lost? all of them, men and women. before we came into office, the six months before, 3.5 million jobs lost. before i lowered might right hand on that magnificent day on january 20th, when a million people watching, 750,000 some lost that. another four million before the first job bill we could get passed, begin to rectify this. but he s trying to make the case that women have been hit in this recession. is that true? women have been hit but men also have been hit. the point is, look at the number of people who have been kicked out of the middle class, dropped out because they can t stay there anymore. this guy talking about women, these guys talking about women? these guys have a social policy on contraception that takes you back to the 50s. when asked the question, do you think the legislation passed
any identification. rescue crews find a woman missing for nearly a month. she was in the new mexico wilderness. margaret page apparently survived on creek water and food she had with her. what a remarkable story that is. gregg: wow, amazing she survived. i wish you could have heard martha singing during the commercial break. she truly has a beautiful voice. you are going to do that? sing a little coke and pepsi? martha: it s possible. gregg: back to our top story, employers adding 22,000 jobs in the month of february coming on the heels of a new job bill passed by the house of representatives. that. bill: getting bipartisan support to help small businesses. illinois congressman aaron shock, joins us deputy republican whip and member of the house ways and means committee. congressman, thanks for being with us. good to be with you, gregg. thanks for having me on. gregg: how does this jump-start up businesses? well, there s two big
so is it still possible for the two political parties to work together for the good of the country? like felix unger and oscar madison, president obama and house majority leader eric cantor are joining together on a bill to make it easier for small businesses to get loans. and today, the president welcomed leaders of both parties to the white house for a lunch meeting to discuss areas where the two sides might find that will common ground. congressman james clyburn is a democrat from the south carolina and the assistant democratic leader and joins me now. sir, it s great to have you here. we had senator boxer on at the top of the hour talking about the fact that this is a day when we re seeing senator olympia snowe, republican of maine saying she s going to be retiring and not rerunning. because of congress and the rancor, the partisan gridlock that takes place in modern day. do you hold any hope that the two parties can ever get back to governing and could it be with the president s j
issue for him in some way? this is mitt romney s ground. he knows, appreciates, values and can defend the free enterprise system and his record. we re willing to take it on whenever it happens. he was attacked like this before when he ran successfully in a very blue state for governor of massachusetts. we ll point out the alternative to free enterprise is job creation, barack obama opens addiction to governor. an 800 bil billion dollars job bill failed on its own. it s called solyndra. we are looking forward to talking about that. martha: i watched most of this documentary this morning. when you hear the voices of these people who lost their jobs, who talk about how difficult it was for their families, who talk about the fact that they basically heard one day some company folks came in and told them, look we ve been bought by this other
through, reverend al. i mean, things are rarely simple in politics, but this kind of is, you know. the president had a very tough summer. he fought very hard for a compromise on the debt ceiling deal. he didn t get it, and his poll numbers suffered for that. he turned around. he began fighting back. he launched his job bill. he took a jobs tour. he gave a great jobs speech. he came out. he broke that bill up into pieces so that we had a part that would have gone for first responders to keep cops and fire fighters and teachers on the job. he became he broke it down very well. he he gave speeches and sound bites like you just played, and he really cast himself as a defender of the middle and working classes, even though he s not getting any cooperation from republicans. that has seemed to work. and i think there are a couple of numbers that are really significant. his standing with seniors has climbed. yeah. which is important, and his standing with the white men without a colleg