. >> a look at supreme court chief justice john roberts exiting st. matthews cathedral with the archbishop of in washington, d.c. yesterday. this is the conclusion of the annual red mass. it's traditionally held the day before the first monday of october when the supreme court begins its new term, and the service dates back to 1928. it's intended to invoke blessingsings of those responsible for the administration of justice. it's attended by members of the court and other washington officials, and we'll take a look at some of the other attendees. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] >> and as the supreme court begins its new term, some of the cases on its docket involve issues like affirmative action, campaign finance, abortion and contraception. the cofounders of scotus recently discussed some of these issues. they were joined by court correspondent pete williams of nbc news and tony mauro of the national law

this is supreme court chief justice john roberts with cardinal -- the archbishop of washington. the service date back to 1928, it is intended to invoke blessings on those as possible for the administration of justice. it was attended by members of congress and the courts and other washington dignitaries. here's a look at some of the other attendees. new supreme court term began today. the court has announced cases it will not hear. we talked couple of supreme court reporters about what cases they might hear. host: i want to begin with the senior correspondent from the "washington examiner." let's begin with what we heard on a sunday talk shows from house speaker john boehner. what did he have to say? i reported friday late afternoon evening that i don't expect a clean debt ceiling bill to be brought to the house floor. there are not enough republican votes in the house to get through. there are some people who think , and senate republicans are not going to provide the votes necessary for a 60 vote bill. that is what they are telling me. given all the speculation over the past w

guest: the key justice to look at is john roberts. the chief justices generally stepsmore incremental towards constitutional goals that he believes are important. prefer togeneral they avoid controversial's weeping decisions but not all members of the court agreed. in this case involving contribution limits, members of the court has said there should not be any limits on contributions. limits are believe constitutional. we do not know where the chief s stand on itther but it is possible they may wish to avoid shaking up the system in way citizens united did 2010. host: why would they avoid that? are conservative institutions. in general they do not like to make a earth shattering announcements because as an institution they are supposed to solemnity, steadiness, security. they are supposed to embody the stability in society. if there are lots of decisions that constantly change whenever there is a new member of the court to change the majority, it makes what they and to look more political and less judicial. or the public acceptance o

so i come to the floor today in a robert frost moment. you know that poem, i took the road less traveled by, that made all the difference. we have been traveling down the wrong road for far too long. we are here today in large measure arguing over a c.r. that we shouldn't have to argue over. had we been doing our appropriation and doing our budgets over the last four years, the money would have been spent, the regular order would have been in place, the fiscal year moneys would have been appropriated and there would be no need for a c.r. and there is bipartisan responsibility for not having done a budget or appropriations acts. the leadership obviously controls the floor so they can bring the appropriations acts aboard and that's their responsibility, but we have also cried out on our side for a budget, for year after year let's have a budget. now we have a budget, one approved by the house, one approved by the senate, but an inability to go to conference because we can't get agreement on preconditions. once again, a situation of negotiat

i come to the floor today at the robert frost moment. the poem -- that made all the difference. we have been traveling down the wrong road for too long. we're here issue arguing over a cr we shouldn't have to. had we been doing our appropriation and budget over the last four years. the money would have been spend and the regular in order place. and the fiscal year appropriated and no need for a cr. there's bipartisan responsibility for not having done a budget or appropriations act. the leadership oivelt controlled the floor. they ask bring the appropriations act forward. that's their responsibility. we've also cried on our side for a budget. let's have a budget. we have a budget one approved by the house and the senate. but an inability to cogo to conference because we can't an agreement. so i have a suggestion. a suggestion that two-thirds of this senate agree to in the budget debate we in march. a addition that 20 states have exercised in our country that made them better. a decision that the state of israel made two or three years ago when they got dire financial conditions

