congressman because of what nancy pelosi did? >>> next, conservatives eating their own. here's stephen colbert who called out republicans for health care obstruction and in turn got himself fired from his position at the right wing american enterprise institute. >> i have to correct you on something you said off the bat. i'm not a conservative apostate. i am a conservative and a republican and remain one. >> no, you are not. you have been cast into the darkness where there will be weeping and mashing of teeth. >> i don't accept the verdict of the membership committee. >> that's why you are tossed out. you have to accept what the members say. that's conservatism. there is an authority and there is a -- everyone thinks one thing at a time. that's how you stop health care. >> we didn't, did we? >> no thanks to you, sir. >> as the saying goes, democrats fall in love and conservatives fall in line. >>> now for the "number." it's the expletive heard around the world. catch president obama yesterday in boston talking up health care. >> as joe biden said who has a way with words

it's not easy following the comedic stylings of nancy pelosi. speaker pelosi mentioned that i am a leader -- i am actually the fourth ranking in the republican leadership did you have me, eric cantor republican whip, leader banner, and then there is rush limbaugh. brush called me earlier today from the doctor's office in costa rica. [laughter] speaking about health care, you have to admit it was a controversial bill. some of the provisions in that bill were just on tellable to the republican leadership. come on, nancy. you had to know that john boehner was never going to stand for that tax on tanning beds. [laughter] i get it. they pass the bill, president obama bills like he's got some momentum going, so he is trying to coopt some of our initiatives. the one that surprised me recently what the president's proposal for offshore drilling. i just never thought he really understood the concept. not to drill in part, but for a guy who walks on water, the whole concept of offshore would be difficult for him to understand. [laughter] i know you think

but as painful as it was, the truth is that the actions taken by speaker nancy pelosi, majority leader harry reid, and the obama administration are going to make the tax days of the future much, much worse. president obama has signed 25 tax increases passed by the democratically-controlled congress into law that will cost families and small- business people more than $670 billion over the next 10 years. many of these break the president's campaign promise not to raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year. in the house, speaker pelosi and her majority have passed legislation that will result in more than $1 trillion -- that is with a "t" -- in net tax increases. tax increases are the symptom. runaway spending is washington's disease. the democrats control every lever of power in washington and they have never met a tax they did not like or found a dollar they could not spend. their economic plan -- you pay, they spend, and your children owe. you deserve better. speaking of your children, the deficits left in the wake of president obama is the agenda now stand at $1.50 tril

pelosi are allowed to go on business trips. i'd like to see us down to 5% unemployment in bush years and people steam to forget in the bush years we had good employment. >> neil:'s right about all of the above. i guess i'd like to see it more widely spread. i'm happy we're seeing more hospitality workers and for example, more drive through help here, but i'd like to see it-- the riches spread. >> you won't because you're going to see government jobs, government jobs, government jobs because these numbers illustrate what's going to happen in not just the months, but years to come. >> neil: but the census thing doesn't last too long. >> no, it doesn't, but you're having-- we have bigger government, new fuel economy standards this week, intrusion. new health care law, that's going to be years of government job creation. but the government sucking vital resources away from the private sector. so, i'd be careful-- >> i wonder why the industry is not hiring, your industry, charles, it's not willy nilly hiring that's the bigger part o

going so say one simple thing to nancy pelosi, give me that damn gavel! >> ge, w what a tough, tough guy. yeah i'm sure he's going to get a gavel from nancy pelosi. that went viral? it went viral in a lot of places i could think of in georgia and the panhandle of florida. give me a break. is this supposed to be a tough talking guy, you think this is good? >> sean: you are missing the point. she's not going to be speaker. >> i love this, -- [ talking over each other ] >> you guys shouldn't be talking about campaigning you have never been involved, you may have been at a fundraiser at the country club. >> sean: why are you so hostile tonight? >> this guy has not yet got elected. he's not getting elected. >> he got his 15 minutes. sean is giving it to him. >> i would not be surprised if democrats go after colonel west on the grounds he's inciting violence. you saw the former president today attempt to squelch speech by relating it or equating it with -- shut up you're dangerous. [ talking over each other ] >> sean: everybody on this panel, every conservative

