no, the fact that it goes to the unelected people. cedure. >> we have been try to go change it for years, reining in the ability -- regulation has the same force and effect of law. you agree with na? every regulation that affects the economy should come for our approval of an up-or-down vote. we have been trying to make that change for years. but the power of the unelected bureaucracy with the health care will scare the heck out of you. >> greta: keystone? >> i think president clinton is right about this. i have been to the oil fences. as a matter of fact, you should go up there to alberta, canada? i have driven that. >> i have looked at the place that they extract the product. the pipeline being built from alberta down to the gulf coast would create 20,000 jobs. it is environmentally sound. and they're going to sell the oil to china if we don't buy it and the environmental objections here, i think are really way off base. president obama has made a huge mistake. what senator schumer said, to lower gas prices here, we should get saudi

alexander hamilton reassured us that we should ratify the constitution because it would prevent the unelected supreme court justices from having too much power in federalist seventy eight he wrote the judiciary from the nature of its functions will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the constitution because it will be released in a capacity to annoy or injure them it proves on contrast in confess to glee that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three branches of power departments of power and you can never attack with success either of the other two . but attack them with success it has done and may do again today or this week or this month as the constitution says the supreme court is only the final court of appeals if two people or companies have a lawsuit goes all the way through the courts over and over to mention it has to stop somewhere that somewhere is the supreme court just the final score and even in that capacity they can be regulated by congress they're supported to congress as the constitution says an article three section two the supreme c

now, let me compare this to the president's proposal to use ipad, the unelected unaccountable bureaucrat board of political appointees for current seniors. here is the president's budget and wrap he is proposing. this is law, by the way. this is the law that is in the affordable care act. what it proposing for medicare's growth rate. let me do that again. i think i can -- so this is the republican budget. what it proposes, here is what the affordable care act in current law does for growing medicare. see much difference there? yet my friends on the other side seem to complain that this is draconian cuts to seniors. how can that be if our trajectories are the same? let's talk about the main difference between our approach and the affordable care act. the president's new health care law. it's not the proposed spending, you can see the paths are the sail. the difference is, who is in control. 15 bureaucrats or 50 million empowered seniors. that's the difference. now, look at what happens if th unlike cms, cbo thinks ipads will fail by the actuaries at cms tell us 40% of medicare providers u

let me compare this to the president's proposal to use ipad, the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat board apppolitical . here is the president's budget and what he is proposing. this is law, by the way. this is the law that is -- here is what it proposes for medicare's growth rate. let me do that again. this is the republican budget, what it proposes to throw medicare at, here is what the affordable care act and current see much difference there? yet my friends on the other side seem to complain this is draconian cuts to seniors. how can that be if if our trajectories are the same? let's talk about the main difference between our approach and the affordable care act, the president's new health care law. it's not the proposed spending. as you can see they're the same. the difference is who is in control? 15 bureaucrats or 50 million empowered seniors? that's the difference. now look at ipad doesn't work because unlike cms, cbo thinks fail by 2021 because the actuaries tell us 40% of medicare providers under the of rdable care act are going to business. they're telling us the providers

which is removingus from the me and putting in place this unelected board of 15 bureaucrats which wes necessary their plan, in your plan, because you've got to control costs because you don't trust people. when bureaucrats choose, lose. when bureaucrats choose, patients lose. that's the program you all have put in place. medicare andat it's important the chairman has eloquently outlined how we propose to do that. i would draw your attention to page 61 on the budget which goes through the four main points which is those in and near retirement will see no changes whatsoever. that for future generations they are provided a guaranteed health coverage, line five. guaranteea61, line five. in addition, as the chairman said, those with higher health challenges receive more assistance, and, finally, the fourth program puts medicare on a sustainable path and becomes solvent over the long term which the president's proposal does not and your proposal does not. i urge a rejection of the amendment adoption. >> i will yield the remainder of our time and recognize the gentlelady one minute for the p

talk here just a little ago, and i've heard some of the other republican officials talk about the unelected officials making that for you. we already have that. called insurance executives. seems to me either they're not aware how it works or just don't want to talk about that, but the bigger the risk pool, the cheap are the price. obviously, you can't have all sick people. you've got to guard against condition in an insurance where you have more sick people than well people. or where you have more terrible drivers than good one, in contrast. the other thing is, i keep hearing, i used to hear from the republicans about responsibility. pay your own way. pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. well, that's what this law does. he eveni you either way your own way or pay a penalty. i certainly don't get the opposition. especially when you look at the heritage foundation website and this was a lot of their idea in the first place. even before romney came up with it. so -- that's my only comment, and i thank you for the air time. >> that was paul in kansas. another tweet. this is from aaron who

