would never be able to take time off what i big project has to get done on deadline. funding the government, that s a big project with a very important deadline. and consider this. according to expedia.com, the average american worker gets 18 vacation days a year. 18. and they only use 14 of them. did i mention that since january congress has only been in session for 125 days? plus they divided 112th congress promises to be the least productive in recent memory. since january only 14 house measures have been signed into law by president obama. and look at this, had when democrats controlled the house last year from january to june, 466 bills and resolutions were passed. by comparison over the same time frame this year only 207 bills or resolutions got approval. they spent more time bickering than getting anything actually done. yet house lawmakers sure do get paid a lot. rank and file representatives earn $174,000 a year. the speaker of the house takes home $223,500. now, com
shall we? and there is another showdown over a possible shutdown. one week from today, the federal government will are up out of money. so with critical government programs and disaster relief hanging in the balance, congress is taking the weekend off. but they say they have good reason to. they needed to cool off a bit. cnn congressional correspondent indicate baldwin tells us what s holding up a deal. with lawmakers heading for the exits and after a long week of heated debate. that s the danger to this country is the $14 trillion deficit and the $1.6 trillion we add to it every damn year. wake up. wakeup. you can t kill these programs. this is the solution you are killing. reporter: congress leaves washington with no agreement on how to avoid another government shutdown. why the holdup as the september 30th deadline looms? neither side is backing down. top republicans and democrats continue pointing fingers at each other. harry reid is holding a bill up with full
this man can do just about anything. i ll have to ask him to do me a personal favor. i m going to do this one more time. but after this i get paid. right? this is piers morgan tonight. morgan freeman is a man of great stature, a man of great talent, and as i ve come to realize he s also a great man of his word. a few months ago he promised he d join me in the studio face to face for a one-on-one interview, and here you are, morgan freeman. yay. an actor keeping his word. yes. i m stunned. yeah. we won t talk about how it came about. we won t. i know it s got nothing to do with me. everything to do with one of my very attractive booking team. right? yes, yes. i must admit. the most stunning woman i ve ever met. don t say that. it will go to her head. please. please don t say that. i also said when i interviewed you down the line remotely by satellite that you appeared to be remarkably youthful for a man of your, let s be honest, fairly advanced years. a
michael e. knight is the name. he will be here with me to talk about the end of an era, all my children s last episode on the air was yesterday. from the cnn headline news center in atlanta georgia, this is your cnn saturday morning, 7:00 a.m. in laengz. wherever you are, glad you are right here. and if you are still here with us, that means you weren t hit up side the head by debris from that falling satellite. it came crashing back to earth. look at these dramatic pictures of it coming down. okay, not so dramatic, but still, nasa was getting us ready for this. it was supposed to break up into several pieces. this is out of san antonio. one piece of video here. people all over from minnesota to texas to hawaii to the philippines, to the netherlands, everybody claims they saw something in the skies last night. reynolds, did they? well, why don t you ask tad martin? no. everyone is going to the thing is, because this has been something that s captured the imagination o
u.s. he simple hasn t aktd. that trade debt is choking the economy, there s not enough demand for what americans make and the economy doesn t move forward. he doesn t have a compliant congress, specifically the house of representatives. that s true. the reason he doesn t is because he squandered his first year. now as a consequence, the country elect add congress that wants a change in direction. the congress for its part doesn t seem much capable of providing it. to say mr. obama is alone in getting us out of this mess isn t fair. the republicans aren t providing a path either. the author of it takes a pillage an epic tale of power, deceit and untold trillions. welcome. the public gives president obama trouble on the economy. only 9% said better, 37 made it worse. 37% said he made it worse. is the president a victim of the economy or has he exacerbated here. certain policies haven t made things better. on the other hand, it s because those policies haven t really a