nancy pelosi is promising you the mean. there's talk there's going to be a kickback to bart stupak and the other 11 of 3.8 billion dollars -- see that? >> i don't understand what kind of pressure would make you change your mind on a moral issue such as that i can't understand why he would cave like that i brief in my values. somebody offering me money or position is not going to change my view. >> sean: wait a minute, if they offered you the cornhusker kickback if they offered you the louisiana purchase, offered you trillions for the stay of michigan, you couldn't -- you wouldn't feel any pressure? >> if they are going to try to change my values, i'm staying with my values. i don't think i can bought like that [ applause ] >> what can they offer you to make you change your values? >> sean: isn't that what we saw? we saw intimidation, bullying and bribery. you're a doctor you spent most of your life trying to help people stay healthy and alive. >> correct. >> sean: what did you think of the process, bullying, intimidation an

house speaker nancy pelosi over her vote on the health care reform debate. police arrested giusti after he made dozens of threatening calls to pelosi's home and office. he even had a conversation with pelosi on the telephone telling her if she ever wanted to see her home again, she should vote against the health care bill. >>> two officers were honored for helping to solve the murders of three children. they received the i wards for the key roles they played in investigating the deaths of children last year. batcho helped get a confession from myers, convicted of setting his girlfriend's house on fire killing her two daughters. and fogel ran the search operation for sarah foxwell. she was abducted and killed in december. >>> baltimore police commissioner has suspended the weekly meeting where commanders share intelligence and pour over statistics. it's known as comstat and it has been a key part of the crime fighting strategy since 1999 when it was introduced by then mayor martin o'malley. a department spokesman says comstat has become stale and laborious an

you have a low c and boehner -- you have pelosi and boehner. if i go to the store, it is thean annoyance if i have to che between between prego and other brands. i did not want to have to choose between a good and evil sauce. >> let's stop there and find out what you are talking about. >> the gentleman is recognized for one minute. ♪ climate change bill >> let's get our beat on. >> it is time to stand up and say that we get to choose. liberty or tyranny. >> mediocrity. >> the underlying bill represents the tyranny of the government. what will we choose to do? >> it is our choice to do what we choose. will we choose liberty or will we choose tyrany? >> just remember these words -- jobs, jobs, jobs let's vote for jobs say aye >> no, no, no, no. >> the fight that we have between the two sides >> [unintelligible] >> freedom will allow the american people to live their lives. >> americans will flourish and freedom will flourish. >> i am not wired to operate under the same old politics as usual. >> i have determined to transfer the authority of gov

nancy pelosi's backyard. look at this, otherwise liberal bay area you have thousands of people not just at this tea party but tea parties all over the bay area saying we need a reset. >> we are concerned about what is happening with our government, what we see taking place with our government and our leadership, the administration and it is time it. >> reporter: republican candidate fiorina, is it your sense the republican candidates have to reach out to this group if they are going get elected? >> i think all of these people are critical to win any election. this sent men to the ballot box in november? >> yes, you can't fix stupid, but you can vote them out. >> reporter: [ inaudible ] mary why are you out here protesting? >> i wouldn't say weç are protesting the tea partiers we are protesting -- it is tax day and we feel that corporations need to pay their fair share. billions of tax breaks and haven't been accountable to the number of jobs that it has created. >> reporter: it would not be a tea party with

only 28% think they should be reelected. >> no question the pelosi congress, pelosi house and the reid senate are the most unpopular ever. the numbers are out the bottom. people don't dislike president obama. they dislike his policy. they are not against him, they know that the policies that he's -- [ inaudible ] >> sean: is it all about obama -- did he run as a different type of candidate? he read his teleprompter well, people were fainting in large news anchors around the country getting thrills up and down their leg every time he spoke. we only have one unscripted moment. we are going to spread the wealth. run as a different candidate? >> no question people heard the policies pursued are the biggest lurch to the left american political history. there has never been as left wing a president of the united states. those policies are what help -- people know we can't spend ourselves rich, sean. they know 3.8 trillion dollar budget with a 1.6 billion dollar deficit, in 1997 the whole budget wasn't -- [ inaudible ] >> sean: you were there in 1994. did a lot of research about the contract,

of congress that made this day possible, and i'm going to mainly sing aloud praises to speaker nancy pelosi -- [cheers and applause] today, we market and important milestone on the road to health insurance reform and higher education reform. but more broadly, this day affirms our ability to overcome the challenges of our politics and meet the challenges of our time. when i took office, one of the questions that we needed to answer is whether it was still possible to make government responsive to the needs of everyday people, middle class americans, the backbone of this country, or whether the special interests or lobbyists will continue to hold sway like they have done it many times before. and that is a test of the next one week ago when health insurance reform became the law of the land in the united states of america. [applause] and it is a test we met later in the week when congress passed a higher education reforms that will have a tremendous impact on working families and america's future. that is two major victories in one week that will improve the lives of our people for generation

