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Dont need cobra. but what i do is help people find the best insurance plan for the money for their families. im an insurance agent. and at that point -- yes? >> steve: you feel as if the presidents health care plan cost you your job. explain that. >> i was hired back in june of 08 by a company called health smart. they were kind of new to the cleveland market to try to compete with the anthems and aetnas of the world with a self-funded vehicle for employers that allowed more transparency and mor...

As we try to win the war on terror independent americans are saying this next go round in these midterm elections im going to be casting my vote differently than how i cast it in 08. i think you are going to see some shift there. look at what is going on now in congress with pelosi, reid, obama, we are seeing desperation. desperate people do desperate things. they are so desperate to get this health care thing passed through, shoved down our throats really so that there is in their mines a win c...

606,758 h. 1 $,80 for grass roots organizing. in 2009 alone. $144.5 million on lobbying a variety of issues. >> that is a lot of money but i didnt hear concern about the union spending 420 million in the 08 elections to elect this majority. >> reporter: you guys spend the most money on lobbying? >> so, were a lobbying organization. >> reporter: he doesnt think the presidents plan is a good one. >> i think where the public gets a little ascant where they hear were going to cut half a trillion ove...

>> reporter: today, critics like public citizen describe the chamber as too political with enormous influence over national policy. according to the center for responsive politics, between 1998 and 2009, the chamber spent $606,758,180 to lobby lawmakers, pay for political ads and grassroots organizing. in 2009 alone it spent $144.5 million on lobbying a variety of different issues. thats a lot of money. >> well, it is a lot of money, but i didnt hear a lot of concern about the unions spending $4...

Hiding. >> sean: there are a number of huge constitutional issues. congress is supposed to vote on bills before they get to the president. number two, we havent had a mandate issue like this. number three, i think theres a constitutional issue one state gets an exempt and another doesnt. >> even on this deeming, i think it is going to be debated. i also believe politically, take it back to that for a moment. when chris says they are playing with fire when they look at those 55 democrats a lot li...

>> from americas news headquarters, im ainsley earhardt. the nations attorney general predicts that al qaeda leader osama bin laden will never face trial. republican lawmakers were grilling him about the dangers of trying terror suspects like osama bin laden in federal civilian court. holder responded that osama bin laden wont will taken alive. he didnt say if that meant he would fight to the death or commit suicide. honda planning a recall of more than 400,000 vehicles, saying that the brakes c...

Different. why did you vote for the wheelchair tax? theyre not going to be talking about procedure. theyre going to be talking about the substance that republicans are stirring up. >> are you going to say, i didnt vote for it? >> no, no, no, no. >> then why do this? >> they are the hook -- >> why dont they just get up and do it? >> it play get them a couple more votes. >> it may get them three or four vote and right now thats the difference between pass and fail. >> lets pull back to 50,000 feet...

Hiding. >> sean: there are a number of huge constitutional issues. congress is supposed to vote on bills before they get to the president. number two, we havent had a mandate issue like this. number three, i think theres a constitutional issue one state gets an exempt and another doesnt. >> even on this deeming, i think it is going to be debated. i also believe politically, take it back to that for a moment. when chris says they are playing with fire when they look at those 55 democrats a lot li...

There and they took away the regulations, starting chipping away at them, we had the savings and loans crisis, the hedge fund meltdown, and now the crash of 08. when dodd says -- this isnt to say there wont be other disasters. that wasnt his word, but other problems in the future, hes admitting this could very well happen again on some level. i agree with paul krugman in the "new york times" a few weeks ago that it might be better not to pass this bill than to pass a bill that gives all of us a ...

We face in 08? >> and dylan and arianna? was not small. were talking about, lets step back for a minute. were talking about hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars of losses that have now been back-filled by the taxpayers of this country. were talking about 27 million people out of work, unemployed. underemployed or stopped looking for work. were talking about two million households though have been foreclosed on and millions more who fear it and were talking about $12 trillion worth of losse...