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tavis: good evening. from los angeles, i am tavis smiley. a first tonight, sandy levin, a person who holds the position vacated by charlie rangel, often considered a post to be the most powerful in washington. also tonight, a conversation with acclaimed writer and producer david simon, who created shows like "homicide" and "the wire." he has a new show, "treme." that is coming up right now. >> there are so many things that wal-mart is looking forward to doing, like helping people live better, but, mostly, we are looking forward to helping you build stronger communities and relationsh...

the tactics they do. got to make sure everybody shows up it's never over until it is over. >> thank you, julie for joining us this afternoon. >> you are welcome. >> now the house rules committee considers changes to the healthcare reconciliation bill. this is one of the bills the house is considering, one passed in december. the second making changes. the second one changes the federal student loan program. the rules committee sets par a meters for the rules debate. this is being used as a way to avoid the senate filibuster. provisions meet specific budget requirements. here are some...

here with probably more experience in reviewing the alternatives in health care and i'd like to yield him such time as he may use. mr. burgess: i appreciate the gentleman for yielding. mr. roskam from illinois talked about the american people want us to fix the economy. and one of the ways we can help that is if we with will conclude this discussion -- if we will conclude this discussion we've been having about taking over america's health care system because i firmly believe that is one of the things that is holding back small businesses across the country who, they've been having t...

security taxes. when social security taxes come in they are supposed to be reserved for more benefits. we have to have a lot of money to run this program. $10 billion to the irs to hire 50,000 irs agents to police the enforcement of this mandate on every american. $55 billion to bureaucracy to run this health-care and the trust fund, all this money through these medicare cutsçç extending medicare. it pays for this new entitlement, $38 billion, coming from medicare to this entitlement. this is an $454 billion deficit. when you look at the fact that this treats medicare to create n...

>> i believe the united states congress owes the american people a final vote on health care reform. >> this week on "inside washington," obama to congress -- get it done. democrats opposed to abortion say not so fast. >> we are not going to bypass some principles that we feel strongly about. >> republicans just say no. >> this bill can be defeated and i and my republican colleagues will do everythi we can stand with the american people and defeat it. >> is the chief of staff in trouble or is the president in trouble because he does not listen to his chief of staff? >> politically, t...