he said no to nancy pelosi, didn't want to walk the plank again. sources say he really was more burned out than anything. he's a tough and resilient man, a state trooper in michigan, actually injured on the job in 2000. his 17-year-old son committed suicide on mother's day and he still found the courage to go back to congress and work with the fda about a prescription drug his son was on and get it more regulated. he's someone that absolutely dealt with adversity throughout his career. he's not one to back down from a challenge. that being said, he spoke to his family, decided he didn't want to go for another term in 2010. overall, though, the political landscape, contessa, for democrats they were expecting more retirements during this recess period. recess is when people like to make these announcements. for them to only have one is not too bad. that puts the number at 16 democratic retirements in the house, 19 republican. it will be interesting to see who stupak ends up endorsing in his district because the front-runner is a pro-choice democrat b

only 28% think they should be reelected. >> no question the pelosi congress, pelosi house and the reid senate are the most unpopular ever. the numbers are out the bottom. people don't dislike president obama. they dislike his policy. they are not against him, they know that the policies that he's -- [ inaudible ] >> sean: is it all about obama -- did he run as a different type of candidate? he read his teleprompter well, people were fainting in large news anchors around the country getting thrills up and down their leg every time he spoke. we only have one unscripted moment. we are going to spread the wealth. run as a different candidate? >> no question people heard the policies pursued are the biggest lurch to the left american political history. there has never been as left wing a president of the united states. those policies are what help -- people know we can't spend ourselves rich, sean. they know 3.8 trillion dollar budget with a 1.6 billion dollar deficit, in 1997 the whole budget wasn't -- [ inaudible ] >> sean: you were there in 1994. did a lot of research about the contract,

the manmade dozens of calls to pelosi's home and actually got through to her. the speaker has an unlikely defender. senator tom coburn saying pelosi is a niece lady. >> i'm 180 degrees in opposition of the speaker. she's a nice lady. come on now. she's a nice person. just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they're not a good person. and i want to tell you i've been in the senate for five years and i've taken a lot of that, because i've been on the small side both in the republican party and the democrat party. just because i don't agree with them doesn't mean i'm bad. don't catch yourself being biased by fox news that somebody is no good. the people in washington are good. they just don't know what they don't know. >> senator coburn is up for re-election. >>> tiger woods makes his return to masters golf. today has been about the buzz about his return to advertising that uses the voice of the golfer's late father, earl woods. >> tiger, i am more prone to be inquisitive to promote discussion. i want to find out what your thinking was. i want to find

you'll here this conservative senator defending nancy pelosi. and also doing a little nudge at fox news. let's watch. well that was a fresh bit of air. i'm sure he'll get some cat calls for his chiflry, but he'll feel better about what he said about the speaker than those who said about the cat calls being who they are. >>> last night, jon stewart did his job while delivering a late hit on a certain former u.s. president. >> is a rare politician willing to accept responsibility for fraud. >> this fraud has been done by the foreigners. >> what the -- you're blaming us for conspireing to get you, hamid karzai, re-elected as president? i believe the term you were looking for was thank you. hamid, say it ain't so. >> well, it seems that president karzai is backtracking on his words. what he told hillary clinton by phone was he didn't mean it like that. >> you know, i don't think there's any woman in the world who has had more late night, baby, you know i didn't mean it like that, phone calls, than hillary clinton. come on, baby. you know i love u.s.

. >>> we begin with threats made against nancy pelosi. law enforcement officials telling nbc news tonight that the fbi has arrested a northern california man, a san francisco man, for making multiple, threatening phone calls to speaker pelosi and to her husband. federal officials say the man made dozens of phone calls to her home in california, to her home in washington, d.c., and to her husband's business office approximate the charges remain under seal, but a federal official tells pete williams that the man will be charged with violating a federal law against making calls that annoy, abuse, threaten or harass. it's a charge that carries a maximum two-year prison sentence. according to this official who spoke with nbc, the calls were so numerrous, the decision was made that something had to be done. the associated press also quoting unnamed federal officials tonight as saying that in the threatening calls, the man recited speaker pelosi's home address and said that if she ever wanted to see her home again, she would stop health reform.

