let us go home, let us see its cover letter shared with our friends do we know. because right now the american people, what they think of this part of the bill, this 2000 page bill, the american people really believe that this will increase the cost of their own personal care. >> my colleague would yield here at yesterday as the chairman of the finance committee to ask unanimous consent that in fact at least 72 hours at the american people get to see this bill that the members of the senate get to see this bill that there be a complete cba o. score that we can have an understanding. he denied that request. and that comes back to transparency. the american people expect us to know exactly what we're voting on. they expect us to have read what we're voting on. and this explanation was that i can't guarantee that, that presumes a certain level of perception on my part and understanding and delving into the minds of the senators that they can actually understand. what does understand name? i mean, that's the kind of gibberish that the american people absolutely don't

let us go home over christmas, let us think about this, let us talk to our constituents at home, let us hear what they have to say about this looking out for number one, $100 million, dana milbanks' column in "the washington post" today. that's what we need now in the united states senate. we need the kind of courage that john kennedy wrote about in "profiles in courage." mr. risch: senator barrasso, there already are some courageous democrats stepping up, and i would hope that every democrat on the other side, call your governor and say governor, what do you think about this? help me out here. should i vote -- i'm in caucus and they have bought enough votes to get to the 60, but i got to tell you, i don't like the way they did it, number one, and number two, what about the rest of us? we didn't get -- we didn't get the $300 million, we didn't get the x number of million, help me out, governor. you know, they say they're going to shift $25 billion to the states that you're going to have to come up with. what do you think? do you think i ought to vote for this? or maybe, maybe if one

allow one state to be held harmless for medicare enrollees to get that vote and make the rest of us go home and say, why can't you in south carolina and georgia get that deal? what kind of senator are you? well, i'll tell you, this is the kind of senator we are. we're not going to do that. we're not going to put the whole nation at risk and take a broken system and make it worse just to get above. no way. abortion, you're either for it or against it, you're indifferent to it. you can be whatever you want to be on abortion and be just as good of an american as i am. i'm pro-life and proud of us. most of us whether pro-life or pro-choice don't want our taxpayer dollars to be used to pay for abortion. the hyde amendment has prevented taxpayer dollars to be used for abortion. well, in this health care reform, guess what? that's exactly what's going to happen. there's a brave democrat in the congress, bart stupak, from a blue state, who stood up to his democratic leadership and said i will not vote for a bill that allows federal taxpayer dollars in the form of subsidies to be used to fund aborti

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let us go home over christmas. let us think about this. clich of stock to our constituents at home.let us hear what they have to say about this looking out for number one, 100 million the car we need the kind of courage that john kennedy wrote about and profiles of courage. your governor and say governor, what do you think about this? help me out here. should i vote -- i'm in caucus and they have bought enough votes to get to the 60, but i got to tell you, i don't like the way they did it, number one, and number two, what about the rest of us? we didn't get -- we didn't get the $300 million, we didn't get the x number of million, help me out, governor. you know, they say they're going to shift $25 billion to the states that you're going to have to come up with. what do you think? do you think i ought to vote for this? or maybe, maybe if one of us steps forward and says, you know, i'm going to vote no and i want to set the reset button and want to set the reset button and >> let's add to this right. we can do this rise. we are americans. we are the most innovative people in the world

we ought to say what is in the bill, let us go home and see it and share with our friends so we know because right now the american people, what they've seen of this part of the bills, this 2000 page bill, the american people rightly believe this will increase the cost of their own personal care -- >> if my colleague would yield yesterday i asked the chairman of the finance committee to agree to unanimous consent that in fact at least 72 hours the american people get to see this bill, that the members of the senate get to see this bill, that there be a complete cbo's or so we could have an understanding. he denied that request, and that comes back to transparency. the american people expect us to know exactly what we are voting on and to have read what we are voting on, and his explanation was i can't guarantee that. it presumes a certain level of perception on my part and understanding elving into the minds of the senators they can actually understand, what does understand me and? that's the kind of gibberish the american people want a symbol of we don't want. they brought us to kno