>> guest: the key justice to look at is the chief justice, john roberts. because the chief justice has generally favored more incremental steps toward constitutional goals that he believes are important. he has in general preferred to avoid very controversial, sweeping decisions, but not all members of the court agreed. in this case involving contribution limits, three members of the court have said that there should not be any limits on contributions. they cannot believe that limits on political contributions are constitutional. we don't know exactly where the chief justice of the other relatively new justice samuel alito's stance, but it is possible they may wish to avoid shaking up the system the way that the citizens united decision did in 2010. >> host: why do you say that? why would they avoid that? >> guest: mccourt's in general are conservative institutions. in general they don't like to make shattering pronouncements. because as an institution they're supposed to reflect solemnity, steadiness, security. they're supposed to embody the stability in

constitution albie the supreme court over the united states of by ica in a decision issued chief justice john roberts, a bush appointee, and then affirmed by the re-election of president barack obama in electoral college landslide, why do you want us to negotiate over settled law? there are three ways in the american democratic system for you to change law, mr. speaker. the first is through the legislative process. in 2010, you lost. 44 additional times subsequent to that you lost. unable to do it legislatively. you can try and change a law in america through our democratic system, through the court system. 2012 supreme court rejected that, you lost. then you can try and change things as a result of an ection and you lost with the re-election of the president by more than five million votes in 2012. those are the three legitimate -- legitimate ways that you can change laws in american democracy. ou do not extort concessions and threaten to shut down the government. so this notion that we've refused to compromise is a great myth. particularly when, as my good friend from nevada pointed out, the fact t

the major thing to think about is roberts when he ruled on health care bill and say that they are not thieving, but taxes. it seems to me that he ruled as unconstitutional and he changed the word from fiji taxes and then that was unconstitutional. >> host: go ahead. >> caller: he should have sat back have it rewritten. >> host: udc the court exercising something of a rewriting power. the best example is where the supreme court valued this with the sixth amendment because they allowed important facts about what would be received to be determined by a judge and not a jury. because that was part of this, they couldn't send it back to congress because there would be no framework and the remedies put in place because judges could look at the sentencing guidelines of congress that they had written. but that judges would be able to have a part of this. they did so because of the power to correct this. several justices dissented vigorously from that and said exactly what steven wants to say, that the court was rewriting the statute far beyond the power. >> host: we have an independent caller

robert bremmer is the former director of policy analysts and revealed that the air radiation division of the u.s. environment protection agency. the primary witness is the senior policy adviser at the u.s. environmental protection agency and allegedly the cia. without an pursuant to the committee rules, would all of you please rise to be sworn. please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth and nothing but the truth. thank you and please be seated. let the record reflect that all answered in the affirmative. we are going to consume a lot of time and i would ask you to keep your opening statement close to five minutes or less as possible. your statements will be placed in the record in addition to any comments that you may want to give us afterwards and we will hold the record open at the end for a couple of days. >> thank you. good morning, chairman darrell issa, and members of the committee. i am arthur elkins, inspector general of the u.s. environmental protection agency and i'm pleased to appear before you today t

robert from lewisville wrote, my 21-year-old son, david, bice health insurance through blue cross blue shield of north carolina. his cost is $111 per month. he received a letter from blue cross saying his current policy is being canceled due to the affordable care act, obamacare. david's new cost is going to be $288 per month. he works hard and does not take handouts from government. how is obamacare helping people like him? end quote. jeffrey from boonville told me his story too. quote, i went on to blue cross blue shield's website this morning. if i buy health insurance this morning the cost will be $266 a month but come the first of the year the same plan will be $566. how is this affordable? i have not checked yet to see if i can get a subsidy. even if i was eligible one, it's not the responsibility of other americans to subsidize my family's health insurance, end quote. susan from knoxville wrote to me said, quote, i had affordable health care. i paid blue cross blue shield $181 a month. now they said if i keep this insurance it will now be $464 per month. this insane. obamacare i

bill that has been worked on so hard by senator stabenow, the gentlelady from michigan, and senator roberts, the gentleman from kansas. thathey've worked wonderfully oa bipartisan farm bill. it was something really to be proud of in the senate. i would have liked to have athatched to the appropriation -- attached that to the appropriations, but we decided no riders, nothing cute, nothing clever, no earmarks, nothing like that, straightforward money bills ready to go to conference. we couldn't get it. but they are passed -- they are passed in the appropriations committee. we are waiting to get to work. so i'm going to conclude by saying this: the republican -- the tea party republicans say they don't have the votes in the house to reopen government. give it a chance. put the vote to the floor. if we win, government is reopened. if we lose, at least we offered a suggestion and back toed to -d back to the drawing board. but the solution to reopening the government lies on speaker boehner's desk. he says he wants to have a conversation. we say, pick it up, have the vote that put. that puts the