you have nancy pelosi. if i go to the store, it is an annoyance if i have to choose between between prego and other brands. >> let's stop there and find out what you are talking about. >> the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> let's get our beat on. >> it is time to stand up and say that we get to choose. >> mediocrity. >> it is our choice to do what we choose. will we choose liberty or will we choose tyrany? >> no, no, no, no. >> [unintelligible] >> i have determined to transfer the authority of governor to lt. gov. parnell. >> the people like her. >> what about vicodin and percoset? >> wake up. wake up. one day [unintelligible] >> wake up, wake up, yeah. >> waking up, waking up, waking up. waking up in a strange arena to die. >> there is a lot on that screen. if you don't pay attention, you will miss it. what is the point? >> there is actually zero point there. the reason that that is there, we used the same background as the previous episode. >> our most devoted fans will catch us when we use pie

now they're in washington and taking their message to house speaker nancy pelosi. tracee wilkins is live in northwest washington. >> reporter: protesters were right outside of the hilton just a little while ago. they have moved on down connecticut avenue. things are back to normal here. today they were here sending a national message. that being disabled shouldn't equal being institutionalized. their early morning arrival caused some traffic backups downtown as more than 300 disabled protesters made their way up pennsylvania avenue. >> keep your promise? >> their destination, they had a special message for speaker of the house nancy pelosi who was attending the american hospital association conference. >> we are going to be after her until she continues -- or until she comes around and supports us. >> reporter: these activists are members of a national grass roots disability rights organization. as it stands, the state has to pay for nursing care for people who qualify or are disabled. these people say money should be going toward an in home care it's a bill they w

nancy pelosi walking across the lawn to congress was a show in itself. to see her walking with that giant gavel between all those people like they were looking for something to happen. i think that -- it is just not right what they are doing right now. they are trying to antagonize the good people of this country. >> greta: are your friends feeling the same as you are softened a little bit or harsher you get into arguments how do you friends feel? >> i have one or two friends that were excited and thought it was great. most of my friends are worried about the future. definitely worried about the future with all the things that are going on in this bill. nancy pelosi said we'll find out what's in the bill once it is passed into law. i would never buy a car without test driving it and making sure i have the insurance and looking over that with a fine tooth comb. why would you institute something thank you don't know what's inside -- something that you don't know what's inside of it. >> greta: do you intend to be politically ive between now and november? >>

nancy pelosi at a republican town meeting in oklahoma. we're going to have that in the "sideshow." >>> but let me finish tonight by playing you that voice mail. that racist voice mail was left for u.s. congressman john lewis. and michele bachmann has been denying exists. we start with a death threat against senator patry murray of the state of washington. pete williams is nbc news justice correspondent. this is a crime. how serious is it, pete? >> it's very serious. a felony. threatening a member of congress in retaliation for what they do or threaten them to prevent them from doing something is punishable by ten years in prison. what federal authorities say is this man is charles allen wilson did is repeatedly call and leave messages on the seattle voicemail system of senator patty murray. his staff notified the fbi saying these guys call all the time but around the time of the health care bill his threats became serious into death threats. the fbi quotes him extensively from the voicemail messages in a federal indictment. he said if i h

he made dozens of calls to the home of house speaker nancy pelosi making verbal attacks described as extremely vulgar and crude. >>> it was no problem at all for rick and clayton anderson to lug a 1,700 pound tank this morning. they're just floating around. the two astronauts wrapped up a space walk after hooking up the tank to the international space station's cooling system. during another space walk on tuesday the old tank they replaced will be put in the shuffle "discovery"'s cargo bay for a return trip to earth. >>> a 16-year-old boy is going to court with his own mother over a fight involving facebook. denise nu of arkansas said her son was posting things on his account that would make your eyes pop out. he says he wrote things about driving in his car at nearly 100 miles an hour. one day when he did not log off mama posted things on his account then changed the password. the boy who lives with his grandmother decided to file a complaint. now his mom's been charged with harassment. yeah. and she talked about it on hln's "prime news." listen. >> we had a very good relationship.

. >>> y en otro ejemplo de lo difícil de este proceso, el presidente sabe que nancy pelosi aceptó votar una reforma antes de diciembre. >>> jorge, continuaaremos con la amplia cobertura después de la firma de la ley 1070. y vamos a enrique teutelo que conversará con una persona. >>> queríamos recordarles que durante esta tarde hubo una gran cantidad de personas protestando esto, y la mayor parte de estudiantes, y se vieron episodios de violencia no generados por ellos sino por personas que vinieron a hacer apologia de la firma, y esto hizo que haya habido encontronazos, y es importante que la gobernadora dijo que no se trata de una ley, ni que viola los derechos civiles, y no dijo cómo va a ser que un agente pueda reconocer si una persona es indocumentada o no, y dijo que ahora los sentimientos están algidos, y que no es momento de explicar esto. y nos acompaña alejandra soler, muchas gracias, y de la asociación de libertades civiles. y personas dicen que el solo hecho de detener a una persona se sospecha que está cometiendo un delito. >>> nunca permite que la policía pare a al

