some gift. >> we mention senator vitter and with this logic shouldn't he in fact be calling for vittero either resign or to be removed forcibly because if it's a question of your affair being illegal or legal, your infidelity being legal or illegal or legal, prostitution in washington is still illegal, even if you are a senator, right? >> indeed, it is, keith. at least technically. so i guess you would say that he should be calling for vitter to be out of office too. he's already defended vitter saying he wasn't convicted of anything yet but, again, john ensign clearly has different standards for democrats or republicans who solicit gay sex than he does for himself or his pal david vitter. i just don't know why he would continue to talk about this and try to say that my affair was less bad than other people's and first of all, as i said, what he is saying is patently false about why he called for bill clinton to resign. he did not call for him to resign because he thought he committed a felony. he called for him to resign because he said "he had lost credibility" and, again, bill clint

david vitter she says is a hypocrite. that may or anmay not be true. but this may lend an air of unreliability to her home life and poe lengthsly her leadership as well. this definitely affects her campaign. >> last hour you said this is louisiana state politics and in fact when it comes to this car explosion of her associate, one of her advisors, does this have anything to do with her campaign, with her running for office? >> well, the local affiliate, local fire department, recently came out and said that it wasn't a bomb explosion. a car definitely was ablaze but there was no explosion. that can mean all sorts of things. that could be faulty wiring, who knows. it almost seems as if the stormy daniels campaign is pushing the story a bit more than the evidence would lead it, maybe to draw some attention away from the fact that stormy daniels had a bit of domestic disturbance back home. there's no proof of the fact there was some foul play but her political advisor is certainly suggesting that perhaps this was was one way to scare her out of the campai

i'm not a hypocrite, my opponent david vitter is, but this is a different story.s in her own home she doesn't have her act together. she might say, look, she was just trying to get him to pay his bills on time, she's fiscally prudent. but i think in the eyes of louisiana people, a state known for some quirky political characters, this might come off as something that's just beyond the pale that maybe this individual just doesn't have her act in order. >> real quick, do you know about the people that are handling her? does she have some people with chops around her advising her. >> she does. she has brian welsh a democratic strategist who's helping her out but he had a pretty difficult week of his own. his car, which was parked on a street, suddenly burst into flames. it was all caught on a surveillance camera. he's sort of subtlie iny sugges this was perhaps a political move designed to scare her and her campaign from jumping into this fray with david vitter. no proof of that whatsoever. we'll see. even though this is louisiana, it seems like it is straight out of

senator david vitter of that state held his own town hall on health care.aid he was totally and unalterably opposed to it. then he mocked democrats whose town halls had been disrupted by paid agitators. the angry mob, he said, is always welcome at my events. and the best security is to do what the people want you to do. very nice. except for this one note about the nature of vitters, no-holds-barred, tough-talking town hall which comes from the pages of the alexandria louisiana newspaper "the town talk." quote, the panel of speakers all joined vitter in opposing the reform package being debated in congress. questions from audience members were screened and selected in advance of the event. here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. ♪ you could buy 300 bottles of water. or just one brita filter. ( drop plinks ) brita-- better for the environment and your wallet. if you're using other moisturizing body washes, you might as well be. you see, their moisturizer sits on top of skin, almost as if you're wearing it. only new dove deep moisture has nutriummoisture, a breakth

senator david vitter of that state held his own town hall on health care. said he was totally and unalterably opposed to it. then he mocked democrats whose town halls had been disrupted by paid agitators. the angry mob, he said, is sauls welcome at my events. and the best security is to do what the people want you to do. very nice. except for this one note about the nature of vitters, no-holds-barred, tough-talking town hall which comes from the pages of the alexandria louisiana newspaper "the town talk." quote, the panel of speakers all joined vitter in opposing the reform package being debated in congress. questions from audience members were screened and selected in advance of the event. here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. ♪ >>> it was a state-run program intended to assist the elderly and disabled with basic needs like eating, bathing, getting to the bathroom. it was deemed so poorly managed as one news report put it, the state could not ensure the health and well being the state they were supposed to serve. the mismanagement was fatal with heartbreaking