. >> my name a is robert biersack. a nonpartisan research organization. a fair amount of confusion today about the mechanics of some of this process. how the movement of money can occur between different kinds of organizations without restriction and the impact on these large contributions that would be allowed if this decision -- if this part of the law is reversed. a lot of experience over many years with that kind of innovation, the way in which networks. we know how they can be done and are happy to discuss that in detail if you would like to know how the process will involve if this is overturned. secondly, there was question about whether the system we currently have fundamentally disadvantages the party. there is lot of experience with that kind of change. mccain fine gold allegedly would have destroyed the party's ability to raise funds because they lost their ability to raise unlimited fines. the party has innovated well and were active in raising small contributions from lots of americans and have been able to raise more money under the new rest

supreme court we lost it bye-bye the dream of american democracy is torn up at the feet of justice roberts said his supreme court. we're here to tell the supreme court that american democracy is not for sale. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> and now all of you in the audience in the room. but the introduce somebody that needs an introduction the communication workers of america. [applause] >> 8q. today bier on defense. we're getting tired of defense. we're getting tired of holding on like the edge of a clef and what we have had for decades whether aggregate limits on campaign financing or rights at work work, of the voting rights as a supreme court strips of the voting rights, we are tired to be on defense. it does not mean we will not stand up for fight back when we are under attack. we will not keep played defense. but imagine if all these organizations are working together on offense, we are. and we came together to informed that democracy initiative for we all work together. our membership together is more than 20 million. and the question is can we make democracy? because each of u

roberts: i appreciate that, madam president. i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. roberts: i understand we are in morning business and i would like to ask to speak for 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. roberts: thank you. i want to talk a little bit about the government shutdown -- what else? -- and it's my understanding that my colleagues across the aisle, i will not have the opportunity to speak to any one of them should they come down to the floor, but they are out on the capitol steps, the senate capitol steps exhorting the house to send something that they prefer or to simply end the shutdown with a clean bill. i would have suggested they would go over to the house steps, as a gesture of goodwill, i'm not sure any member of the house -- i know when i was in the house i'm not sure i would have appreciated either party getting on the capitol steps and urging me to do something in the house but let that as it be, perhaps it's a goo

speaker, try and leave this world a little better than you found it, those were the words of robert powell, founder of the world scouting movement. this was a message to all scouts that was found among his papers after his passing in 1941. i'm a scouter, mr. speaker. it's part of who i am both as an american and an elected official proudly representing pennsylvania's fifth district. this is part of scouting principles, to always leave the campsite cleaner than when you found it. it's about service, serving others and it rings true in the debate taking place in washington. today we are saddling future generations with mountains of debt. we've made promises we cannot keep. we're leaving the next generation worse off than our own. we face a nation with grave challenges, challenges that aren't being addressed. the fact of the matter is that congress has yet to deal with the real drivers of our debt, a large portion of which is health care costs. mr. speaker, i don't care who won the white house or which party holds majority in congress. why? because not until we actually tackle the tough issue

robert. democrat line. hi, robert, go ahead. >> hello. thank you for having me. >> sure. >> i think that if republicans were so sincere about getting these bills passed as the other gentleman said from the democrat line, they would cut their pay. they wouldn't get paid. but we're not dealing with storage wars here, we're not bidding over furniture. this is people's financial well being. we have veterans who have passed, their families need financial payments to pay for their burial and people here are -- don't know what to expect. the economy is falling. the dow. the economy is going through an uproar. we're sitting here in a bidding war over these bills instead of going to the table, let's sit down, let's talk like adults should and let's settle this thing. trying to prove a point to democrats by having a shutdown isn't getting things done. get to the round table and let's have a conversation like adults should. if we can't settle it then, let's take it out of your pocket and see what happens. >> there are some discussions going on on ca

