, you know, if you work at a restaurant or a small business or a big manufacturer, it doesn't matter where you work, if you're putting your boss in charge of your health care decisions, that's something that's really fundamentally wrong of this country. >> let's go to the actual wording of the amendment. i wanted to make it clear to everyone what we're talking about here. we're not talking about catholic charities, we're not talking about catholic hospitals. >> right. >> we're talking about self-insurers, which cou

then kathleen sebelius. then after that, senator tom coburn speaks at a forum about the future of medicare. then former national security advisers discuss how u.s. policy in the middle east has changed. >>> our system is fundamentally undemocratic in a number of ways. one of the ways is closed primaries. in half the states in the country, 40% of all the voters can't participate in the primaries. so, they have no say in who gets nominated. and as a result, we get more and more extreme candidates on both ends. >> saturday night on after words, linda killian writes that independent voters have decided the election since world war ii. also this weekend on book tv, david brock talks about "the fox effect." and sunday night at 10:00, mark levin and his thoughts on the current state of politics in "ameritopia." book tv every weekend on c-span 2. >>> this senate arms services committee heard testimony thursday on the president's 2013 navy budget. navy secretary ray mabus was joined by the chief of naval operations a

i feel like it's through the work of people like you, president obama, kathleen sebeli sebelius, it'sident talks about, it's okay. has that helped? >> i've been working on these issues day in and day out for a long time, and to have people with the leadership of the president and the secretary of health and human services talk about these issues and you can tell that they care about these issues. this is not just this thing that they're doing to say something that, you know, that all kids, that families are going to the like. they care about these issues. and it has been extraordinary to me to listen to them speak about it, that they've put it in their schedule. they make sure to talk about it. i can't tell you, i think it's an important thing for all of us, to remember that we're all coming together as families and as communities to make it safer for all of our kids. >> rosalind, thank you. i want to make sure people, if you have kids, the you've ever been bullied, if you have young kids, please, i want to make sure i get this right. "speak up" is the name of the documentary sunday a

thank you, secretary sebelius, for again, taking time to be with us today and for all of your answers. i ask unanimous consent that all members opening statements be made part of the record, without objection it is so ordered. have you sen consent request for dr. burdgess? >> they will need some time. >> i remind members that they have ten business days to submit questions for the record and i ask the secretary to respond to the questions promptly. members should submit the question business the close of business thursday march the 1 h 15th, without objection, the sub committee is adjourned. coming up live road to the white house coverage today ahead of super tuesday, which is this march 6th, this coming tuesday. santorum has a stop in ohio. live coverage will starts at 7:00 eastern and be on c-span. mitt romney will be live on c-span 2 at 7:00 eastern. ohio is one of ten states that will vote on tuesday. it's the second largest contest on tuesday. the latest ohio poll conducted by the institute for policy research at the university of cincinnati shows santorum leads romney 37% to 26%

kathleen sebelius joined by the surgeon general and the center for disease controls head to discuss the new national education tobacco ad called tips from former smokers campaign held at the museum here in washington. live at 12:30 eastern. we'll have it here for you on c-spa c-span3. and on c-span, discussing the u.s. national security agenda in the middle east, north africa and the asia-pacific regions in the role of national security issues in the 2012 presidential election. that's hosted by the american enterprise institute. live coverage starts at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> at the national people's congress in beijing, china's commerce minister addressed reporters in a news conference and discussed china's trade relations with the u.s., arab countries and the european union. recently in the u.s. health, lawmakers approved a measure allowing the commerce department to impose higher duties on goods from china. this one-hour portion from yesterday begins with a question on new u.s. trade measures. it's courtesy of china central television. >> -- on with reuters, i have two quest

with support from the likes of oprah winfrey and health and human services, secretary kathleen sebelius anti-bullying event up with of the best days of my life. going back to the ben affleck story -- >> i thought you wanted to go back to snooki being pregnant. >> i don't even care about snooki being pregnant. i'm sorry. going back to ben affleck posting on facebook, i saw one of my friends was pregnant through facebook. i feel that's how you find out all the news. >> a lot of celebrities will get money to charities if they give the rights to someone. i think angelina and brad did that once. in facebook? >> no, in "us weekly" or one of those magazines. i'm veronica de la cruz. stay tuned because "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. >>> rick santorum is claiming retroactive victory in michigan, at least a tie there after a counting of the delegates shows 15 apiece for him and mitt romney. what core conservative question did romney trip up on yesterday? >>> a huge band of violent weather rips through the midwest with a tornado killing at least six people in one southern illi

i would lock ike to say a very special thank you to secretary sebelius for her strong leadership on this most important public health issue. she has made it a top priority. i would also look to just recognize my tobacco-free advocates, the young students and group that i have been working with, through the years, north carolina, virginia. why don't you guys stand up? there are some others. and also, the others who are wang web stream this. you know the -- 2012 surgeon generals report preventing tobacco use among youth and young adults is a result of contributions of more than 130 health experts. so i would look to recognize the editor whose are with us today, dr. cheryl perry, dr. melissa stigler, dr. frank chipluca who are here and they'll be here to help with questions and answers if you get into too detailed things. also i understand, i think dr. woody kessler is here to represent dr. c everett coop. i would like to thank my medical school mentor, dr. david satcher, former surgeon general, and all former surgeon generals for their work on tobacco. every surgeon general since 1964 has

