The Stephanie Miller Show - March 11 2010

March 11th, 2010

• Hal Sparks joins us in the L.A. Bureau at 6am Pacific for all three hours of “Humpdays With Hal on Thursday.”

• Comedian Kate Clinton calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about the news of the day.

• Comedy Royalty Lily Tomlin calls in at 7:30am Pacific to promote her upcoming dates at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

• Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

• President Obama invited members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to meet with him today to discuss health legislation. The White House also said Obama would travel to Ohio on Monday for an appearance near the hometown of an uninsured cancer patient named Natoma Canfield, whom the president has made a symbol of the need for reform.

• House Democratic leaders announced Wednesday that they will ban the much-criticized practice of using annual spending bills to direct pet projects to companies that often return the favor with campaign contributions.

• The foreclosure crisis isn’t over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down. The number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in February grew 6 percent from the year-ago level, the smallest annual increase in four years.