it is involved to republicans like mark sanford and david vader -- david vitter.hey left out a few others. >> in every instance, i would ask their forgiveness. >> mark sanford admitted to having an affair with the argentinian woman. the wife of john horne chase chose to forgive. -- david vitter, g chose to forgive. >> it was the right choice for me. sean: kennedy's america continues in 90 seconds with a story -- hannity's america continues in 90 seconds. sean: the cash for clunkers program will end tomorrow at noon. there is still a lot of more to do. the department of transportation has asked employees of the faa to help them sort through the paperwork. contractors for citigroup have been hired. that is a comforting thought. when we come back, a report you cannot miss. @ introducing a breakthrough from tums that can control your heartburn for hours all day or all night. it's called tums dual action, and it's the longest lasting tums ever. tums dual action works two ways to relieve heartburn: like all tums, it goes to work in seconds. plus, tums dual action has a

senator vitter. >> ms. bair, i wanted to ask you a few things that are a little off topic, but are important, and that has to do with the recent actions of the financial accounting standards board with regard to bringing certain things up at an off balance sheet, on balance sheet, and what impact the will have on institutions. how will fdic to the consolidation of previously off balance sheets entities, and in particular, will the agency require additional capital for assets brought on balance sheet? >> well, yes, banks must follow u.s. gap, so if those of the accounting rules, the capital -- more assets are coming on balance sheet, then capital levels will be impacted accordingly. we still have concerns about the timing of all of this. we support the general direction of bringing this all back on balance sheet. but the timing still dismiss some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated -- still gives me some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated from work. the rules written no

thank you for letting me be here today with my friend david vitter. thank you. >> thanks, john. ok, let's get to the heart of the program. your comments and concerns and questions. our first comes from mary cass. mary, if you could find your way to the floor. and let me mention the next three up in the lineup. charlotte felt, lanie and donald preston. if you could start making your way to the floor. but mary cass asked, how can you give health care to all without financially destroying the nation? john, you want to take a crack at that? >> well, and we have another physician here. we have other members of the house. if they want to jump in as well. it's the excellent question of how do you do wit all of this money? especially in these economic times. and you say is there enough money in the system? well, you can debate whether there is or not. we're spending of one-sixth of all the money. and we know that medicare, the system who helps seniors and friends, helps them. but we know there's more waste fraud and abuse in that program than any other government program. there is money

david vitter of louisiana is apparently engaged in his own secret health care plot. instead of reforming health care in this country, senator vitter has a plan to destroy the health care system of canada. at least that's what he said. >> i'm for reimportation not because i want to import price controls, which canada has, you're right. it's because i believe reimportation will cause the pricing system worldwide that the big drug companies exploit to collapse. that system can survive. so my ultimate goal in terms of reimportation is causing that system to collapse. >> yep. and that happened. this is -- the senator is serious. his contribution to health reform is a secret plot to collapse the canadian health care system by us reimporting their good, cheap prescription drugs. sure we'll bring them to their knees. then there is republican congresswoman michelle bachmann of minnesota. she's encouraging states to succeed from health reform. just like governor rick perry of texas suggested. mrs. bachmann said she is hoping for "some fairly revolutionary action to be taken by

brownback: these amendments have been agreed to on both sides for senator chambliss and vitter and i ask unanimous consent the amendments be agreed to en bloc. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. brownback: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. kohl: i ask that the quorum call be set aside. the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. without objection. mr. kohl: i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up the following amendment which is did he desk and ask for its immediate consideration, landrieu amendment 2259. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kohl: as modified. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: mr. kohl proposes amendment number $2259 to amendment number 1908 as modified. mr. kohl: i ask that -- i cease reading of the amendments. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kohl: these amendment amends have been approved by both sides i ask for their adoption. the presiding officer: all in saf

thank you for coming here today to hear me and my friend david vitter. >> thank you, john. let's get to the heart of the program, your comments and concerns and questions. our first comes from married, if you could find your way to the floor, and let me mention the next three up in the lineup. charlotte, lanny, and donald. if you could make your way to the floor. mary asks how can you make health care for all without financially destroy in the nation? >> we have another physician and other members of house if they want to jump in. it is an excellent question. especially in these economic times. is there enough money in the system? you can debate whether there is are not but we are spending one sixth of all the money in america and we know that medicare is a system that helps people who are seniors and friends, but there is more what, -- waste, fraud, and abuse in that program than any other program. drug dealers and in florida are getting out of drug dealing and getting in the medicare because it is more profitable, less chance of being caught, and if you get caught, the pu

