so to my colleague from wyoming, what are you hearing about the effect of this bill on the state of wyoming and where do you think we should go as a nation? mr. barrasso: well, the people of wyoming overwhelmingly want an opportunity to -- to remove themselves from the heavy burden of the obama-passed supported health care law. huge expenses. the medicaid mandate is huge. the expenses -- mr. graham: if i could interrupt, waivers have been given, what -- can you tell us a little bit about the waivers that have been granted and -- and aren't we basically allowing a state to request a waiver by our bill? could you comment on that? mr. barrasso: well, we are doing exactly that, i say to my colleague from south carolina. you know, as of last week, the secretary of health and human services has given just last week 500 new waivers to allow individuals through -- who get their insurance through work, and now a total of 729 waivers affecting 2.2 million people, to opt out, individually to opt out of several -- of the specific requirement. i think and states ought to have the right to make decisions

so i had to go back and reregister in wyoming as a wyoming resident. it's a good thing we did because if i had stayed in texas, we would not have been able to count the texas electoral vote towards my election as vice president. and we would have had a bush-lieberman administration. but joe's not a bad guy but you wouldn't want him for your vice president. but the second request then was whether or not -- then the governor called me and asked if i would help him find somebody, run the search. and i said, sure, i can do that. that's a temporary assignment. we can get it done in a couple of months here. then i can go back to doing what i want to do which is run the company. so we went through that whole process and we ended up on -- right after 4th of july, just a couple weeks before the convention, and i went down to the ranch outside crawford, this is before they had the new house built. they had a little bitty frame house that he and laura were living in out at the ranch. and we sat down and spent the morning reviewing all the candidates and then had

president, for the people of wyoming, the people of wyoming -- i will in a second talk about an article. the people of wyoming want this law repealed. the chairman of our health committee and our state senate -- and i served under him for five years when i was a member of the wyoming state senate is named charles scott. he has been in the state senate for over two decades, studies this extensively. he had an article in the "casper star tribune" on january 30. mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to include this in the congressional record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. barrasso: the headline is "repeal of obamacare would help wyoming." just a few excerpts. he says -- "the obamacare law is a disaster for our country, a disaster for our country and especially for wyoming." he says our american health care system costs too much, there are too many uninsured. obama reform makes these problems worse. makes these problems worse. he goes on, the centerpiece of the obama effort to insure the uninsured is to expand the medicaid program, the existing program for poor people. this

we're sending coal from wyoming and it goes by ship to china. china is building new plants -- they want them now on the coast line, where folks are living. there finding it easier to move coal from wyoming and australia then their own coal. they are having trouble. power lines, transmission lines -- that is a big issue. there are places that need the electricity, which is not necessarily where it is being generated. we have had a pretty heated debate in the senate -- does it go across public land or private land? some say just use eminent domain and take care rancher's land. those are fighting words around the rocky mountain west. we need all the energy. we need renewable energy. we need to be much more efficient in how we use our energy. we need it all. host: less go to new york. bill, a democrat -- let's go to new york. caller: the republicans are just so obstinate and they are battling the power against the democrats and president obama. they will do anything to kill solar, wind, a battery power. your argument is that everything creates uncer

the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr.adam president. one is are you aware that 155,000 new workers have been certified -- that the new t.a.a. program since may 2009, 155,000 americans have been assisted under t.a.a.? mr. barrasso: madam president, i would be happy to, as a matter of record, submit for the record the government accountability office study that was reported by senator coburn and senator enzi to outline the entire study and the reason that i am objecting today. thank you, madam president. mr. brown: fair enough. madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: senator barrasso, if you'd be willing to give us more specifics, i -- first of all, 155,000 workers are -- i'm willing to go on the record with that. it's fact. it's very important to those 1 155,000 workers. i know a lot of them live in pennsylvania and ohio. i don't know how many of them live in wyoming. i could certainly find that out too. could you give us -- i understand your criticism of the recovery act. that's a debate

lummis of wyoming. the chair: the gentlelady from wyoming is recognized for five minutes. mrs. lummis: thank you, madam chairman. in december i voted for that historic agreement between president obama and congress to keep american taxes low and could extend unemployment benefits. -- and to extend unemployment benefits. and now we're here to debate how to pay for that and i have an idea about how to help pay for that. my amendment, number 193, would strike the remaining funding for this six months and this year, totaling $35 million, from the budgets of the u.s. fish and wildlife service, the b.l.m. and the forest service for the purpose of buying new federal land. there are many alternatives to buying land with cash that would allow them to continue using yankee ingenuity and those include land exchanges. in my own state we have over half a million acres that have been designated for disposal by federal agencies because these lands don't fit into good land management and yet there are other lands that these same federal agencies would like to acquire. they can do exchanges. th

