the appropriations bill for the department of homeland security, if we could get that bill to us. and this supplemental, if passed, has to go back to the senate who's gone for the summer before it can become law even if we pass it here. and, number two, it won't take effect until next year. so, madam speaker, i'm asking, why are we here? why did we come back for this because it can't take effect until next year and it can't take effect until the senate comes back to pass on it and they're gone until september, so why are we here? i don't know. i don't know. 47 days that we've been waiting to bring up the funding for the whole department of homeland security. homeland security. flip antley dealt with by the democrat -- flippantly dealt with by the democratic majority. now, here's what this bill won't do. this bill won't address the massive and inexplicable cuts that the president proposed to cut the coast guard and to the customs and bureau protections ariel -- areial surveillance system. and the president slashed the border assets. the subcommittee in our markup corrected that but

now, the bill. in terms of manpower, the bill provides for one dells and additional border patrol agents. it can take -- 1000 additional border patrol agents. it facilitates legal traffic and intercedes contraband. enables ice to help combat narcotics smuggling. provides two more unmanned aircraft systems and will deploy tactical communications technology that will improve enforcement, particularly along some of the more remote areas of the border. it also includes $196 million for the justice department to add prosecutors, immigration judges, and support for detention and incarceration of criminal aliens in coordination with our homeland security enforcement efforts. in terms of infrastructure, it includes $6 million operating bases to improve our border enforcement activity. this bill is clearly another step forward on border security, on top of the significant progress that the administration has already made. it is one of the many tools in the toolbox we have constructed along the border. so, we

this is the bill. this is the bill. this is the bill that goes on and on. it's written on special parchment paper and then i'll sign the bill here. i have to use all these pens. then we'll send it over to the president and he will sign the bill. not yet. i have to use these pence on the first part here -- pens on the first part here. just as on inauguration day, the president uses pennsylvania avenue to be inaugurated. today we will send this bill up pennsylvania avenue back to the whowls. for the signature of president barack obama. [applause] >> speaker pelosi. >> i just want to say something about the president. because education has been such a key issue for the president that i want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership in making this vote possible as well. his vision, his leadership and now today with his signature. thank you all. >> thank you, folks. thank you. >> thank you. >> did i give you one? >> thank you. >> thank you all very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp

madam speaker, the bill is fully offset. it includes a $100 million reduction in the department of homeland security's border security infrastructure and technology account due to an ongoing reassessment of the s.b.i. net program. the bill also increases for five years the costs for two visas which permits foreign workers to come and work in the united states. these fee increases would apply only to companies with more than 50 employees and for whom the majority of their work force is visa-holding foreign workers. the house passed a very similar version of this border security supplemental two weeks ago partially offset and partially on a well-justified emergency basis. because the senate amended the house-passed bill we're voting on it today. the senate added the visa fee increases. because of the constitutional requirement that revenue generating bills initiate in the house, the bill before us today has been introduced as a new bill but with provisions identical to the senate-passed bill. therefore, should the house approve

there are loopholes in the bill. it is a very good start to a problem that was a very serious issue leading up to the crisis. host: the next call is from illinois on the independent line. good morning, robert. caller: i want to thank c-span and all of the people who work so hard to bring this program to us. it seems we have a situation where you of extremes with both parties getting in and running things. i think everything you are talking about shows that. i was wondering if the people with the big money and making all these decisions, whether or not in your investigations and what not, whether they feel the american people are catching on to what is going on and whether that is bringing any more pressure on them to do more things that benefits the country and the people as a whole. thank you. i will take the answer offline. guest: pessimistically, my answer to your last question is probably kno. one thing that was unchanged and is disappointing about the process is that there was not a widespread campaign to educate