the wife of louisiana senator senator john vitter, caught with a prostitute, chose to forgive. >> to not always the easy choice. but it was and is the right choice for me. >> reporter: for many people, the act of forgiving is a matter of religious principle. >> i think the primary religious justification is that god commands it. but there is a secondary religious justification, which is that it will be good for you, too. >> reporter: letting go frees some people of the corrosion of anger and bitterness. former students who survived the columbine massacre said they found it within themselves to forgive eric harris and dylan klebold, and felt better because of it. >> i realized that holding on to that anger does nothing. it just brings you down. >> some people go through a whole life and will never forgive. but i've been able to do that. >> reporter: victoria rivollo, who was hurt by a frozen turkey that was hurled through the windshield of her car, pleaded for leniency at her assailant's hearing. >> wanted to stay bitter and negative. >> reporter: but clinical psychologist, janis abra

thank you, senator vitter. may i continue on once we know that a storm is going to hit, a lot of you have talked about the preparations that people need to make to move to safety. dr. wells, for example, you all had such a horrendous tie-up on your interstate in trying to evacuate. that has happened in florida as well. then everybody gets smart an figures out a way with the highway patrol to make the interstate one way so people can get out. what is your experience with other states doing what texas and florida have done? >> i will risk arguing with you just a little bit here. my background is in hydrodynamics and i can say for hurricane rita you only have so much road bed available on which to put vehicles. if you have an overevacuation that occurred, as did occur during hurricane rita, we had 22 2.7 million people over a short time span decide to get on the roads out of houston. there is basically no solution. you can start with 0 lanes of traffic heading outbound and 20 miles down the road they will be six l

thank you, senator vitter.inue on with regard to once we know that a storm is going to hit, a lot of you have talked about the preparations that people need to make to move to safety. dr. wells, for example, you all had such a horrendous tie up on your interstate in trying to evacuate. that's happened in florida as well. and then everybody gets smart and figures out a way with the highway patrol to make the interstate one way so people can get out. what's your experience with other states doing what texas and florida have done? >> i'll risk arguing with you a little bit here. my background is hydrodynamics. i can say that for hurricane wreath that, you also have so much roadbed. if you have an overevacuation has did occur, we had 2.7 million people over a very short time span that they were going to get on the roads. there's no solution to that. you can start with 20 lanes of traffic heading outbound and 20 miles down the road there will be six lanes. where do you want to choke flow? back towards the city where

senator vitter?senator martinez. >> implemented to -- maybe i should give each of the others that have not spoken a chance to speak, give you a chance of getting your thoughts in and i will come back with questions. >> and you might discuss whether or not you think we are making progress on reducing hurricane impac impacts. dr. spinrad? >> i would like to follow up on a particular aspect that was alluded to in that the hurricane forecast and prediction capability is a comprehensive set of solutions within noaa which includes our national weather service. we have a responsibility for developing improved capability on the front end, especially on the prediction and forecast and providing warnings and information that emergency managers, local managers, can use. i found it fascinating that the image you showed of hurricane charlie represents the culmination of capabilities in terms of satellite support, in terms of of enhanced models and observations, in terms of our ability to work with coastal manager

yeah, you would probably want to take out a page out of her book rather than say wendy vitter or even edwards. >> you can sell a lot of copies of this unfortunately in our political climate today. emily heil of "roll call." thank you for your time. that's "countdown" for the 2,347th day since our previous president announced mission accomplished in iraq. i'm could koxt good night and good news. >>> and now rachel maddow and health care reform with her special guest, my old friend bill maher. >> thank you, keith, very much for that and thank you at home for staying with us the next hour. what a difference a day makes. yesterday's big, bad news for the prospect of health care reform was that the public option was dead. the idea that american shs shou have the choice of joining a program like medicare good they wanted to instead of private insurance. it had run into republican opposition and the democrats looked like they have decided to fold. over the weekend, representatives of the white house and the president himself floated the idea that the public option would not necessarily have

yeah, you would probably want to take out a page out of her book rather than say wendy vitter or eventh edwards. >> you can sell a lot of copies of this unfortunately in our political climate today. emily heil of "roll call." thank you for your time. that's "countdown for the 2,303rd day since our previous president announced mission accomplished in iraq. i'm keith olbermann.