i have to get registered in wyoming. we have to get the doctors involved and the medical community and a long list of things that have to be addressed. and i said one other thing, i also want to come down to austin and sit down with you and whoever else you might like, karl rove, somebody else, and tell you all the reasons why you should not pickney -- pick me. why i made that choice. and he said ok. -- why i am a bad choice. and he said ok. i set down with the president and carl and said, i am wyoming. only three electoral votes. we went through the whole exercise. he listened. karl rove agreed with me. [laughter] and i went back of $2 and within a day or two, i got a phone call early in the morning. i was on a treadmill and it was the governor saying, ok, you are my guys and i want you to run as my vice-presidential candidates. and i want youuidy to run as my vice-presidential candidates. i have a suspicion that he never gave up after that initial request. he has never admitted that to me. maybe he will after he sees t

i was in the state senate in wyoming for five years, and we know in wyoming that what may work in new york city isn't going to work in wyoming. you have 26 governors now suing washington through the court system to say this law is unconstitutional specifically the individual mandate where the law says # you must buy this product. this is what governors decide, and let them opt out if they would like to do that. the 33 governors have written to the president saying we need flexibility on medicaid. medicaid is going to cause us to go broke. story in the "new york times" the other day. the two governors that were highlighted as concerns about the cost of medicaid, the program for low-income individual, the two big pictures? jerry brown of california, democrat governors saying we cannot afford these mandates. you have the democratic governor of tennessee, resen, who called this the mother of all unfunded mandates. this is bipartisan concern around the country, and it seems this state health care choice act says, you know, let the states decide. if they want to be a part of this, good. if

wyoming only had three electoral votes. we went through that whole exercise and carl agreed with me. i went back to dallas and within a day or two, got a phone call early in the morning. it was the governor saying that he would be to run as his vice presidential candidate. i often have the suspicion that he never really gave a after the first request to earlier in the year -- gave up after the first request earlier in the year. the thing that changed my mind and affected my judgment was that i worked with him for a time of several months and i could observe his mind working about what he wanted in a vice president. this was a guy who was not going down the normal path in picking a vice presidents. -- picking vice-presidents. johnson could not go to meetings when he was vice president. he was not just worried about the electoral college vote and the politics of the whole process, he was really looking for somebody who could serve alongside him and be a participant in the process and get actively engaged and he liked my backg

nobody is dropping off "the new york times at my grandfather's ranch in the middle of wyoming. now they can have access and they can participate. just a year ago, when scott brown won the election in massachusetts, at ty were successful in getting small donations from people all over the country. it is a very interesting and exciting time. take advantage of being in d.c. and take the internship, the job, the one that does not sound very exciting. he starts in the credibility deficit. i took all of that -- i was able to handle that. always take the deputy job. i traveled on the weekends and all the holidays. i listen to so many young people who are so exhausted all the time. you have to take advantage of what is going on in washington. work very hard and meet a lot of people. you find thaall over the city. it is a wonderful placeo be. tw is a fantastic pla to have this experience. >> i started 22 years old on capitol hill, right out of college. if you like politics, died then. this is what makes art -- dive in. this is what makes our country so great. there is also a lot of smar

host: we will speak with senator john barrasso of wyoming and talk about it. laws and revising the health care law. in our last hour, we'll talk about the president's plan to cut grants to communities. that is coming up in our last hour. but first, a news update. >> here are some headlines. appearancee's first in front of the house is likely to be a tough one. much of the growing could come from members of his own party. he is a republican who served as president bush's chief economist. he was chosen by mr. bush to run the fed. that hearing begins at 10:00 a.m. this morning. president obama is reaching out to republicans with a luncheon for gop leaders. he will meet with john boehner, eric cantor, and the majority whip, kevin mccarthy. this is the first such meeting since republicans assumed control of the house in january. the meeting is expected to focus on the economy and spending. after comments by some officials were widely interpreted as diverging from the white house stan, the white house saw to dispel any notion it is loosening pressure on mubarak are

he retreated back to wyoming and made no effort to communicate the fact that a large number of warriors were in south central montana to general terry. eventually word made its way to the general way back in chicago. terry would not get word of crook's defeat until july 10th which was obviously of no good to custer, and so, you know, this communication is a big part of the story. you know, blackberry era, we're constantly in contact, and this was not the case back then. montana did not have a railroad running across it, so rivers were the only way to get a large number of people anywhere, and the telegraph ended in bismarck. it was in the far west when they were loaded with wounded soldiers that delivered the first word of the battle to bismarck after an amazing three day voyage down the dig

