the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker s rooms, washington, d.c., april 11, 2011. i hereby appoint the honorable kevin yoder to act as speecher speaker pro temporerary on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speakerer of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father coughlin. chaplain coughlin: lord god, reward with your blessing and long-standing grace all those who have served and continue to serve in this respected chamber of the united states house of representatives. together with the honorable members and their personal and committee staffs we give we beg your blessing, upon the parliamentarians, the clerks, pages, cloakroom and security personnel who work on this floor. they keep this noble institution functioning for the working of government and the good of the nation. lord, these your committed servants
change. host: lee joins us from latin roots. you have david brody and michael shear. caller: i hear him saying something about what obama run on, and the way i got it was that he was going to spad the wealth aroun. when he got his cap and trade in, he was going to break all the coal companies. i never have heard anything like that in the media when it was happening. you guys had your heads in the sand, i guess. i do not know, like sean hannity said. we just cannot hear from you. they nowome up when we are all in this mess, and i hear him saying well, he inherited a mess. he did not inherit the mess. he and h cronies, the unions and acorn and barney frank and chris dodd, they re the ones that cause the mess. host: thank you for your call. do you want to react? guest: an interesting obrvation as to spreading the wealth. the president did talk about his philosophy his economic philophy which is let s spread the wealth. here we are in wisconsin, which you can argue certain things
general david patraeus said today that he did not think u.s. participation in a no-fly zone over libya would have an impact on assets for fledging fighting the war in afghanistan. in remarks at a forum hosted by national journal and the museum general patraeus also reiterated his support for the obama administration s july 2011 date to begin the drawdown of u.s. troops. general patraeus has been and washington to report to the president and congress about the state of the war in afghanistan. his first visit since taking command of the war effort there last summer. this is an hour. i want to welcome all of you here. i see that we have all survived st. patrick s day which is very good. probably the first day of the ncaa basketball tournament. my bracket has been shredded. i want to thank the museum for hosting this event and providing the facilities for us here at the national journal for our conversation. eyes only want to thank person late general patraeus and his team
one is health care obligations to retirees. that is not included in the number you are all hearing for each state. and so in new hampshire there is another almost billion dollars in health care obligations. that is not the end of the issue. there is another obligation called 0ppd. other post employment benefits. and in new hampshire it is another two-and-a-half billion dollars. so instead of the three and a half billion dollar liability, as people are acknowledging in the press it is a $7 billion liability. instead of california having $114 billion pension liability i suspect you go and look at their bonds statement. you find out it s close to a quarter of a billion, a quarter of a trillion. unbelievable. this is what we face is a country. the point is as all of you know, the sooner we get to fixing these issues the easier it will be in the long run. it won t be easy, but it will be easier. that is part of the challenge. and, yes, we are watching television and people are bei
we still could see a rain/snow mix in the higher elevations. i ll have a look at the rest of your weekend which looks a lot drier coming up. thanks, lisa. early this morning the republican controlled house passed legislation to cut $60 billion from hundreds of federal programs. i think you ve done yourself proud this week. the vote was mostly among party lines and led by republican freshmen. the $1.2 trillion measure will keep the government running through september. there are sweeping spending cuts to school, housing and other domestic programs. but the measure protects oil and coal companies and farmers from new environmental regulations. the bill faces a tough battle with the senate which is still controlled by democrats. and president obama has threatened a veto. the deadline for congress to agree to some sort of funding measure is march 4th. after that as abc 7 political reporter mark matthews explains, the government will shut down. it s not just that the repub