i served five years in the state senate in wyoming, and before that was a physician practicing in wyoming, taking care of so many families and just this monday was at the wyoming medical center, the largest hospital in our state. it is a hospital where i have previously been chief of staff. and what i heard from the people of wyoming is i'm sure what you have heard from the people at home in mississippi. they say why don't you just stop and start over? it's not just the people from our states. in a cnn recent poll, 50% of all americans say it is time to stop and start over. we do need health care reform but we don't need this 2,700-page bill with all of the unintended consequences that may come with it, all of the new government boards and commissions, a program that cuts cuts $500 billion from our seniors who depend upon medicare for their health care and raises taxes by another $500 billion. the american people are saying stop and start over. they know that we have good ideas. they have listened to that summit last week that i was able to attend at the white house, and they have heard t

i was at our hospital in wyoming on monday. talking to physician whose take care of everyone, great concerns because they say at that rate they can't afford to keep the doors opened if the medicare cuts go through. that the president says will have to go through if, in fact, he wants to hold up the numbers that he continues to talk about. >> well, i hope that we will continue to be on the floor. and again we need to talk about when the president talked in the campaign about many things but includingly i saw this morning on fox news that you shouldn't govern with 50 plus 1 votes. that he was in opposition to that. i'm sorry he not remains in opposition. i thank dr. barrasso and i yield the floor. >> the senator from montana. >> madam president, we're now on a bill to extend tax cuts to extend certain payments on unemployment insurance, subsidies and so forth. as a jobs bill, this is a safety net extenders bill. this is not a healthcare bill. four senators just spoke -- i think there were four. there's six together basically bein

and the people of wyoming -- mr. gregg: would the senator on that point yield because i think he's made a very important point. i wasn't at the summit but i would like to -- the senator from arizona to relate to us what the exchange was with the president on the issue of these sweetheart deals, because i think if the president's position they should be out and they don't have anything to do with the fundamental reform exercise, shouldn't they be out? mr. mccain: i say to my frien friend, i had the exchange with the president specifically over the so-called gator-aid amendment because 330,000 of citizens of my state who are enrolled in medicare advantage were going to be passed at a great disadvantage because we had caived out -- carved out a special provision for 800,000 citizens of florida who were under medicare advantage programs. and by the way, i'd remind my colleagues that i proposed an amendment to remove that on this floor from that bill. so does anybody really believe that if it hadn't have been for the publ

president, i practiced medicine for 25 years in casper, wyoming, was in wyoming yesterday visiting with physicians, visiting with nurses, visiting with those who are patients as well as those who are providers and talking with them about what's happening in this country and in this body with the discussion about health care in america. and the legislation. and no matter who i talk with in wyoming, when they look at this massive 2,000-page bill and they think about it and then they ask questions about it, they say how in the world is this actually going to get the cost of care down? how is this going to help them save money? because as they read it and they look at the rules and the regulations and the new mandates for more bureaucracies, they say it's going to be more government employees at the time when there is more than 10% unemployment in the country. they say it is going to likely cause my own cost of health care to go up, my own insurance coverage to go up. and they have great concerns, mr. president, that the quality of their own care will go down, go down. americans and certain

but if it doesn't happen -- and i ask the accountant from wyoming, as opposed to the surgeon from wyoming -- from an accounting standpoint, can you do that? mr. enzi: um, the senator from wyoming, not only is correct that we're going to have a huge problem, but something that's new in the singles bill -- besides this 21% that of course we're going to have to fix and that's going to cost us $300 billion. and all the proposals so far have not paid for that proposal. they slipped in a little cliff for medicaid. and in two years we're going to drop off a cliff with medicaid just as for medicare. that's going to drive up the deficits, too. wasn't everybody promised catastrophic care as one of the presidential promises? it kind of fascinates me that medicare doesn't have catastrophic care -- unless -- unless you buy medicare advantage. and then you can have the catastrophic care. but we're trying to get rid of medicare advantage now and force all those people into a different kind of insurance. and i appreciate the senator from new hampshire mentioning mandates. yes, they're going to require yo

in wyoming, we know that instead of 100% of the children in wyoming on medicaid, it would be 2.87 times cheaper to put every single child [unintelligible] than it is to keep them on medicaid. we serve 100% of those kids. that is the beauty of being from a small state. they are trying to give wyoming insurance control over their own health care dollars. incentives to seek care before they end up in the emergency room. as wyoming's government proceed, they should not have to worry about whether or not the coverage they create will help the participants in this pilot project avoid a federal tax penalty because of this federal program that dictates what will be acceptable insurance. they should not have to be concerned that they might disagree with the health benefits advisory committee on what acceptable coverage looks like. they should have the freedom as a state to design a coverage mechanism that makes sense to the unique characteristics of the wyoming people and certainly, to their uninsured population. states should be the centers of health care innovation. we have seen it over and ov