the cheapest gas in the lower 48 wyoming and missouri at $2.96. >> i've had to sacrifice food, rent just so i can go to work. >> reporter: while egypt, bahrain and yemen have very little oil to export, the fear is that unrest will spread to the countries on which america's economy dependses. >> there's a ton of i'll in saudi arabia, that's of greatest concern. we're going to see these protests erupt in saudi arabia. >> it's not just the middle east factor, only 9% of our oil comes from the persian gulf. the world's economies are also showing signs of recovery, with strong demand from china, india, even latin america, helping to drive gas prices higher. the forecast is for .330 a gallon by memorial day, with a worst case scenario of $3.75 to $4 a gallon later in the year. those are levels we haven't seen since 2008. that would make everything more expensive. already food and clothing prices are climbing. with jet fuel up 43% in one year, airline ticket prices have jumped 20 to $60 in the last few weeks. >> if gas prices would rise to $4 a gallon, that is certainly going to be a drain on t

officers tried to lock down the hotel but had trouble comiewp indicating with their portable raid wyoming. radio problems have playinged oakland police during the past couple monthlies. >> the former commander of the state nark ticks task force has acknowledged stealing and selling drugs that were seed during raids. norman welsh was arraigned friday on 28 felony counts, including drug possession. we did not enter a plea agreement welsh's attorney says his client fell into debt after his daughter needed a bone marrow transplant. welsh is accused of selling the drugs with the help of christopher butler, private investigator. butler is facing the same charges as welsh. >> in daly city a mother and two children are being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. the three victims were taken to the medical center for an evaluation, and they're expected to be fine. pg&e is investigating whether a malfunctioning wall heater may be to blame for the leak. >>> despite the rain, hundreds of thousands of people turned out for this year's chinese new year's parade in san francisco. more than 5,000 people

>> reporter: the lowest price, $2.78 at two stations in douglas, wyoming. as we made our way through chicago's south side, it became clear the higher prices are already causing real pain. >> fill it up with a little liquid gold. see what $9 is going to do for me. 2.5 gallons. >> reporter: in places where the economy has never recovered. >> it's becoming a choice, basically, between either eating or buying gas. >> reporter: the latest spike comes after a steady rise, since we began climbing out of the recession. and where is gas going? >> by memorial day, if the situation is still developing in the middle east, we could be looking at prices just under $4.25 a gallon. that would mean parts of the country could flirt with $5 a gallon gas. >> reporter: all day long, we asked drivers, what price would shock them into driving less? >> if it hits that $5 mark. >> five bucks a gallon. >> reporter: that's the number? >> yeah. that's terrifying. >> reporter: as we made our way to the heart of the big city, the prices were still climbing. when we bid farewell to the m

. >> reporter: even states that have seen traditionally lower prices, colorado and wyoming, gas is more than $3 a gallon. 3.75 in hawaii with alaska and california not far behind. >> i'm paying 4.10. >> reporter: oil prices would have to jump a lot higher before regular reaches $4 a gallon. university of california energy institute director telling the "san francisco chronicle" the last time gas hit $4 a gallon oil was $130 a barrel. but he added that saudi arabia should be taken offline prices would double at least. motorists once again may be feeling trapped by things they can't control but at least this time around, ann, they are driving full efficient cars. >> we have changed some things. don knapp in san francisco. thank you. >>> it will be a new bay area icon when it is finished and tomorrow the suspension tower of the new bay bridge will take a giant step toward completion. crews will hoist a massive new section of the tower into place. it will boost the structure up to 480 feet. 45 feet short of its final height of 525 feet. the operation will begin in the morning and continue a

when you consider how cold it is today in wyoming and in montana and in denver, the high temperaturesng to be minus 2, it's really hard to complain. forecast for wednesday well, actually begin to warm it up a little bit. 64 in l.a. 48 in phoenix, and 46, a pair of them up there, in seattle and portland. weather stays nice right through the middle of this week. >>> if you are watching us on kcra 3 sacramento, california, see how west african art has inspired local artists here at home from wearable art to woven quilt at mud cloth madness at the crocker art museum. that's it for the pacific event of the day. >> thanks so much. now here's an early look at this morning's headlines and entertainment. once billed as an ammicable split now halle barry and her ex are headed for the custody battle. her rep told tmz has she has serious concerns for her daughter's well being during any extended time with ex-boyfriend gabriel aubry. catherine heigl has been hired to replace berry in "new year's eve." barbara bush has broken ranks with father and former president george w. bush calling on new york