massachusetts and we need to be talking about the media's refusal to cover the real story because the unelected because of five i don't like the right wingers on the supreme court our nation is now in uncharted waters for democracy keep your eyes and ears open and call these the spenders out when you learn about them. that's it for the big picture tonight please remember that my radio show is now on live three to six pm eastern on free speech t.v. and radio stations across the nation and around the world and don't forget democracy begins when you stand up and speak out it begins when you say hey and you see that newspaper article you see a washing post article it didn't mention anything about karl rove swinging the electorate in favor of scott brown what would that be and how to get out there tell a few people pass a law get active and your it will see an expert. well for british science. that's what i'd like for. all. markets why not us cannot. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my skies are run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a

massachusetts and we need to be talking about the media's refusal to cover the real story because the unelected because a five i don't like you right wingers on the supreme court our nation is now in uncharted waters for a democracy if your eyes and ears open and call these big spenders out when you learn about them. that's it for the big picture tonight it's always remember that my radio show is now on a live three to six pm eastern on free speech t.v. and radio stations across the nation and around the world and don't forget democracy begins when you stand up and speak out it begins when you say hey did you see that newspaper article and you see a washing post article it didn't mention anything about karl rove swinging the electorate in favor of scott brown why would that be any help get out there tell a few people pass it along get active and your it will see an expert. he.

camp: i yield myself 15 seconds just to say that the 15 unelected people appointed by the president, congress can't simply reject the ipab finding. congress has to reject and find those savings somewhere else within the program, unlike the base closing mission, which some members have cited. these are all people appointed by the president. so with that i yield two minutes to a distinguished member of the ways and means committee, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. paulson. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. paulsen: relationship between a patient and their doctor, but the president's new health care law, the establishment of the independent payment advisory board, this 15-member board of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who will soon have the authority now to dictate our nation's medicare policy by effectively deciding what health care seniors can receive. and since its inception, ipab has been the basis of vocal opposition between doctors and patients because it does threaten reduce beneficiaries' access to programs. repeal of ipab has strong bipartisan support. given th

democrats wanted to control the future costs of medicare by giving unelected bureaucrats the authority to cut payments to doctors and hospitals. if democrats are serious they would support this bill. ms. pelosi: said we have to -- nancy pelosi said we have to pass this bill to find out what's in it. i'm determined to make sure we don't have to fully implement the bill so we can see what it costs. with that i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. chairman, i'm always amused when i hear people talk about government interference in our lives. if people think medicare is an unjust government interference in their lives, they can forego their medicare. but i don't know too many people who would like to do that and what the republicans are proposing is to take that medicare away from them and turn it over to private insurance. put that to a vote. i don't think the american people would support that eater. i'm pleased at this time -- either. i'm pleased at this time to yield to a very important member on our committee, especial

let me compare this to the president's proposal to use the unelected accountable. rat port of political appointees for current seniors. here is the president's budget, and what he is proposing. this is law by the way. this is the law that is in the -- this is what it proposes. let me do that again. this is the republican budget, what it proposes. here's what the affordable care act in current law does for growing medicare. do you see much difference there? yet of my friends on the other side seem to complain that this is draconian cuts to seniors. how can it be if our trajectories are the same? let's talk about the main difference between our approach and the affordable care act, the president's new health care law. it's not the proposed spending path. they are the same. the difference is who was in control. 15 bureaucrats or 50 million empowered seniors? that's the difference. now look at what happens if the ipab doesn't work. because unlike the cms, cbo thinks ipab is going to fail by 2021. because the actuaries at cms tell us 40% of medicare providers under the a

whoever is in power in italy itself of course it is the goldman sachs former advisor who heads the government unelected head of government in the e.c.b. it's headed by former goldman sachs guy mario draggy so then they point to china where they say protests in china are building and they shake their leadership in a press conference broadcast live on chinese state television earlier this month the retiring wen jiabao warned that the growing wealth gap corruption and increasing hatred of the state could jeopardize the economic gains most startlingly he warned that mistakes like the cultural revolution may happen again any government official or party member with a sense of responsibility should recognize this wall to the cultural revolution happening all over all over the world even in america the case in florida where. neighborhood patrol shot a kid to death because he was paranoid but the kid mind some way be doing something that went against florida which is all for all right wing jeb bush lead nonsense but he killed a kid no investigation that's the cultural revolution we got the citizens to kill eac