ted had fallen at home on the wyoming ice and snow and had broken his hip. his wife jackie called my wife bobbi and i at home over the weekend to say ted was in the hospital, would you stop by. ted's a terrific guy, i repaired his shoulder, i operated on his leg when at the age of 70 he jumped from an airplane to show he could jump out of an airplane with a parachute. and i replaced both of jackie's knees. i know these people like hospital, and i wanfamily,and id and -- i went to the hospital to see ted and said, what are those people in washington thinking. what are they thinking? he said, i paid in, i put my money into medicare, he said, why are they taking my medicare not to save medicare but to start a whole new government program, a whole new government program who didn't pay into the system, didn't fight for their country, on and on? what is wrong with the people in washington? what are they thinking? don't they realize it's our money, we paid in, we're expecting care? and now all of a sudden they're going to take medicare money and start a new governm

host: as we promised, we had senator john russell of wyoming. he has spent many years as an orthopedic surgeon. he has been very much involved in this discussion on health care. we just saw a clip from him, the white house healthcare summit. the president said he plans to include four gop proposals into the bills. would you vote for it? guest: i would for those four things, but not on the entire bill. this bill is terribly flawed. it is not the right way to go for this country. right now, the president is pushing a bill, which passed the senate, to go through the house. host: if legislation passes, what is the likely of, or health care? guest: it is not just me, it is other physicians, colleagues, and the kinds of things i have seen across the country. do you think the cost of your own personal health care will go up when this passes? everyone believed that it will. then you ask, do you think the quality of your care will go down? everyone's hands go up again. most americans believe that the cost will go up and the quality of their own care will

i was in wyoming this past weekend. i have had the privilege of practicing medicine there for 25 years, taking caver families in wyoming. when you talk to people, their concerns are the national kernings that the senator from kansas has just mentioned about the debt and what is facing our nation long term. they're also very focused on their own personal care. and if you have a town meeting or just talk to people at the coffee shop, the people of america believe that if this bill passes, that the quality of their own personal health care will go down that there are opportunities to go -- that their opportunities to go a doctor who they've enjoyed going to, that that relationship may be gone. and we're seeing that from health care providers as well all across the country, even the mayo clinic has said that this bill is a huge lost opportunity. it was supposed to be designed to help get the cost of care down, and it's not. it's going to raise the cost of care. and it was designed to improve the quality of care, but it's go

and as a surgeon in wyoming, i took care of people who came from canada, came to wyoming from canada for health care. well, they had coverage in canada because canada covers all of the people, but they don't get care in canada, and that's why 33,000 canadians, 33,000 last year came to the united states for surgery. why? because the waiting lines were so long in canada. even a member of parliament who had cancer -- and my wife is a breast cancer survivor -- a member of parliament from canada with cancer came to the united states for her cancer care because the survival rates for people treated in the united states is so much better. why is it better? well, it's more timely care. people come for artificial hip replacements because they don't want to wait in canada. in canada, come halloween, trick or treat medicine, they have spent the amount of money they are going to spend on a procedure, whether it's cataract surgery, total joint replacement, we're done for the year, wait until next year. go get in line again. and i hear it time and time again in patients who come from canada to the

the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: mr. president, this is not a killer amendment. this just kills a bad part of the bill. this just kills a bad part of the bill. the reconciliation bill makes a >>> coaches aren't wrong, no matter what. when a a coach wants to teach you something and you think you're above that, because you played 16 games, i'm the most disappointed i've ever been in 15 years with a player. most disbointsed. >> i think football is happy last night? wait until you hear from andray blatche has to say about him. welcome to geico sportsnite. >> big night on the network. we start with a pretty big game in d.c., you may have heard. we got caps and penns. and if you're lucky never to be at the game tonight, might just see lisa hillary in the house. we bring in lisa now for a preview and happy game day, lisa and the big question going go into this game, after all the off the ice news yesterday, will the capitals be focused on their rivals and put the distractions aside? >> i definitely think so. this is why. this morning at practice, the players harp involv

