Obama on Face The Nation

If you missed today's edition of Face the Nation, you missed President Obama talk about health care reform, CIA interrogations the war in Afghanistan and cancellation of the missile defense system in Europe. The stay tuned to see RNC Chairman Michael Steele respond to the President.

Overall it was a very interesting interview, watch it:

Status Of State Economies: Gov Corzine on Face the Nation

Bob Schieffer spoke with New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland about the economic situations in their respected states.

Some interesting New Jersey budget numbers thrown out by Bob Schieffer while questioning Gov. Corzine about the impact of the current economic crisis was as follows; Expected sales tax revenue $ 8.5 billion (a shortfall of $653 million), State income tax shortfall of $1.45 billion, with a total drop of budget revenues of $2.8 billion expected.

Gov. Corzine said that revenues have dropped off by 8%-9% and he expects to take the economic stimulus money when made available from the federal government. He mentioned that he would use the money to help education, healthcare and infrastructure throughout the State. The Governor also mentioned that by taking the stimulus money offered by the President Obama, 100,000 jobs will be created or saved throughtout New Jersey.

Interestingly, Indiana (R) Gov. Mitch Daniels said that he will also take the stimulus money being offered by the Obama administration to invest it for later uses.

Governor Corzine on Face the Nation

Here's a heads up, tomorrow morning Governor Jon Corzine will join Ohio Governor Ted Strickland to discuss the Economic Stimulus Package that President Obama signed into law this past Tuesday and the positive benefits it will have for our states.

It airs live on CBS at 10:30 am.