let us go home and see it and share it. so right -- right now the american people are from what they have seen, the 2,000-page bill, the american people believe this will increase the cost of their own personal care. mr. corn: if my colleague would yield. i ask the chairman of the finance committee to agroo to a unanimous consent that in fact at least 72 hours that the american people get to see this bill. that the members of the senate get to see the bill. that there will be a complete c.b.o. score so we can have a complete understanding. he denied that request. that goes to transparency. the american people expect us to know what we're voting on and have read what we're voting on. and his explanation was that i can't guarantee that. that presumes a certain level of perception on my part and delving into the mind of the senators that they would understand. what does understand mean? that's the kind of gibberish that the american people don't want. they want us to know what we're voting on when we vote on this bill. mr. mcc

let us go home and see it and share it. so right -- right now the american people are from what they have seen, the 2,000-page bill, the american people believe this will increase the cost of their own personal care. mr. coburn: if my colleague would yield. i ask the chairman of the finance committee to agroo to a unanimous consent that in fact at least 72 hours that the american people get to see this bill. that the members of the senate get to see the bill. that there will be a complete c.b.o. score so we can have a complete understanding. he denied that request. that goes to transparency. the american people expect us to know what we're voting on and have read what we're voting on. and his explanation was that i can't guarantee that. that presumes a certain level of perception on my part and delving into the mind of the senators that they would understand. what does understand mean? that's the kind of gibberish that the american people don't want. they want us to know what we're voting on when we vote on this bill. mr. m

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and not one of us could be happy going home to our families for christmas if we don't enact this, and it's because of that that i have -- that i feel very strongly that we will be successful, as difficult and astor trust -- and astor tourous as this -- and as torturous as this process is, and this senator will keep pressing for it until we get that final passage. madam president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: madam president, i understand that maybe i will have my speech broken up by a unanimous consent request of the leadership, so i ask if that happens that my remarks be continuous throughout the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: there has been a lot of talk over the past few days about senator reid's so-called compromise. although he said he has broad agreement, i have yet to see any specific details. in fact, it sounds like members of his very own caucus, the democratic caucus, aren't really aware of these details either. now, i find it quite hard to understand how there can be -- quote -- unquote -- "b

let us go home over christmas, let us think about this, let us talk to our constituents at home, let us hear what they have to say about this looking out for number one, $100 million, dana milbanks' column in "the washington post" today. that's what we need now in the united states senate. we need the kind of courage that john kennedy wrote about in "profiles in courage." mr. risch: senator barrasso, there already are some courageous democrats stepping up, and i would hope that every democrat on the other side, call your governor and say governor, what do you think about this? help me out here. should i vote -- i'm in caucus and they have bought enough votes to get to the 60, but i got to tell you, i don't like the way they did it, number one, and number two, what about the rest of us? we didn't get -- we didn't get the $300 million, we didn't get the x number of million, help me out, governor. you know, they say they're going to shift $25 billion to the states that you're going to have to come up with. what do you think? do you think i ought to vote for this? or maybe, maybe if one

was an enlisted man shot down, captured at sea, a good man, and there was no reason for us to say, you can't go homet in general everyone who had the word, we're going home altogether. sick and wounded first followed in sequence by the dates of shootdown. and we pretty much courted that. as you say, some people were rather dishonorable in accepting what they were told was amnesty for giving them so much information and propagandizing on their side. there would have been more court-martials, but the secretary of the navy, i think, and the services in general thought why spoil the only good thing to come out of vietnam? because there was so much antiwar tough. and then -- stuff. and then we come home, and everybody turns on us. so they didn't want to botch it up by having a bunch of trials for these guys who most of us did a really great job. >> yes, indeed. and you certainly, especially. now, tell me about the shock you received when you finally came back after about eight years? >> yeah, seven years, seven months. >> seven years, seven months, all right. and you found, what? >> well, i had already r