and as a surgeon in wyoming, i took care of people who came from canada, came to wyoming from canada health care. well, they had coverage in canada because canada covers all of the people, but they don't get care in canada, and that's why 33,000 canadians, 33,000 last year came to the united states for surgery. why? because the waiting lines were so long in canada. even a member of parliament who had cancer -- and my wife is a breast cancer survivor -- a member of parliament from canada with cancer came to the united states for her cancer care because the survival rates for people treated in the united states is so much better. why is it better? well, it's more timely care. people come for artificial hip replacements because they don't want to wait in canada. in canada, come halloween, trick or treat medicine, they have spent the amount of money they are going to spend on a procedure, whether it's cataract surgery, total joint replacement, we're done for the year, wait until next year. go get in line again. and i hear it time and time again in patients who come from canada to the uni

and as a surgeon in wyoming, i took care of people who came from canada, came to wyoming from canada for health care. well, they had coverage in canada because canada covers all of the people, but they don't get care in canada, and that's why 33,000 canadians, 33,000 last year came to the united states for surgery. why? because the waiting lines were so long in canada. even a member of parliament who had cancer -- and my wife is a breast cancer survivor -- a member of parliament from canada with cancer came to the united states for her cancer care because the survival rates for people treated in the united states is so much better. why is it better? well, it's more timely care. people come for artificial hip replacements because they don't want to wait in canada. in canada, come halloween, trick or treat medicine, they have spent the amount of money they are going to spend on a procedure, whether it's cataract surgery, total joint replacement, we're done for the year, wait until next year. go get in line again. and i hear it time and time again in patients who come from canada to the

for what purpose does the gentlelady from wyoming rise? mrs. lummis: i request permission to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. lummis: i rise today to recognize my alma mater the university of wyoming and their nor dick skiing club. for the second year in a row both the men's and women's team brought home though the gold, sweeping the division two ski and snow board nationals. u.w.'s cowboys dominated the competition, the men's team earning 59 points, giving them a lead other st. olaf college. the cowgirls were in third place heading into the final 15 kilometer team relay. not only did they take the relay, but their performance gave them a one-point lead on whitman college, earning them the national title. individual recognition should go to pozenski who tied for first overall in the individual standings. for the cowgirls, gracie lewis tied for second, gwen barrow, sixth, and marie cartwright placed seventh overall. i would like to congratulate christy boggs and r

i served five years in the state senate in wyoming. physician practicing in wyoming, taking care of so many families and just this monday was at the wyoming medical center, the largest hospital in our state. and it is a hospital where i previously been chief of staff. and what i heard from the people of wyoming is i'm sure what you've heard from the people at home in mississippi. they say, why don't you just stop and start over? it's not just the people from our states and a cnn recent poll 50% of all americans say it is time to stop and start over. we do need healthcare reform but we don't need this 2700-page bill with all of the unintended consequences that may come with it. all of the new government boards and commissions. a program that cuts $500 billion from our seniors who depend upon medicare for their healthcare and raises taxes by another $500 billion. the american people are saying stop and start over. they know that we have good ideas. they listened to that summit last week that i was able to attend at the white house. they'

i was at hospital in wyoming. somebody on medicare, said if they're going to cut medicare, use the money to save medicare, not to start a whole new government program. that's the first amendment on the reconciliation bill on the floor of the senate right now, that we're bringing. i've co-sponsored. said, if you're going to take money from medicare, use it to save medicare, not to start a new government program. >> senator, let's get back to the taxes. you said that you believe they're going to go up. income -- >> i believe they are. >> income taxes on the middle class will not go up. that's a fact. sales tax will not go up for the middle class at all. if medical devices are used, yes, they are going to cost 3% more. that's what's going to go up. the middle class is not getting touched. i know. i've read the bill, senator. i'm asking you for an honest answer tonight. tell our audience that the middle class is not going to have their taxes go up because that is the case, my friend. >> the middle class of america who

from wyoming and would have to defend his voting record and putting voting against resolution, calling for the release of nelson mandela from prison. he had a heart attack in his mid-30's and would have to defend questions of his health and fitness. this one on for about 30 or 35 minutes. as i lit up the casecome, kaisha you figure it out but what if i said this and i disagree with that and would you say if i said that? do it on for about 30, 35 minutes. at the end i exhausted my list. he said you're been anything else? maxey says deal tierney questions for karl? and invited me over he didn't say she was going to dick cheney there. he goes to show a couple things about roche. one thing he views this as a governing decision on a political decision. becoming the next interviewer right on most or all that stuff, but that's politics. my job is to worry if something happened to me who would the country have confidence in? second abolish of his style which is he likes to have people around him who have strong opinions or in many not agree with this and are willing to lay him out in a respect

