the republicans are responding to president obama's signing of the student loan bill and transportation bill and pounce on the jobs report. >> reporter: the president called the 80,000 jobs created a step in the right direction. his spokesperson said it was what everybody ex-pecks. it prompted this responges from the romney campaign. it's clear that president obama is out of touch with the difficulties face can middle class families. the president did not mention the jobs report but, instead, focusing on the cumulative effect of the transportation bill and the stood loan bill. >> first, it will keep thousands of workers on the job rebying our infrastructure and second, it will keep student loan from doubling this year which would have had students loans costing $1000 more. >> and in the response, the reach cans laid it down at the feet of the president. >> he is doubling down on policies that are holding us back and making things worse, starting with his health care law which is driving up costs and making it too hard for small businesses to hire workers. >> next week, the house will vo

the week. there are two bills by the senate transportation chairman that have been of high interest. the bill was basically killed in the assembly transportation early last week and is no longer valid for the year. s.b. 878 b which at one point started off as a bay area governance issue, restructured the relationships in the bay area, and then ran into trouble and became more of a bill to deal with economic strategies in the bay area. later, that became a bill no longer dealing with bay area governments but dealing with the state transportation commission. that bill has been sent to appropriation, and we will not see any more attempts to deal with governance this year. probably next year. finally, s.b. 1339, a re-bill of senator yee, the bill had been sponsored last year, but it was statewide, and the governor chose to veto it. this year, the senator narrowed it down to be a mtc region bill only. the governor has asked them to keep it in moments, it is technically not on his desk until he can get around to taking a look at it, given the slate of work the governor had the last couple o

my hope is that they will. >> tell me about the transportation bill. i know how excited you are. we talked about it the other day. here you are, to be at the signing when the president gets back from his bus trip. >> it's two million jobs preserved or created, and another million jobs with a component of the surface transportation bill called america fast forward. what it was, we came up with this idea in l.a. about three years ago. we said hey, look, during a time of high deficits and debt, when the federal government doesn't have a lot of money, why don't you incentivize localities to put up their own money, we have a source of funding going into the future, get a loan from the federal government, accelerate our programs now, we can create a million jobs and we'll create a million jobs in the next few years, we'll be able to access those loans very soon, but you have to have a source of money. so in the case of l.a. and a number of other cities across the country, if they've got a dedicated source of money for infrastructure investment, they can loan to accelerate job creation n

. >> well, the transportation bill will be helpful, but it's not going to be the bang we need. what we need is the passage of the president's jobs bill and teachers and firefighters and police officers back to work. and what we're seeing right now in this country is a contraction of public sector workers, where most of the jobs losses are coming from. >> christopher the policy-- >> the private sector adding jobs, but the manufacturing sector growing like never before. >> and if you don't recall, when nancy pelosi was speaker of the house, we did pass a 26 billion dollar bill to help with state workers, with firemen, with teachers, the whole nine yards and we still have high unemployment rate with state workers. >> angela, let me add to what you're talking about, chris, i know you're listening in. ann marie burkle of new york, we saw mcelway speak, said the president needs to stop juggling down on policies that hurt business. and what do you expect the president will do, chris, in the coming months? >> listen, i think the president needs to continue to push congress to pass this

or e-mails or tweeted their member of congress about a big piece of legislation he signed, the transportation billught two main groups of people with him other than elected officials for the signing. he brought college students because it was this transportation bill that included the language about the student loans keeping people's student loan rates from doubling this week. the other group of people besides elected officials and college students were construction workers because this is the transportation bill so it involves funding for lots and lots of construction projects. rebuilding roads and bridges and highways all across the country, and this is that you're looking at with the president putting pen to paper, this is kind of a miracle because in order to get to the point where president obama could sign this thing and have this photo op today, the united states congress had to pass something. this congress. and not just a resolution about hating bad things and loving good things like they usually do. and not just some other new anti-abortion thing they have come up, with big actual policy

