a state review in michigan finds detroit is in a dire fiscal state, requiring governor rick snider to intervene. the report suggests detroit is in need of significant spending cuts and also faces $14.9 billion in unfunded pension and employee retirement funds. state treasurer andy dylan has ruled out bankruptcy. steve, translate that for us. what does that mean for the city of detroit? well, this has been coming for a while. detroit is obviously shrinking. the mayor there has done a heroic job of trying to get this thing to come together. but when you lose so much of your population and tax base, you can t get the numbers to work. and they re literally suffocateding under a mountain of debt. looks like the state will have to come in and solve their problems. many municipalities are feeling the same thing. detroit is a model of how they ve done there. what does detroit look ten years from now? how do they come out of this? they should simply shrink,
healthcare reform. they want to send a message that missouri is not buying that. not buying health insurance is what prop c sets out to do. if it passes, missouri would opt out of the healthcare mandate that each person has or buy medical coverage. notion prop c critics say is base political gamemansship. it s an opportunity for people who aren t serious about public policy to engage in a political stunt. a stunt that could aid roy blunt, missouri congressman favorite to win the show me state g.o.p. senate primary, republicans believe a prop c victory could help blunt win in november over likely democratic nominee secretary of state robin carnhand, proopponent of healthcare reform. in kansas, senator sam brownback is leaving his seat to run for kansas governor, triggering a g.o.p. scramble for the senate post. this is a vicious race. the stakes are so high. the winner of the republican my mare is primary is almost automatically the next senator. they ve clos
and then to see how that impacts the trajectory of learning behavior s and so forth. those kinds of studies will continue to be extraordinarily important. one example that we have talked about if we look at children if the mother smokes, the child has twice as much chance of having it. if they are exposed to high levels of tobacco and led which are toxic, there they are over eight times as more likely. interactions is important. you can look at it as the same way as genes and environment. there can be tremendous risks for different kinds of problems. while it is critical to do more of this research, it seems that we do know enough to take action and develop regulations. even if we develop these regulations, there will be plenty for all of us to do. we will not be out of work. it would be nice if you could develop regulations to put me out of work. we need to act on the information we have and that does not mean every new chemical has to be studied to death. we can look
this is a vicious race. the stakes are so high. the winner of the republican my mare is primary is almost automatically the next senator. they ve closed the gap with a slew of endorsements including fox constrictor sarah palin. in michigan today, pair of down to the wire gubernatorial primaries. attorney general mike cox, west michigan congressman pete hoekstra and the self-proclaimed nerd businessman rick schneider are all in the too close to call republican primary. michigan house speaker andy dylan are vying for a democratic nomination race. it could be the primary and the heat or the general lack of voter enthusiasm. turn-out is low in all three states. we have a complete wrap-up of the races tomorrow on
host: regarding congressional ethics in the 2010 election, what you think of these cases coming to light and what affect do you think it will have on the election in november? for republicans, 202-737-0001. for democrats, 202-737-0002. for independents, 202-628-0205. you can also send us a message through quittetwitter, twitter.- spanwj. if you want to send us an e- mail, the address is journal@c- span.org. in roll call, this morning, maxine waters vowed monday to go against the allegations that she had broken house rules in a rare public trial. jennifer yakman joins us this morning with more. caller: thank you for having me. host: charges have been leveled. where do we go from here? caller: the ethics committee announced yesterday that congressman waters will face an ethics trial. they did not detail what the charges would be. in the past we know that the committee has been investigating the cause of reform and since 2009, taking a look at her relationship with a bank t