and brought in territory that represents the three states -- washington, oregon, idaho, parts of wyoming, ponce to montana -- parts of montana, and texas came into his watch. that whole swath of territory was not american when he took over the presidency. it was america's when he left the presidency, and he accomplished that in a single four-year term. >> what are the lessons that he left for today? >> there are a lot. one of the big lessons was if you take the country to war, make sure you do not do it under any pretext. we have seen that in our own time. a lot of people believe that george w. bush was not totally forthcoming with the american people. lyndon johnson was not forthcoming about the gulf of tonkin incident, and james polk was not forthcoming. he maneuvered the country into war without telling america that his underlying aim was territorial expansion. when that became clear, it sapped his political standing significantly. >> was the unpopular when he left office? >> he was a president with a great deal of iron will and a great deal of determination to get what he wanted. he

out the case against cheney and i had eight reasons why starting with we didn't need to worry about wyoming, that cheney had been a very conservative members wyoming and we had to defend his voting record including voting against a resolution calling for the release of nelson mandela from prison that he had a heart attack starting at the age in his mid-30s and we would have to defend questions of his health and fitness and so forth and we went on 30 or 35 minutes and as i laid out the case occasionally governor bush would say i agree but what if i said this and i disagree with that or what would you say if i said that so it went on for 30 or 35 minutes and at the end, exhausted my list he said to you have anything else and he turns to the guy next to him and said to you have any questions for karl. when he invited me over he didn't say i'm going to have cheney and you need to clean up the case in front of him that it goes to show a couple of things about bush. one is that he viewed this as a government decision not a political decision because he called the next day and said you are right o

first interstate has 72 branches in montana, wyoming and south dakota. its initial price was $14.50 per share. the i.p.o. market wasn't without disappointment. a greek shipping company postponed indefinitely its share offering citing market conditions. and that's the market focus. >> tom: the stock market rally has room to run. even as it sits close to 18 month highs. so says tonight's market monitor guest. mark leibovit is the chief market strategist at vrtrader.com and he joins us from phoenix. mark, welcome back to "nightly business report". >> thanks for having me. nice to meet you, tom, on the air. >> tom: nice to meet you as well. so more room to run. how much more room to run after the 18-month highs? >> well, the trend is your friend, as they say, and until we get a clear reversal pattern, and my technique using volume reversal in the volume preceding price, and get indication of important selling in the market, you let the market work for you. we have targets that still say this market could go higher, but you know, the bottom line is is the tre

snow on i-15 and 25 in the northern rockies, mostly in montana and much of wyoming. and flooded roads in the midwest. >> if you are flying today, it should be easy going. there are no weather-related airport delays to report this morning. >>> well, teachers and parents are taking a look at a troubling, new report on how poorly boys are doing in school. while gis e gaining much stronger math skills, boys are falling farther behind in reading. ron claiborne hamore details. >> reporter: this report is very good news for girls. but it describes what amounts to a crisis for the nation's boys. >> there's a consistent pattern here that says boys are not learning how to read as well as girls. >> reporter: the findings by the center for educational policy show a consistent pattern. in every state in the country, at every grade level studied, girls dibetter in reading than boys. in some states, thgender gap was staggering. in virginia, middle school girls did than boys in reading by 15 percentage points. in new hampshire, also 15 points. in new york state, girls were 13 points

at this time, i would like to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from wyoming, ms. loom is. loom loom the world is begging -- mrs. lummis: the world is begging the united states to get its house in order. americans are begging for jobs, careers and stability. this congress responds by hiring 17,000 people at the i.r.s. to enforce on americans government-approved health insurance. small business entrepreneurs beg congress to empower them to create jobs. congress responds with 20 new taxes in this health care bill, amounting to half a trillion dollars. our military families beg us to leave tricare alone. this bill transfers tricare out of the department of defense. americans are fed up with government takeovers of business, like the auto industry that closed dealerships and threw americans out of work. this health care bill includes a government takeover of the student loan business, throwing 31,000 more americans out of work. we republicans implore the majority for a bipartisan health care reform bill. the majority party responded with special deals cut behind closed doors to

snow in wyoming and montana, moving into denver by tonight.in south dakota, nebraska, and utah. up to 20 degrees warmer than normal in the northeast. >> sunny in the upper 60s in new york today. baltimore and boston as well. nearly 70 in dallas, new orleans 60s, also across much of the midwest today. 55 in seattle. 73 in sacramento. and 83 down in phoenix, good golfing weather. >> oh, yeah. almost ready for this time of year. >>> well, a university trying to toot its own horn may be getting an "f" in english. >> looks like the university of arizona forgot to hit grammar check before putting up these new billboards in phoenix. the ads read, one of top 100 universities in the world. you can see they left out the word "the top" 100 universities of the world. the university claims the slogan was intentionally written that way -- yeah, right -- to grab attention, much like a newspaper headline where names are sometimes left out. >> despite the explanation that jeremy's having trouble swallowing the school has since changed another billboard to incl