later on the program, congress passed a major transportation bill before the fourth of july recess. ll top the to the head of an association representing highway and transportation departments in all 50 states and what it means. you're watching "washington journal." day is tuesday, july 3. sequestration is a 22-point word. in scrabble. >> the life of a seller include scrubbing the deck, working the sales, climbing a lot, what ever the duties assigned, gun drill practice, but by the end of the day, you are ready for rest but you don't get a full eight hours of sleep it is four hours on, four hours of. >> this weekend, the life of an enlisted man aboard the u.s.s. constitution during the war of 1812. >> the sailor lived in fear and the possibility of being whipped by a cat and nine tales. it was carried by a petty officer in a bag and the thing a seller never wanted to see is a petty officer getting ready for a flogging. we still use the phrase today -- don't let the cat out of the bag. >> that is sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. also this weekend, more from "the contenders," our series on

obama talked about the transportation bill he signed into law, a bill he says keeps thousands of construction workers on the job by continuing to fund highway improvement projects. the transportation bill also includes a provision preventing interest rates on many college loans from doubling. >>> facebook and yahoo have reached a settlement in a month long peanut dispute, ending a potentially costly legal battle. the settlement calls for both silicone valley companies to cross-license their pat tenants and expand a advertisement relationship. yahoo filed the lawsuit in march, facebook countersued in april. the settlement doesn't involve any financial compensation. >>> although there were disappointing job numbers for june, analysts say the bay area is still a good place to be right now. yesterday's job report showed another month of weak hiring, not enough jobs are being added to lower the nation's unemployment rate. but, steve wright at the silicon valley leadership group says our region has good reason to be optimistic. >> silicon valley's venture capital is about 40% of the entire country.

is that the best approach and do you think the transportation bill holds potential for real boost on jobs? >> i think the transportation bill's impact is going to be pretty limited at this point. i think the president -- maybe his best strategy is to ignore the jobs report and do what he's been doing, taking the long view on this. he suggests it took -- this wasn't a problem created overnight, it kind of started even ten years ago, maybe at the start of the bush administration. and it's going to take a long time to dig out of it, even if they've made progress, it's going to take a while. his best bet is to focus on middle class, he has the agenda and policies that's going to rebuild the middle class, whereas mitt romney, his agenda is focused on helping the rich. >> felicia, let's look at the meter which has not moved much in the swing states, either in the latest polls as well. the president is hitting mitt romney in ads as an outsourcer of jobs in the key states. what do you think has more impact, the actual job numbers or the constant barrage of ads in that presence? >> it's not re

. >> you just saw the congress finally approving the transportation bill you fought so hard for. what are the benefits for people in california? >> thank you for highlighting america fast forward and the surface transportation bill on a number of interviews we had. this is great for l.a. we will be able to accelerate -- we will double the size of our rail system, be able to accelerate a subway and a number of lines. what it means for l.a. with the extension, probably 400,000 jobs in the next decade. your next speaker, jane harmon, was a big supporter of that when she was in congress. we appreciate it. took them a long time. they extended it 11 times. there's $200 billion in it and about $2 billion for america fast forward which allows cities like my own to accelerate our projects by loaning and then paying the federal government back. >> mayor antonio villaraigosa, thank you. we will see you all summer and of course at the convention. >> i look forward to it. >>> speaking of infrastructure and things that need to be done in this country, the heat wave that is scorching the east co

obama will sign the transportation bill extension. e extension of the student loan percentage at 3.4% for about one year. we will have that at 5:00 eastern here on c-span. speaking of tours, "politico" writes a story about mitt romney. he is mulling a foreign policy tour. jonathan martin joins us on the phone. what can you tell us about his traveling overseas? >> he is thinking about, and staff is actually deliberating this week plans for a foreign policy offensive that would start later this month before a speech at the v.f.w. convention in reno. the stops would include london for the olympics and potentially to give a speech there on u.s. foreign policy and the u.s.-u.k. relationship, israel for a meeting with the israelis and the palestinians. and then back to the konta inept for a trip to poland and then to berlin, germany, to meet chancellor merkel. these are not 100% firm. they are being beal discussed, but they are reporting that that is the ongoing conversation inside the romney campaign. a foreign policy offensive that would r

