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captions paid for by nbc-universal television this sunday, health care reforms final act. >> i do not know how this plays politically, but i know its right. >> the president makes one last push. >> the united states congress owes the american people an up or down vote. >> will members of his own party provide the necessary votes. we discuss the politics, the policy and the end game with secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius. then the political stakes in 2010 and be...

presidential race with co- authors of a book on the subject. "washington journal" starts now. . host: we want to focus this morning on help any state should fill a senate seat in the event of death or resignation. here is a photograph of the flags and half staff in honor of senator kennedy. obama says that "the extraordinary good that he did lives on." you may remember a letter sent to the senator asking for a change in the law in massachusetts. from the store this morning, governor ...

upon us, a biological weapon. its not as simple as putting them underground and your point is well-taken. its complementary to what we say. if you think its sufficient, we may not need to do this but its something that we are generally in favor of the operation of. anybody else want to jump in? okay. do we have another question? if not, we can turn to the second panel. so im going to turn it to tom mann who >> today on washington journal, a look at the week ahead. discuss u.s. relation...

popularity. that they reached out to all of the former presidents who were living, including hoover, and reached out to all of the former president and ask them their advice about what was going on. he constantly talked to them. one day, president truman came to visit. it was the same day that another person came to visit. there were these two wonderful story tellers, wonderful americans there together. i went over to daddys office to listen in and see what was going on. . >> because m...

people -- several people remembered both vice president cheney and secretary of defense rumsfeld and years earlier in a program they took part in the 1980s. the continuity of government exercises established by the reagan administration. this was again at a peak of cold war tensions with the soviet union. the issue was what would happen if there was a soviet attack on the united states, on washington in which several top officers were killed and the response of the reagan administratio...

starting with a transition project and continuing now to this continuity of government. so im delighted to be here and delighted to have three members of the continuity of government commission here to segue a bit from whats the problem, what is to be done to focusing a bit, if not exclusively on how in the world to do it. norm, i think, mentioned that its been eight years since 9/11. it was hours after the attack that the concern about continuity first arose in the mind of norm and br...

colleagues, the issue with continuity is i never got to a point where it felt really good about it. and that was because it is always a work in progress. . >> it requires the office of science and technology policy to set communication standards. i think we have got to be asking the current administration, how are they doing and when are they doing that? what are -- what is the performance of those agencies? president obama has made clear his commitment to transparency. there is no gre...

of role are you going to play in the future talking to these people? organizations, young people, how are you going to -- the united is serious about pursuing this kind of policy that president obama has promised. .. >> its an important priority. >> will have her back in the future. >> thank you. >> this is the american enterprise institute in washington. they are hosting a discussion this morning on an american presidential succession in the event of a terrorist attack. new reports co...