different topics much of it having to do with activities out west when i was living in colorado and wyoming >> where did you come up with the name of your book? green power, black death? >> i grew up in the environmental movement. rachel carson was a huge information for me. as i travel more and more in the other countries of the world and came in contact with the impoverished and of many communities, i realized as much as the environmental movement has improved things in many ways some of their anti technology and anti karakul positions are detrimental to the developments of people in a lot of countries. malaria is a good example. the opposition by environmental groups to beç used ofç biotechnology is something i have never been able to understand and my friend and i are on the same page. we don't understand what the opposition is. the opposition to fossil fuel development where they don't have electricity, 90% of people in sub-saharan africa still don't have electricity and i cannot imagine my life without electricity. these are the issues i bring up. >> you are on the air. >> i am an a

and wyoming republican senator john barrasso. and we will examine the president's budget with haskins of the brookings institution. >> c-span. our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and on line. you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube. you can also send this e-mail that c-span.org. >> the training commissioner for afghanistan talked with reporters about building afghan security forces and the need to provide more instructors. this is more than half an hour. >> he is the commander of the native training mission and of the u.s. training command in afghanistan. it is very important as the secretary general -- he has had the time to meet with you. you will see how young looking he is, even though in his biography, he has five kids. that is pretty oppressive inside -- aside from his command duties. >> first of all, on behalf of the native training mission, i will give you a quick update on where we are. over 100 days ago, the native training mission in afghanistan activated and i was given

out to the west, snow is falling across parts of wyoming into the wasatch of utah and northern partsf the colorado rockies. how much snow is expected? we have winter storm warnings that are posted for the i-25 corridor including metropolitan denver. figure a half a foot to maybe 10 inches of snow in downtown denver, the front range, higher elevations, 16, maybe 18 inches a possibility with this storm. march is the time of year where denver can go from the mid-60s one day to 12 feet of snow the next. we saw that last week. 42, high in denver. 75 degrees in dallas. here is the next storm system slowly moving into the plains. it will bring showers and thunderstorms into the plains. the biggest story, the heavy snow. we had a record slow tornado season for february. after a couple of days of tornadoes in the beginning of march. since the beginning of this month, we haven't seen much of anything. so it's once again very, very slow severe weather month. that could be mostly contributed to what's going on in the gulf of mexico. that is some pretty cool weather because of the cold winter we

the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: thank you, mr. president. i rise in opposition to the reconciliation legislation that the senate will shortly be considering. like many of my colleagues, i first read this legislation when it was filed in the house last week, and one of my first thoughts was what a difference 15 months makes. today the senate is debating legislation -- or shortly will be debating legislation that will increase health care costs for working americans and wipe out a successful bipartisan 45-year-old student loan program without a single committee hearing or even a markup. this bill is an attempt to fix what is perceived to be the problem with health reform legislation that the senate passed on christmas eve of last year. these fixes are being considered because the american people overwhelmingly oppose that legislation. unfortunately, that bill does nothing to fix the problem that this bill, the reconciliation bill does nothing to fix the problem that prompted this opposition. nothing in the bill that we're going to be consideri

again in the more equal states in new hampshire, you talk of a wisconsin, wyoming , iowa 2/3 think others can be trusted and it is down to about one-third in a more unequal states. i want you to think about what that means to live with those different societies what does it feel like to live in a society where the vast majority of the population trust one another when compared to a minority what is it like as a woman to walk alone and encounters strangers on the street? letter things like of day-to-day life? his mental illness illness, did -- the data comes from the who that sets up a consortium specifically to provide these comparable in all this from other countries and down at the more equal end less than 10% of the population at this is the adult population that has some kind of mental illness in the past 12 months that the more unequal and we have 23 percent of us with usa at the top with a 26% so great then one and four. the scale of the differences hits it is important how big these differences are they will tell us what is not confined to a poor minority or sub population group. o