medicare under the president's law is flexion year turns medicare over to a board of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats whose job is to circumvent congress and put price controls on medicare which would lead to denied care for current seniors. medicare under the president's law raids $500 million from medicare to spend on his new health care proposal. we're saying get rid of the rationing board, stop the raid and preserve the system. don't change benefits for people in a near retirement because they've already retired or they're about to retire and they've organized their lives around this program. and we're saying,future, in ord this system, have a list of options they want to choose, just like we as members of congress do for our health care choices. saving medicare this way, which has a rich tradition of bipartisan support for this kind of medicare reform is the most humane, common sense and bipartisan way to save this vital program. but let me turn it over to dr. plies, cho is an expert on this. >> the american people are martyr than the democrats give them credit for. they've removed $

the people. not a federal unelected unaccountable bureaucrat. that works best. i'm not yielding. i'm not yielding. i'm looking. the one-size-fits-all washington mandated strategy that wastes millions of dollars creates fraud does not work. i'll yield back to the gentleman. >> thank you. i next yield two minutes to my colleague from indiana, as well. >> i think my colleague from kansas. look, medicaid is not functioning as effectively as it could if we were to give states flexibility to tailor the current one-size-fits-all program to each of the populations and individual needs listening to their individual populations. i agree with the sentiments of my colleague from indiana. let's not assume that all wisdom resides here in washington. let's not assume that all administrative creativity resides here in washington dc. let's allow our 50 states to figure practices to their populations. one thing i know the states would welcome is the opportunity to tackle not just the waste but the fraud. the problem with fraud is so bad the department of justice has devoted an entire unit to rootin

i have a problem with the unelected bureaucrats deciding the care our seniors are eligible to.to care. the board can decide what kind of treatment can be given. the other, that is not spoken about so much that needs to be discussed, are the cuts that happen, and the savings only happen with be paid out positions. doctor after doctor, a position after physician is saying "i can no longer take any more medicare patients." what good is it for someone to have medicare when they have no doctor who will be able to see it -- see them? that is limiting access to care. we need to do the right thing and fix medicare for our seniors, for our future. this is the wrong direction. i think this is an important issue. and we have to address the real problems of lawsuit abuse and the problems inflicted because of lawsuits against doctors and hospitals and the amount of defensive medicine that goes in and how we often pay a price for that. and drives up the cost of care that we can have and our seniors can have. let's do all we can to address the real problems of health care, and that is the cos

democratically elected prime minister of iran mohammad mostly dead and the installation by the cia of a brutal unelected dictator the shah of iran the same thing happening guatemala they oust the democratically elected president to the country in a cia crew and install a brutal military dictatorship pinochet dictatorship i mean i could go on and all of the we share of dictatorship in pakistan they love this dictatorship this is nothing to do with democracy this has everything to do with edge of mony i know i do want to shift focus now to libya because there are some new developments there today tribal leaders have declared their autonomy in the east where the libya's interim government is opposing them do think it will need to breaking libya apart so after the death of dictator moammar gadhafi has libya any closer to achieving conoco say of course not i mean it's a bigger mess than ever before and let's keep in mind that you know khadafi is another example of where the u.s. government was recently. reaching out to him as part of their rendition torture program where they were trying to get him to tortur

that's one of the reasons he's unelectable. i agree with dee dee. we all know, it is not a surprise coming into tonight that governor romney's going to be the nominee. but at the end of the day, he's limping into the nomination, if he was on a football team, he would be on the injured reserve list. he has really taken hard hits, and i think particularly with women voters, it is going to be very hard for him to make that pivot that is so important. i don't think he actually can make that pivot right away. he has some work to do to deal with santorum, to deal with gingrich. he's going to be a spending a lot more money. he is spinning more than he is raising right now. after coming out in favor of the blunt amendment, saying that, you know, any employer can take away health insurance from women if they disagreed with it, it will be hard to pick up the women voters in the general. he has hurt himself badly. >> jamie: what is the power of the female vote? a woman in a household pretty much makes the decision for everybody in the household? particularly yo