, the war bill, the fema bill. don't understand all of that. they see it as more delays and more denies from the government and congress about not wanting to help them. but that's why i want to take advantage of this time today and for all of the members of the senate that are watching. do the right thing for the black farmers. put aside your political differences and vote yes. we have a free-standing bill. it's paid for. it has offsets and for the democrats who say some of the republicans don't want to work, there's senator grassley who i think will come up with some type of compromise to work on a bill, so i'm urging the republicans to work together with the democrats and the democrats to work together with the republicans so that the black farmers can actually receive their funds. host: independent line? caller: am i on there? host: you are. welcome, john. caller: what really upsets me. my mother was native american. nobody's concerned about them. all i hear is blacks. native american lands were took from them.

some people may like the bill, some may dislike the bill. from the attorney general's point of view, the fundamental question is constitutionality, and i am confident that and the and the date the supreme court will hold this bill constitution -- that at the end of the day the supreme court will hold this bill constitutional. host: a district judge rejected arguments from obama administration lawyers that virginia has no standing to sue over the law and would have no chance of ultimately prevail in. do you disagree with that? guest: the judge said it was appropriate for va to bring a lawsuit. i don't think, from my perspective, anyone has a big disagreement with that. i think virginia at should be heard in court. the judge went on to say that he was not ruling in any way on the merits of the lawsuit yet. i think we will have a lot of lower court judges weighing in on this question. ultimately, i think we are all certain that this case will go to the united states supreme court. you may see various courts around the country saying that the law

and until the bill came the following month. then, bills kept coming. seda went to the sears outlet in september last year. she bought a refrigerator, dish washer and range and changed her mind the next day. eight days before the scheduled delivery. >> i thought the order was cancelled but october, i received a bill. >> sears correctly gave her credit for the refrigerator but lift the charges for diswasher and range. the store told her they were supposed to be delivered from a warehouse. >> they said okay. give us couple days. we need to get in touch with the wear house to see if it left. >> two more months went by before the charge for the dish washer was removed but sears insisted on charging for the range. >> they couldn't find the proof of delivery. and didn't know if the merchandise left the warehouse. all they knew is that there is a bill i haven't paid. >> in all, sears would send her seven bills for merchandise she cancelled and said she never receive i'd called every month. i e mailed. i called every month. they kept on, as i said, every time i

he's a harvard -- he went to harvard on the g.i. bill. thank you for the g.i. bill where people who came from humble beginnings could actually realize professions such as being attorneys, doctors, whatever. he was an extraordinary human being. >> to your point, michelle of his having bean fighter pilot. if i'm treading too close let me know and i'll pull back. i want to respect your feelings what i know is a difficult time four. i was struck today by the fact that he was, in fact, as you mentioned a fighter pilot. his wife dies in a plane crash in 1978, his first wife. he survives that plane crash. as we mentioned earlier the airport in anchorage is named after him. he said once that plane crashes in alaska are an occupational hazard of alaska pilots. that's the senator talking because you got to hop on these small planes because of the way alaska is laid out. what do you make of the fact after all that he end up perishing in a plane crash. >> i was working for him at the time of the first crash. and it was a horrific scene, a typical campaign trip. inclement we

. >> the bill is passed. >> warner: in june, 2009, the house narrowly passed a broad energy bill with a cap-and-trade provision. it was a tough vote for many democrats. in the midst of a recession and republican charges that the bill amounted to an energy tax. >> i would say to my colleagues, let's not go down this path. of increasing taxes on every single american. let's not go down the path of moving millions of jobs to china, india and other countries around the world . >> warner: soon after a group of democratic senators produced the outline of their own bill with changes to attract republican support like scaling back with the cap-and-trade provisions to apply only to utilities and power plants. but the effort stalled amid competing priorities like health reform and financial regulation. late last month majority leader harry reid announced he didn't have the votes to pass it. instead he offered a narrower bill to respond to the gulf oil spill. it would raise liability limits on oil companies and offer modest incentives to boost natural gas production and household energy efficien