fired nancy pelosi -- fire nancy pelosi. [cheers and applause] fire her. i will tell you how to repealed and replaced the government-run health care system they just tried to put on us -- replace harry reid. [cheers and applause] it will take your help, your leadership, you're activism -- your activism, in order for us to take back our country from the brink of financial and social chaos, to take it back from the brink of economic rigidity. we can write her course, ladies and gentlemen, and prevent the cradle of future generations from being rocked by the hand of an opportunistic and materialistic government. washington cynicism needs to be replaced by the people's aspirations. that will only happen when you replace the people in washington. [applause] now, the electoral march is already on. for massachusetts, new jersey, virginia, the freedom agenda is winning the day with a winning message -- shrink government, lower taxes, give people back their freedom, their choices, for their families and their future. empower the job creators, instead of the politic

pelosi respondiÓ que asÍ lo cree. el presidente obama subrayo estados unidos arriesga una nueva crisis econÓmica si no es aprobada y exhortÓ a wall street a apoyarla. termos que pasar a una pausa comercial. tenemos la mÁs reciente sobre la explosiÓn en una plataforma petrolera, en el golfo de mÉxico. imÁgenes de la agresiÓn colectiva en la que fue vÍctima un policÍa en michigan. el vaticano negÓ que tuvo conocimiento alguno del abuso contra estudiantes sordos el sacerdote hace varias dÉcadas. ya volvemos. >> luego de una explosiÓn. >> de buenas noche, estÁn saliendo a relucir mÁs detalles de esta explosiÓn. no hubo indicios de que existiera una falla continÚa la búsqueda de 11 trabajadores desaparecidos. aumenta la preocupaciÓn por la contaminaciÓn del ocÉano. >> tras dos dÍas de arder en llamas y de desplazar columnas de humo, la plataforma de perforaciÓn petrolera, lentamente se hundiÓ. de la noche del martes cuando ocurriÓ la explosiÓn, la mayorÍa de los trabajadores escaparon sanos y salv

of making dozens of threatening phone calls to pelosi at her san francisco and washington homes. police say gusty spoke directly to pelosi at least once. >>> in afghanistan, a video believed to be from the taliban shows a captured american soldier condemning the war. during the recording, private beau bergdahl pleads for his release. he was taken captive last june. bergdahl appears in a beard and exercises on the tape. the last time the taliban released a tape of bergdahl was at christmas. the u.s. has no idea when this video was recorded. >>> rescue crews are ready for a difficult such of the upper big branch coal mine in west virginia this morning. early this morning they received the go ahead to enter and search for those four missing miners. work has been going on around the clock to ventilate the mine and release poisonous gases that are building up inside. >> we have to be able to say that it's safe for them to go in there. they typically would only advance at 1,000-foot increments. what we're looking at is about a 2,000-foot advance. so we want the air to be clear enough t

. >> congressional investigators questioned house majority leader steny hoyer and nancy pelosi. they want to know if talk democrats covered up information about whether eric master sexual harassed male staffers. he resigned last month over possible corruption allegations. a military jury found that a navy seal not guilty, one of three facing court-martials accused of punching an iraqi prisoner. straight ahead on abc7 news at noon, -- >> he is not a violent man. he has never heard me. >> but now her husband is accused of assaulting his wife in her sleep. could it really happen? -- in his sleep. could it really happen? -- in his sleep. could it really happen? and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar. where is that dollar? i got it out to show you... uhh... was it rather old and wrinkly? yeah, you saw it? umm fancy a crisp? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> a plan to combine two of the country's biggest airlines appears to be dead. this announcement comes after word that united and c

that's what president obama, speaker pelosi, harry reid want to serve to you. i think they don't realize that you are iq scores are well above average. we are on to them. we are on to this government and we are not going to let them have their way. they don't get to take over any more of our economy. we are done with that game. and if they want to believe they are the be all and end all the know better how to run our lives that we do then of course the need to have money to pay for it. but guess what lesson we just learned, government doesn't have money. they don't make money it is all of us, the private economy. we are the ones that make the money. we are the ones that are the producers, they are the consumers. they consumed what we produce and i see it is time for these little piggies to go home. [cheering] this nov that is where they are hit. so we are going to take all of our energy, all of our happiness, all of our enthusiasm and we are going to work positively to defeat their agenda this november.heing] i just found out this morning that i am the number o

