OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 29010401

Weekly Legislative Briefing

House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC

T.R. REID
Author: "The Healing of America”
Topic: Senate Debate on Health care.

SENATE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE

News conference on Health Care

WHO: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee
Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE)

Senate Radio/TV Gallery, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC

7:00-8:00 Question/Newspaper Articles/Phones

7:00-8:00 JEFFREY YOUNG
The Hill
Health Care Reporter
thehill.com <http://thehill.com/>

Topic: An update on the Senate & the debate on health care, as an expected Saturday vote approaches.

8:00-8:15 SEN. JOHN THUNE R-South Dakota, Republican
Policy Committee Chairman
thune.senate.gov <http://thune.senate.gov/public>

Topic: Guest will discuss latest on health care legislation in the Senate.

8:15-8:45 SEN. SHERROD BROWN
D-Ohio
brown.senate.gov <http://brown.senate.gov>

Topic: Guest will discuss latest on health care legislation in the Senate.

8:45-9:00 Question/Newspaper Articles/Phones

8:55 Phoner RICHARD NORTON SMITH
Presidential Historian

Topic: Richard Norton Smith will discuss the oral histories we are airing on C-SPAN 3 this weekend from the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.

9:00-9:30 MARYANN NAPOLI
Center for Medical Consumers
Associate Director

medicalconsumers.org <http://medicalconsumers.org/>

Topic: New recommendations from a government-sponsored task force that suggest routine mammogram tests for women are not needed until age 50 unless the women have cancer risks. Ms. Napoli is supportive of the recommendations. (On Thursday, Washington Journal guest Rep. Wasserman Schultz opposed the recommendations.)

9:30-10:00 HOWARD RUFF
Uplink Author, “How to Prosper in the
Age of Obamanomics”

HOWARD RUFF
The Ruff Times
Editor
rufftimes.com <http://rufftimes.com/>

Topic: A discussion on the U.S. economy including the dollar, the Obama Administration’s economic policies & Wall Street.

Host: Steve Scully

U.S. Senate Republicans will hold a media availability in the Mansfield Room (S-207)  to discuss how the Democrats' 2,074-page health care proposal raises premiums, raises taxes and slashes Medicare.

WHO:

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R.-Ky., Senate Republican Leader

Sen. Jon Kyl, R.-Ariz., Senate Republican Whip

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Senate Republican Conference Chairman

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Republican Policy Committee Chairman

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tex., National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman

Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Ranking Member HELP Committee

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Ranking Member Finance Committee

Autonomy for the District of Columbia

Chairman Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Witnesses
· Adrian M. Fenty, mayor, Washington, D.C.
· Vincent Gray, chairman, District of Columbia City Council
· Natwar Gandhi, chief financial officer, government of the District of Columbia
· Alice M. Rivlin, senior fellow in economic studies, Brookings Institution, and director, Greater Washington Research
· Walter Smith, executive director, D.C. Appleseed Center for Law and Justice

The Former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs talks about the 2008 financial crises and her book "It Takes a Pillage." The author is Nomi Pins and she speaks with Senator Bernie Sanders - I - VT.

The Former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs talks about the 2008 financial crises and her book "It Takes a Pillage." The author is Nomi Pins and she speaks with Senator Bernie Sanders - I - VT.