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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
JOHN BOEHNER. HE IS GOING TO BE SWORN IN AS THE 53RD SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. SWORN IN BY JOHN DINGELL, THE DEAN OF THE HOUSE. THEN HE WILL DELIVER A...
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Slen, Peter - Host
242 ARE REPUBLICANS AND 193 ARE DEMOCRATS. GUEST: THE NEW MODERATE SPELLED OUT BY ERIC CANTOR. THE
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
REPUBLICANS IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION -- THEY HAD IT 12 YEARS AND LOST IT IN THE ELECTION OF 2006, -- THEY REALLY DID NOT HAVE A SLOGAN TO TRY TO CUT...
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Slen, Peter - Host
CALL, AND NOMINATIONS FOR SPEAKER WILL BE MADE AT THAT POINT. AT ABOUT 12:40 P.M. THIS AFTERNOON EASTERN TIME, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WILL SELECT THE NEW...
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
UNCONSTITUTIONAL. WE HAVE SEEN THE BATTLE IN THE COURTS AS FAR AS THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE. THE LEGAL CHALLENGE WILL CONTINUE. REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING...
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Slen, Peter - Host
THE 112TH CONGRESS -- SINCE 1920, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH A LARGE REPUBLICAN FRESHMAN CLASS. HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT THE INCOMING FRESHMAN CLASS....
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
CERTAINLY SOME DEMOCRATS WHO WILL BE GOING AFTER THESE TEA PARTY CANDIDATES BECAUSE NOW, I BELIEVE, 31 OF THE FRESHMEN CAME FROM DISTRICTS THAT PRESIDENT...
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Slen, Peter - Host
NEXT ELECTION. MEMBERS WHO WON IN 2010 WITH 5% OR LESS OF THE VOTE -- 23 DEMOCRATS AND 20 REPUBLICANS. MEMBERS IN DISTRICTS THAT VOTED FOR OTHER PARTY'S...
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UNDER ATTACK. PRESIDENT OBAMA TRIED TO PASS A BILL TO STOP -- REPUBLICANS AND U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STOPPED. THIS TELLS YOU WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN....
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Slen, Peter - Host
TO THE CONSTITUTION AND WHAT THE CONSTITUTION IS ALL ABOUT.
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THE TEA PARTY -- EVERYBODY KEEPS LOOKING AT US AS IF WE ARE SOME KIND OF WEIRD ANIMAL. BUT I HAVE BEEN TO ABOUT THREE OR FOUR TEA PARTY GATHERINGS, AND...
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Slen, Peter - Host
THINK THE FIRST CALLER HAD IT PRETTY MUCH RIGHT. IT DID ABOUT ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF THE HOUSE IN THE
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112TH IS GOING TO BE SOME COURT OF CORPORATE AGENDA. THEY ARE JUST GOING TO TRY TO HAMMER THE UNIONS. THEY ARE GOING TO TRY TO HAMMER ANYBODY WHO MAKES...
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
IS STILL DEMOCRAT AND THE WHITE HOUSE OBVIOUSLY HAS PRESIDENT OBAMA IN IT. WE ARE BACK TO DIVIDED GOVERNMENT. WE SAW WITH PRESIDENT BUSH A FEW YEARS...
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Slen, Peter - Host
IN. THIS IS THE BIGGEST GAIN SINCE 1994 FOR THE REPUBLICANS. ANY COMPARISON OR HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE YOU CAN ADD WHEN IT COMES TO PRESIDENT CLINTON BACK...
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
ONE STUNG. AS FAR AS THE DIFFERENCE, PRESIDENT OBAMA STILL HAS CONTROL OF THE SENATE. HIS COLLEAGUES HAVE CONTROL. A SMALLER MAJORITY. BUT THAT IS WHERE...
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Slen, Peter - Host
BEGINS WITH THE 64TH CONGRESS IN 1915. 99 REPUBLICANS WERE ELECTED THAT YEAR, FOR SOME REPUBLICANS. THE BIGGEST CHANGE EVER IN CONGRESS WAS IN THE 1932...
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HAVE BEEN INDEPENDENT SINCE THE PRIMARIES IN 2008, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE DECLINE, MY OPINION ABOUT THE SEXISM AND RACISM THAT WENT AGAINST HER. TEA PARTY...