fuel efficiency standards are set by charles schumer who lives in new york and nancy pelosi. they hate cars. these people hate cars. come out west. we drive 40 miles to get a pizza. the notion, you would be better off paying a gasoline tax and everybody would pay the same. the president's card gets about 10 miles per gallon. -- president's car gets about 10 miles per gallon. we should have taxes that incorporate the social cost of externality and the product -- in the products that consumers buy. consumers passing their private costs on to society as a whole. the question of identifying externalities is no easy thing. you can do it with as much accuracy as kent carroll browner identified the admissions from your lawn mower. here is the hard part. what you do with those externalities' are positive which gets you to the housing market. the housing market creates such bangst that i hesitate to do it. margaret thatcher preferred increasing home ownership. why? it produces positive externalities. it produces better schools. it produces a whole bunch of things which are not reflect

. >>> a man arrested for making obscene a threatening or harassing phone calls to nancy pelosi has been arraigned. fbi officials say he made numerous calls to california and washington offices and say he was upset over her role in health care reform bill. if convicted, he could face two years in prison. >>> a 12-year-old boy faces charges after he sexually assaulted a woman in a grocery store. he inappropriately touched the woman two separate times in manassas on monday. he will face a hearing in juvenile court. >>> higher fares vs service cuts, people who use the metro would prefer to pay more. a new on-line survey by metro shows a large majority support a price increase for bus and rail service. 71% support a peak fare surcharge during the height of rush hour. >>> the moment that so many people had been waiting for, tiger woods's returned to golf. today, in front of an international audience, tiger did not disappoint. tim brant has a look at his first round at the masters. >> it was great theater, incredible, and i think everyone enjoyed it. one of the most anticipated days and sports

remember nancy pelosi we talked about -- added tax. remember nancy pelosi we talked she broached the idea and swatted down by some of her members. >> greta: if the president is thinking about value added tax and talking to paul volcker and the run-up with the stimulus bill and health care bill and everything else, if he has not sort of put the american people on notice that's a possibility that is to me politically devastating. >> it is. republicans were plotting -- were applauding this statement. they want the democrats to come out with a value added tax. >> greta: for political reasons [ talking over each other ] >> the american people don't want to have to have a national sales tax on top -- paying more 10, 15, 20% for everything thank you buy is big for a people on a fixed income. >> greta: many means ago the thought was a value added tax would pick up a black market income that may sort of relief -- leave the pressure. >> i've favored a national sales tax if we could get rid of the federal income tax which means we have to previou

. >> sean: white house speaker nancy pelosi called an important news conference yesterday. you will never guess what her announcement was. she dropped a new bombshell that new lights had been installed in the cafeteria as part of her green initiative. the wait is over it is being reported she spent $140,000 on the new lights she calls them a shining example of sustain ability. i call it a waste of your hard earned money. more hannity, straight ahead. hey -- who's our best presentation guy? carl. i thought you said carl was our bt presentati guy. [ worker ] well, he is. last week he told my team about fedex office print onne for our presentatns. upload it to fedex office, en they print, bind, and ship it. the presentation looks good, right? yes, but -- you didn't actually bring carl with you. good morning! but i digress. [ male announcer ] we understand. you need presentations done right. and right now save 20% on all online printing purchases. visit fedex.com/print. wondering about your retirement plan? who isn't? retirement planning is all questions... how long? how much?

nancy pelosi likes to call the republicans the party of no. some of us do not like the way that sounds. it hurts our feelings. let's be honest. elections have consequences. we control approximately nothing in washington right now. our ideas are not going to get a fair hearing until november. in the meantime, we are the loyal opposition. we have a duty to stand up to what -- stand up for what we believe in. the republicans need to be the party of a. he is right. when it comes to real-world solutions based on conservative principles, we have to be the party of yes. we have offered many ideas for real health care reform. without cutting medicare or jeopardize think the quality of our nation's health care. those ideas have been pushed aside by the democratic majority. a bad idea is a bad idea, shame on us if we are free to say so. when it comes to this experiment, i agree. we should not be the party of no. we should instead be the party of hell no. [applause] the debt we have accumulated as a nation is an immoral concept through it this is an inco

