congressman bill grey, i guess my question is any fear among republicans, democrats will use their fix it approach to help them win in november? it worked once before when mark crist rode to victory in the may special election to replace pennsylvania congressman john murtha on the promise he d work to improve the bill rather than seek its repeal though he opposed it in the first place. in fact, julie, look, the entire process was flawed, to the core. process matters, when people are not allowed to the difference between then and now is people are finally starting to see the stuff in there, that was just horrendous and, so look, if that he democrats think that this bill has such good parts about it, bring it out in the light of day and give it three days, ten days, allow the public to read all of it and bring it back up for a vote. if it has such great parts, obviously the congressman and the speaker will be wanting to do it again, in a proper manner. when you do it the way it was
as you might know. even with some dems yesterday, mark crist who is in a very competitive race in pennsylvania in a statement said obama s plan is misguided. probably hear questions about that today. i bet you re right. live in the bureau, thank you very much. let s talk a little bit about what the president has been talking about in the last couple of days as he continues his sweep through the united states which is the economy and tax breaks. at least for the middle class and the new ones for small business. but some people are saying doesn t this sound a lot like republican ideas? what do you think? listen to this. why would you want to increase anybody s taxes right now. why would you want to do that? anyone, anyone in america. when we have such a tough time, when these small business people like joe the plumber are going to create jobs unless you take that money from him and spread the wealth around. it s about our ideas. to help make this economy better. our ideas about h
could change with the case in the united states. gregg: greg burke reporting live from rome, thanks very much. juliet: many americans saying they are fed up with how washington works. this week some of them will get a chance to make auththeir voic heard and will vote them in or vote them out in primary prarac. polls open this tuesday and races drawing national interest because it will give us a better idea of the mood of the electorate. julie kirtz has the latest on this. julie? reporter: yeah, we ll get a very real sense of how frustrated voters are on tuesday night. a key state to watch is pennsylvania. both parties are putting big bucks and political star power into the race in the 12th congressional district. where the race is tight and bill clinton is in southwest pennsylvania, right now, he is campaigning for democrat mark
knock off the state g.o.p. establishment s pick. in pennsylvania, and arkansas, two democratic incoupkucumbents fighting to. and a special election to replace the late congressman murtha. and congress shaken by a bipartisan display of anger for the status question. two incouple bent with deep roots, one democrat, one republican shown the door by their respective parties. julie kirtz is live in washington. hi, juliet. no surprise that election year could be tough on incouple bent. it s the most important date so far in the election year calendar and both parties putting big bucks and political star power on the line and in pennsylvania s 12th congressional district the race is tight to fill the late john murtha s house seat and bill clinton was in pennsylvania today campaigning for mark crist and scott brown