• Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

• Gerald McEntee, President of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about President Obama’s speech last night.

• Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

• Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Missouri) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

• President Obama last night made a passionate call for Congress to fix the nation’s ailing health care system in the same spirit that created Social Security and Medicare in difficult times. He offered his most detailed outline for legislation while challenging GOP opponents to build on issues of agreement rather than play politics to exploit differences.

• Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted “You lie” during President Obama’s health care speech to Congress last night, and members of both parties condemned the heckling. Wilson called the White House to apologize and spoke with Rahm Emanuel, who accepted the apology on the president’s behalf. “We can disagree without being disagreeable,” Emanuel said to Wilson. “That was the point of the speech.”

• Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Missouri) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about President Obama’s Middle East trip, the economy, and Sotomayor’s nomination.

• Funny guy Brian Whitman joins us in studio at 8am Pacific to hang out and discuss the news of the day.

• President Obama this morning in a speech in Cairo, Egypt spoke of the tensions between the United States and Muslims saying “the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam. Obama hopes to start “a new chapter of engagement” between the U.S. and the Muslim world.

• Judge Sonia Sotomayor continued making the rounds on Capitol Hill yesterday, meeting several additional U.S. senators who will help decide whether she becomes the country’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

• New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signed same-sex marriage into law last night. The bill, which passed the House 198-176 yesterday, also was approved by the state Senate, 14-10.

• President Obama, providing the first real details on how he wants to reshape the nation’s health care system, urged Congress yesterday toward a sweeping overhaul that would allow Americans to buy into a government insurance plan.