another reason for me to go to south dakota or montana or wyoming. >> you got some announcement you are>> they got other problems. >> get a big raise and i'll got a second home out there. >> maybe not. >> thank you for the question. if you have a question you want answered, and thank you, tucker for the answer. go to myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab. can you so get this, upload your video questions now. we may play some of those live here on fox 5 morning news. i can't wait. that will be very cool. >> that will be fun. >> very good. >> a little steve perry for you. >> tucker is getting his journey on. >> i'm just saying to all of you, be glad he is just lip syncing. >> we learned that. >> i learned the hard way. the crew in sky fox with us this morning and we're checking out the ride off the inner loop as you work your way out towards 66 and continued up towards route 7. that is where, unfortunately, we do find an accident now. if you are traveling on the inner loop coming from annandale and merrifield headed up towards tyson's. i've got one lane to the left getting by the accid

most of it having to do with activities out west when i was living in colorado and wyoming. >> host:ere did you come up with the name of your book "eco-imperialism: green power, black death"? >> guest: as i indicated earlier, i grew up kind of in the environmental movement. rachel carson was a huge inspiration for me. it changed a lot of my thinking that as i traveled more and more in the other countries of the world and came in contact with the impoverishment of the communities and the diseases that we don't even see here anymore i realized that as much as the environmental movement has improved things in many ways, some of the antitechnology and antichemical positions are detrimental to the development and the health of people in these other countries. malaria is a good example. the opposition by environmental groups like the sierra club and greenpeace for example to the use of biotechnology in agriculture is something i've never been able to understand and my friend, patrick who is a co-founder of greenpeace and i are on the same page. we just don't understand what the opposition

look at that. 22 inches in wyoming, colorado city. 13 in red river, new mexico.of the other red river, i want to quickly note we saw that story from the fargo area we have a new update on the forecast crest. still the same time of day sunday, but probably closer to 37 feet. that is lower than the initial forecast, and a lot of that has to do with colder temperatures which are moving into the upper midwest slowing down that snow melt. tomorrow's forecast for your rest of the weekend, we'll watch this start to pull out of the plains. push toward the southeast and mid-atlantic states where we'll mostly see wet weather and not snowy weather. >> thanks so much, jacqui. >> let's take a look at our top stories with votes on health care reform in the balance. president obama sets set for a trip to capitol hill. he is scheduled to meet with house democrats on the hill at any moment. the house is expected to vote tomorrow on the senate's version of the reform bill. democratic leaders say they are confident they will have the votes they need, but they are still trying to co

first interstate operates in montana, wyoming, and south dakota. those are solid areas.ow employment. unemployment. it's got $5.8 billion in deposits, 4.5 billion in loans, 72 branches in what i regard as the most solvent area of the country. when i used to run my hedge fund, i had a proclivity for bank stocks, something i learned from reading the great investment books by peter lynch, who is perhaps the most successful mutual fund manager of all time. lynch always contended that if you could buy a bank at book val yi you were basically buying it for the cash it has on its balance sheet. so you were getting a steal. now, book value's a little more suspect these days from when lynch ruled the roost because there are so many bad loans on the books of so many banks and there's so much dilution. some pfeil feel that book values for all banks right now are overstated. but still i think that this bank, because it has a stated $16 book value, stated not tangible, stated, can make sense to buy, even if it opens at the high end of what is supposed to be a $14 to $16 range when it

order to provie the appropriate waivers for amendment number 41 offered by representatives loomis of wyoming and sam johnson of texas, which would allow states to opt out of any provisions of the bill to the extent that they mandate to the purchasing of health insurance by residents of such a state mandate provision of health insurance by and lawyers in such state or interfere with the ability of patients to privately contract with medical providers and insurers under the laws of such states. >> you heard the gentleman's motion. any discussion? mr. mcgovern. >> did they testify? >> i think they did. >> i don't think they did. >> no, they did, i was just curious the strong -- how strongly they felt. >> any other discussion? [inaudible conversations] >> if not, the vote will occur on the motion by mr. diaz-balart. say aye. opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. recorded vote, please. [roll call] the clerk will report the totals. the motion is not agreed to. mr. bdy as ballard. >> thank you. i have an amendment to the rule and i move that the committee make an order to prov

you've got people like chuck grassley and mike enzi from wyoming. you have a few out there, certainly dick luger, people like that, and the two senators from maine who would normally be part of a coalition to get something done for this country. pragmatic coalition. but they're not enough in number. is that the problem? you just can't get enough of them, so none of them break loose. because nobody wants to be part of a small, renegade group? >> well i think they also made a calculated decision as a party, to hang together and oppose everything obama proposed for the purposes of basically trying to make him look like a failed president. it was a calculated decision. they made it early. they stuck to it. it was a strategy. this was not just people being unwilling to come across the aisle. this was an actual strategy of refusing to come across the aisle. >> well that's the same thing they did back -- you're saying they followed the same strategy of rejectionism that they used back in '93 to '94? >> more or less. i wasn't here then, so i didn't see it f