insurance reform -- and there isn't any in the bill right now to speak of -- then they just should go home and use reconciliation, which is what they should have done in the first place. to let four senators hold up the works in addition to the republicans who we know aren't interested in health insurance is a silly way to run the business. >> you mentioned senator carper and his proposal being silly. are you referring to the actual content of the policy or the politics or both? >> no, look, tom is a serious guy. he's a good guy. i served with him when we were governors together. but his proposal isn't health insurance reform. triggers are not health insurance reform. they're devices put in for the health insurance industry. today it came out aetna is going to drop 600,000 people from their insurance so they can make more money. why is it that these senators can't get it in their heads that putting money in the health insurance system that we have now doesn't work. that's not health care reform. knock it off! listen to sherrod brown. listen to the 56 senators who want to do the right thing in the

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us. as we come home with gladness to family and friends this christmas, let us also remember our neighbors who cannot go home themselves. our compassion and concerns this christmas and all year long will mean much to the hospitalized, the homeless, the orphanned and will lead us on our way to the joy and peace of bethlehem and the christ child who bids us, come. for it is only in finding and living the eternal meaning of the nativity that we can truly be happy, truly at peace, truly home. merry christmas. god bless you. ronald reagan. mr. speaker, with that wish from reagan, i do now hereby move that we adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will accept the motion to adjourn. mr. gohmert: pursuant to section 11-b of house resolution 976, i move now that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. accordingly, pursuant to section 11-b of house resolution 976, the house stands adjourned until 6:00 p.m. on december 19, 2009 unless the conditions specified in section 11-c of t

the note and on christmas eve because the republicans wouldn't allow us to have votes at any other hour. now, it's true when we go home, we're going to hear an earful. i'm going to hear an earful from young caleb. a boy, mr. president, that was born with legs that stopped right here, above his knees, he needed new prosthetic devices because the rest of his body is growing. but the insurance company said no, because he had a preexisting condition. i'll get an earful from caleb and especially from his parents. an earful of joy. from this day forward insurance companies will not be able to deny coverage because of preexisting condition disability. people like caleb and people who have children with diabetes and other problems, it's over. with so, yes, we're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment an happiness that people waited for for a long time. this morning is not the end of the process. it's merely the beginning. we'll continue to build on this success to improve our health system even more and to further ease the terrible burdens on american families an businesses. but that process can

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us. welcome home. this is your new place. all right? you are goingh. ♪ if you only want material satisfaction, you will never be happy. but if you are able to give somebody's future better, that really is rewarding. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in honoring cnn hero budi soehardi. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. thank you, cnn. this is your captain speaking. greetings from roslin orphanage. we started with nothing but today roslin orphanage is a place where you can ask for help, a place you can give your help, a place where we can work together based on humanity to do things for others. as for myself, i'm far from being hero but let me introduce the real hero in my life. my wife, peggy. there are three other heroes in my life, as well. my daughter christine, tasha and christian. i love you very much. they have been sacrificing their holidays for the last eight years and they never been traveling overseas. even though they have the privilege to have traveled around the world first class on the best airlines. instead, they are helping

and not one of us could be happy going home to our families for christmas if we don't enact this, andit's because of that that i have -- that i feel very strongly that we will be successful, as difficult and astor trust -- and astor tourous as this -- and as torturous as this process is, and this senator will keep pressing for it until we get that final passage. madam president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: madam president, i understand that maybe i will have my speech broken up by a unanimous consent request of the leadership, so i ask if that happens that my remarks be continuous throughout the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: there has been a lot of talk over the past few days about senator reid's so-called compromise. although he said he has broad agreement, i have yet to see any specific details. in fact, it sounds like members of his very own caucus, the democratic caucus, aren't really aware of these details either. now, i find it quite hard to understand how there can be -- quote -- unquote -- "br