in wyoming, the university of wyoming conducted a survey and 68% of the people in my home state want this law repealed. the people of wyoming have great concerns about the unfairness of the law. people on medicare, our seniors who rely on medicare, are concerned with the unfair fairness of a law -- unfairness of a law that takes ove over $500 million from them, from our seniors on medicare, not to help medicare, not to save medicare, not to secure medicare, but to start a whole new government-entitlement program for someone else. let's look at the specific cuts to medicare. $155 billion from hospitals. $202 billion from the 11 million seniors on medicare advantage. and there's an advantage to medicare advantage, that's why so many seniors have signed up for it. nearly $15 billion from nursing homes. another $40 billion from home health agencies. and $7 billion from hospice. now, the president the other night in the state of the union said if you have some ideas on ways to get down the cost of care and improve care, i want to listen. republicans have been bringing ideas to the floor d

a communicate with the wyoming. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you. download the official t. up location on the phone pod touch from the. lights on the go. video on demand. smiling old calls and says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the. plane. her. street still keeps secrets but it's time to feel. the soviet silence the key to. life long long to. hard news top stories making leaks founder julian assange on extradition trial has been postponed two weeks into whether he'll be sent to sweden where he's wanted on sex crime allegations. lead weight and maybe just a short stocky. died in league cables on cover an american at. end up behind a swedish wiretapping wall that might allow washington to press espionage charges on the whistleblower. and egypt bracing itself for the hardest protests in anti-government andress began two weeks ago president mubarak has reiterated he won't step down until september and the country's military has vowed to support him . also russia warns japan against pushing forward it's a tough stance on the grio islands a t

senator simpson search in wyoming for more than two decades. he was a forceful voice for common sense and public policy. his wife and is with us. are moderate. moderator is the presence of the ncpa, john goodman. he often appears on cable and network news. his columns appear in several national news outlets. if you could please join the staff in welcoming senator alan bowles.and ersjubkine >> even though it is snowing outside, i am happy to give you that warm welcome. in the time we have been here, i have not noticed a single cross were between the two of you. why are you so different from everyone else in washington? >> when you are associated with someone, you learn about friendship. when we started this, this was a suicide mission. it still is. erskine said, what are you doing? i said, by then -- biden called. the first call i received was from bob dole. it took us three months to establish trust and our commission. it is stressed. that is the kind of the role in politics. it is very tarnished right now in washington. once we decided we are

getting the recovery voice out there is an important goal of friends and neighbors in rock springs, wyoming. the celebrate recovery walk and rally in lansing, michigan, commemorated the successes of those recovering from addictions to alcohol and other drugs. participants joined together and marched to the state capital for a celebration featuring guest speaker and advocate, kitty dukakis. recovery friends and advocates in honolulu, hawaii, participated in a charity recovery walk and 5k run. following the run, attendees enjoyed music, food, popsicles, volleyball, and fellowship. members of the daytona beach, florida, community celebrated recovery with a motorcycle ride, entertainment, testimonies, and information on supportive services. the free celebration started with a bike ride to the beautiful halifax river for a dare extreme stunt rider show with a prevention message to young people. also included in the event was a talent contest, toys for kids, food, and fun! mohave county substance abuse treatment education and prevention partnership and the kingman area meth coalition hosted a par

but what it was was a militarily-dominant power from the wind river mountains of wyoming where they had been an insignificant power. but they got the horse, they swept south, and the reason for that 250,000 square mile empire as i call it, they challenge for the richest buffalo plains in the country. that's what it was. in other words, if you were the strongest tribe, what would you want? you would want the richest buffalo plain. so think amarillo. that's where it was, the southern plains. so they say they called the comanches the lords of the southern plains, well, that's what it was. that fateful day in 1836 when they raided parkers fort, the parkers touched that empire that, of course, didn't look like the roman empire. these are nomadic people. you couldn't see them, you couldn't find them, you couldn't go to a village and burn it down as you could with east coast indians. >> they touched it in such a way that though they had a fort, they were miles and miles away from any support. they were out there kind of, literally, on their own. having no idea what would certainly befall them.