secretary sebelius, i thank you for your testimony. we are aware of the challenging climate in which we are living. as a nurse, i also believe that we -- i know that we cannot reach our health care goals without a strong health care work force. made up of a range of health care professionals. i would like to ask a couple of questions if you could discuss briefly what steps have been taken in the budget to ensure we have a health care work force well equipped and diverse and large enough to help us successfully reach these goals. it is a tall order. >> i think you are slightly right, mr. cap-- ms. capps, abo the work force transforming the health care system. certainly primary care providers become essential not just physicians, but nurses and nurse practitioners and dental assistants. we are pleased that this budget continues the progress we've made. so far in the administration, we tripled the number of the health service core providers. this budget intends to continue the training of 7,100 new health care providers who will serve in

i know you had a hearing on the hill and you confronted secretary kathleen sebelius.e deal? >> what's happening, there's a grant fund through the heal and human services that comes from two sources. stimulus must be and then the president's health care bill. the grants money to local entities and they're taking this money and lobbying state and local governments for such things as taxes on soft drinks, zoning ordinances for fast food restaurants and different things to deal with the health care. the issue with that is, the federal law expressly prohibits using hard working taxpayer dollars to lobby any level of government. so secretary sebelius, without the permission of congress, she chamber subcommittee and her point was -- in the president's submitted bill, they actually striked that language to allow the local lobbying. so my question to her was, well, it's been going on since the stimulus bill for three years. we gave 25 specific examples. it's on the web site of the recovery. there is one specific -- we used the recovery money for the purpose of finding sponsors

continue argument this morning in case number 11393, national federation of independent business versus sebelius, and case 11400, versus the department of hhs. mr. clemente. >> mr. chief justice and may it please the court, if the individual mandate is unconstitutional then the rest of the act condition stand. as congress found and the federal government concedes, the community rating in guaranteed issue provisions of the act condition stand without the individual mandate. congress found that the individual mandate was essential to their operation. and not only can guaranteed issue and community rating not stand, not operate in the manner that congress instatendintended will counteract congress' basic goal of providing patient protection but also affordable care. if you do not have the individual mandate to force people into the market, then community rating and guaranteed issue will cause the cost of premiums to skyrocket. we can debate the order of magnitude of that, but we can't debate that the direction will be upward. we also can't -- >> counsel, that may well be true. the economists are go

well sebelius was come out of the meeting is a pitcher of an opposition that's really struggling to get its act together they've been meeting here in istanbul hundreds of the syrian opposition members to discuss and to try and hammer out some common objectives and really lay to rest the concerns over the very fractious nature but it seems that that was elusive to than they were able to unify and in fact the picture that came out we saw walkouts and some of the members disagreements and further criticisms of the syrian national council and the objectives that they put forward saying that they were trying to impose their will to much indeed it is very concerning because the essence of course is trying to pitch is the almost as an exile governments in waiting a very similar to libya's n t c but that hasn't really been the reality of what's happened and we seen a fierce criticism coming from the different opposition factions and sell saying that the syrian national council ineffective and that they're very far removed from what's going on inside the country so that it was an optimistic pict

i want to again thank the department of health and human services, secretary sebelius, surgeon general regina benjamin, and most of all, the courageous men and women who came forward to share their stories with america to protect and help other americans get free of tobacco. we can now, i think, take a few questions? [ inaudible ] >> tom with abc news, for both of you, please. i wanted to ask you about the states. you've taken a major step forward on the federal level. the states may not be. we've done some looking at the figures, and the $25 billion they're getting from the tobacco only 2% is going to antismoking. is that enough? should the states be doing more? >> the centers for disease control and prevention publishes guidelines for what states should spend on tobacco control in order to reduce the use of tobacco. no state reaches the recommended level of funding, and some of them are at single digits in terms of the proportion of the funds that they dedicate to tobacco control. there are some people who have said, well, the reason smoking isn't going down so much is we've reached

the hands of three cabinet secretaries, secretary geithner, secretary hilda celeste, and secretary sebelius. >> the use of electronic medical records is increasingly connecting health care providers. do you think stigma is deterring mental health care providers from participating? >> well, interestingly, we're talking about parity today. do you realize that we don't treat health care records for mental health clinics the same way we would health care records for community health care clinics or hospitals. talk about parity. parity is way. >> can you weigh in on the drug legalization controversy, and do you think legalization would increase drug abuse in america? >> i take the tough ones, he gets the softballs. big brother, little brother. i have never talked, not one, in my 20 years of public service, state level as a state senator or here in congress, neverhed f chemical health professional or a teacher or a parent, for that matter, who favors legalization. i think the studies show, which are the so-called entry-level drugs, marijuana is the number one entry-level drugs. people graduate to