the teens. as a part of that bill, in the process several months ago when the transportation bill was on the senate floor, i had the privilege of offering an amendment -- again, bipartisan -- that was the amendment to restore the gulf of mexico after the effects of the b.p. oil spill. and it emanates from the fact that we have a fine that will be leviebe. mr. levin: i haved by a -- by -- and it d. mr. nelson: and it emanates from the fact that we have a fine that will be levied by a federal judge. the law allows for a certain amount for the judge to determine per barrel of oil spilled in the gulf of mexico. and the law in general allows for the amount to be levied against any barrel of oil that is spilled in a public waterway. in this case, we're talking about some real money. we're talking about almost five million barrels spilled in the gulf of mexico. and, as a result, the feeling is that this could be anywhere from a $5 billion fine all the way up to a $20 billion fine. so the question was, once the fine is determined and approved by the court, where is that money going to go an, and what e gul

excited about cities, and nevertheless this whole thing still is viewed as a largely issue as the transportation bill outcome showed and i'm wondering whether you think or how might you your and highlighting your cities and the urban renaissance of those cities and these partisan events to actually make those issues maybe even less partisan. is that possible? >> yes, i do think it's possible to make them less partisan and in fact, miss torqually, they have less partisan. one of the folks i most admire on transportation issues is the current u.s. secretary of transportation, ray lahood, who is a republican, and he talks a lot about the way these infrastructure investments pay off for our country, they pay off in direct jobs in terms of getting can construction workers and engineers and architects and others employed from a perspective, but then when you look at the ability of cities to but also to create morer mobility choices for people, it's really charlotte is growing by 30,000 new people every single year et >> excuse me, two-thirds ofn kl else where? >> yes. largely it's south carolina's health c

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bill. this is the first time you've had a long-term transportation bill in 2005. on project they desperately need for two years. what do democrats give up? democrats gave up on the epa, things are streamlined quicker. republicans gave up the keystone pipeline. fair on both sides. student loans, yo u no longer cannot accrue interest after seven years, democrats gave that up, moved forward and completely paid for. they can work if they want to but doesn't necessarily benefit the electoral prospects in the long-term. >> luke, wouldn't you -- wouldn't you put the onus on the people who continue to reelect congressmen and the senators who they say they don't like congress and senate. we see approval ratings in the teens and yet they keep sending these people back. the 94% or something like that will be reelected. isn't that the problem? shouldn't the voters be throwing the bums out and making them get to work like the rest? >> the biggest problem that america faces i would argue when i talk to journalism students, talk to political scientists is gerrymandering in terms

. >> reporter: the transportation bill signed into law by president obama attempts to deal with this problem by encouraging states put restrictions on young drivers. for example, not letting them drive at night or with passengers on their vehicles until they have gained experience behind the wheel. david, if enough states could go along, it could address what's become a tragic fourth of july tradition in this country. >> ron claiborne, thank you. zb >>> we move from the danger to the highways to that disals earl at sea. new details tonight in the investigation into that cruise liner that went down off the coast of italy. who could forget that image, the ship lying on its side. abc's lama hasan was there within hours of the disaster and this evening, she is back on the story with world the crew was using outdated maps and navigation instruments that didn't work. >> reporter: it's the latest in a series of blunders attributed to the crew of the "costa concordia." which we've been reporting on since we first went to the scene of the disaster in january. new documents leaked to an italia