way out by designing new products and crafting new services that we can sell at home and around the world to sustain us going forward. peter pan never leaves neverland, but americans don't of that luxury. and we've run out of fairy dust or we may soon run out of fairy dust on somebody else's terms if we're not careful. we have to replace our ceaseless pursuit with hard work, patience and innovation. how do we do that. how do we best exploit this crisis extracting from the function of our country with an opportunity to come out stronger? in the short term, we're going to hear debate over the potential need for another dose of stimulus spending, perhaps one that's focused on large scale construction job. this is classic keynesian economics when demand for goods and services is weak, the government steps in with public dollars to substitute for that demand. this was the rationale for the new deal. after the great depression, this was the rationale for the $800 billion stimulus package that we got earlier this year. that package included an extension of unemployment benefits, food stamps, tax cuts for businesses

going to be a godsend to an area with 11% unemployment. first, a lot of construction jobs and we can use those good paying jobs for americans right here at homethose who worked for the bureau of prisons are going to be paid a good salary and good benefits, the kind of salary you can use to build a family or community or neighborhood. these will be people who will be buying homes, 3000 of them buying homes, cars, shopping for appliances, going to the local shopping malls. is that going to be good for the economy? you that it is. it's just what we need and it's just what this area of the state wants. this argument that we will somehow oppose it is just wrong. the local congressman who opposes it, we've talked about it. we just don't see eye to eye on it. but even in the largest city of his district, rockford illinois, which is at least northeast of thompson, the largest city. the city council in rockford passed a resolution of approval of this thompson prison 12 to two. in county after county, local county governments were coming out in favor of this thompson prison. those that come to the floor and argue otherwise don't know the facts. and whe

going to be a godsend to an area with 11% unemployment. first, a lot of construction jobs and we can use those. those are good-paying jobs for americans right here at home. and then those who work for the bureau of prisons are going to be paid a good salary and good benefits the kind of salary that you can use to build a family or community or a neighborhood. these will be people who will be buying homes -- 3,000 of them buying homes -- cars, shopping for appliances, going to the lot shopping malls. is that going to be good for the economy? you bet it is. it's just what we need. and it's just what this area of the state wants. and this argument that we somehow will oppose it is just wrong. now, the local congressman who is a friend of mine, opposes it, the republican congressman. we've talked about it. we just don't see eye to eye on it. but even in the largest city in his district, rockford, illinois, which is at least northeast of thompson, the largest city the city council in rockford passed a resolution of approval of this thompson prison 12-2. in county after county, state and local governments -- i should say local county governments are coming ou

when i go home -- and i was home for the holidays -- people are urging us to get this done. they know that their biggest chance of going into bankruptcy is a health care crisis -- 66%. they know, as my friend, senator dodd has said almost every day this debate, that every morning 14,000 people lose their health care, and they know that if we don't intervene here with a good bill, their premiums -- in my home state, senator - -- will be 41% of their average income by 2016. can you imagine? that's unsustainable. so, this bill for people who say, why don't we do the economy instead of health care, let me just say what happens to my constituents if they have to pay 41% of their income for premiums. even if they have a good job, i say to my friend from connecticut, they can't make it. so the status quo is cruel. and it's particularly cruel to women, and i will get into the reason why i am so proud to support the mikulsk mikulski-harkin-boxer amendment to improve preventive health care coverage for women. and here's why: it is a fact that women are increasingly delaying or skipping

use of this country alive. mitch mcconnell said on the floor that we will go home and here our constituents rail against this bill. i do not believe that. i believe that the negativity that leader mcconnell and others that have continually displayed on the floor has peaked and now the people have actually learned -- will actually burn was in the bill and all the good that is going to be done, it will become more and more popular because it is good for america, good for the american people, and a true symbol of what we can do if we all pull together. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> senate democratic leaders after the vote this morning, 60-39, the legislation passes the senate. that was at about 7:30 a.m. eastern or so. meanwhile, president obama reacted a little bit later. he delayed his departure for the holiday break in hawaii until the senate passed a health care package. he is joined here by vice president biden, by the way, who was present at the vote in his role as the president of the u.s. senate. >> good morning, everybody.