i would also like to say thank you to my spouse and my son, robert. i cannot imagine taking on this new challenge without their support. years have been tumultuous for the economy. it has been challenging for many americans. i think we all agree, mr. president, that more needs to be done for the recovery. especially for those hardest hit by the great recession. we have made progress. the economy is stronger. the financial system is sound or. -- sounder. a considerable credit of that goes to ben bernanke for his wise, courageous, and skillful leadership. it has been my privilege to serve with him and learn from him. we have made progress. we have farther to go. the mandate of the fed reserve is to serve all the american people. too many americans still cannot find a job and worry how they will a those bills and provide for their families. can help if it doesn't stop affect every. we can help ensure that everyone has the opportunity to work hard and build a better life. that it doesn't undermine the benefits of a growing economy. we can and must safegua

you can see it on cokie roberts show on my web site. tell us what a bad -- a abortion ban. >> a woman's health care decision should be between her and her doctor and we should defend roe v. wade and make criminal abortions -- even in the case of rape and. you don't need to go to cokie roberts. >> amore during -- imagine aborting a baby in the eighth month of pregnancy. he supports that. >> that is not true and it's unfortunate -- again our views on this a very distinct. >> mine is clear. >> want to make abortion illegal in the cases of rape and? >> i love the sanctity of life. you will board a baby in eight months of -- the we are out of time and we don't have time for closing statements as we moved upon -- beyond that. we want to thank you for the live debate and taking part tonight. went to thank our panelists for taking part as well with great questions and thanks to rowan university for hosting us tonight. this conversation continues on nbc 10.com and c all maxie i tv. don't forget to vote today. [applause] majority whip senator dur

you don't need to go to cokie roberts. you heard it right here right now. lonegan: imagine aborting a baby in the eighth month of pregnancy. he supports that tragic that is not to and that's unfortunate that you're trying to distract people. our views on this are very distinct and very -- lonegan: mine are clear. booker: i want to protect roe v. wade. lonegan: i love the sanctity of life. you will abort a baby and eight months. >> moderator: we are out of time and we don't have time for closing statements because you did get onto the topic of abortion which is fine. we want to thank you for this lively debate and for taking part tonight but we want to thank our panelists, for taking part as well with some great questions and thanks to rowan university proposin browsing isd this conversation continues now on nbc 10.com. don't forget to vote one week from today. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] a live picture from the hart senate office building on capitol hill with treasury secretary jack lew is expected to testify this morning. before the senate f

. >> senator roberts. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i don't think we have a blindfold on walking toward a cliff. i think were walking toward a cliff with our eyes wide open, and that's the problem. all this talk about self-inflicted wounds, it was not a self-inflicted wound when we raise the debt limit, and we also achieved the grim reference hollings act, the balanced budget act, budget control act and i could go on and on, refer to as other senators. schneck by other senators. i think it's and willingness to really negotiate. that's the nfa again, mr. chairman, got to be careful. the president said over and over and over again, that he will not negotiate. but i don't think that's true. there's a meeting as we speak with the public and -- republican leadership. he met with democrats. my question to you, you have been briefed on the agenda of this meeting with regards to the time that the president would refer -- prefer, and the agenda, more special talk about sequester flexibility with appropriations committee oversight, the repeal of

robert dole, who was the majority leader of the united states senate, from the state of kansas, a patriotic american, said himself he doesn't fit in the republican party of today. so, mr. president, the stakes couldn't be higher. global economic recession and possibly even depression face this great country. that's why president obama reached out to house republicans, inviting them to the white house yesterday afternoon. guess what they say? we're too busy. we'll send a few of us but we're too busy. remember, the house is led by the same man who said he wanted to have a conversation but they were unwilling to have one with him. so i was disappointed to hear that the same intractable republican leaders who caused the current government shutdown were unwilling to even allow their members to meet with the president for a constructive conversation. again, i think they picked 17 out of the 232 they have. this great conversation is one, i guess they don't want. they want to talk, their actions tell another story. they've caused enough economic turmoil with the reckless shutdown of the federal gov