-- however one of the republican head of that bipartisan commission former senator since then of wyoming loved his budget. >> the point being that he tiptoed around everything that had to do with entitlement, that had to do with tax reform, defense, he just -- >> the hard choices. >> he specifically cut defense thank god because we could afford to do that. >> you were worried about the value of the dollar going down. the average person in my neighborhoods wants the dollar they want a job. what this budget does is make sure that we have some investments in there for job creation. if we want to be able to compete in the global marketplace, we have to outinnovate, we have to outbuild and do that to get americans back to work when we do that then we'll have more taxpayers putting revenue in to the system. balancing the budget is more than about cutting. when we gave massive tax cuts to millionaires we hurt that imbalance even more. >> i want to jump in here. both sides here pretty much represent what's going on in congress. how are -- how are you all going to get together? [laughter] >> let

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he also is medical director of wyoming's local health fairs. no federal government money involved to provide low-cost screening to wyoming citizens. his colleagues have demonstrated their confidence in him that as a newly elected senator, relatively newly elected, elected in 2008, an overwhelming majority, he's serving on -- in leadership as vice chairman. senate republican conference. so no one should tell dr. barroso that he doesn't know what he's talking about when he knows -- talks about health care. he's been a leader and continues to be a leader in the fight to repeal obama care. he has introduced legislation to provide flexibility and freedom in health care. and every week, since this legislation passed, he has gone to the senate floor to provide a second opinion on this legislation. and the destructive effect it is going to have on seniors and young people and families and taxpayers and freedom-loving citizens. please join me in welcoming dr. and senator john barroso. [applause] >> well, thank you, incredible introduction. i'm going to

[applause] at that point, i was the congressman from wyoming. wyoming only had one congressman. small delegation, but we liked it that way. we ended up, i ended up serving in the house of republican leadership for the eight years the president was in the white house. those were great days. we had ronald reagan and people like frank working for him and many other close friends. we had some great folks up on capitol hill. these days at a distance of more than a generation, even liberal commentators reminisce about the reagan years in a way that does not always ring true to me. they speak of it as a gentler time in politics when supposedly debates were more cordial and opponents on capitol hill were unfailingly civil and respectful towards the president. i hope i am not disillusioning anyone, but i do not quite remember it that way. [laughter] in some cases, there was a cordiality that did allow for bigger accomplishments. the speaker and president got together to save social security from collapse. president reagan also had to deal with some tougher players. if they had warm feeli

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i am from wyoming. if you do not carry wyoming, you are toast, anyway. there are only three electoral votes. we went through that whole exercise and he listened. karl agreed with me. [laughter] i went back to dallas and within a day or two, it was the governor saying that he wanted me to run. i often had the suspicion that he never really gave up after that first meeting earlier in the year and that he always had it in his mind he has never had knitted it to me. maybe he will after he sees this. [laughter] the thing that changed my mind was that i worked with him over a time frame of a few months where i heard and i could observe his mind working about what he wanted in a vice president and what he was looking for. this was a guy who was not going down the normal path of picking vice-president sberg you pick a guy like lyndon johnson and then you bury him someplace. they did not even let him go to meetings with the senate democrats when he was vice president. this-a vice-president and get them out of the way and have them attend funerals. he was off read

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the gentlelady from wyoming is recognized. mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. chairman. first of all i want to thank you personally as well as your colleague from utah, mr. chaffetz, also mrs. mcmorris rodgers of washington, for your work on this amendment. the continuing resolution as written would reinstate a 2009 fish and wildlife determination that the gray wolf in montana and idaho should be removed from the endangered species list. this amendment would replace that 2009 determination with an earlier approved fish and wildlife determination, the one made in 2008. and that expands the scope of delisting of the gray wolf to include the full range of the northern rockies wolf. you know, mr. chairman, after gray wolves were introduced in 1995 into yellowstone national park in my home state and placed on the endangered species list under section 10-j which is the nonessential experimental population section of the endangered species act, a list was determined about what it would take to recover the species, when would we consider it recovered. and it was determined by ex

i am from cody, wyoming, the heart of the greatest fields in the country. elk basin, oregon basin. let me tell you, there are things in there that are not really needed there are 180 of them. parking employees? where did that come from. you could get rid of every one of them and -- give the little guy break on the whole industry. 12% underrefundable tax credit really does help the little guy. not $1 million in interest for two homes. we say $500,000 for one home. the one you live in. now you're taking on the national association of realtors. across the street from our office. our office had no sign. we live in a cave and two employees and a bunch of the 500,000 for the year and they came over and left. they said you really got one here. you would never get to first base. let me tell you you're going to get to second base. we never promised anything but moving the ball five yards down the field and we moved a lot more than five yards. [applause] >> last question for erskine bowles. what is the biggest problem with democrats? >> spending. biggest problem with democrats is spending. m