thank you, secretary sebelius for, again, taking time to be with us today and for all of your answers. i ask unanimous consent that all members' opening statements be made part of the record. the objection so ordered. have you seen the request, the set requests? i think burgess needs more time. they're going to need some time. >> i remind members that they have ten business days to submit questions for the record. and i ask the secretary to respond to the questions promptly. members should submit their questions by the close of business on thursday, march 15th. without objection, the subcommittee is adjourned. >>> next, a senate committee hears from interior secretary ken salazar on the president's 2013 budget requests. after that a discussion on how states can encourage small businesses and economic growth. and then a forum examines the impact of voter id laws. >>> if you lad said in 2006 that the world would be begging for the united states to use force again in the middle east within three and a half years, everybody would have said you were crazy. >> brookings institution fellow r

kathleen sebelius says she is confident the law will be upheld.hen asked about the waivers she said this. >> i have no idea what waivers you are talking about. >> reporter: the waivers hhs has granted to employers to not have to implement sections of the healthcare laws. >> there have been waivers granted, yes. >> i'm happy to answer those one at a time and look as the waivers. >> i'm short on time. bill: the man asking the time was wisconsin republican senator ron johnson. how are you doing, good morning to you. welcome back. it's great the have you back. there are two main points you were trying to make in that back and forth. you conclude instead of saving 133 billion dollars we are actually adding 34 billion. did she defend that? >> she was not well versed in the numbers. the larger point is i don't want to have to implement the healthcare law for us to figure out how much it's going to cost. it's not going to reduce our deficit. it's going to explode our deficit and do great harm to our healthcare system. bill: how are you seeing that already

this is new a mandate that sebelius said this is how we'll interpret obamacare. every institution has to provide contraception. >> dana: i'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it's strange, george stephanopoulos asked a question about contraception that i thought mitt romney answered well in the debate. i thought what are you talking about? then there was a contraceptive in january. santorum, you're right, he has to defend what he said in the past about it. how did we get to this point? >> greg: you have to understand what is more important than apartheid is making sure that people can have recreationm sex and we subsidize it. >> eric: how does mitt romney get around the mandate of the contraception in the healthcare plan? >> andrea: i don't know the details are about that. >> andrea: i don't care what they do in the state. >> bob: we agree the massachusetts thing he signed is a problem for him. a problem that planned parenthood was on the board. >> bob: but i'm saying he is slightly pregnant on this issue. borrow a phrase. >> andrea: he gave birth to that baby. it's

. >> at a house hearing, kathleen sebelius told lawmakers the administration will issue a new contraceptiveerage rule soon. >> we will offer strategies to make sure religious libertys are respected at the same time that millions of women who work in the institution, spouses of employees and daughters of employees have access to -- >> fred upton wasn't sold. >> i know my time expired but i'm not sure it will work. >> boehner made it clear the fight is not going away. >> i believe standing few under the constitution to practice the faith as they right, this is an important part of the job. >> he believes this is bad policy tend goal is to change it. biden commented on the regulation and said it got screwed up in the first iteration. >> mike emanuel live on the hill. thank you. maryland is the latest state to legalize gay marriage. they signed the bill today and maryland joined seven other states and the district of columbia. the law takes effect next january. opponents are pushing for referendum on the november ballot. harsh reaction to the death of a conservative icon is next in the grapevin

democrats' refusal to acknowledge the truth about what's happening at the hands of catholic kathleen sebelius>> bill: they don't have to acknowledge it because now they are winning the issue with american women. >> i don't know if that's the case, bill. >> bill: the polls say it. >> let me just say. this is the beginning of this political process. i think a lot of people are just starting to pay attention to this republic primary and the presidential race. i don't buy this conventional wisdom that all women in the united states believe that conscience rights should be overrun by desire to get a bunch of free stuff to make your life more fulfilled. i just don't believe that once you stay on this and others like myself continue to dig into this and let the word go forth that it is your conscience's rights that could be overridden next. i think people are going to start to refocus this issue a little bit. i think it's already happening. >> bill: it's the issue that you are bringing out that is a major issue about freedom. no doubt about that but there is also the mechanics of how a disastrous si

secretary kathleen sebelius. to know what was going through their mind in the argument. at the podium, the government is confident they will prevail in this matter. >> from what i hear with people from the without, they have a chance to succeed. two of the field court said the government has the right to do this. the one, another one said that, you know, it was under the anti-injunction act that we discussed earlier, that the case was not right. it was premature. three of the four courts looked at this, essentially sided with the government so far. i think that gives them reason to be optimistic. and when you look at the precedent, charles was talking about some of them before. the precedent again heavy on the side of the government regulating commerce. i just don't think there is much doubt when people don't have healthcare, they impact commissioner. you can't say it's matter of inactivity. how can you seek the regulate inactivity. fact of not having health insurance drives up the cost. for people who do choose