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Slen, Peter - Host
HOPE THAT SENATOR BOEHNER, THAT HE DOES MAKE A MISTAKE --
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IF HE DO, AND HE DON'T TALK ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE JOBS -- I AM REPUBLICAN FROM MISSISSIPPI, AND I AM A BLACK REPUBLICAN AND THE JOHN BOEHNER COMES IN...
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Slen, Peter - Host
BOEHNER. REPUBLICANS ARE NOW ON THE HOOK. AFTER
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
3 WAVE ELECTIONS -- 2004, NOT MANY INCUMBENTS LOST, 2006, 2008, 2010, WAVE AFTER WAVE. UNLESS THE ECONOMY IMPROVES, JOHN BOEHNER HAS TO BE WORRIED. THAT...
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Slen, Peter - Host
PENNSYLVANIA. MICKEY ON THE INDEPENDENT LINE. CALLER: I HAVE THREE SHORT POINTS. I AGREE WITH PAUL KRUGMAN ABOUT THE STIMULUS NOT BEING SUFFICIENTLY...
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WE SHOULD HAVE GONE INTO A MUCH DEEPER RED LINE INVESTMENTS TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC SPIRIT AND OF -- ECONOMIC INVESTMENT. THE LIGHT RAIL WAS...
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Slen, Peter - Host
SOME CHATTER THAT REPUBLICANS CERTAINLY WILL NOT FUND SOME OF THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THAT HAVE TO IMPLEMENT WALL
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
STREET REFORMS. REPUBLICANS ARE MORE AGGRESSIVE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM AS FAR AS THE PLANS -- AS FAR AS REPEALING THE HEALTHCARE BILL, AND IF THAT DOES...
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Slen, Peter - Host
AND THIS ARTICLE FROM "THE WASHINGTON TIMES." OBAMA'S BASE EAGER TO DO BATTLE. WE HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT THE OTHER CHAMBER, THE SENATE. HERE ARE JUST SO...
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
A HEATED LEGISLATIVE BATTLES AND APOLOGIZED FOR GOING TOO FAR, HARRY REID DID THAT A COUPLE OF TIMES IN THE LAST CONGRESS. HERE WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE...
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UDALL LIKELY TO OFFER A FILIBUSTER CHANGE RESOLUTION TO TALK ABOUT CHANGING THE FILIBUSTER RULES. SENATOR HARKIN MAY OFFER HIS OWN. SENATOR MCCASKILL...
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
COUNT THAT EVEN IF ALL THE DEMOCRATS WON, IT STILL WOULD NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE. A LOT OF DEMOCRATS IN THE UPPER CHAMBER A LONG TIME BUT THINK OF A FILIBUSTER...
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Slen, Peter - Host
1, GAVEL-TO-GAVEL COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE, AND C-SPAN2, GAVEL-TO- GAVEL COVERAGE OF THE OPENING DAY OF THE SENATE. CARL IN OXFORD MASSACHUSETTS. DEMOCRAT....
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WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THE READING OF THE CONSTITUTION. I THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE A PERIODICAL READING OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE DECLARATION...
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Cusack, Bob - Managing Editor
THAT I THINK WILL BE CONTINUING, WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL, WHAT IS NOT. YOU HEAR FROM THE SUPREME COURT, CRITICS OF THE SUPREME COURT OR THE LEGISLATIVE...
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Slen, Peter - Host
THINK THERE IS A
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MISCONCEPTION ABOUT THE DIVISION IN THE -- WHEN THE TAX EXTENSIONS CAME UP FOR A VOTE -- HOST: WE ARE LISTENING. CALLER: SORRY? OK. I THINK THERE IS
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A MISCONCEPTION, PEOPLE SAYING THERE IS A DIVISION. MY HUSBAND AND I WERE WILLING TO FORGO THE TAX EXTENSION UNLESS IT WENT FOR EVERYONE. WE ARE FOR...
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Slen, Peter - Host
I THINK THE IDEA OF TRANSPARENCY IS GREAT. I AM JUST
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WONDERING IF THEY WILL ALLOW CAMERAS INSIDE THE COMMITEES, SO WE CAN HEAR WHAT THEY ARE SAYING, HOW THE CONGRESSMAN ARE PERFORMING SO WE CAN EVALUATE...
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Slen, Peter - Host
11TH CONGRESS, BOTH THE SENATE AND HOUSE TOGETHER, THERE WERE 316 DEMOCRATS. NEW CONGRESS, 246. 289 REPUBLICANS NOW, MAJORITY OF ABOUT 43 OVERALL. 219...
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