can you talk the jobs bill? point out -- >> it's insulting. >> i would like to point out that the race card with shirley sherrod. >> you know, the issues are that you don't quit throwing the race card. >> i would love to not get yelled at. >> we're talking about the jobs bill, ladies and gentlemen. >> and we spend a lot of time talking about who is going to get re-elected, who is going to get thrown out of office and not how we are going to get things done in this country. i'm a progressive but i have a lot of conservative friends. we're not screaming at each other about who is wrong or right. we are so focused on creating drama and hits and quotes on what scandal is and not enough on -- >> my mom is a 78-year-old republican george bush fan. i can talk to a lot of republicans about policy. so tabitha, don't condescend people, okay? let's talk about the jobs bill. what do you know about it? because he's asked you about it and you keep deflecting. >> dana, let me ask you about the jobs bill. go. >> yes. >> you're

." >> suzanne: what the bill will and won't do to help the states navigate their budget woes. you're watching "nightly business report" for thursday, august 5. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> jeff: good evening, everyone. weekly jobless claims hit their highest level since april today, and that's raising concerns about tomorrow's july employment report. suzanne, many economists think 65,000 jobs dropped from payrolls last month. >> suzanne: jeff, meanwhile the senate today moved to help stem further job cuts. it passed a bill sending $26 billion in aid to help supplement state medicaid spending and school funding. >> jeff: that money is aimed at helping state and local governments save thousands of jobs. but, as stephanie dhue reports, lawmakers had to make some significant cuts. >> reporter: the bill sends $16 billion to states for their medicaid budgets and $10 b

if what you care about is not in the basic bill, it does not mean that it is over. that means you work to find the champion to will advance your cause. at this point, rather than focus on the specifics that need to be in the bill, the important thing is focusing on the fact that congress needs to do it, and the rest will naturally follow if we have the political pressure to get the different parts that people care about in. >> bill, you gave us a reality check earlier about what we can expect in a cir bill. what needs to happen, what is likely to happen before a bill is authored? what compromises to you think will be made? >> mary and i are friends, but let me respond to her because i think she was responding to me. [laughter] , to believe, mary, that things will be resolved in conference -- i want to believe, mary that things will be resolved in conference. maybe because i am older than mary, i remember what happened with the 1990 and 1996 legislation where bad stuff remained in the bill. but i will defer to marry in terms of -- yes, if there is bad language, you tr

tax provision to the bill on a number of occasions, has mr. obey brought the education and first responders, and police a number of times as well and here joined by a chair of our policy committee but also the chair of the education and work force committee who's been a fighter for keeping these teachers on the job, chairman george miller. he is joined, before you aplayed for him, i want you to also acknowledge a member of this committee, the chairman of subcommittee on elementary, secondary and early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, congressman -- chairman dale kildee of michigan. . now i'm pleased to introduce kathy johnson who will tell us what this legislation means to her school district in ohio. kathy? >> thank you. good afternoon. i am cathy johnson, a school board member from the southwestern city school district in ohio which educates nearly 21,000 students and is the sixth largest district in the state. in spite of a governor who champions education and a state legislature that worked with him to ps a comprehen

. $83 would be the total combined bill for water and waste water. if that were to grow through 2030, the projected completion time of the ssip, you would see a projected average, total sales, would grow from $83 to write around $53. that seems like a lot of money. i would like to take a moment to see what inflation looks like. the red line that we have marked, if we do nothing, and the world on average has a 3% inflation, which has been the post-war average, every cost will double. so between now and and 2024, and everything will cost twice as much. and the other metric used, in terms of capital planning, if we do nothing, construction cost inflation tend to significantly outpaced regular inflation. we are assuming that will be 5% of construction costs. those are always two key inflation numbers that we keep in mind as we do this production. the total bill, as far as what it means on an annual rate change -- and as mr. harrington mentioned earlier, we are able to fit a great deal more than one might think into the household pocketbooks possibly becau