history of the united states, it was after the revolution that we had a very hard time -- that is when robert morris, the financer of the it very clear,e we will not pay our bills plus we have access to credit. silver,er have gold and or else nobody will do with you. that was a calamity about to happen. we never default it, even in those days when we didn't have anything. here we are, we are seriously contemplating that as a sensible, intelligent reaction to a political stalemate? i hope not. as i used to say in oklahoma to my democrat friends, if the uss oklahoma goes down, we all go down together. if the uss united states goes down, we all go down together, democrats and republicans. >> senator ritter? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks to all of our panelists. i know all of you agree that the dent it should be extended because disruption would occur otherwise. i understand that. i do think it is important to be precise about what we are talking about and what were not talking about. for instance, senator reid started his comments saying, if we default next week. i want to pick it up there.

we could see it on the cokie roberts show is on my website. >> i will tell you right now all woman's health care decisions is between her and her doctor against people do want to get rid of trophy weighed that is where i stand. you don't need to go to cokie roberts you heard right here. >> and imagine a boarding a baby in the eighth month. he supports that. >> not churl that is unfortunate >> the reviews are very distinct. >> you are not clear. you plan to make it legal with rape and incest. >> i think to take a life of a baby at the eighth month? civic we don't have time for closing statements now which is fine. [laughter] we will thank you for this lively debate for this panel tonight. and thank you for hosting us tonight the conversation continues now. vote one week from today. [applause] >> first i want to make a few responses to the committees made earlier today the most urgent threat to our economy is the debt not the debt limit. i piggery in the long run we need to make serious adjustments and we have made progress. by the way middle-class income is declining in america. to be

. >> senator roberts. >> thank you. i don't think we have a blindfold on walking toward a cliff. i think we are walking toward a cliff with their eyes wide open. that's the problem. all this talk about self- inflicted wounds -- it was not a self-inflicted wound when we raise the debt limit and we also achieved the hollings act, the balance of budget act. it has been referred to by other senators. it gets down to a willingness to really negotiate. [feedback] it's the nsa again. [laughter] the president said over and over again that he will not negotiate but i don't think that's true. there is a meeting as reese week with republican leadership in yesterday he met with democrats. you have been briefed on the agenda of this meeting with regards to the time that the president would defer to an extension of the debt limit and the agenda, i'm talking about sequester flexibility with the appropriations committee oversight, the repeal of the medical device attacks, the restoration of the 40 hour workweek to the aca as opposed to the 30 hour work week causing all the problem and perhaps ev

and we have robert kengle with us who has won awards from the civil rights division, from the attorney general's award for excellence, information technology, adjunct law professor at georgetown law center. and i'm pleased to recognize you at this time. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman, on behalf of those lawyers' committee for civil rights -- on behalf of the lawyers committee, i'm very pleased and honored to be asked to address you today. i guess my roll is somewhat as a proxy for the department of justice, and more specifically, the civil rights division. i was in the voting section of the civil rights division for about 20 years, and i was out on sick leave during the last governmental shutdown, so i'm not sure exactly how that was handled. but i can tell you that section five work was highly prioritized been and that they were a sensual employees designated to look at section five submissions. as i'll mention a few minutes this picture is a little different. i understand that the office of legislative affairs has provided some information to you about the department as a whole.

robert keb i -- kennedy didn't say. that let's put a clean c.r. on the floor by the way to open the government and stop talking about the idea -- i just can't understand. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. jackson lee: she doesn't have money to pay for her children to eat. clean c.r. and get this on the floor. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentlelady had expired. the gentlelady from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i'll reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves her time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i'm proud to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from ohio, who is the ranking member on the nutrition subcommittee and the agriculture committee, the subcommittee that should had held a hearing on this snap bill but never did, i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentlelady, ms. fudge. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for two minutes. ms. fudge: thank you, mr. speaker. and i thank my colleague, mr. mcgo

