and congresswoman loretta sanchez, a democrat from california. she is now on the floor of voting and will join us here in just a moment. i want to say thank you to all of you for being here. let's start out with the stimulus package. less than 10% of the this package has been spent, yet we're hearing cries and calls for a second stimulus package. let me ask you, if i may, governor rendell, what your reaction is. do you need it, do you think it makes sense to call for it now? >> it's really premature, lou. i think the president is right saying it can't be off the table, but it's far too early to tell whether we need it. in pennsylvania, we have spent literally $1 billion of the $16 billion that we're going to get under the stimulus program. although we've contracted out over 65% of our road and highway projects, work has begun on about 50% of them, but it's just begun in the last couple of weeks. remember, it's less than four months since the plan, the pennsylvania transportation plan was approved. that's an incredibly fast time to get the work be

we're joined by loretta sanchez. one of rising silicon valley stars. >>> ron allen has an unexpected turn in the gates' controversy and a major update in the custody of michael jackson's kids. >>> headlines this morning. new arrest in iran. >>> now riot police barred opposite chief mousavi. the labor department says new unemployment claims raised. >>> and a boston police officer has been suspended for writing a racially charged e-mail. > >>>. >>> nbc news has learned a custody deal has been reached in the michael jackson case. his three children will live with their grandmother, katherine jackson. debbie rowe will get visitation but no custody. jackson's personal chef says that's a good chase. kai chase describes what she saw the day jackson died. >> within minutes, i see paramedics running up the stairs, at that point, you could feel the energy change. >> want to introduce my guest co-host today. >> glad to see you. a lot to talk about. we saw some of those new poll numbers. but you think the president has to be wor

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joining us now is representative loretta sanchez, democrat of california. representative sanchez, thank you very much for coming on the show. >> it's a pleasure to be here. thank you for inviting me. >> the rnc is blaming the la raza club on a scheduling conflict. their summer meeting does start this week in california. but conservatives like newt gingrich have been attacking la raza specifically in the summer over sonia sotomayor's nomination. do you believe this was an important snub this week? >> well, i believe that it's important because the hispanic vote is not in one party or another. it really is up for grabs in any election, so i think that it would be good strategy for the republicans to actually send somebody. it's amazing to me that they didn't have their chairman or any of their top governors able to attend. i would suggest to them if they were asking me that they should have sent somebody to address that audience. >> do you think that the treatment of judge sotomayor during the con fifirmation proc either by republicans in the hearing room or

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polis of colorado, miss loretta sanchez of california, and mr. lamborn of colorado. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under a previous order of the house, the following members are are recognized for five minutes each. mr. poe of texas. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. under the united states constitution, article 1, section 2 it states that every 10 years there will be a counting of the people. the purposes are twofold, one, to levy direct taxes, and second, to find out how many people live in the united states so that members of congress can be apportioned percentagewise based on population. that is the purpose of the census and it's a good purpose. next year we will have another undertaking of the census, of the counting of the people in the united states. but also independent of the census there is a survey that is being taken -- given, rather, to american citizens, three million next year, and three million every year. i want to make it clear this is not the census