dash cam bill. the intentioned as these show, a driver not wearing his seat belt, nods off. seconds later, and watch that black pick up truck driving along a wet highway. probably the worst, a semi swerving on a busy freeway. the author of the bill is an assembly member from san diego who says the intention is not to invade privacy but monitor your driving which can lead to better driving habits and save lives. >> let's face it, cars are pretty smart already, but ab 1942 would take it to a whole new level with ability to record video and sound, tell which direction you were going and how fast. also record the history of where you've been. it is able to record steering and break performance as well as whether or not you were wearing your seat belt all of it readily transmittible to a central location any time you are in an accident. the bill is aimed at safety some believe it is nothing more than over reach of government power. >> i think that is invasion of privacy. i don't think i would like that in my

in fact, according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office this bill reduces the deficit by $1.4 billion. madam speaker, it's about time that we got this bill passed. we first passed it in the house last year, the end of last year. we passed it again, some features of it, in the spring, finally, the senate acted last week. finally, they were able to get enough votes to pass it with a supermajority in the senate. the minute we anticipated that that would happen, the word went out that we called to the house to come back to washington so that not another day would go by without our, again, pressing that button for over 300,000 jobs. my grandchildren, ones who are in public school, went back to school yesterday. so this is -- it's about time, again, that we -- children in other parts of the country may be preparing to go back to school in another week or so, or the beginning of september. they cannot afford to wait for us to put teachers back into the classroom. that's why it was urgent that we act. communities struggling to keep police and firemen on the at and firefighters on the

a majority of senators are in favor of the bill. yet, the obstruction continues. >> the instructions and way of small business owners get in the loans and the tax cuts that they need to prosper. this defies common sense. >> let me make this simple point, there will be plenty of time between now and november to play politics. the business owners i met with this week, the ones i've met with across the country this year, they don't have time for games. they're not interested in what is best for a political party, they are interested in what is best for the country. the jobs bill will be the first business out of the gate. the senate republican leadership needs to stop their efforts to block it. let's put aside for a partnership for will -- for essential for a while. thank you. >> are you worried that this is heading towards a double dip? [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . . >> the sentencing guidelines call for 15 to 21 months. >> what led to the charges of

one is the health care bill, the financial regulation bill, and the tax question. i'm not debating whether the financial bill, health care bill, good or bad, but you don't know what the rules and regulations are. they have to be filled in yet. on the financial side, there 260 regulations that are yet to be written and you don't know if the bush tax cuts are going to be extended or ended, half extended, half ended so you don't know what your costs are going to be. if you don't know what your costs are going to be you can't go ahead with hiring plans. >> glor: meanwhile let's talk about the sluggish retail sales numbers from yesterday. were those disappointing to you? >> not totally. on the other hand, the savings rate has climbed recently. so it's not the consumer has no money-- in fact, wage wages area little bit, so the consumer is choosing to save more, spend less. that's not to happen sooner or late because the consumer is heavily in debt with all this mortgage stuff. >> reporter: the savings at 6.4%, the average credit score, amazingly, 704 in july. that was ki

the price. and so that's a big fact in customers' bills. state does have shale gas supplies, and the elected officials and regulators in new york state are carefully studying the shale gas technology to determine what permitting process they want to employ and what restrictions they're going to place on producers. but we do think that in the long run if the state government in new york will allow drilling for natural gas supplies that are indigenous to the state of new york that's going to have an immediate and positive impact on customers' bills. host: what do you think the percentage would be? have you done any research, any studies on how much that could reduce a customer's bill? guest: i think it's really going to depend upon what sort of cost implications we're going to see from the regulations that are going to be imposed on the producers. so probably a little early to tell. host: on the transportation costs of getting these resources to you so that you can turn around and give it to the customers, is that your largest cost for run of