parties for president, miles apart in political philosophy -- senator george mcgovern a democrat; senator robert dole, bob dole, a republican -- one a liberal democrat, the other a republican. but on the farm bill, on the nutrition programs, they worked closely together for what was best for americans and best for the country. but because we refuse to go through, and we passed an excellent farm bill, a bipartisan farm bill in this body, in the senate, because the other body would not take it up, and either pass it or vote to improve it, the farm bill extension expired and the one-two punch of political reality is needlessly harming our nation. it's leaving farmers with a great uncertainty about the future of vital pardon me programs, all the while with no staff at usda to answer their questions. i know the distinguished presiding officer has a lot of agriculture in his state. his state's much larger than ours but we also have a lot of agriculture in the state of vermont. and they're saying, why is it that on the basic, essential responsibility of congress to fund the government, why has that bee

how about robert sanchez, he runs a cair chiropractic clinicn salina, one of the small businesses buying coverage under coveredcalifornia. he plans to offer his employees health care coverage, which they currently lack. you know what he says. quote -- "the affordable care act is going to be life-changing for many of the people that i see as a clinician every day." then i have coveredcalifornia told us about paul turingo -- turigino of sacramento. he enrolled in a bronze plan. you can get a gold plan, a silver plan or a bronze plan. the higher the plan, the gold plan, the less of a co-pay. and the bronze plan is less costly. so this is what he said. costly. that was extremely affordable. and he said, oh, my gosh, the insurance has been going up for the last few years like crazy. all of our money was going to pay for medical insurance. and now he's got this very affordable plan. lesley foster, a film maker in hollywood, told the "wall street journal" he found a plan that will cost his $62 a month. federal assistance will pick up three-quarters of the cost. he hasn't had comprehensive healt

robert. caller: hello. can you hear me? >> go ahead. caller: ok. up front. i'm a conservative. always has been. my views as current politics are going -- as far as the house and the senate to goes, what they are fighting over is not just obamacare. it is a bigger issue. this is the biggest power shift from judicial and legislative. they have power over our health care system and all of our private information and what we can and can't have and who we can and can't see. it is the largest power shift that has been given to the government over the power of the people. it is about the perception on what they can do with that information. watching the john stewart show. i watch all of the different views. i was watching the jon stewart show the other day. about obama care on the show. five and half minutes into it, she slipped up and said when she was being question, she slipped up and said that they will pay a fine instead of the word tax. the government has been using "tax." something a tax for -- you pay a tax for something you're getting and not something you're not getting. she

i think about robert frost's idea about the 25th pullen said that even though there is a whole collection of individual poems, the book itself becomes the 25th poem, the unified whole of all of the things. >> my father is also a poet, and thraw is a good dedicated to my father i think of as in many ways an intimate conversation held in a very public place in the book between me and my father. it's about the history of ideas of racial difference across time and space. things i think we still contend with in our discourse and everyday lives as well as the intimate discourse in families. my interracial family. >> pulitzer prize winner. >> not that one. >> right, right, in 2007 he won the pulitzer. >> yes. >> how is poetry taut across the schools now? is it still taught in schools? >> i don't know -- i don't know how much students are getting in school. i teach a freshman seminar at emory university. and my students have varying degrees of experience with poetry from their high schools. some have a lot more of it. some took creative writing as well as the study of petraeus literature in their

the phrase comes about a number of things that come together in the life and analogy of jay robert oppenheimer. the most obvious of which i guess is that his work as a physicist, much of it was to do with understanding the force is that happening inside the center of an atomic nucleus and that is great importance historically and politically isn't directing the poetry that made use of those horses to construct an explosive that previously unimagined power. that's one reason. another thing that the phrase inside the center conjures up that has to do with oppenheimer is to do his background and his fancy grew up and i'll talk more about this in a moment, but he grew up in den houten. a member of his times as the elite, but also with the conscious awareness from a jewish family he wasn't quite except did by the establishment of america and much of what he did throughout his life i think was determined by his desire to get in at the center of american intellectual and political life. and also in science he wanted to be in the censure is not an site the center of a mishap mean about ages in his car