reporter: the president is due to sign the transportation bill at 4:55 this afternoon. shannon: mike emanuel, thank you so much. the latest employment report, president obama has entered risky territory. the average job growth for the first six months in an election year is thought to be critical to a president reelection chances. over the past few decades, presidents who oversaw weak job growth going into november, they did not do so well. these numbers reflect the average job growth in the first month of the election year in 1980, president carter was wreaking reelection. it was minus 96,000 jobs. in 1984, 375,000 jobs were created in the first six months. reagan won his reelection. in 1992, that number was a dismal 63,000 jobs. president each of you bush lost. in 1996, 240,000 jobs were created in the first six months and bill clinton won. in 2004 was 197,000 jobs, president george w. bush won. in 2012, average job growth in the first six months is 150,000, and that puts president obama right in the middle of this. an update on the mystery surrounding illinois commerc

bill? what's that going to mean for the jobs picture? >> getting the highway bill through, the transportationem, only two years. most of of our bills on transportation have been five-year bills. it takes a long time to plan. >> sure. >> for sanitation bridges, things like that. the republicans insisted we have a short-term measure and, well the agreement we could reach was two years. better than nothing but it is going to help the job picture a little bit. >> you know, senator, i think a lot of republicans watching the program this morning or reading the news over the weekend would probably say, william, this is good, but why did it take you so long? not youpey of course? right? why did it take so long and why couldn't can as you pointed out, why couldn't you do this for five years or make the student loans permanent? there is a frustration there which i am sure you feel senate. i know you do. >> it's very frustrating. have you met the new republican tea party yet? there is not two parties the there is one party now, a republican team and they just a few people they just won't budge. they won

the bills they've been passing are disaster bills. we have legislation that expires at a certain point. transportations out and all the states currently getting money to fix roads aren't getting it anymore. legislation on student loans was expiring. all these students going to college would see their loan rates double. what we've been able to do at the stroke of midnight, usually, sometimes, although not always, they have been able to keep disaster from happening. what they have not been able to do is move forward on problems. they've been able to occasionally keep themselves from sheer brunt of legislative inaction creating new problems but they haven't been able to do a lot of work on their own to make things better. as for after the election it deped depends on the composition of congress and who it is and whether they decide to cooperate and make the legislative compromises that in our system of government, where it is difficult to get things done without people crossing the aisle, they will be able to cross the aisle and get things done. >> or it could be a sprint in the last six months, right, e

shockingly we actually saw something positive come out of congress and the president signed the transportation bill today which will create some jobs invest some in infrastructure but i say that we need a lot more but there's yet another point that was brought up by labor reporter frequent guest on the show mike. let's stop and look at pepco the utility company here in d.c. see they had to bring in workers from out of town they were scrambling to find enough resources. but the thing is that if you speak to the electrical workers which mike did they'll tell you that a lot of it has to do with the shift away from unionized labor and towards non-unionized temporary workers now sure makes labor a lot cheaper for the company the executives more able to rake in more cash but now we're the ones that are losing out as our infrastructure becomes more important as we depend more on it as it becomes even more vulnerable thanks of things like more extreme weather well companies are in the meantime hiring fewer workers and so the shift towards temporary workers is actually happening all over the country freelan

they agreed to extend the student loan interest rate and pass the transportation bill that will save arly 3 million highway jobs. >> well the markets closed with a bang on friday and they posted the largest gains for the month of june in more than a decade? just minutes away from the opening bell. courtney is here with me. what have you got? is this all europe? >> we're seeing futures modestly higher. expectations were fairly low. today is the firstay of the third quarter. expect europe to dominate headlines. it will be a busy week of economic data. and because the jobs number is on a friday, more traders are expecting to be taking off today and tomorrow for the july fourth holiday and come back in time to react to the jobs number so volume could be a little light. bristol is buying for cash. we have got another deal. so a lot of deals happening today. >> there you go. quietly rolli them out in july. it's jobs report week on friday. up next we're taking a deep dive into the heart land. could be the reason for romney's heartbreak or obama's heart ache. can romney win the white house wi

