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Legitimate president. this is playing to the nuts, the nuts out there who dont want to believe anything about this president. >> just -- you know, id add to that, there is a birther bill in congress that has half a dozen cosponsors. weve seen this stuff erupt before. its lost its legitimacy or it should have and its being bumped up and conspiracy entrepreneurs or people playing politics with this. it began with some folks on the left. the hillary delegate in texas started this up. >> amazing whe...

Cut, ann kirkpatrick is pushing her colleagues to give back 5% of their salaries, they bring in $174,000 a year and a 5% cut would have them earning a little more than $165,000 a year. the last time congress cut its pay, the great depression, april 1, 1933. it was not an april fool as joke and so far, she rounded up 26 cosponsors for the pay cut bill and will have a ways to go. martha: not a lot of people signing up for that one. it looks like the american automaker is making a come back and we ...

Republican cant join the 40 cosponsors on repeal. i sequence is this, lay a dis charge petition down at the well of the house of representatives, let the republicans press to sign the discharge. jim demint is helping in the senate. if we get a discharge petition up and get 218 signatures, i would hate to be the democrat voting. no the sequence is if we can do that, i understand its very difficult but the president would veto it and we would have to come back for an election and then in 2012, we ...

Stupak himself. i have apologized to mr. stupak and also my colleagues for the manner in which i expressed my disappointment. the house chamber is a place of decorum and respect. the timing and tone of my comment was inappropriate. there you have it, an apology from the congressman, ed, looking back at his record he is very, a fairly conservative congressman from texas. one of ten cosponsors of a bill in june of 2009 that would have required anyone running for the presidency of the united states...

Hard for that. he just fathered it in the last day or so. hes going to have quite a few cosponsors. >> do you have enough support? im presuming you could get this past the house. what about the senate? what is the white house doing to help you here? >> as you know, andrea, the other day, last week we met with -- i think the president is very supportive of our efforts based upon what he said. and were just going to have to put the same kind of pressure that hes been exerting with regard to this h...

Of louisiana said by increasing contracts to small businesses by just 1%, we can create more than 100,000 new jobs. in the house, a bill ready to go that would potentially solve the problem with a long list of cosponsors, but it is stuck in committee. >> i am so tired, like so many people, i am so disappointed, and its time that needs to change. >> through shear grit and determination these companies have weathered the recession and are ready to grow. >> whether the federal government will help ...

>> reporter: which gets us back to the fundamental problem jane the gov is -- the government is way better at promising than paying for them. but the music is about to stop with some difficult choices ahead. jane? jane: jim, thanks so much. jon? jon: a bipartisan group of senators backing legislation that would cut funding to hold the civilian terror trials for the 9/11 suspect. this as the obama administration is reconsidering its decision to put the confessed mastermind khalid sheikh mohammed ...

>> i dont think so. i mean, were ready to work with the president on tax incentives for job growth as well as a number of other things, but more taxes, more spending, more debt isnt the right formula. i was noticing this morning in the newspaper, the tennessee governor, a democrat, recommended his budget also yesterday. he cut it 5%. this presidents budgets gone up nearly 30% in two years. >> well, but, senator, i want to go to this deficit commission. i heard you on one of the sunday shows, cha...

2012 intentions. the inevitable question of whether the republicans would run michael steele for president. wow. nobody knows who the republicans are going to run in 2012, but in the lead-up to this years elections, the democratic president regaining his momentum seems to have disoriented the republicans on policy. republicans are now frequently voting against things they used to support. today, for example, there was this from president obama. >> i have proposed a bipartisan fiscal commission. ...

Continue costly tax cuts for oil companies, investment fund managers and those making over $250,000 a year. we just cant afford it. finally, change in spending as usual depends on changing politics as usual. thats why ive proposed a bipartisan fiscal commission, a panel of democrats and republicans who would hammer out concrete deficit reduction proposals over the medium and long term, but would come up with those answers by a certain deadline. i should point out, by the way, that is an idea tha...