Address to America's Health Insurance Plans.

7:00-7:45 Question/Newspaper Articles/Phones

7:00 On the Phone:  SUSAN CRABTREE
The Hill
Senior Editor
<thehill.com>

Topic: Guest will discuss House Democratic leaders decision to ban the practice of using annual spending bills to direct earmarks to for-profit companies.


7:45-8:15 REP. JASON ALTMIRE D-Pennsylvania, 4th District
Education & Labor Cmte Member
<altmire.house.gov>

Topic: Debate in Congress over health care. Rep. Altmire is a Blue Dog Democrat, and is undecided so far on how he'll vote on health care legislation. He's a former hospital official and voted against the earlier House bill -- the Affordable Health Care for America Act -- on Nov. 7, saying it did not do enough to control costs.

8:15 Radio Headlines

8:15-8:45 DAVID SAVAGE Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court Reporter
latimes.com

Article: latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-roberts-speech10-2010mar10,0,4550858.story <http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-roberts-speech10-2010mar10,0,4550858.story>

Topic: On Tuesday, Chief Justice Roberts gave a speech at the University of Alabama Law School during which he criticized Pres. Obama’s State of the Union Address, calling the President’s comments on the campaign finance case “troubling” & the event “a political pep rally.” Guest will discuss the reaction to the speech, the Roberts court, as well as the separation of powers.

8:45-9:30 ROBERT JOHNSON
Roosevelt Institute
Project on Global Finance - Director
rooseveltinstitute.org <http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/>

Topic: Guest will discuss the Roosevelt Institute's report from a group of leading economists, financiers, and former federal regulators who warn that financial regulatory reform measures proposed by the Obama administration and Congress must be beefed up to prevent banks from continuing to engage in high-risk investing that precipitated the near-collapse of the U.S. economy in 2008.


9:30-10:00 JAMES GOLDGEIER
Council on Foreign Relations
Transatlantic Relations Senior Fellow
cfr.org <http://www.cfr.org/>
and
George Washington University
Political Science & Int'l Affairs Professor
gwu.edu <http://www.gwu.edu/>

Topic: Earlier this month our guest released his report looking at the Future of NATO. He joins us with his findings and recommendations