the last day to pass the bill. it was passed in the transportation bill. so that tuition loan payments would not double. double. the only problem is it's one year again so we have to make sure that anyone in this country who wants to have higher education should be able to go to college. if we just let people who have the money and are rich go to college, that's not who we are in america and will weaken our country. >> the congress voted to hold eric holder in contempt for not handing over the documents. justice department has decided he's done nothing wrong. >> fast & furious was a program started under the bush administration and it's a program that really didn't work. it was not -- it was ill conceived and the strategies weren't where they needed to be and then holder came into office and realized that the program was not a good program and canceled that program. what concerns me is the politics again. i was a former investigator prosecutor. we have still someone out there who has killed an american border patrol agent. that's where the focus needs to be. there have been thousands of documents turned over alr

he'll go to the white house and sign the transportation bill into law. the point being that may create highway jobs but also the other point the president's being trying to make is he thinks congress has to get more bills like that done, including the rest of the jobs bill introduced last summer to do all they can amid this difficult economy right now. >> ed henry live for us in pittsburgh. thank you. >>> the presumptive g.o.p. nominee, governor mitt romney, called today's jobs report, quoting, a kick in the gut to the middle class. carl cameron is live for us in d.c. >> romney's vacationing until sunday but the canceled the media to a local business to rail against the economy. >> the prediction was 5.6%, instead it's 8.2%, millions and millions of families are struggling and suffering because the president's policies have not worked for them. this is a time for america to choose whether they want more of the same. whether unemployment above 8% month after month after month is satisfactory or not. doesn't have to be this way. america can do better. >> re

durbin: do i remember that the very first amendment on the transportation bill was offered by senator blunt of missouri on family planning? is there a family planning amendment available on every bill now that will be offered by the republican side? i know the house republicans have had 33 votes to repeal obamacare. are we going to try to match them with similar efforts in the senate? mr. reid: my response to my friend is this. i try to be very calm about things in life generally, especially things here on the floor. but i can't remain very calm about this. mr. president, i have 16 grandchildren. they are evenly divided between boys and girls. i want my granddaughters to be treated so that if they want to go get some contra -- have some contraceptive device in school, new york university, berkeley -- i'm bragging about that they got in those schools -- they should have the ability to do that. i think as i -- i just can't imagine what we're talking about here on the senate floor. cybersecurity, one of the most important -- it's the most important issue, i've already said, dealing with

president obama is going to sign the highway transportation bill and the bill to keep stallone's low. what was not in there was the keystone pipeline. the pipeline from canada down through the gulf of mexico to carry that material. is this the end of the keystone pipeline? will it come back after the election? there are a lot of democrats polling for it. >> the president was told he had to approve it. he said, i am already. i want all the facts. he did not do it. the republicans want to force this pipeline to be approved without getting all the information. not even knowing the route it was going to take. the problems many as of has is it as to the greenhouse gases, the carbon emissions, when they take this dirty oil in canada and try to process it so it can go through the pipeline. we are using more energy to develop oil than we would just burning oil. then they want to put in a pipeline and we want to make sure the pipeline is safe. that same company has had pipelines that have had nothing but problems. when pipelines week, the leak into offers. -- they leaked into offers. a huge po

congress's passage of the transportation bill. student loan rate extension. le contempt vote on eric holder and the ads the bus trips the political wrangling all over the place. there was really something for everyone from political junkies and avid court watchers to middle class workers and immigrants. what i think was most interesting about this stretch politically was that there were both victories and setbacks for each side of the aisle. people on the left were alternatively satisfied or angry, relieved, enraged, same thing with those on the right. in a way isn't that how it should be. aren't we supposed to be engaged and enthralled by this political process? isn't washington supposed to do things whether we agree with them or not? in the last few weeks we've seen all of the branches of government actually doing their job. the president, the court congress, the state. they all had their moments in the sun. as did the campaigns for president. none of us would say that we liked everything that's happened recently but nobody gets to win all the time. somebody