nancy pelosi likes to call the republicans the party of no. some of us do not like the way that sounds. it hurts our feelings. let's be honest. elections have consequences. we control approximately nothing in washington right now. our ideas are not going to get a fair hearing until november. in the meantime, we are the loyal opposition. we have a duty to stand up to what -- stand up for what we believe in. the republicans need to be the party of a. he is right. when it comes to real-world solutions based on conservative principles, we have to be the party of yes. we have offered many ideas for real health care reform. without cutting medicare or jeopardize think the quality of our nation's health care. those ideas have been pushed aside by the democratic majority. a bad idea is a bad idea, shame on us if we are free to say so. when it comes to this experiment, i agree. we should not be the party of no. we should instead be the party of hell no. [applause] the debt we have accumulated as a nation is an immoral concept through it this is an inco

but i agree with the speaker pelosi that this is a a a team effort. part of the effort is making sure that we pay our dues. host: as a member of the house you are basically always fundraising. how difficult is it to balance that part in meeting with constituents? -- end a meeting with constituents? guest: requires time and you have a 24 hour day and you have to figure of which part of that day you can put to a fund- raising in which party can put to legislating in meeting with clients. i am in a relatively safe democratic district, but by face a primary challenge myself and i have to make sure i have to do both. being run constituents and being internal meetings and been visible in your community and hearing constituents, when you do that, people understand the value of your representation and they will want to support you independent of direct fund- raising. host: here is a call from mississippi, william and our democratic line. caller: i would like to say thank you for accepting my phone call. and also, and with like to say that the democrats are do

that's what president obama, speaker pelosi, harry reid want to serve to you. i think they don't realize that you are iq scores are well above average. we are on to them. we are on to this government and we are not going to let them have their way. they don't get to take over any more of our economy. we are done with that game. and if they want to believe they are the be all and end all the know better how to run our lives that we do then of course the need to have money to pay for it. but guess what lesson we just learned, government doesn't have money. they don't make money it is all of us, the private economy. we are the ones that make the money. we are the ones that are the producers, they are the consumers. they consumed what we produce and i see it is time for these little piggies to go home. [cheering] this nov that is where they are hit. so we are going to take all of our energy, all of our happiness, all of our enthusiasm and we are going to work positively to defeat their agenda this november.ing] i just found out this morning that i am the number one

could do in the face of that failure to set up a commission, and both majority leader reid and speaker pelosi and myself -- i schedule legislation -- have pledged that we will put on the floor between december 1 and december 31 the results of the commission. the results are not gaurn feed. -- guaranteed. you need 14 out of 18 votes on the commission to make a recommendation. that's an extraordinarily high bar. whether it can be reached given the membership of the commission is problematic. the greenspan commission had great difficulty in 19 2 in reaching a conclusion as well. it was jim baker in the white house that finally got a conclusion reached so that we could address social security. to get to that point, that point being where we have a recommendation, both republicans and democrats have to come to the table without preconditions. we can't rule out any solution. on the review knew or the spending side. we can't give in to the temptation to turn this into the subject of demigodry or attack ads. quite frankly, i was business disappointed that leader bainer made this report prior to the e

chicago machine, pelosi, lol, lol, lol, lol. rolling on the floor laughing. oh, gee. today sarah palin took the podium. people waited in line two hours to see this speech. >> what's wrong with being the party of no? we will oppose it. or, better said by the good governor of this state, he said party of no. nah, we're the party of hell, no. >> see, if this is how it's going to be, the leadup to the november elections will be a lot more fun than i thought it would be. it will at least be way more simple. >> hell, no, you can't. >> yes, we can. >> hell, no, you can't. >> yes, we can. >> what's wrong with being the party of no. >> yes, we can. >> we're the party of hell no. >> yes, we can. >> they're really going for it. she got huge applause for that. she also got huge applause for her best lines on energy. >> and now we're going to study, more study of the south atlantic and parts of the gulf of mexico and a couple of other areas that, my goodness, folks, these areas have been studied to death. let's send the white house this message that, no, we can save taxpayer time.

he made dozens of calls to pelosi's homes speaking directly to her at least once. we know there's been lots of this and i suspect will be more of it. good to know that they're attempting to address it. >>> also this afternoon, news that the president has seriously considering unveiling his own plan for mideast peace, ending dex aides of conflict in his plan and his mind between israelis and palestinians. "washington post" reports that the plan could be announced by autumn of this year. it would drop the previously incremental approach, if you want to call our recent approach that, in the favor of a more ambitious plan embracing borders the right of return for palestinian refugees, the status of jerusalem. they also say the plan would emphasize confront, iran, which of course is at the top of israel -- or the israeli government's concerns. here to mix it up, blogger and host of the young turks. and columnist for politics.com matt lewis. it's a pleasure to see you both. cheng, how do you come up with a comprehensive mideast plan that targets iran, et cetera, without

