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Music and then we were all thrown out at the end. >> as everyone was. what happens now? we all saw the black smoke, obviously. there's no real debating or discussion during the votes inside that sisteen chapel. >> yeah, what happens is more like going to church than a political convention. it's a highly ceremonial experience, which, most of the time, is eaten up by the k choreography of ballots. each cardinal steps up individually and deposits his ballot. that happens 115 times. soup to nuts, each ballot takes about an hour, hour and a half. if you take two in the morning and two in the aftern...

Committee on rules, i call up house resolution res 1203 and ask for its immediate consideration. >> this bill is the mother of all unfunded mandates. >> those who oppose the process don't want any debate or votes on health care itself. they just want to make reform go away. >> 228, nays 195 the question of consideration is decided and affirmative. >> i'm flabbergasted perhaps the gentle lady from new york could tell me under the rule that the louisiana perfect, the corn husker kickback, the gatorade and bismark bank job will be somehow removed from the legislation after its passage? >> i'm hap...

Are the homeless, the homeless people and if we have more programs like this where they're taken off the street and giving them a place to live. that's a big part of it. >> by the way, the t-3 program as it's called is apparently working. according to officials here, the e.r. visits by the frequent flyers have been slashed 65%, inpatient hospital services down 40%, saving the medical center back here, 2.4 million dollars a year. shep. >> shepard: casey stegall live in sacramento, thanks. prices at the pump are going up. the average for a gal of regular unleaded now 2.81 nationwide and that's u...

To the capitol right by the sign mashing the deaths of two capitol police officers who died in a shootout in july of '98. again a woman arrested there at the capitol in protest. a live look at the house floors as we'll continue to watch and wait for the vote. in the meantime, the number of people taking trips to the emergency rooms surged in recent years. a study in atlantic back in 2006 indicates nearly 120 million people visited emergency rooms across the nation. that's a 30%, 36% jump in the number of americans visiting the e.r. over the previous decade. hospitals are now cracking down on f...

Sacramento. a lot of times when you don't have health insurance in this country the only access to you get to medical care if you show up to an emergency room. many are homeless and doctors say sometimes they're just in search of a bed and don't even require medical attention. some show up several times in the same week, clogging the e.r. for those who really need it. >> currently, and especially with the state of the economy, the emergency room is a point of entry for health care. and it's really important that the emergency room be available for people who have true emergencies. >> so, to co...