he also as medical director of wyoming's local health care.deral government money involved to provide a low-cost screening is to wyoming citizens. his colleagues have demonstrated their competence in them that as a newly elected senator, relatively newly elected, elected by an overwhelming majority, he is serving as vice chairman of the senate republican congress. no one should tell dr. barrasso that he does not know what he's talking about when he talks about health care. he has been a leader and continues to be a leader in the fight to repeal obama care. he has introduced legislation to provide flexibility and freedom and health care. every week since this legislation passed he has gone to the senate floor to provide a second opinion on this legislation. the distrust of fact it is going to have on seniors and ten people and family and taxpayers and freedom-loving citizens. please join me in welcoming dr. and senator john barrasso. at back. [applause] [applause] >> thank you for that incredible introduction. i want to tell you the topic here

country having defeated mexico, tour from mexico california, new mexico, present states, arizona, wyoming, parts of colorado, utah, and enormous tract of land. and the south, having done so much to acquire that territory, felt that it had a right to bring its slaves into that territory. slavery was protected under the constitution. and what makes the constitution so remarkable is that it is nothing more than a package of compromises, on almost everything. they disagreed, you take any issue, there would be disagreement. and if one side imposes its will, it's not going to last. you have to get both sides to agree. how do you do that? henry clay argued that in a real compromise there are no losers. everybody, every side has to feel that there is something that they are getting, that they need, that they want. and in order to get that something, they have to agree to give the other side something that it wants. let me read you what henry clay had to say about compromises. he said, compromise -- politics is not about ideological purity or moral self-righteousness. it is about governing. and if

senator simpson served from wyoming for more than two decades while he was in the senate. he forced a well-deserved reputation as being a forceful voice for common sense and public policy. his wife anne is with us and we appreciate you being here. our moderator is president of the ncpa, john goodman, the father of health savings accounts. his blog has over 1300 readers every day. we would like for you to be among them. he often appeals and cable network news and his columns appear in several national newspapers and other on-line media. would you please join dr. goodman and all the staff of the ncpa in welcoming dr. erskine bowles and senator alan simpson? [applause] kine bowles. >> even though it is snowing outside, i am happy to give you >> alan simpson you are a republican and erskine bowles you are a democrat and i have not noticed a single crossword between you. why are you to go so different for everyone in washington? >> when you are associated with someone especially in a time of tension and trauma, you learn about friendship. when we started this, this was a suicid

in places like wyoming or alabama. host: you have said that they have not embraced the "politically risky," using your words, behavior. guest: right, they have not taken on the collective bargaining when they will not be able to take on that fight. -- arwin mnf-i. the governor of iowa, -- not going to be able to win that fight. the governor of iowa has said that he would like to change collective bargaining, but democrats control the state senate. he is realistic in that he would not be able to win that fight, so why even started? -- start it? host: the last two years they received of to $105 billion in federal funds. that money will not be here this year. guest: and that is a huge problem. 25 new governors were elected this last november. while there are some partisan activities between the republicans and democrats, there are a lot of panels to talk about issues like this. if you talk to republican governors privately, they will of knowledge that stimulus money was clutch in helping them felder shortfalls -- fill the

that is key the one on the surface in parts of nevada and wyoming. clear skies.t the surface not too bad. northeast. north at santa rosa. fairfield as 21 miles per hour. i have seen some of the forecasted projections. i do my own forecasted highs. i have seen some that said 58 and 59 yet the low is 53. i'm going above that. 40s and 50s to start. not everybody is in there. there are 30s. good looking systems if you want rain. i know some of you do. it's not happening now. sunny and breezy. cool to mild lows. but very windy in the hills. that east wind coming right down out of the caldecott right above the caldecott means warm temperatures for some. richmond 68 degrees. we will go 70 in santa rosa. i have seen 20s, 30s, and 40s. 70 in downtown oakland. alameda 68. walnut creek at 64. 64 morgan hill to gilroy. 65 sunny vail. and 67 for half-moon bay. it will be sunny. low 60s and mid 60s. warmer weather arrives. >> sounds good. >>> air fares are going up. jet blue is the first airline to add a fuel charge. it's charging a $35 fee for one way tickets. it's likely oth

constitution is set up a few live in california you have one 12th of the senate and if you live in wyoming. but yet the most underpopulated states in america are also the most conservative so over and over those 40 republican senators to represented 32% of the population could frustrate the will of the majority. there was nothing obama's could do about it. i work at the nation may be the most conservative person but people laugh when i say that but it is true. there were people on my left who would criticize to say they should just demand the democrats pass health care with but public option were passed a carbon tax but yet there is no way for a president to do that anymore. presidents have no power over individual senators are congressmen because they raise their own money. unfortunately the tea party movement on the right which is threatened republican politicians don't vote the way they want them too and will run primaries against them and will beat them as a result. if there were no tea party is the senate would be in the republican hands today but nothing like that on the left. and th