host: robert on twitter talks about his experience. host: talk about the different costs of premiums. guest: premium costs vary a lot. it depends where you live, your age, the plan you choose. maybe he has a large deductible. he will not be able to find a plan like that on the market. that may be a gold or platinum plan. he might want to look at a silver or bronze plan. premiums do vary. one of the lowest places is pittsburgh. one of the highest places is in philadelphia. host: what were the reasons? guest: it could be competition among insurers. it could be competition among hospitals. maybe a hospital has a monopoly and they can charge what they want. cost of living varies. there are all these factors that go into it. the other factor is age. they cannot charge older people anymore than three times what they charge younger people. in many states in the past there was no limit. now it is limited to three to one. this could perhaps ring down the cost for some older people but it could raise it for gender people. so age is a factor. hos

robert c. byrd, one of the great senators and historians, always tells us to read the constitution. he told us to read the constitution. so in my desk, i have a couple of copies and every once in a while, i'll look at it, and in that constitution, it's pretty clear -- and i'm not quoting verbatim, but it says that the debts of the united states shall not be questioned. shall not be questioned. nobody has a right to play with that. and yet, we're doing it again because the republicans are angry. now, are why are they angry? and they are angry. whoo, they're angry. they're joyless. i believe it's because they lost the presidential election. i believe it's because ty

>> governor, there have been serious questions about the competence of rutgers university president robert barci in the wake of a scandal. the forced resignation of the athletic directer and the hiring of a director who many believe in retrospect is not suited for the job. what is behind your unwavering support of a man who some say has mishandled several scandals under his watch? christie: because he was the best man for the job, and he continues to be the best man for the job. he has shepherded this university through the large public institution merger in the history of the united states. in one year he brought forward the merger of rutgers and umd and j to take it from 55th in research dollars in the country to 32nd. bob barci is a bright man, a brilliant professor and a great leader for rutgers university. most of these problems that you referenced happened before he even got there. and when he did get there, he dealt with it in a forthright way. and so i support bob because he's the best man for the job, and he's leaving rutgers -- leading rutgers from good to great. >> senator? buon

surprise, arizona, next up, and democratic color, robert. hello. >> i agree with a lot of what linda said. too bad we all cannot get hip replacements. i am primarily calling because these people who want to save this country, handle budget negotiations on a wide range of issues. surprise, arizona, next up, an't of article oneix of our constitution that says, we are no longer -- we will not pay the representatives when there is a government shutdown? that is a simple thing to do. another thing, i would like to senatort and tell to be ait is supposed secret conversation. you do not do that openly on the senate floor. the last point i would like to we have a president who will go down in history as one of the great president because he is brilliant and he is a black man and he is trying to do what is right, and he is being dragged down by a republican party that does not make sense. another thing is the affordable care act is just what it is. it is affordable. that is the key word. and getpeople go out some affordable care. let me tell you abou

how do you react to that, and since republican senator pat roberts has called for secretaries of elliott and he fired, does she sought the full confidence of the president? >> the secretary does have the full confidence of the president. she, like everyone else, is focused on our number one priority, which is making the implementation of the affordable care act work well. people are working 24/7 to address the problems and isolate them and fix them. is the president wants these matters addressed. he wants to make sure that americans across the country have the best possible consumer experience as they look at their options and plan available to them -- plans available to them and see the fact that for so many of them there is affordable health insurance out there that was never there before. i think it is important to note that, even amidst this early stage of the enrollment process, even though there have been website,s with the there are americans across the country who are, through call centers and through the website and through the states, getting access to this information and maki

lockheed martin share norm augustine, along with former national security advisor to president reagan robert mcfarlane, and former cia director james woolsey. this is just over an hour and 45 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming today as -- and joining us for what we believe is the launch of ideas of policy ideas that truly can change our pattern for the past 40 years. changes that are easy, that don't cost anything, don't require government subsidies, and that are feasible, truly, thanks to the ramping up of shale gas. we have at hands the means to empower our transportation secretary that today is 97% reliant on one fuel, oil. into a competitive sector in which the free market, no subsidies, allows the competition of available choices which include electricity, methanol, ethanol, bio diesel, someday fuel cells. but let the best one win. just open the marketplace. we are honored today to several of our members join in the forthcoming roundtable here. jim woolsey, cofounder with me two years ago of the council, is joined by a number of distinguished people who hav

