been prioritiized better . weep didn t have to take drastic measures with the military. well, the president has said that the cuts were dumb and arbitrary and i agree and i stipulated legislation that would center given the president the flexibility that he needed to make the cuts in the right places and that was a bipartisan support of that. mark warner we talked about military. septemberor warner from strirge virge and former governor of strirge virge. voted to give the president flexibility. it seems like the president didn t want flexibility. he uses fear and zipe zy to try to force the hand of raising taxs and i am not buy i know there is it another washington wasteful spenteding in term of program thars overlapping and ineffective and there is over a 110 billion in improper payments and money that went out from washington last year.
convention. the texas congressman will join us live this hour. we ll talk about his presidential hopes and the 2012 election. and if you re fuming about surprise credit card fees or lousy service, there s now a place where you can share your complaints with the entire world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is just coming in to the the situation room right now. take a look at this. wow. it s a huge, huge crowd that has gathered at tahrir square in cairo. tens of thousands of people back at the site where last year s revolution started. the demonstrators are protesting the moves made by the egyptian military leadership, which they say could hurt the presidential election results. also, only moments ago we have confirmed that the former president of egypt, hosni mubarak, has suffered a stroke. that according to officials in egypt. his heart apparently has stopped. but it was revived. he needed critical condition care. he has received it. we re monito
her resignation. the fact that she is able to stand there and present it and be there today and speak out about that and about the future is just incredible, incredible. bill: when she came back to washington last year she stole the show. she was the story. now she is back in our nation s capitol. mr. speaker appreciation once again for your courtesies enabling this to happen i yield back the balance of my time. the chairman remind all members to be in proper business attire when you come to the floor of the house. without objection five minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the bill: and off they go. martha: some people are wearing tank tops and flip-flops to work i guess. bill: you heard newt gingrich moments ago call mitt romney desperate. when we come back from this commercial break we ll talk to the romney team to get a
either way it does not look pretty. shep? shepard: the absolute potential of the look of the beaches from south florida to texas. live tonight in louisiana, one more note that may turn out to be more significant long-term. and this is important. today bp went to a judge not in louisiana but in texas, in the heart of big oil. houston to ask her to consolidate more than 60 lawsuits that have now been filed in that case. that s led to fears that bp could eventually file bankruptcy and avoid footing the entire bill. though there is no official indication that s even in the cards. not now. also there is a bill in congress that would raise the cap on the amount of money bp could be forced to pay to injured parties. right now that cap is $75 million. but skeptics point out bp spent a company record $15.9 million lobbying in washington last year and they expect a fight that history suggest bp could well win. there is new hope for victims of
thursday afternoon or thursday evening. we would rush in for the first bell and the second the last bell rang we would run home. and they didn t even rent apartments. i lived in my office. i never understood this until i moved up to washington last year. outside of congress and there are a couple of people who i had scuffled with, one of them that went after brother buchanan and i took the attack very personally, and i was about to write something very nasty about him. then i went to pick up my first grade girl and there he was with his first grade girl. i said to my wife, i can t be nasty to him now. everybody lived together. it forced you to disagree without being disagreeable. my father served in the senate and i don t remember a night someone wasn t stopping off on our home to have a cocktail with my parents, may stay for dinner if their spouse wasn t talking in town. you knew each other better. there was still partisanship and it wasn t like this game.