senator vitter. >> ms. bair, i wanted to ask you a few things that are a little off topic, but are important, and that has to do with the recent actions of the financial accounting standards board with regard to bringing certain things up at an off balance sheet, on balance sheet, and what impact the will have on institutions. how will fdic to the consolidation of previously off balance sheets entities, and in particular, will the agency require additional capital for assets brought on balance sheet? >> well, yes, banks must follow u.s. gap, so if those of the accounting rules, the capital -- more assets are coming on balance sheet, then capital levels will be impacted accordingly. we still have concerns about the timing of all of this. we support the general direction of bringing this all back on balance sheet. but the timing still dismiss some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated -- still gives me some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated from work. the rules written no

senator vitter. >> ms.bair, i wanted to ask you a few things that are a little off topic, but are important, and that has to do with the recent actions of the financial accounting standards board with regard to bringing certain things up at an off balance sheet, on balance sheet, and what impact the will have on institutions. how will fdic to the consolidation of previously off balance sheets entities, and in particular, will the agency require additional capital for assets brought on balance sheet? >> well, yes, banks must follow u.s. gap, so if those of the accounting rules, the capital -- more assets are coming on balance sheet, then capital levels will be impacted accordingly. we still have concerns about the timing of all of this. we support the general direction of bringing this all back on balance sheet. but the timing still dismiss some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated -- still gives me some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated from work. the rules written now

. >> senator vitter? >> specifically what research gathering tools and programs would you put at the top of less to help them achieve the goals from the hurricane they are worthwhile and helpful but what tools and programs we can put on the top of the list as far as positive impact? >> senator would start to answer by saying we think of the categories of research investment that will continue to improve forecast and modeling and data at assimilation getting the observation into the model so for example, on the observational side characterize saying the nature of the heat content in the notion as the storms come across the ocean improving hour ways of finding the total he did and how much is in the ocean is one observational technique. also low-level winds we have high level, upper level wins the right around the store but for years we have not been able to make observations of the lowest level and there are indications those could be influential in howell the hurricane was structured so what we did was ge

senator vitter. >> ms. bair, i wanted to ask you a few things that are a little off topic, but are important, and that has to do with the recent actions of the financial accounting standards board with regard to bringing certain things up at an off balance sheet, on balance sheet, and what impact the will have on institutions. how will fdic to the consolidation of previously off balance sheets entities, and in particular, will the agency require additional capital for assets brought on balance sheet? >> well, yes, banks must follow u.s. gap, so if those of the accounting rules, the capital -- more assets are coming on balance sheet, then capital levels will be impacted accordingly. we still have concerns about the timing of all of this. we support the general direction of bringing this all back on balance sheet. but the timing still dismiss some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated -- still gives me some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated from work. the rules written no

vitter op ed continues -- these disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views but of the facts themselves. the drowning out opposing views is simply on a very -- un- american. drowning out the fact is how we failed on this task for decades. the first fact is, health insurance reform will be more patient choice. opinions of speaker pelosi and for the majority leader steny hoyer writing in today's "usa today." do you think these disturbances are american? the words of the speaker and majority leader. if you agree, the number to call is -- additionally, in "usa today" i have an op-ed piece on the same topic. >> the president is continuing his summit with stephen harper and felipe calderon. let's listen. >> the leader for north america shares addition. we are the only other regional committee that is safe and secure. in an age marked by globalization the challenges can only be overcome jointly. thus, the importance of keeping the dialogue and trust and cooperation alive among our three countries. we have reiterated that the values are part of which our commun

it was on the vitter amendment which was a authorizing disaster relief funds post-katrina. was looking at that vote. what did involve was saying, if you come from a county or jurisdiction and your law enforcement has disarmed legitimate citizens during that time of unrest or disaster, you get no federal funds in that disaster relief. i looked and i saw that senator clinton voted against it. it passed. i was pretty certain that president obama would vote against it as well. to my surprise, he supported the amendment. to me, that was a very important moment because it really went to the heart of basically, do you trust the citizens or would you error on the side of the government? what he was saying in that vote to me was, i basically trust the citizens over the government. i thought it was a very interesting and unusual vote. it made me take a second look at then senator obama. host: nancy on the democratic line. caller: is this for me? thank you for c-span. i am a 69-year-old woman who does own a 1908 police were called for. my father gave me it 40 years ago. he was a membe