for instance, china's customs service from 1861 to 1911 was bush official, robert hahn. china was coerced into 343 illegal treaties at gunpoint. he was 14 million kilograms of silver for war spot on it homeland and china lost 1.6 million of territory. so during that period, china has little say on its own feet and was not treated with respect, justice or fairness on the world stage. these 100 years or so i remembered that the chinese nation as a century of national humiliation. this was the chinese revolution in the 20th century and most of this generation of chinese in the struggle gained national independent. it is still today offers for revitalization and modernization . on nation's cherish its independence. but for china, independence was almost lost and was reeking with such sacrifice good that expands by the chinese people, quote, independence and is only logical and natural that it is one of the fundamental principles in china's foreign policy. but i must emphasize here that when we talk about this sense of national humiliation, we are not seeking revenge. which i

. >> on accountability in health care we talked about robert saying that it's so bad in his estimation there should be people fired. you've defended the secretary. short of somebody being fired, what kind of accountability will there be specifically i haven't heard you ask about the company's to reduce the the federal services they've got millions of dollars of federal contracts for the data collection etc and he says it has been botched is there an investigation of the company to turn over the millions of dollars of hard earned tax payer dollars is the government going to get some of that money back? >> questions about contracts related to this are ones that should be addressed to the hhs. the account devotee the president seeks today is the accountability of that comes from those that are working on implementation, working around the clock to ensure that the experience is improved and that the whole process of implementation of the affordable care act moves forward. it's important to remember that this is not although there is a lot of focus on that the affordable care act is not jus

solicitor general robert bork was named acting attorney general. he was ordered to fire cox. he did. the fbi, acting on orders, sealed off the prosecutor's ffice. >> here is dan rather. >> good evening. >> thank you very much for being here. we're going to start our panel. we have ground to cover and we have asked panelists to be succinct. we know how difficult that might be. we will stop with bob woodward. recognizing that some members of the audience were not even alive during the dramatic events of watergate, start with a quick snapshot of the scandal that led to the unraveling of the nixon presidency. you covered these events for "the "washington post" and wrote "all the president's men." give us a brief snapshot of what was watergate. >> it is great to start with an easy one. if you look at it broadly, it was an effort to destroy the process by which presidents are nominated to run in the political parties and are elected. it was not just the watergate burglary, it was espionage, sabotage operations. if you look into enough of the tapes or read transcripts, it is clear t

[laughter] >> another question, robert bork was vilified by many for doing the deed of firing cox. he in you both believed bork was in a different moral position, and encouraged him to carry out nixon's order. bob bork's son is here. can you tell us, is that accurate? did you encourage bob? >> it is accurate. he had not been confirmed when this was going on. it was much earlier in the trouble. it didn't come up. he was the third one in the written chain of command in the white house to carry out orders of the kind we were going to receive. after him there was nobody. the president could have appointed anybody to take that role. we told bob that if he could see it within his conscience do so, we would state that he was in a different condition than we were, and we would support his decision. which we did. >> the machinery of government has to continue. >> the institution of the department was in trouble. it was shaken to the foundation by what had happened. there were fbi agents surrounding both of our offices. they surrounded the special prosecutor's office. the institutions of gov

serves as codirector for maximizing enrollment, transforming state coverage, $50 million program of the robert wood johnson foundation, and co-expert director for the foundation sponsored state for a web-based platform for exchange on health reform. i know i've got that bookmark. i'm sure many of you do as well. she also oversees long-standing work funded by the david and lucille packard foundation to provide assistance and report on state children's health insurance program's as well as an atlantic philanthropic -- philanthropies. wow. a project to address children and health care reform. excuse me. then we'll hear from genevieve kenney, the codirector and senior fellow at health policy center at the urban institute. she received a doctorate in economics and masters in statistics from the university of michigan and has been conducting policy research for over 25 years. she's a nationally known expert on medicaid, chip, and the private health insurance coverage and health issues facing low income children's and family. she's led a number of medicaid and chip devaluations and published over 100