the senate appropriations committee is set to consider the bill this week. >>> tomorrow the same committee may hear a bill that will allow cars in california to have a video event recorder on the dashboard to continuously record the drivers view. the bill would require that information be saved when there's a crash or another sudden event. supporters say the recorders would promote safe driving habits and reduce accidents. opponents warn the device would be used to record conversations without a passenger's notice. >>> finding a grocery store in some urban areas of the country can be difficult. now the same problem is being seen in rural america. alicia has more on the shift in how people shop and sell groceries. >> for sure. i know all the employees. >> when i first came in the door, one of the employees said, hey, how's it going? >> reporter: joe shopped at rick's market in lacrosse, kansas, since he was 5. >> there's not too many of them left. >> reporter: but hometown grocers are a dying breed. according to research by kansas state university in the past three years, 82 grocery stores

here is the checklist of what was in the bill. after the debate. so, the polls reflected ignorance. drawn up. gamesmanship and partisanship. it was only after the bill that became much more positive. >> pat, you are an investor who invest in media. let me ask you, is this -- given these business challenges facing the media, is it realistic to expect venture capitalists to fund new journalism? >> very much so. the history of media in this country and around the world is one of constant technological change. all of these different new technologies were supposed to ruin the business. about every 20 years something like this comes along. big media organizations try to cope with it. in their day, cable was new media. radio was new media. satellite was new media. if you look in the bay area where we work, you can see the big technology magazines based here going through the chair -- same changes as the big news bailey's. founded by guys like me, adding voices to the commentary about the world of technology. a forest grows and burns in a

some senators pointed to the second amendment saying the state bill was unconstitutional. e senate is expected to vote again tomorrow. >>> the san fransisco city attorney's office wanted to talk to the ad company that plastered sidewalks. to the advertising company in la says the company broke its promise to remove the stickers which are illegal. a letter said the city is considering a lawsuit to recover the cost of getting the stickers off the payment. >>> evolving technology has made it easier to -- now the system is trying to keep up with social networking. using to spread the news about trials and in some cases that can have troubling consequences. maureen naylor has the report. >> reporter: facebook asked what's on your mind. the judge warned jurors the answer should be nothing. but in a suburb of detroit, a judge removed a woman from a trial after saying in her facebook case that it's going to be fun to tell the defendant their guilty. >> that's a blatant violation not to have contact with the outside world about a case. if they do that, it could be a contempt sanctio

the energy bill comes out and somebody says, so watered down it was liking on the carpet. you're not running the country, i'm not running the country. were he personally disappointed? >> i think the education of where we are around climate change is up for broad discussion. i personally think that there's an obvious reason that climate change needs to be avoided. but secondarily, there's an energy independence issue that for the last 0 year, you go back to nixon, and he's pounding the table going america will be energy independent in ten years. so it's getting engrained in our national psyche. and i think that that's now the tune that we should -- >> you see the images over the decade, but how much have we advanced? >> we've definitely moved forward in identifying and investing. $30.8 billion in alternative energy techtechnology, right? i think 50% of all megawatts coming up in the u.s. are renewable. we're starting to see the texas model being brilliant. they've laid the infrastructure down. you've got wind power there, you're starting to see solar emerging. starting with

the bill passed the assembly in june. opponents say the legislation would put a lot of people out of work, though. but some in the recyclable bag industry say not necessarily. >> it brings a lot of jobs for us. you know, keeps my family and other people's families around here going. >> the american chemistry council, which represents plastic bag makers opposes the bill. if the bill is sent to the governor and signed by september 30, plastic bags would be prohibited beginning in 2012. >>> wall street investors could be looking at the first losing august in five years. courtney reagan live at cnbc headquarters with a market preview. good morning. >> reporter: futures are lower now. that's a carry-over from yesterday's selloff. we saw this drop in the markets during the day. it accelerated into the close. that was on continued concerns about this weak economy and what we are going through now with this kind of worry about the double-dip possibility. asian markets fell overnight. europe is lower. not a lot of positive momentu

