sham and a farce and they're putting these guys on and are am thinking he is going to kill us and john conyers said something along the lines of i join with my colleague the chairman in welcoming congressman james rogan to this committee. of fine man and great statesman. he is going on and on about what a wonderful addition to the committee. now all these republicans around me are starting to look at me. what is this all about? are am sitting there and they're looking at the suspiciously. he goes on and so i want to welcome congressman rogan to the committee and he stared at lindsay graham for five seconds and said mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of part-time. it was time to collect the campaign memorabilia, helped me out. i wasn't on the committee very long when newt gingrich called and said he had a homework assignment for me and he gave it to me because he had been a prosecutor and judge, we don't know what will happen with this special prosecutor, kenneth starr is working on. before this whole monica lewinski thing he was investigating whitewater, travelgate and all these things to

my neighbors are john dingle and john conyers, who have been in congress longer than i've been alive.air enough. >> you know what the argument is against anybody who's been in washington five years, six years, nine years, if you were going to change things, what have you changed? >> i measure the legislative process not by putting your name on a bill and hoping it gets passed. my first time was in a gop on decline and not doing the reconstruction necessary let alone deal with communist china or bailed out banks and spent a lot of time trying to fight against things like the wall street bailout we thought were wrong, held a majority of republicans against it and unfortunately it still passed with a democratic congress and president. >> you voted for the auto bailout. >> it was not sin mouse, voted against existing loans to get to a points they could restructure. the wall street bailout when the t.a.r.p. money was spent, $700 billion parked that came out of mainstream's pocket and you go back to have it failed to go back to mainstream and have a factory base or don't. as a social constr

caller: john conyers. host: have you called his office or e-mailed the office to express your opinion? caller: well, i believe i have tried to send a twitter to his office. that is all i can do. i have tried to call, but you know, it has been busy there lately. host: and you can use twitter to keep track of what some of the lawmakers are saying. we have a number of those at treader.com -- twitter.com/cspan. we have this -- host: we're waiting for president obama to make a statement on the debt talks so far. let's go to indiana. our democrats line. caller: hello. i know this sounds crazy to everybody else, but i am telling you, i just read something this morning. what to let everybody know, i know whose side i am on. the scripture says the name of the lord is the strong tower. [unintelligible] before destruction, the heart of man is a hardy, and honor is humility. it is a shame unto him. i tell you, we have all this democrat republican thing. you know, if we just realized we need to let mr. obama do his thi

john conyers back in 1981 introduced socialized medicine policy that forbid anyone from doing health care services on a fee for service, they had to be on the salary of the national health care system. the federal government would hire and presumably fire everybody that worked in health care and no one could charge a fee for it and no one could be paid a fee for service, they would have to be working for the government within the health care system. we know what happen when is government takes things over. i asked the american people, how's the service in the places when you go into government offices? it's about the same it is where you go in where somebody has a monopoly. i'm not picking on government workers. government often by definition has a monopoly. if you don't have competition, you don't have to be nice. and i learned that in the auto -- what do i call it? the vehicle registration department in the county courthouse the first time i went in to register a vehicle at about age 16. i learned that they had the market cornered, they had the monopoly, they didn't have to be nice