end i had eight reasons whereby with starting we didn't need to worry about wyoming. cheney was a conservative member of congress and we'd have to defend his voting record, including voting against the resolution, calling nelson down, starting at the age -- you know, in his mid 30s and have to defend questions of his health and fitness. occasionally governor bush said i'd agree with that, what if i said this. what would you say if i said that. at the end of it when i exhausted my list and he said, do you have anything else. he turns to the guy, he said dick, there's the reasons why. it goes to show a couple of things about bush. one is he views this as governing decision, not political. you are right on most or all of that stuff. that's all politics. you can deal with that. my job is to worry about if something happened to me, who would the country have confidence in? second of all, it shows bush's style. he likes to have people around him who have strong opinions and may not may agree with his that would lay it out in a straightforward way in front of others who migh

i do know because we could go to the wyoming tower in a number of books and see this as part and parcelf a hobby islam and the problem is it may not be the majority view of muslims but by gosh it seems to be the one with all of the energy and passion. when someone in my church -- aye catholic, shoots someone had an abortion clinic we condemn it and at the church condemns it and the pope condoms it and that is absolutely right. what we have the same thing in a consistent way in islam. >> host: the struggle we are fighting against terrorism and jihadism let's call it, in this new book you talk about its starting with 9/11 and how bush gets involved in the struggle. do you think that it became partisan after 9/11 or was there a period in which it was a sort of tnt on the issue? >> guest: there was unity on the issue. i don't think there's a question about it, the country was together. there was by the way back to this point there was a worry that americans would turn against muslims and that there would be terrible act of retribution. nothing like this happen or if they did they were very

you have a bank that actually did an ipo here, a commercial bank based out of montana and wyoming, a successful one, and this gives you confidence in the market. i think it's phenomenal. >> the first -- i'm sorry, gary, but the first interstate bank i know jim cramer made comments, he says he loves the management there. the ipo on this stock was 14 1/2, trading 15.70. jim may be spot on with this one. i don't think there's any reason to chase. he with might test back down to that 14 1/2, $15 level but i think that's one you may want to put on your radar screen. >> and a number of viewers might wonder why do we care about small deals and why do we think they have such an impact on the market? and i think i tried to point this out some time ago. it's a huge confidence builder when people can buy these deals and the syndicate business is working. when the secondary syndicate business, which is driven by the ipo business, is happening, you see a tremendous amount of things happening in the capital markets. it feeds on itself. so when you do a deal, you buy a deal, you feel good about it,

she uprooted herself from wyoming and moved to new york and made herself this guy's girlfriend.s. >> he'll get money back. >> we want to know more about this. good to see you both. have a good week. thank you. coming up, the case of -- guys, excuse me. steve and gretchen in the green room, go ahead, guys. >> thank you, peter. >> coming up on the show, the case of made-up facts. she's accused of being a traitor by helping terrorists. she's speaking out fort first time. >> we showed you this video on friday. a dog taking a bite out of the police cruiser. chewing the bumper right out of it. what's up with that? we'll talk to the owner of that dog who will haul along the dog as well straight ahead on "fox & friends" for this monday. [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there's new motrin pm. no other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. new motrin pm. >> oh, my goodness. it's gone to the dogs. lady gaga and time for your shot of the morning. he's gone gaga.

this is true in eight states including idaho, mississippi, north carolina, wyoming.some of the streets represented by my colleagues across the dial. every day america's to beat the americans pay thousands of dollars in premiums each year in order to have the assurance the health care system that they have worked so hard to build will be there when they needed. however if a woman as they certain age or is already pregnant, insurers can be by her maternity coverage. our current system allows insurers to exclude exactly those services that women will need, pocketing their premiums as profit. these examples illustrate the utter pointlessness for many women of purchasing the type of insurance that is currently offered and shows how the current system discriminates against over 50% of the population of our country. we need health care reform to put an end to this once and for all and i urge passage of the motion and yield to my colleague, congresswoman rosa delauro for ten minutes. >> i thank my colleague and urge my colleagues to support this motion. one section did not t

for what purpose does the gentlewoman from wyoming rise? bar registered sex offenders from supervising these young people. the protections included in this program are taken directly. they shall not be allowed access to young people in the -- in americorps. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman will suspend. members will please remove their conversations from the aisles. the gentlewoman deserves to be heard. the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. lummis: thank you, madam speaker. i'll get through this if everybody will just hold their conversations for just a bit. by voting for this motion to recommit, you will prohibit sex offenders from participating in this program and will be voting to provide basic protections for young people. second, this motion restores the current emphasis on combating the threats of beetle infestation and wild fires devastating vast tracts of public forest lands. without this motion,ing combating this tragedy will receive no funding whatsoever. the healthy forest act pass passed the house with strong bipartisan su