go with the santa hats around singing christmas songs. and we also used to perform as a family at like retirement homes and hospitals and those are just --things. we used to have talent shows. we used to do talent shows and have family -- take turns performing and stuff. >> i think when it snowed it made may little gray industrial town into this magical landscape. i used to work with my daddy on the run. we were the first people, 5:00 in the morning, to disturb the s snow. i loved the snow. it was cold and after a few hours i was pretty miserable. when we first went out there, this is great. >> the song that i sang -- that i sing called "god love the holidays," talks about bringing the family around the christmas tree and how that really does change everything. and just having everybody around, my family, my friends and people i really love. and just remembering what christmas is really about. for me, the birth of my savior. and that's a big deal. >> well, i have many memories because when -- because christmas is for children and when i was a children, when i was a child, my family, christmas was truly the most beautiful holiday of the y

leader wants us to go out for the weekend, after keeping us in all last weekend and here we have an unspecified proposal that none of us know the details of the cost. so i'm supposed to go hometo arizona this weekend and say, my friends, we've been working on health care for a year and guess what? i can tell you nothing. we need to stay in. we need to know what the proposals are. we need to have voteds o votes d we need to tell the american meme what's going on behind closed doors? mr. mcconnell: will the senator yield? mr. mccain: gladly. mr. mcconnell: i recall our good friend the majority leader telling us on november 30 that we would be here the next two weekends and then i recall my friend telling us that we'd be here this weekend. my assumption is we were here to deal with the important issue that the majority leader has been indicating to everyone is so important, that we must stay here and do t and we're prepared to be here and vote. and vote. in fact we've been trying to vote for a couple of days now and the a been difficult to get votes. mr. mccain: could i ask the republican leader, maybe we -- if we're not going to have a vote, maybe we ought to have a vote to ta

use of this country alive. mitch mcconnell said on the floor that we will go home and here our constituents rail against this bill. i do not believe that. i believe that the negativity that leader mcconnell and others that have continually displayed on the floor has peaked and now the people have actually learned -- will actually burn was in the bill and all the good that is going to be done, it will become more and more popular because it is good for america, good for the american people, and a true symbol of what we can do if we all pull together. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> senate democratic leaders after the vote this morning, 60-39, the legislation passes the senate. that was at about 7:30 a.m. eastern or so. meanwhile, president obama reacted a little bit later. he delayed his departure for the holiday break in hawaii until the senate passed a health care package. he is joined here by vice president biden, by the way, who was present at the vote in his role as the president of the u.s. senate. >> good morning, everybody.

probably do a better job of it if we were going back home every weekend to hear what people had thought about what we were doing. but maybe the strategy has been keep us here talking to each other, bring the bill up in a snowstorm, pass in the middle of night and go home for christmas and the people won't find out what we're doing until it's too late. halls.ne -- one way to find out i was skeptical of these until i did one. it is an interesting way to stay in touch with people. you get on a telephone and an automated system calls thousands of people and say that the senator from wyoming, illinois or tennessee wants to talk to you about health care. and so people can either stay on the phone when they get the call or they can hang up. and what normally happens is that a surprisingly large number of people on this issue, health care, stay on. and the other night, four or five nights ago, i did it between 7:30 and 8:30. i called into about 18 west tennessee counties, including shelby county, which is memphis. and about 30,000 people were on the telephone, so it was reported to me by the -- by the service, sometime during that hour. with a maximum number

leader wants us to go out for the weekend after keeping us in all last weekend and here we have an unspecified proposal that none of us know the details of the cost so i'm supposed to go home to arizona this week in and say my friends we have been working on health care reform for a year and guess what? i can tell you nothing. we need to stay in and we need to know what the proposals are. we need to tell the american people what is going on behind closed doors. >> with the senator from arizona yield? i recall our good friend the majority leader telling us that we would be here the next two weekends in the recall our friend the majority leader saying monday of this week we would be here this weekend. my assumption was we were here to deal with this important issue that the majority has been indicating to everyone is so important that we must the here in do it and we are prepared to be here and vote bracketone fact we have been trying to vote for a couple of days now and it is then difficult to get votes. >> i would ask the republican leader, if we are not going to have a vote maybe we ought to table the amendments at least have the senate on record and can i finally say i k