yet another chapter in america, the bailout nation, that is co-authored by the present and by speaker pelosi. it takes $50 billion from taxpayer or borrowers the money from the chinese to bail out banks that made bad loans and to bail out many who buy more home than they could afford. speculated in residential real estate or use their home equity as an atm machine. we must remember that 94% of americans own their home outright. they rent over the our current on the mortgage and they're being asked to bail out the other 6%. it's a policy that says to the citizens who work hard, who live within their means, who saved for a rain date, you are a sucker. when you're struggling to pay your own mortgage, you shouldn't be forced to pay your neighbors as well. the program is unfair to taxpayers, according to the congressional budget office, accountability office, they say that hamp, t.a.r.p., 50 billion-dollar program will lose 100% of the taxpayer investment. although i curious a note under the majority member for this hearing under this subchapter entitled who will absorb losses, curiously the were

. >> just briefly, congressman, before i let you go, the -- what nancy pelosi has just said about the influence of money at her weekly briefing just to bring you up to date, she has said that the democrats are there for middle-class families, republicans are there for special interests, but when asked about all the money that flows into both political parties from wall street and leading democrats were up there raising money only, you know, days ago, as were republicans, of course, she said they don't get anything because the fact is democrats have been leading the way for reform of wall street. so i don't know what you say is the fact they give more money to democrats than republicans. what matters is is the policy is here. does it, though, create an image problem for the public, for politicians to be facing a public when they've taken all this money from wall street? why raise money there if you're so critical of them? >> it does cause a problem. unfortunately, we need more extensive campaign finance reform. i can tell you that the 45 members who signed onto this letter to the s.e.c

the story speaker pelosi put out there said she first heard about this on wednesday, march 3rd, 2009. that is going to be the day that's going to be very interesting to look at. did she know anything before that? we'll keep an eye on this. obviously the investigation should take a few weeks, could stretch out months. this is a big win you could say for john boehner and the republican party that this happened. they've been calling for it and it's going forward. >> thank you very much. the coast guard is still right now searching for several people unaccounted for after a

what would you tell pelosi and president obama, if i'm going to be on the ballot what must we do? >> i'm kendrick meeks running for united states senate. for 13 months went throughout florida, history making, qualifying by petition. floridians appreciate that hard work. i have always been the guy that kind of went out and stood out on behalf of the people and i believe when you look at -- there san anti-democratic tide out there -- >> when you look at health care it is getting better rezeus florida than other states, the approval rating is still over 50 in florida, which is good he won florida. a lot of stimulus dollars placed in florida and there are a lot of people there who feel we have major issues, health care, foreclosures, all of those is e issues -- mr. crist and mr. rubio said they won't fight for individual cities to rebound as it relates to ", that is problematic n a statewide race you have cities and counties on an iv, we have to have a return on our federal tax dollar. >> can you run statewide without the democrats bringing up immigration reform this year? would you p

>> though the governors' race, nancy pelosi gave a talk. senator barbara boxer and mayor of lack. a number of prominent politicians are here. again, these primaries are going to be coming up in june. the goal is to get everyone energized and some of those big headliners are here to do just that. >> gregg: casey stegall live in los angeles, thanks so much. >>> they like their politics. listen to this one. there is a young georgia boy. he has a potentially deadly heart condition. he decided to turn to e-bay to help pay for his operation. malcolm poyer suffers from a thickening of the vessels around the heart. he was worried about the cost. he came up with this idea -- sell stories of a short story he wrote and he sold them on the e-bay. >> to help with my medical billings. >> it's really helpful for my family. we didn't have to worry about that piece of the puzzle. >> he sold nearly 1300 copies of the story making over $12,000 which covered the out-of-pocket costs and he made a swift recovery from the surgery. >> gregg: that is a great story. i wish we would get more stories like th

signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our gast chaplain, his imminence, archbishop herman, apostolic church of america. the chaplain: almighty god, we seek your grace and wisdom in our lives and in our leaders that they may serve your people with truth and justice. remember your faithful servants, the armenian people, who have lived with the memory of the genocide of 1 1/2 million of their nation. we pray that such barbariety may never inflict upon any of your creatures. we give thanks for the blessings that you have bestowed upon the remnants of the armenian people who were given new life in the united states of america. we thank you for helping us from the depths of despair into this land of liberty. bless america, the country of greatness and goodness. renew the values of our american heritage so that america will remain the country of truth, freedom, justice and peace. we stand before you and ask this in your name and for your glory. amen. the speaker pro tempore: