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Here is our fearless leader during a press conference yesterday with the afl/cio. >> i want to thank the afl/cio for all youve done to fight for jobs, to fight cuts for the middle-class, fight for reforms that will rein in the special interests and policies that rebuilt this economy but actually going to put us on a path that is sustainable and good for all americans. >> glenn: what planet did i land on? did they flip flew a worm hole and this looks like america? its like the damn planet of the ...

Here is our fearless leader during a press conference yesterday with the afl/cio. >> i want to thank the afl/cio for all youve done to fight for jobs, to fight cuts for the middle-class, fight for reforms that will rein in the special interests and policies that rebuilt this economy but actually going to put us on a path that is sustainable and good for all americans. >> glenn: what planet did i land on? did they flip flew a worm hole and this looks like america? its like the damn planet of the ...

Talking about that for months. you cant cut the deficit in the middle of the deep u.s. downturn since 1989. >> but critics are say the spending is out of control. thats what the critics would say. >> what im trying to emphasize is there is a confusion among the critics, and i think its a willful confusion by some, of short run getting out of the deepest crisis since the depression, you cannot tighten the belt at that moment. that would be a mistake. in the medium run, as we come out of the crisi...

Mary ellen, it became famous on the menu there up in space with our man john glenn. did you ever drink tang up in space? >> i did not drink tang, but did i drink a lot of cherry kool-aid. >> so andrew, there we come. we have to continue the other myths of things that were created in space and of course, velcro, andrew, we should point out issue made famous and it was developed by the swiss and thats what the guys in apollo were attaching the equipment to the inside of the shuttle. >> you know, k...

>> i had to remind myself that when i had to throw that one in there. poor mans teleprompter. [applause] >> also, folks, do you think about what the administration did. they banned more offshore drilling than they aloud and the epa has d and they allowed, and the eps as put us on a path for a policy to destroy jobs and impose a national tax on energy on all of us.

Quasi nationalization of the financial system, nationalization of the automobiles, quasi nationalization of the health industry. now this bill has in it which nobodys focused on the nationalization of the student loan industry. it is a -- what we intend to do is throw up a series of substantive amendments, the purpose of which is to try to correct some of the fundamental flaws. i know we cant fix it, really, because its such a terrible bill, some of the fundamental flaws of the underlying major ...

Extend my remarks in opposition to this flawed health care bill. >> without objection. >> id like to yield for one minute the gentleman from florida, mr. sterns. >> the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. without objection. >> thank you, madame speaker. this incredibly expensive $1 trillion health care bill will hurt many that simply currently have insurance. the bill will hurt veterans because it does not accept tricare as a qualified medical plan. it will hurt seniors by cutti...

It? what are you hearing? do you sense this will pass? >> yes. you know the way these things work. theres a couple dozen people on these votes that play their cards close to the vest unit the end, but i think we have a pretty good idea what people are going to do, and im confident that well pass a bill that reins in the abuses, help senior citizens pay for their prescription drugs and put us on a path where hard-working people can get affordable insurance. thats why the industry is fighting it s...

What are you doing to plan for it? preparing anything? anything you are doing behind the scenes? >> the health care summit has been built up now as a critical moment and the president is going to succeed in oppose -- in imposing his will on the congress and so that perhaps nancy pelosi can jam through the senate bill in the house. i believe that my mission in going to that meeting will be number one, to ask the president why it is that he supports this bill? because it is not a bill that will lo...

That america has offered to the world. i believe the gathering reflects peoples concerns about where were headed in this country. we have serious decisions to make. we are at at pivotal point in our countrys history. are we going to be the country that we know or one that frankly goes more towards the style of european socialism? we dont want that in this country. we are a country of opportunity. one with that my mission in going to that meeting will be number one, to ask the president why it is...