that's one of the reasons he's unelectable. i agree with dee dee. we all know, it is not a surprise coming into tonight that governor romney's going to be the nominee. but at the end of the day, he's limping into the nomination, if he was on a football team, he would be on the injured reserve list. he has really taken hard hits, and i think particularly with women voters, it is going to be very hard for him to make that pivot that is so important. i don't think he actually can make that pivot right away. he has some work to do to deal with santorum, to deal with gingrich. he's going to be a spending a lot more money. he is spinning more than he is raising right now. after coming out in favor of the blunt amendment, saying that, you know, any employer can take away health insurance from women if they disagreed with it, it will be hard to pick up the women voters in the general. he has hurt himself badly. >> jamie: what is the power of the female vote? a woman in a household pretty much makes the decision for everybody in the household? particularly yo

the fact of the matter is, this unelected board is charged with finding $500 billion in reductions in payments to medicare physicians and consequently what will happen is essentially denying care to seniors. as a physician i believe that the president's health care law threatens all of the principles that we hold dear, accessibility, affordability, quality, responsiveness, innovation, choices. every single principle of health care is violated by the health care law, the president's health care law. destroys the doctor-patient relationship. but it's not just devastating to the future of our health, it's also devastating to the future of our economy. which is again what drives the chart. where's the middle class, mr. chairman, on this chart? in the red. where are the american dreams of our kids and grandkids? the -- in the red. so we are committed to a full repeal of the president's health care law and today we advance bipartisan solutions to improve and to strengthen medicare. where the president and democrats failed to act here in washington, we will lead. our plan has no changes for

to let the families, the parents do what's right for the children and not some unelected, unaccountable, federal, bureaucratic system that as the evidence shows doesn't do any good for anybody. before yielding back, i ask these two rhetorical questions. why in the world do the children of tomorrow have to pay for the education of today? that's what the spending does. i'm not going to pay for it. mr. honda isn't going to pay for it. it's those that don't exist yet that are going to pay for this. why do they have to pay for substandard education? with that, i yield back. >> since my name was brought up, i probably hav education system those criticizing federal funding. it probably reflects more than just what we've talked about versus the achievement that you have there. so you can take statistics and make it into mistruths. let me tell you what this is all about. all this money isn't decided here and how to spend it, we're sending it to the leas, the local education authorities. if you don't understand that, then you don't understand the process of education. the federal portion of every

that was the intent of this. these were unelectedrats, dean and this is the key to understanding the central planning nature of obama care. >> larry, you've got a very interesting central plain. in the soviet union you didn't have rationing that said here's what the government will pay for. in this case, anyone who wanted to -- you don't like it, go and pay for it yourself. you don't are want to get a doctor on your own, go ahead and do it. on the one hand you're out there and yelling it costs too much and here we have a plan to restrict kcosts. if you don't like it, buy it on your own. >> i don't think it will restrict costs. i think it will restrict care and it will restrict individual decisions and it will restrict doctors, it will restrict patients and that's my point, phil. i don't see this, and i have an independent payment advisory board. i don't see this cutting costs at all. i think it will rational and control prices and haven't we learned that price controls will lead to a bad ending? >> of course, it will cause all kinds

democratically elected prime minister of the country i mean the us destroyed iraq's experiment with democracy installed a dictatorship an unelected dictator the shah of iran trained his secret police force the sadat helped him tortured the iranian people and so now that resulted in the iranian revolution in seventy nine and eighty u.s. regime and so the u.s. was never forgotten and that's what the whole iranian foreign policy is around even around is how do we expect regime change in iran and certainly syria may be part of the equation that there are so many many reports as it suggests of the syrian opposition is fragmented by the moment with several umbrella groups seemingly competing for control tell us this how exactly who exactly is the assad government supposed to negotiate with there's the guarantee that all rebel forces will stick to whatever agreements brokered here certainly seems that there's infighting factions that all call themselves part of the resistance. well that's the part of the part that comes with a revolution or a civil war is that the whole thing becomes very messy i mean jefferson pointed out in our declar

the months go on. this is a board of 15 unelected bureaucrats. and what they're going to do is look at reimbursement rates with medicare and they are going to be able to reduce reimbursements to doctors, hospitals and clinics for the care for our seniors. and let's make no mistake. this is reimbursement for our current seniors, not for some future generation. it's for today's seniors. and the argument for the president goes like this. mr. and mrs. senior, don't you worry about your quality of care or your access to care, we're just going to pay your doctor, hospital and clinic less for your care. if you believe that, i have oceanfront land for you in arizona. of course it's going to affect our seniors' access and quality of care. when you pay less for it, you will get less for it. and seniors, they won't delay time. they have bargained and retired based on this promise for medicare. and this proposal doesn't meet that obligation. takes half a trillion dollars from medicare, but then is going to ration the care of our current seniors, seniors who c