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vitter op ed continues -- these disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differingews but of the facts themselves. the drowning out opposing views is simply on a very -- un- american. drowning out the fact is how we failed on this task for decades. the first fact is, health insurance reform will be more patient choice. opinions of speaker pelosi and for the majority leader steny hoyer writing in today's "usa today." do you think these disturbances are american? the words of the speaker and majority leader. if you agree, the number to call is -- additionally, in "usa today" i have an op-ed piece on the same topic. disinformation may have marred the health-care debate. there are valid reasons to oppose some of the ideas percolating in congress, chiefly the lack of credible financing mechanism but the distortions have become so numerous that they have often one of the politifact pants on fire award. the lancaster, pa.. you disagree. it is not an american. these shouting and other instances? caller: i have my tv turned down -- i believe it is very un- american. go ahead

the senator was asking earlier about -- senator vitter was asking earlier about bringing off balance sheet assets back on to the balance sheet. that is one way to combat regulatory arbitrage. >> do you think would make more sense to have a holding companies and the banks under the same regulatory agency? >> i don't, actually. with respect to small holding companies, particularly those that have only a bank -- it is basically a shell, and there was a bank, no other entities -- by now the additional holding company supervision is quite modest. as the bank holding company picks up additional activities, if it does any of its own capital raising, if it has even a small additional subsidiary, if it does management from the holding company level, that is when an independent scrutiny of those activities seems a valuable. as you get to a bigger institution, even more complex institution, it seems that the task becomes more specialized, because you are looking not just at immediate impact on the bank, although that is important, because we are protecting the deposit insurance fund, but you ar

it was on the vitter amendment which was a authorizing disaster relief funds post-katrina. i was looking at that vote. what did involve was saying, if you come from a county or jurisdiction and your law enforcement has disarmed legitimate citizens during that time of unrest or disaster, you get no federal funds in that disaster relief. i looked and i saw that senator clinton voted against it. it passed. i was pretty certain that president obama would vote against it as well. to my surprise, he supported the amendment. to me, that was a very important moment because it really went to the heart of basically, do you trust the citizens or would you error on the side of the government? what he was saying in that vote to me was, i basically trust the citizens over the government. @@@@ juvenile delinquents who carry a gun to the town hall meetings are absolute idiots. it never occurred to them that they could have that gun taken away like somebody else -- by somebody else who is there and shoot up the whole place even if they will not do it? that is about it for me. by the way, i

senator vitter. >> ms.air, i wanted to ask you a few things that are a little off topic, but are important, and that has to do with the recent actions of the financial accounting standards board with regard to bringing certain things up at an off balance sheet, on balance sheet, and what impact the will have on institutions. how will fdic to the consolidation of previously off balance sheets entities, and in particular, will the agency require additional capital for assets brought on balance sheet? >> well, yes, banks must follow u.s. gap, so if those of the accounting rules, the capital -- more assets are coming on balance sheet, then capital levels will be impacted accordingly. we still have concerns about the timing of all of this. we support the general direction of bringing this all back on balance sheet. but the timing still dismiss some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated -- still gives me some heartburn, whether they need to be on this accelerated from work. the rules written now,

it was on the vitter amendment which was a authorizing disaster relief funds post-katrina. looking at that vote. what did involve was saying, if you come from a county or jurisdiction and your law enforcement has disarmed legitimate citizens during that time of unrest or disaster, you get no federal funds in that disaster relief. i looked and i saw that senator clinton voted against it. it passed. i was pretty certain that president obama would vote against it as well. to my surprise, he supported the amendment. to me, that was a very important moment because it really went to the heart of basically, do you trust the citizens or would you error on the side of the government? what he was saying in that vote to me was, i basically trust the citizens over the government. i thought it was a very interesting and unusual vote. it made me take a second look at then senator obama. host: nancy on the democratic line. caller: is this for me? thank you for c-span. i am a 69-year-old woman who does own a 1908 police were called for. my father gave me it 40 years ago. he was a member of