[applause] at that point i was a congressman from wyoming. wyoming only has one congressman. a small delegation but we like it that way. and i ended up serving in the house republican leadership all of the eight years that the president was in the white house and those were great days when we had republican presidents and a leader like ronald reagan and people like frank working for him and so many other close friends and when we had some great folks up on capitol hill as well too. these days at a distance of more than a generation, even liberal leaning commentators reminiscing about the reagan years ain a way that doesn't always ring true to me, they speak of it as a gentler time in politics when supposedly debates were more cordial and opponents on capitol hill were unfailingly civil and respectful towards the president. i'm hope i'm not disillusioning anyone but i don't quite remember it that way. in some cases there was the cordialty that did allow for some big accomplishments. when the president and speaker o'neill got together and saved the social security system from c

the argument goes that they were sent to camps in wyoming, not the ovens. wartime, no one could have done their fate for certain. we did not know. if we want to indulge in blaming all of the people of germany we must be very clear about what their crime was. when they permitted their neighbors to be rounded up and shifted away they send. their offense is little different from the actions of the californians and by extension all americans. if our treatment of the japanese ended less terrifically than the treatment of the jews, that is a blessing, not make skiers. as you may recall, the congress got around to apologizing in 1988. they offered a minimal monetary restitution for their losses. that congress refused for several years to make a similar apology to the charities. the other indian tribes that had been victimized, swindled and mistreated by our government. republican senator sam brownback of kansas first introduced an apology as legislation in 2004, but it kept being tabled. and that bill was finally passed five years later as an amendment to the defe

they built a library in every county in wyoming. they built this or they did this. now a days we have people in the higher echelon that take care of themselves first. and that just irritates the american people more than you can ever know when they read that the guys that got the money gave the bonuses to a bunch of jerks who tell people if it weren't for us you would really be broke. that is arrogance. it is out there. people are fed up with it. they are tired of it. that is not good. not good at all. >> short question, short answer. go ahead. what do you think of the fair tax and if it is a good idea is there any chance it would be passed? >> i babbled last. you can go. >> we had some people come to us and talk about the fair tax, some talked about the flat tax. we wanted to keep some progress itchity in the tax code. we thought that was the right thing to do. we had three break points. we also had a proposal to cap revenue at 21% of g.d.p. i think you had one of your writers say the most it ought to ever be is 23% of g.d.p. we tried to keep the amount of money th

temperatures in the single digits, subzero windchi today over parts of montana and thedc dakotas and wyoming. meanwhile, a high of 40 in chicago, you'll get some snow tonight. just down the road in st. louis, it warms up dramatically, 70 degrees, 73 in oklahoma city, 36 in new york city with windchills in the 20s today. that's your weather. now, here's lester. >>> up next, abducted at sea. the latest on the americans ed after this. [music playing] confidence available in color. depend® colors for women. looks and fits like underwear. protects like nothing else. depend®. good morning. great day. ["stir it up" playing] stir up a smile with hershey's syrup. >>> this morning we're learning much more about the americans hijacked by somali pirates in the indian ocean. u.s. officials are now considering how to respond. nbc george lewis reports. >> reporter: these photos from scott and jean adams' website show the couple on an adventure of a lifetime. as they traveled, they handed out donated bibles. ironically, jean wrote, we expect this trip to hold some unexpected surprises. now, the management o

also saw my family get behind and derail part of the rate of her body in a small town in western wyomingn do this. folks, you can do this. you are just going to have to work together. you're exactly right. government doesn't know how to educate our children. right now we are the second highest in the world for expenditure. do we get the second best results? absolutely not. the relationship isn't just about money. i can tell you that because i've got a wonderful public education from a small podunk little town in western wyoming called pinedale. my sophomore year, by -- they ran out of math and sciences and yet i saw some administrators reach out to the private sector, and agencies frankly where i got to work with, i got to work with the game and fish. for two years i got scholarships on it. i understand aquatic biology. i got to run the equipment so that when i went to college and the instructor did not run the equipment, i did. so don't tell me you can't get that kind of an education from a public institution. you better. i've seen it. i'm the first of ten kids. and i see excellence all