what does the president do for current seniors? he empowers 15 unelected bureaucrats to cut medicare in ways that will most certainly deny seniors care. do i need to go back to the 40 pages, mr. speaker? the patient protection and affordable care act, section 4303, the advisory board, ipab, this is what it does. it's the 15 unelected bureaucrats that have the power to cut medicare in ways that as we have discussed will most certainly deny care. if what your plan is, is to cut reimbursements to doctors, fair enough. i think it's shortsighted, i think it's dede instructive, but if that's your plan, embrace that plan, i say to folks who support the president's health care bill. embrace it and defend it but be honest with the american people who know if you cut those reimbursement rates to that level that doctors cannot see patients, they will not see patients. here's one that doesn't get talked about much, mr. speaker. the president's plan raids the medicare program and removes $682 billion. this is a program that's already going bankrupt, this is a program t

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the process perfect of having an unelected panel of bureaucrats determining decisions about our individual health is perhaps the most personal and intimate intrusion into our lives. this concept is absolutely absurd and dangerous law which surely ranks with the grievances laid down 236 years ago in the declaration of independence. grievances he has forbidden governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in his openings operation and when suspended he is neglected to attend to them. he has elected officers and sent officers to harris our people and eat out their substance and subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unaged by our laws, given his assent, for imposing taxes on us without our consent, for taking away our charters and abolish our fundamental laws and the forms of our governance. that's why, mr. speaker, each and every day, i carry this declaration of independence and constitution right here next to my heart, because in january, 2011, a florida federal judge ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional, stating never before has

libyan people who were getting together to read for gadhafi anyway have basically put it in the hands of a few unelected cronies who could pick simply be worse could lead to be a complete disintegration a horrible disintegration in libya i'm afraid the future looks very bleak at the moment there are signs of hope the people of libya haven't given up patrick raddatz all the time we are patrick a reporter for on line spiked magazine thank you for being with us thank you. so i have for you on the program a new showdown looms in libya. the women's rights movement rally and mobilize a nationwide as a libya's interim leader is desperate for support pander to powerful islamic factions. and iran nuclear talks are due for a fresh round trip but while the iraq obama hopes they will drown out his saber rattling senators israel still looks poised to strike. representing the british people in parliament can be thirsty work and it seems some m.p.'s are enjoying the perks of the commons a bit too much with a late night brawl just one of a number of alcohol induced episodes our london correspondent laura smith looks at

i think what some people are concerned about, however, is that the first lady uses unelected power, namely she is the first lady and not elected to push various initiatives like remember a couple years ago the child nutrition bill ended up about $5 billion that she pushed behind the scenes. her husband did as well. and it basically sailed through the house of representatives, went on to passage because of what she did to push this. had a lot to do with the calf cafeteria foods and so forth. is this the right role for government. >> government's primary function ought to be to protect its citizens with as little intervention as possible whether you are talk about health care, the economy, education, the environment and civil lirkts. the truth is we have an obesity epidemic in this country. more than one in three adults owe obese. children are overweight. the cost to our country is astounding. cost more than $150 billion a year just in health care costs to deal with the effects on obesity. increased stroke, heart disease, diabetes, some forms of cancer. any time government sees taxpayers spe

one of the greatest things that i have a very serious problem with is the ipad board. unelected bureaucrats deciding the care that our seniors will have access to. we can tell from how this is written that it will absolutely limit access to care. it limits it on two fronts. one is the board can decide what type of treatment can be given. the other that is now spoken about so much buddies to be discussed is the cuts that happen and any savings that have been only happen by reducing the amount that is paid out to physicians. i am hearing doctor after doctor opposition after position seconal undertake any new medicare patients. i have to limit the number that i have. so what good is it for someone to have medicare when they have no doctor who will be able to see them? that is limiting access, medicare. many to turn it around and do the right thing and fix medicare for our seniors, our future. that is the work that out to be done. this was the wrong direction. melson think there is an import step we take, and that is addressing the real problem of lawsuit abuse and the high cost tha

the media is actively biased against ron paul here's their take. completely there doing absolutely everything in their power to give less coverage and make him seem unelectable they're the want the media is the one who started the whole rumor of an electability and actually ron paul is highly electable and that's why they're not covering him he's drawing crowds of you know three to five thousand on a daily basis sometimes multiple times daily or he'll have a. conference in one place and then you know fly over to another and yesterday spoke to a crowd of more than five thousand in illinois and took them to the polls right afterward and the media can't cover those sort of things because. you know they are the kind of government sponsored organizations that get taxpayer bailouts and g.e. the parent company of. c.m.d. c. got over one hundred eighty two and a half billion dollars in taxpayer bailouts and you know ron paul does not support bailouts and that's why you. know i kind of want to pull up an example of this this was a poll that was on c.n.n. where ron paul he was ranked the highest and best poll two percent so significantly higher than some of the other