go somewhere else. congress has given more money away to foreign countries that hate us and left more at home. many many have -- many more have left on a plane to denmark talking about how we must control the climate. the al gore warmers have been caught hiding data that show the facts don't disagree with global warming. plus they want to force america to spend billions of dollars on their yet-unproven theory. the government in essence has taken over wall street, the financial industry, the automobile industry. general motors needs to change its name to government motors. the federal government has taken over the mortgage industry, the banks, and the salaries of some executives. more american freedom and liberty has been stolen from us an more assaults on the constitution have occurred than any time in our history. today the radical open border crowd has announced new legislation, arrogantly demanding amnesty for millions of illegals in this country, with also visa preference for those nations with the most foreigners in the united states. so much for border security. we have a new military st

maybe they should bring some people that are experiencing the kind of pain that all of us hear about when we go home to the dinner table. . >> sorry for the long name. he wants to know your thought about the concept and how can apply to economically depressed areas in terms of job creation. >> the enterprise zone concept is the very essence of entrepreneurialism. the secret of prosperity here, to encourage risk based investment. our country has always been a country much more comfortable with calculated risk to seek reward. other societies may be much more inclined to not take the extra step and risk something to achieve the opportunity that we all want. it is trying to reduce the price of risk in a certain area of -- perhaps a depressed area of a city to encourage on japan doors that want to make a go of it. -- a city to entrepreneurs that want to make a go of it. [applause] >> more about job creation and the economy with house minority leader john boehner. this is 10 minutes. >> it has been our pleasure to meet with a group of economists to talk about our economy and where it is today. the problem

in the long run, you are going to have an economic benefit from curbing read us gases, and it will spur innovation in green technology here at homeill be essential if we're going to shift to a low-carbon economy. in the short term, there will be some economic dislocation, and you'll be hearing a lot about that, including higher energy prices, as part of the congressional debate early next year. host: we have this week. "the best way to deal with climate change is to reduce the çrole taxes by 30% and add a 3% gas tax." guest: that proposal has certainly been raised as a possibility, but it seems that that is not generally the direction in which congress is headed. but the idea of kind of reducing taxes somewhere and raising them in order to do exactly what the writer is talking about, making energy more expensive so people will use less of it, is certainly one way you can address the dust gas emissions. host: paul matos, georgia, on our line for republicans. go ahead. caller: with all the pressure come down through the media to get us to accept that climate change is real, i do not know anybody that believes that it is. i do not

in the long run, you are going to have an economic benefit from curbing read us gases, and it will spur innovation in green technology here at homewill be essential if we're going to shift to a low-carbon economy. in the short term, there will be some economic dislocation, and you'll be hearing a lot about that, including higher energy prices, as part of the congressional debate early next year. host: we have this week. "the best way to deal with climate change is to reduce the çrole taxes by 30% and add a 3% gas tax." guest: that proposal has certainly been raised as a possibility, but it seems that that is not generally the direction in which congress is headed. but the idea of kind of reducing taxes somewhere and raising them in order to do exactly what the writer is talking about, making energy more expensive so people will use less of it, is certainly one way you can address the dust gas emissions. host: paul matos, georgia, on our line for republicans. go ahead. caller: with all the pressure come down through the media to get us to accept that climate change is real, i do not know anybody that believes that it is. i do not