so, who pays for the bill? we pay for this. this is why pension funds are significantly underfunded. so what is the answer? the first answer is, stop doing defined contribution plan. stop allowing politicians to kick the can down the road, not telling taxpayers how much they are spending and losing it for another generation. when a politician makes a promise to a public employee union, they are not paying for that year. their children are going to pay for it. the taxpayer children are going to pay for that and they are doing this because they are underestimating the returns. second, we have to eliminate pension spiking and doubled it thing. it has to be eliminated immediately. it is contractual. the next contract, don't allow the public employees to engage in this practice. third, we have to reduce the pension. we have to reduce the pension promises. we can't do it for retirees. current retirees are extremely difficult. new employees coming into public jobs can do it from day one. current public employees that have been working

and the bill passed on the second vote. now there are hundreds of these bills before the convention and they would not become law until the governor signed them. well, time was running out. it was almost midnight on the last day. i didn't know what to do. so i stroled into the governor's office and up to his desk and i politely told him that i would like to be a lawyer and he said why? and i said because that's my lifelong dream and why couldn't a woman be a lawyer? he signed that bill and i became the first woman lawyer in california and the west coast. but even though i became that lawyer, i felt i would be -- i could get more clients if i had a law degree. see, i was self-educated. so i went to hastings law school to register and they said they wouldn't permit me to be there. something about the rustling of petticoats bothering the male students. i don't know. so my friend and i, lori gordon, we sued hastings, which included judge hastings, one of the great lawyers and judges at that time and oh, they were mad and oh, did

the corner. >> reporter: bill benson was out for a walk and came across the crime scene. his new neighbor ricardo sales was found dead inside the home he shared with his son. there were signs of trauma. was he beaten or shot or stabbed? >> we know there was some level of physical altercation before the actual murder. >> reporter: investigators say someone went to the police department and filed missing persons for both sales. neither showed up for work that day. >> we would definitely like to locate him. it was of concern he was obviously reported missing with his father. would definitely like to locate him. >> reporter: police say frederick sales is not a person of interest in his father's homicide and instead say they are focusing on others. but until the person responsible is caught, robert fox says those in his neighborhood will remain uneasy. >> the people living here are pretty easy going, stand up people. so this a concerning. >> reporter: here is another look at frederick sales. if you see him, you're asked to call police. i'm heather holmes, ktvu channel 2 news.

has hit the team hard. >> bill phillips was a great man. he lived the kind of life any man would have been jealous to live. his legacy will live on in the four boys that he has who are incredible, incredible young men including andrew phillips who's on our football team and they have the dna of what's best in human beings. >> reporter: number 71, andrew phillips comes from a football family. his late father played college ball for indiana in the early 70s. his two younger brothers play 1-a football. and the sophomore plays tight end for virginia and paul, a freshman played tight end at indiana. as a phillips' family grieves investigators are working together to piece together what caused crash which took the life of former u.s. senator, ted stevens. the de havilland slammed into a mountainside but remains mostly intact with severe damage to the front end. the investigators plan to study the wreckage and analyze weather patterns at the time of the crash and talk with survivors to figure out what may have gone wrong. bill phillips was friend w

now, the bill. in terms of manpower, the bill provides for one dells and additional border patrol agents. it can take -- 1000 additional border patrol agents. it facilitates legal traffic and intercedes contraband. enables ice to help combat narcotics smuggling. provides two more unmanned aircraft systems and will deploy tactical communications technology that will improve enforcement, particularly along some of the more remote areas of the border. it also includes $196 million for the justice department to add prosecutors, immigration judges, and support for detention and incarceration of criminal aliens in coordination with our homeland security enforcement efforts. in terms of infrastructure, it includes $6 million operating bases to improve our border enforcement activity. this bill is clearly another step forward on border security, on top of the significant progress that t administration has already made. it is one of the many tools in the toolb we have constructed along the border. so, we are