>> the spouse will also be unelected unless we change the way we run our campaigns and it will be a littlef attention. even looking at what hillary was allowed to do and what michelle obama was allowed to do, there was a lot of suspicious with having earned her own money. with michelle obama it's great and we are proud of you, but we don't want you to be a huge player where you are not elected. >> the governors. thanks for coming in. >> first the white house soup of the day. the president is not there. chicken noodle. doesn't feel like a chicken noodle time of year unless you have allergies. you are watching "the daily rundown." we always hear about jobs leaving america. here's a chance to create jobs in america. oil sands projects, like kearl, and the keystone pipeline will provide secure and reliable energy to the united states. over the coming years, projects like these could create more than half a million jobs in the us alone. from the canadian border, through the mid west, to the gulf coast. benefiting hundreds of thousands of families throughout the country. this is just what our ec

i think what some people are concerned about, however, is that the first lady uses unelected power, namely is the first lady and not elected to push various initiatives like remember a couple years ago the child nutrition bill ended up about $5 billion that she pushed behind the scenes. her husband did as well. and it basically sailed through the house of representatives, went on to passage because of what she did to push this. had a lot to do with the calf cafeteria foods and so forth. is this the right role for government. >> government's primary function ought to be to protect its citizens with as little intervention as possible whether you are talk about health care, the economy, education, the environment and civil lirkts. the truth is we have an obesity epidemic in this country. more than one in three adults owe obese. children are overweight. the cost to our country is astounding. cost more than $150 billion a year just in health care costs to deal with the effects on obesity. increased stroke, heart disease, diabetes, some forms of cancer. any time government sees taxpayers spendin

we reject the idea that medicare should be run by 15 unelected bureaucrats and want to preserve it for the current generation. with that, i yield five minutes to the chairman of the house republican conference, a former member of the budget committee, mr. hensarling of texas. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. hensarling: i thank the chairman for yielding and i thank him for his national leadership on this pressing issue of the national debt. mr. chairman, last week secretary geithner came up to capitol hill to warn of the threat to the american economy of the european debt crisis. mr. chairman, the american people know that the greater threat to the american economy is the american debt crisis. we face the absolute worst debt crisis in america's history, and yet it has been almost three years since both house and senate democrats have submitted a budget. almost three full years. now, to his credit, the president has submitted a budget. to his shame, it adds $11 trillion to our national debt on top of the $5 trillion that he's already imposed of additional nat

nonetheless, the epa would not repeal the decision for there were told it could not go to court. in this case, an unelectedemedy, they could do what the epa wanted or they could face millions of dollars in fines. under president obama, those same bureaucrats are insinuating them selves into every corner of the economy. they prevented drilling rigs from going to work in the gulf, they keep coal from being mined, they impede the reliable supply of national gas, they are even telling farmers what their 15-year-old sons and daughters are allowed to do on the family farms. you remember that famous quote from will rogers -- he said this country has come to feel the same when congress is in session as we do when a baby gets a hold of a hammer. it is a question of how much damage he could do before you can take it away. will rogers was concerned about the damage congress could do. today, our freedom is never safe because unelected, unaccountable regulators are always on the prowl. under president obama, they are multiplying like proverbial rabbits. the number of federal employees has grown by 140,000 people under

the union address. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens. iran aggressively pursues these weapons in exports terror while an unelected few repressed the iranian people's hope for freedom iraq and change the slightest hostility toward america and to support terror states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. that axis of evil even though they don't even talk to each other it's an axis north korea iran and iraq at the top of america's hit list after nine eleven even though no matter what you do with nine eleven bush went after iraq first and it was a total disaster it led to almost a decade of war one of the longest wars in the history of the united states going all about the revolutionary war longer than world war two longer than world war one longer than the civil war. more than forty four hundred u.s. soldiers are dead hundreds of thousands of iraqis are dead many of them noncombatants and innocent civilians four to five million absolutely innocent civilians in iraq we have been displaced about half of them internally in the country but half of th