reports clinton's husband has left his job at a new york city hedge fund to take off and go skiing in wyoming few months. the former first daughter will reportedly visit her hubby mark every few weeks. the two were married last summer at a top secret ceremony, very fanscy . the couple has not commented on the situation. >> i mean, look at her parents. hillary clinton and bill, i mean, spent a lot of time apart. >> yeah. >> for different reasons. >> he is having a quarter life crisis maybe? >> maybe so. >>> it is 5:27. coming up, we are continuing to monitor the situation in egypt where thousands are flooding into cairo. >> and to tax or not to tax. governor jerry brown gives an ultimatum to californians in his state of the state address. what could happen if we don't sign off on tax increases. >>> the exodus from egypt. the latest on the evacuation of americans including those from the bay area. that's coming up. >>> imagine never finding another one of these on your doorstep again. it could happen soon in san francisco. we'll tell you who is fighting the ban and why. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, never

i have to tell you, we saw a lot of that in wyoming, st. louis, ohio on our trip out here.re in one of the biggest storms in decades. you will never forget that trip, i'm sure, frank! glad to have you aboard here. if you are headed out this morning, you're running into cool temperatures maybe some patchy frost, looking good though. check out the skies nice and clear right now no fog to speak of either. and not as much winds. so maybe a gentle sea breeze in the afternoon but overall less wind and temperatures warming up nicely around the bay area. a little cool in spots, though, 30s and 40s early on. clear to the interior valleys and back to the coast. toward the afternoon, here comes that sunshine again. and yeah, these numbers are going to be fairly similar to yesterday but without the wind going to feel more comfortable outside. mid-60s in some of the warmer spots around the bay area. high pressure still in control here. looks like it's going to hold on for at least a couple more days. then toward the weekend, this thing will start to weaken somewhat and the jet stream wi

live in california, you have 1/12th of the united states senate than you would have if you lived in wyoming. and yet the most underpopulated states in america are also the most conservative states. so over and over those 40 republican senators who represent barely 30, 32% of the population were able to frustrate the will of the majority. and there wasn't anything obama could do about it. i work at the nation. i may be the most conservative person at the nation. but people laugh when i say that. but it's true. and there were a lot of sort of people on my left who would -- who would criticize obama saying he should just demand that the democrats pass health care with a public hospitalization they should just demand that they pass a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade. and yet there's no way for a president to do that anymore. presidents can't -- presidents have no power over individual senators in congress because individual senators and congressmen raise their own money and, unfortunately, there's this, you know, tea party movement on the right which does actually threaten republican politicians w

was 90 miles away, and eventually is going to get on the train in cheyenne and go out to western wyoming where he was scheduled to command an expedition against indians. so he was off the poster just no longer the senior officer, crook, whose plant was. but bradley was the senior officer and he basically said no. no know, we're not going to kill this guy. and he asked he said his life is as sweet to him as mine is to be. quite a remarkable moment. so, they did place him under arrest. they were under orders from general sheridan from chicago who was the commander of the army of the west. they had no choice but to do that. from their point of view it seems like a rational thing to do, get him away from his dangers easily inflamed situation, but he wasn't really at that point things just went wrong, and it was really an assassination. >> in your treaties of the magic course, did you interpret him as being all indian? remember mary, the strange man of oglala. he didn't do any and think that he didn't do any sundance. he didn't fire his rifle like he was off like a white man. mother and fathe

north and south dakota, montana and wyoming are not served by at&t wireless creating a big iphone deads in those states reportedly were stocked up and ready to go this morning. interesting. >> yeah, i mean, for the folks that had at&t, this is finally the day for them with verizon. >>> let's go to christina to take a look at the chilly places in the 20s. >> gilroy and santa rosa are in the 20s. we'll warm to the 60s later on. rain arrives just in time for valentine's day. keep that in mind as you make your plans. 65 in napa later on under full sunshine. 56 in san rafael. san francisco is at 64 degrees later today. it is mild along the peninsula this morning with temperatures climbing after the sun rises at 7:16. we are looking good. we also have a big fund-raiser happening in san francisco at 11:30. we would love to see you there. if you want more information on the heroes and hearts luncheon, log on to bay area proud on facebook. we have fog in san francisco trying to get around the city this morning, huh, mike? >>> yes, you talked about the luncheon, but we have to get through the mo