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only politically expedient but extremely harmful. they hit health care. health care. they refuse to end a tax break for bill oil that never should have been given in the first place. even though the big five oil companies made more than $32 billion in the fourth quarter of last year alone. this bill is shameless. it is shameful. vote no. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. does the gentlelady from illinois continue to reserve? mrs. biggert: yes, i continue...

two-year degree, your number is 202-737-0001, if a four-year degree, 202-737-0002 or if you have no degree, 202-628-0205. you can also send us an email at journal@c-span.org. we want to talk about the impact of the cost of going to college and the impact of the cost on your education. this little article in "the new york post" sort of scums up whats happening on critical and here in washington regarding the assistance of helping to pay for a college education. student loan brawl, the h...

before they become seve. women in particular will benefit from this prevention fund which would provide for hundreds of thousands of screenings for breast and cervical cancer. this is already happening. this would have to stop under this bill. so lets back up for a moment and say we all want the most educated population in our country so people can reach their self-fulfillment, whever thedecide it is, so we can be competitive in world markets, so we can have an informed electorate. in ...

>> programs that are expecting constant cost burdens will not survive, poorly performing programs will not survive. or should not survive. here again in gay has done a terrific job in a number of areas, gmt bad, sm3 and so forth to incentivize schedule and alternatively penalize the schedule slips. look into the supply chain in our missile manufacturing, and understand where we can realize better value in the supply chain, provi...

Most of them, dom oral argument with a fairly conception of the case. what they use oral argument for varies according to the justice, and it turns out some use oral argument to try to persuade fellow justices of the view that they already have. the fact that he comes to the case with a preconception about the case is not -- doesnt distinguish him from the other justices. >> do you think, though if there were cameras, if there were camera as howed in oral arguments it would make a difference? >>...

Issues before he gets there. >> roger, as you talk about that, it seems as if he would come with a predetermined judgment when hes walking in there to hear cases coming before him. so, to me, when i hear this, doesnt that mean that hes probably coming in there with, as i said, a predetermined judgment about something hes supposed to keep an open mind to? >> most of the justices i dare say come to cases and come to oral argument with a pretty clear conception of what the case is about, and you ca...

town, said, wait a minute, this could happen. cast your mind back to 1995, thomas. you and i were doing the macarena, and the government was being shut down when republicans come into power during the clinton administration. a similar situation in terms of the timing. there was the -- there were disagreements over spending bills that led to two government shutdowns and republicans, largely, took the blame, for a lot of reasons that perhaps had nothing to do with the actual issues invol...

>> the house debates rules for the upcoming health care repeal debate. then president obama talks about the latest unemployment figures and announces new members of his economic team. then another chance to see chairman ben bernanke testifying before the senate budget committee. >> this weekend on c-span3 " american history tv," live coverage of the american historical society. a round table on national security and the publics need to know. as the congressional black -- black caucus m...

and what it means for the federal government going forward. heres how you can weigh in this morning on the jobless rate. the numbers are on the bottom of your screen. if you want to send us an e-mail, you can do so. and if you are familiar with twitter.com as many of you who follow us are, heres the breakdown or the specifics on the front page of the wall street journal. thats the "wall street journal." heres another view of the jobless rate numbers from the pages of the financial time...

responsibility theyre kind of protecting their territory with the concept that they never met a good idea that wasnt their own. so if youve got it -- you know, hey, it wont work for these eight reasons. if ive got it, ive already presented it and its a good idea. so that comes down when in doubt default to the status quo, which gets us back to the cold war system. so for me it was a great hearing because theres a lot of work to do. but this commission has had -- this is the ninth heari...