california has 70 times the population of wyoming. you find 17% of the american public elects 51, a majority, of the united states senate. we know 41 senators can actually run the senate. 11% of the american public elects 341 senators. now, the founders were concerned about the tyranny of the majority. they were right to be concerned about minority rights and the tyranny of the majority. i think you can turn that around and say what about the tyranny of the small minority? isn't thatm(á legitimate concer, too? it's worth an argument. that's why in,ñ wrote the book. rñ to have an argument, and we're having one.qw host: paul, we welcome you. caller: i have been a tortured republican for a long time, but it seems like the republican party has left me. i was a deficit hawk. i voted for perot a while back. now i just see the republicans just horrible fiscallya'o. they talk like they are going to help small business, but all i ever see is that they are helping the big businesses. on the health care, it just amazes me that the big story isn

we'll start in wyoming, colorado. why is this because why?rough, upwards of half a fooft foot of accumulation. we'll have a watch that. ski areas will delight especially in new england where you will see all of this rain begin to move on up. as you head to new hampshire and maine, could get up to a foot of though. meanwhile cool conditions continue to prevail in the southeast. we are going to see a little bit of change. temperatures will warm up as we head to wednesday. midsection of the country looks relatively dry and uneventful. as you head to the southern plains and deep south, just >>> 37 minutes past the hour. and that is a quick look at your weather picture. gang? >> thank you very much. up next, highway horror that is burning up youtube. we'll hear from the victim who survived it when we come back. [ female announcer ] when you're depressed, what matters to you? nothing. you don't enjoy things the way you used to. you're sad. you have no energy. maybe you feel guilty or anxious, changes in weight, sleep, and appetite, and the aches an

so you have the agricultural states, nebraska, kansas, oklahoma, energy wyoming, colorado, and the northern mexico. and we actually, this area actually entered the recession leader because of the energy and the agriculture, and then it came in and really accelerated about where the rest of the country was. now it is like the rest of the nation coming out slowly. energy has improved partly because some stability in the natural gas production which is seeing activity pickup. agriculture is doing relatively well compared to other times particularly. and then we have a lot of small manufacturing which supports some of the larger main factor in both durable and nondurable because of the agricultural orientation. and those are also coming out just slowly but steadily out of this recession. the other thing kind of pointing to is the fact in that region there is about 800 plus community banks that operate, so while we don't have one large institution we have these 800 that are oriented towards agriculture, oriented towards energy, towards some of the manufacturing support that goes on, and that's w

montana, south dakota, north dakota, and wyoming, they get a special deal. an amendment that adds a percent to the hospital wage index for those states. and there are other states that qualify but would not benefit because they're already above the one-point wage index value. it also establishes a 1.0 practice expense floor for a nis those particular states -- for a physician in those particular states. one of my colleagues -- got a benefit for his constituents in libby, montana. medicare advantage for those individuals. the e.p.a. has announced that there's a public health emergency at a superfund site there so they get a special advantage. it's interesting that while the nebraska cornhuskers kickback got a lot of attention, two other benefits for nebraska entities did not. nebraska bluecross blueshield and michigan bluecross blueshield and also mutual of omaha get special benefits. so two in nebraska and one in michigan, they get a carveout. one of them gets a carveout from the insurance fee for medigap policies and the other insurance fee paid to these tw

. >> obviously, it comes in from well-behaved part of the country, the dakotas, montana, wyoming. >>eah, they didn't get carried away. >> right. but, so, maybe that's why, obviously, the bank can go ahead. but still, there you go, bank going public. >>> all right, it's all good except for the futures. final countdown to the bell coming right up. >>> and that portugal downgrade that you heard damon referring to, should you be worried about that one? and again, another death threat. it seems like a small domino, but the next of a series. we'll be back. >>> headlines before the bell. starbucks declares its first ever quarterly dividend. it's a dime a share. it will be paid april 23rd. general mills beats expectations, profit $332 million. durable goods came in slightly below expectations but still up 0.5% in february. erin. >>> as we count you down to the opening bells, let's bring in michael gurka for our final setup. michael gurka, what are you focused on? >> well, first, i just want to mention that i saw recently that fascination that mark had with 3d, so i just want to mention that.