we have to get spending under control. if we keep going in our current trap, and 10-years of the national debt will be over $20 trillion. we cannot leave them for our children and grandchildren to pay off. it is like if you give someone a salary of $25,000 and bay co $25,000 to credit card companies, how will they ever dig their way out of that? excuse me. we cannot leave that. if you are a parent, would you go into your child s room and take money that they earned babysitting or mowing the lawn and spend it for something that you thought you wanted? of course you would not. the politicians in washington are willing to do that. that is one of the reasons i am running. thank you. i am proud of the fact that for the six years of bill clinton s presidency i worked in the white house budget office. when president clinton into that office, we had a two and $80 billion deficit. it was projected to go higher. i was proud to be part of the team that balance that budget. it le
concludes today s session. please take a look at the workshop schedule for this afternoon. you ll have the opportunity to get in-depth information about many of the issues that we heard about this morning. the 2010 legislative conference is now in recess until 9:00 a.m. sharp tomorrow. thank you. the arizona: assigned an immigration bill that was criticized hours earlier by president obama as misguided. if there is reason to suspect that someone is in the country illegally, they can be questioned. senator john mccain, who is facing a primary challenge this year has threatened to filibuster any legislation that does not secure borders first. tonight, a debate between the three democratic candidates for arkansas senate seat. live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. after that, a debate between the five republican candidates for indiana s senate seat. candidates include john hostetler and others. but tv is live this weekend from the l.a. times festival box
and its effect on other markets with andrew ross sorkin. then a discussion on the debate in the senate over health care legislation. washington journal is next. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] host: the washington times headline talks about the heated debate raging between democrats and republicans on the health care issue. we ll begin with your comments on these latest developments on the health care debate. as always, we welcome your phone calls, smales, and your e-mails, and your twitter comments. 202-737-0002 for democrats, 202-737-0001 for republicans, and 202-628-0205 for independentents. papers point out that on saturday, the session of the sixth day of the senate debate on the giant health care debate, felt in some ways like an ordinary workday as the senator debated the health bill in private and tried to thrash out differences in private. in the meantime, we want to put out th
bill, the senate bill, 2014. the bottom line is that we now have a pathway to fix these problems so people do not go into debt, so people do not have to declare bankruptcy, said that when people lose a job or switch jobs, they are not left without health care coverage. one more call. richard from pleasant valley, independent line. caller: thank you. so glad to have gotten through. people like me, i got laid off august 23, 2008. the cut date was september 3, so i got no benefit whatsoever. i have been on cobra for almost nine months, i am paying $1,400 a month and get 1700 a month in unemployment. i am going to the poorhouse. i hope that they will go back a little bit if they extend it, because how is it that been laid off longer makes you ineligible for the help? this is obscene in my mind. it makes no sense whatsoever. provided in the recovery legislation only applied to people who started being without a job since september of 2008. that is why we need health reform to fi
accumulating. mostly on the elevated surfaces. so decks and stairs and places like that, not much of a report yet of any snow accumulating on the ground. especially not too much on the roads. welcomed news. temperatures are a couple of degrees above the freezing mark. of course, it can snow when the temperatures at surface are above freezing because it is below freezing higher up into the atmosphere. our forecast amounts of snow around the area today could get a couple of inches of snow on the ground here in the washington area. you can see the visibility now reduced visibility, especially to the west of washington. this is all going to be impressing our way as we go through the day. i would say on average, about two to maybe four inches of snow right around town. could see as much as three to six inches out in the western suburbs and out towards the shenandoah valley. i will have the timeline and talk more about our wintry forecast coming up. we will check with you in just