leader wants us to go out for the weekend after keeping us in all last weekend and here we have a an unspecified proposal none of us know the details of the cost so i'm supposed to go home to arizona this weekend and say we've been working on health care reform for a year and guess what i can tell you nothing. we need to stay in and with the proposals are and have votes on it and we need to tell the american people what is going on behind closed doors. >> would the senator from arizona julca? chemical plant to yield. as i recall the different majority leader telling as november 30 if we would be here the next two weekends and then i recalled a friend majority leader saying monday of this week we would be here this weekend my assumption was we were here to do with this important issue the majority has been indicating to everyone is so important we must stay here and do it and we are prepared to be here. and vote. in fact we've been trying to vote a couple days now and it's been difficult to get votes. >> can i ask the majority leader -- republican leader maybe if we are not going to have a what we ought to have a vote to table the pending amendments at least to have the

caller: i was going insurance selling, home and auto. i used to do mortgages, unfortunately. a big brunt of this, maybe $1,200 a month i lost almost instantly and i have not been able to recover for two years. in my hometown, there is one full time job in the newspaper. this guy is blowing money on construction jobs, which i know a lot about, i used to do that, but these things last a few months. this is not creating a job, somebody who is going to work every single day for the next 10 years. host: i think we lost you, james. thank you for the call. "the washington times" we showed you inside the white house. on the ellipse, a lighting of the national menorah, white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. that will wrap up for the phones this segment. we turn our attention to homegrown terrorism. matthew levitt, former fbi counterintelligence analyst. now with the washington institute for near east policy. recent cases of homegrown terrorism. first, a news update from c-span radio. >> as the president meets with financial executives this morning, citigroup says it is repaying $20

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go on forever usually won't. and now hindsight most people know the home prices could not go on up word for ever and then use all certainly the market took over. you can see this evidence and many of their personal family trials and tribulations that are going on now as a detachable american families have to deal with their own debt, and now you take a look at the current congressional discussion going on as a kind of more of the business as usual in the senate, a group of senators of going to increase the debt ceiling to $14 trillion on less to get a commission. not a bad idea. those who argue against it is a regular order of the congress should prevail, not a bad idea. we are just suggesting somebody do something that gets their fiscal house in order and on the right path. in the house my blue dog democrats are insisting again on a pay-as-you-go. i've never understood how anybody who claims to be a fiscal conservative can be against paying for that which we are asking to be done. but it's been very convenient to put it on a credit card and what our grandchildren pay for it. now we will see over the next few da

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home care services or adult daycare. benefits can also be used to offset the costs of assisted living and home health care. the issue is raised about are we going to be protected under this program. all class act benefits are paid by voluntary participants, not taxpayers. the class act actually will save taxpayer dollars by reducing medicaid costs. according to the c.b.o., almost almost $2 billion. the class act premiums must be set at a level sufficient to guarantee actuarial soundness of the program. we thank senator gregg of new hampshire for requiring that amendment in the debate of the class act bill when it came up in our committee. the current class act includes significant improvements over earlier versions such as tighter eligibility standards, a new reserve requirement and an absolute prohibition on the use of taxpayer dollars to pay benefits. the congressional budget office determined that the improved program is totally actuarially sound. this bill, the patient protection and affordable care act, our overall bill, creates a voluntary insurance program. under the program, working people pay premiums, as i said, for at least five year

you're going to see hospital reimbursements, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospice and others cut to the tune of $465 billion in the first ten years. and the experts have all told us that what that's going to do is to make it possible -- not impossible for many health care providers in these categories to keep their doors open, or it will cause them to reduce the amount and quality of services they provide. so senior citizens are going to see their medicare -- excuse me, their medicare, particularly their medicare advantage, benefits cut and their access to care restricted and reduced under this bill. well, mr. president, in summary, there's been a lot of talk, again, about how americans want health care reform but we need to do it in a smart and sensible way. many have argued that there are no alternatives being put forward by our side. as i indicated earlier in my remarks, that's simply not true. in fact, the alternative that was put forward in the house and the alternative that many of us have been talking about here have been scored to actually achieve the results that americans are asking for. we don't need to rush this bill through in a claim that we are mak

