585-3 going to show you a good bit of the house to885 earlier. where also like to share your reaction from the we are also going to share your reaction from the vote. a reminder to the conversation from this morning from washington journal is still open. you can post your comments on line. danielle is covering the debate in house today. what does that vote mean? it includes the unemployment insurance will not become law. this was the two month extension. instead they have rejected it. they said they want to go to the conference committee with the senate and work out their differences. it became clear that other republican leaders are feeling that way. they have done their work. the house bill was 36-30. it reside in senate. what do they want to the senate to do? they informed us that they what a yearlong extension of the payroll tax cut benefits and a two-year extension of the mechanism that shortens its to treat medicare patients. the also want the keystone provisi
can you tell us what regulations are coming down the pike that the administration should hold firm on. ? when they were going to delay the ozone standard knowing the environmentalists will be disappointed in that action, they felt they should give them a stronger grounds to stop the republican who republicans who want to delay the regulations on toxic air pollutants to cause cancer that cause cancer. they are going to hold the line on that. when we meet next week the republicans have announced a number of anti-environmental vaults votes. i expect the president to veto those anti-environmental laws. lisa jackson says the epa will meet a self-imposed deadline for fossil fuel burning plant. do you see this as the second in a line of regulations that the obama administration has punted on the above is this an election moved. is this something that demonstration will not tell the anyone about administration will not talk about until the deal is done? the supreme co
down and it wouldn t work anymore. we should lift the federal restriction on tolling. if they want to take on that decision and won t explain it to the taxpayers, that s their risk. in terms of separating out transit from the trust fund, transit because it is it s actually not so exclusively in big cities as people would suggest. in pennsylvania we have 39 mass transit systems and some of them are in counties with less than 10,000 people. and bus lines are the only way that working people can get to work. we think of mass transit as subways. but it s more than just subways and metro rail lines. it s buses as well. if you separate it out then it would become a step child. then it would lose any chance that it would get significant funding. lastly in terms of deinvolving to the states. if you did that, took the federal gas tax money away and so the states could do it on their own, tell me what governor or what legislature in today s atmosphere is going to to impose a state ta
host: we will go to your phone calls in just a minute, but here is dick armey here is the peace in the wall street journal. they say that the tea party movement has blossomed into a powerful social phenomenon because it is not directed by any one political agenda. stay true to principle. the assertive and respectful. add value and don t take credit for other people s work. our community is built on the trader principle, we associate by mutual consent, to further shared goals of fiscal responsibility and constitutionally limited government. it goes on to say this the website for this contract is the contract.org, and they break down the 10 principles that would like to see from candidates to sign this contract. we put them up on the screen. protect the constitution, reject capt. trade, demand a balanced budget. there are five more. first phone call from georgia. joe on the republican line. what do you think about this hostile takeover of the gop? car you with us? joe,
not in their field critical for science the college science for the lost verse and philosophy for scientists. they asked me to write a book about congress for people that did not study congress but are interested. the series has a very tight format 35,000 words. that was as much as i was able to write. my first draft was 75,000 words. even that did not include everything there is to know about the congress. my job was to try to take this very complicated institution, which is really two separate institutions, and explain how it developed over time to an audience of people who are curious, including people outside of the united states who live in parliamentary government and wonder why we do not have a parliament. i count about 175 of these books put out by oxford university press. it sells for about $11.95. in the first congress, senators wanted president washington to come to the chamber when making nominations and requesting that treaties be ratified, to seek their ad