the total bill, as far as what it means on an annual rate change -- and as mr. harrington mentioned earlier, we are able to fit a great deal more than one might think into the household pocketbooks possibly because of paying off old debt, and that will help clear up some capacity for the sewer system. so if we have 3% inflation and a pathetically the commission were to develop capital plants that fit into a 3% inflation scenario, we would be following those annual rate increases uc there. after current rates are adopted, we would only be setting rates commensurate with 3%. that could achieve a lot, but not everything needed for the ssip. in order to do the sewer system improvement program, we would be looking at likely in borrowing rates because we have to fund it, between 4% and 5%. when we reviewed the water system with the commission, we have always used that long-term borrowing costs. we have been doing incredibly well. we just sold some water bonds on thursday. we got 3.1%. however, we are more conservative in this model. we know our record low borrowing lev

that is one of the main ways they say the bill is neutral. but of course, if you look at the details, what they have done is take the solo that they were actually below the medicaid program by the end of this decade according to the chief actuary of the medicare program who actually works for the president of the united states. he is looked at these numbers and said it is completely implausible that the political system is going to allow medicare's payment rate to get access to care to go below those of medicaid. medicaid rates are so low today, the network of providers willing to see medicaid patience is very very constrained. it is probably along the order of half of the positions that will actually willingly see a large number of medicaid patients and certainly the hospital network. you can imagine of medicare rates go that low and all the medicare beneficiaries are also finding it difficult to find physicians who will see them, the political is not going to stand for that so price-cutting is not cost-cutting and health care per se and that

republicans are calling the bill a giveaway to teachers in unions. sident said if quick action was necessary before children return to classrooms in the fall. >> live the good side a traffic this is the san francisco to screen traffic moving slowly. the bottom of your screen southbound traffic moving at a bit of the crow as well. now the golden gate bridge to see the fog traffic on the late left side is coming in a san francisco backed up the toll plaza there appeared on the right side and into more and a moving at a meeting clip. will right side and into more and a moving at a meeting clip. will be back a lot more news ahead. i started bringing my lunch to work -- 50 bucks a week in my pocket. here's a good one: state farm insures 40 million drivers. more than geico and progressive combined. i saved because i'm accident-free. of course, with so many ways to save including discounts of up to 40%, having that many customers shouldn't be a surprise. so ask a neighbor about state farm, then call an agent at 1-800-state-farm or go online. live from the ba

i'm talking about the stimulus bill. most benefits increased government agencies, departments, employment. we have close to 500,000 more new employees in the government. we have had a 15% increase. in the private sector where economists argue that the real jobs are created, we have lost close to 3 million. rather than the government spending, which has mostly gone into the public sector -- rather than that jump starting the economy, the unemployment numbers are becoming worse. it is now 9.5%. for those of us with the background in business, as has been mine, it in small business, before i became involved in politics -- first of a give my opinion, then we will hear from you. it seems to me with all the uncertainty out there, with small businesses now in a situation through they face a new assessment, a new task, as a result of the mandate -- the potential the legislation that passed through the house on the card check program or we will not have a secret ballot in the future -- but instead a small business owner of look at

the argument. host: on this house bill, is there a companion in the senate right now? guest: i mentioned senator menendez's bill. certainly, though, most of the movement on this has happened in the house. it's been led by chairman frank. he's not alone in supporting this legislation. there are many other key supporters. we've got george mitchell. we've got -- sorry -- george miller, john conyers. on the republican side we have peter king, john campbell, ron paul. so there really is this growing bipartisan support that the legislation, chairman frank's bill is up to 70 co-sponsors. in the senate there has been some movement beyond menendez's bill. senator ron wyden has actually introduced that says let's regulate the industry, let's tax it and use the revenue to help provide more health coverage to the uninsured. he also introduced another bill with senator gregg which is dealing with tax reform and simplifying the tax codes. and in that legislation is also the provisions to regulate online gambling. clearly for this to be done it needs to go through the house and senate