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i think that unless the unemployment rate relief drops a couple of points between now and november, we might see this whole thing play out in lame duck. >> what about social security trust funds? where is that opera? >> this debate -- we have republicans attending social security. it has been crazy. you heard mr. upton tying himself and not because the republicans initially opposed the tarell -- payroll tax holiday. mr. ryan called it sugar high economics. a lot of people were opposed ...

ceiling has essentially reached its limit today. we will take more of a look at that this morning, because in 45 minutes, we will talk about the debt ceiling, what it is, what it means now that it has been reached. elsewhere in washington, the senate will take up a bill to repeal tax breaks for large oil companies. president obama will meet with families impacted by flooding today. he makes a major speech this week on thursday over at the state department. and rahm emanuel was sworn in...

more lethal. before he was captured, when he first joined al qaeda, they were killing dozens at a time. as soon as he got into senior leadership, they began killing hundreds and then thousands at a time. after he was captured in march 2003, the lethality of al qaeda fell. this is a guy that really mattered and understanding him is about understanding the future of the war on terror. now that bin laden is dead, this is what we have to fear, the terrorist entrepreneurs like khalid sheikh...

it makes investments. it has energy on. that is a big opportunity. >> a couple of us have a couple of follow- questions i think there is that anyone here who this not do this. what we mean by comprehensive tax reform, the general feeling is the the broadens the base. this seems to be a trend. it is similar on the corporate side. we lower it. by definition of we are doing that, we are starting to cut back. whether it is biofuels or what. your general advice to us, does that mean that ma...

well talk about how unemployment insurance works. we will look at the homeland security department budget. "washington journal" is next. . . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] host: we will begin this morning with your thoughts on how the senate works. democrat, dial -- remember, you can send us an e- mail at journal@c-span.org or a tweet. let us start with "congress daily." the white house did not run away f...

welcome to the heritage foundation for another one of our speeches in the homeland security and the states project. the topic that were going to talk about today is one of the critically important topics, i believe, in this area of homeland security after september 11 and hurricane katrina, which is the importance of a state-led disaster response. you know, we are currently in this era of an ever-increasing federalization of disasters that really began back in 1993 when we went from ab...