going to use in promoting our congressmen? so you guys, you had your groups already and you started research? so ohio is my homestate so i'm going to pick on ohio and. is anybody here from ohio that's doing ohio? brooks. which side are you doing? have you guys thought about -- think about what could happen back home, i'm sure. have you thought about what mr. portman's issues are going to be as he goes to the senate race next year? >> we've taken a little bit of look at the. ivy-covered mostly voter returns. >> who's the portman's issues person? have you thought about. >> a little bit. >> where are you headed with this or? >> so far just basic research and jobs and economic. >> jobs and economy. sure, that stupid anybody here doing mr. specter, the democrat from pennsylvania. back in the corner. mr. specter's issue in the primary headache after thinking about that, which are going to be thinking about with mr. specter in a primary? anyone of you, start thinking about what you want to talk about with him? daniel? >> yeah, -- >> pretty basic. jobs important, health important. the economy is number one. >> we have

the note and on christmas eve because the republicans wouldn't allow us to have votes at any other hour. now, it's true when we go home, we're going to hear an earful. i'm going to hear an earful from young caleb. a boy, mr. president, that was born with legs that stopped right here, above his knees, he needed new prosthetic devices because the rest of his body is growing. but the insurance company said no, because he had a preexisting condition. i'll get an earful from caleb and especially from his parents. an earful of joy. from this day forward insurance companies will not be able to deny coverage because of preexisting condition disability. people like caleb and people who have children with diabetes and other problems, it's over. with so, yes, we're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment an happiness that people waited for for a long time. this morning is not the end of the process. it's merely the beginning. we'll continue to build on this success to improve our health system even more and to further ease the terrible burdens on american families an businesses. but that process can

each of us are here to serve in good faith we want to do what's best for our people in our home states. we're trying each state, different perspectives and different point of view. we're going to  get a better solution to health care reform if we talk together in good faith and give the whole story, not just part of it. mr. kyl: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. kyl: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate the comments that my colleague from montana just made. i think the point that my colleague was earlier trying to make was that we just got the bill yesterday and have not gotten a full c.b.o. or final c.b.o. score that the correction simply revealed the fact that there is a lot there to digest, and we really ought to have more time to understand exactly how the interrelated pieces of the bill were, how all of the c.b.o. scoring relates and so on, and that when c.b.o. can make about a $600 billion error as i understand, that's a big error, so there is probably more, and there is probably a lot that we don't understand. it would really be helpful if we had more time to be able to understand all of this and understand how it works. i think that w

us to share this with some of those young people. >> just going back to that idea of blackness being beautiful and having that message reinforced within your home, rebecca, i'd like to know because your father was such a collector and such an appreciator of black art how that message was translated to you and how you feel seeing that knowing how many people struggle with that, that you come into contact with. >> well, i mean, obviously -- i mean, i'm a woman, so, i mean, i've had my own personal struggle with beauty, and it's put upon me daily, what is beautiful. also back to what everyone was saying prior, you know, i think we all would have liked to have revolted if we were enslaved, but there's also something to be said of the quiet revolt, you know? if you read victor frankel's book man's search for meaning, he spoke about making his way through the concentration camps by dreaming that he was eating breakfast every day with his wife. while he was hungry. and i hope that people buy this book and realize that their own personal life can be a personal statement that they make. it may not be heard on tv, it may not be in books, but that they ca

go home. it's why can't we do what the american people expect of us and be responsible when it comes to legislatingownback. >> i think this bill is clearly fiscally irresponsible and also morally reprehensible. the abortion language in this bill funds abortion for the first time since 19 77. last time the federal government funded abortion, the numbers that were funded, taxpayer funding of abortions tarking place were about 300,000 a year. so you're probably going to go north of that number. and yet, we're told that it's a pro-life bill. it is not. and the groups that track this that have for many years are saying this is not a pro-life bill. that this breaks the hyde language that's been in place for 30 years. and it is funding abortions with federal taxpayer dollars and with premiums that are going to go through federal taxpayer established insurance plans or proposals. that's morally reprehensible. it's fiscally irresponsible and the overall price tag of this that we don't have the money or wherewithal to do this with. and finally it's just a process issue. here we are on saturday morning just n