mark kirk voted for waxman markey in the house. then comes citizens united. name one who will come to the floor right now and admit that climate change is a real problem and that harbin pollution is anything worth doing about. that is a real problem. that is hitting our farms, our families, our forests, our shorelines, our fishermen. the fact that we have a party that is in complete denial of that subject and that it comes complete in the wake of citizens united. if you can't put those dots together, then you really can't although a story very well and that is really what is going on. >> we don't mean any of you here. [laughter] >> thank you. morning, shawhis mccutcheon spoke about the supreme court's decision in his favor. issuehink this is an about independent, private people exercising free speech. all americans are entitled to free speech. this is a first amendment guaranteed under the constitution. >> the supreme court agreed with the. if you sit back and say i want to be politically involved as if i am a person of great means and i have all these candid

markey's bill would require lawmakers to submit accident reports to nhtsa, when they learn of a fatality, and it would require the agency to make the information available to the public. congressman henry waxman wants every car sold in the u.s. to come with a $3 fee that would fund nhtsa's operations and increase the civil penalties the agency can levy, up to $200 million. well, joining me now, democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri, who will chair this morning's hearing. senator, i assume you watched the house yesterday, looked at mary barra's testimony. i assume you still have questions unanswered. what's the biggest one in your mind? >> there's a number of them. the notion that there's an old gm and a new gm. it's important in the hearing to actually understand that what had happened at gm since the bankruptcy in terms of this issue, they had one of their lead engineers lie under oath last april and was confronted with the clear evidence that there had been a cover-up, and he had lied. he is still working there today. it took them almost a year to issue a recall. and that's all the new gm. so i think there's tough questions that need to be answered that she's not going to be able