who was the likely republican nominee at that time, bob dole led president clinton 49 to 40%. he had a bigger lead in this kind of theoretical poll over bill clinton at that time in the campaign. so it doesn't seem like there's very much in that poll for president obama to be worried about. >> no. you know how this works, lawrence. the campaign hasn't even begun yet. campaigns are all about a choice. people don't know. mitt romney you cited the job statistics that massachusetts was 47th out of 50th this is an economy that's diverse. massachusetts economy is supposed to be a knowledge economy. how did it get to 47th out of 50 states during this period of time when he was governor? it's going to be, believe me, people are going to be able to have a selection here. and yes, it's going to be a tough race. i don't think there's any question about it. i know that the administration is going to be out there every day trumpeting their successes and their plans for how they're going to put america on track. >> former michigan governor jennifer granholm. and i hope future candidate for

. >> and then no mo in 1988 because he lost about all -- lost to bob dole. >> we say that polls are only a snapshot at the moment. at the moment, romney seems to have coalesced as the leader. i don't know if he can hold on to that, because god knows we in the press have beat him up well . but the fact he is leading the field and a pronounced way at this point is interesting. >> mitt romney this week acknowledged and admitted that the vast majority of americans believe, that climate change has been contributed to significantly by human activity, and he has been castigated by rush limbaugh and others. >> i don't know whether he will hang in with that position. this will be at test. will he hang or try to switch? rush limbaugh said immediately, "and there goes the nomination." >> anthony weiner draws fire from both sides of the aisle. >> as a woman, a colleague, i would call for his resignation. >> that is a pennsylvania democrat who was calling for an to for anthony weiner resign. some say that the sexting scandal is a matter between in and is considered to inspect it is hard to find someb

even bob dole had a cycle through the staff. >> ronald reagan. >> so you could almost argue that you don't win unless you throw people overboard but when they leave on a bus, your entire staff leaves on a bus, that's a problem, and in the key states, as well. i was dialing around to try to find people still in the campaign, and they would say, i'm leaving, too. and also newt gingrich has severe hurdles. john mccain had a strong base in new hampshire, he had a fire in his gut. gingrich's problem is his negatives are very high. in a cbs poll this week, his negatives are almost as high among republicans as sarah palin and he's undisciplined and has already had a fight with his own republican party. >> he's not the only person to make an unconventional campaign move this week. the presumed front-runner, mitt romney, announced that he was not going to participate in the iowa straw poll this august. >> that's exactly right, and for those who don't know, and haven't lived through the iowa straw poll as we have, for the republican party in iowa, this is like saying i'm not coming home for th

bush would have arisen back in two thousand and bob dole probably wouldn't have gotten the nomination in one thousand nine hundred six either. the results of elections prove to us that despite the fact that a guy like rush limbaugh is the most popular talk radio host on the rape and maybe the most popular media figure he still can't determine the outcome of the primary elections according to polls fewer and fewer americans care about climate change is that how republicans are getting away with these basically big oil and. cole talking points about climate change and is that a consequence of all the money and with these these front groups these think tanks that have been funded by oil billionaires and coal companies have been just pouring all this doubt into the media. well you know i think. the economy is the biggest thing that is influencing people's beliefs here i think that. again all of the solutions we hear about the climate change are things like cap and trade or a carbon tax that people think oh my god gas prices are high enough already i can hardly afford to fill up my change

dog's life to a dog's death prisoners on death row and now being killed with an animal drug planted bob dole's used to put pets to sleep but it's never been tested on human executions this can cause excruciating pain if something goes wrong and because we have no tests we cannot guarantee that it will go around to people at risk of being killed being tortured to death panted bob jules already been adopted in over twenty states is strictly an anesthetic and is normally just one ingredient in a lethal cocktail but in ohio it's killing alone it is not a painkiller we know there will be if you add other which have some what we call if it to get over that then you can be sure that there is no pain. so a drug is neither a pinky or self that will. produce for a danish company back it's primarily used on humans to treat epilepsy and seizures but it's already been used in nine executions u.s. prisons ran out of the usual pseudonym fired pennsville after britain and italy banned exports but denmark can't do that because the new weapons made in america this is learned x. headquarters in copenhagen despit

. >> bob dole?> i know. >> we were jumped. >> fdr, he was right-handing on the ticket with james coff of if ohio. we've got a twitter winner here. >>> up next, one if by land, two if by sea, on the opposite side of the break, we'll be discussing sarah palin defending her version of history where paul revere warned the british. the panel is sticking with us. you can follow me on the show. this is my band from the 80's, looker. hair and mascara, a lethal combo. i'm jon haber of alto music. my business is all about getting music into people's hands. and the plum card from american express open helps me do that. you name it, i can buy it. and the savings that we get from the early pay discount has given us money to reinvest back into our business and help quadruple our floor space. how can the plum card's trade terms get your business booming? booming is putting more music in more people's hands. or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, it's not just good for business -- it's good for th

if he were a real front runner like bob dole and george bush it might make sense.bious about it new hampshire, he's way ahead and in the poll, 76 percent of the voters are undecided and 16 percent say they may change their mind. he is ahead eight percent of the republican primary voters. i think the mood is go out and make the case. go out and win the nomination and don't hover with your consult ans and i don't like the iowa traw poll and i will skip the florida straw poll. it is sinking. >> he's looking at his resources. it is a strategy of a front runner but he is nunnerable. i think mara, said is on target. look at the polls, republicans are just not settled. they are not excited and don't feel there is anybody there that will take it to barack obama and that is the hunger and the tea party energy that drove them to victory in 20there is not the fire and sara palin, the pector of sara palin is still in the atmosphere. what is she doing? how does it impact michelle bachmann and herman cane coming out of no where . right now. i disagree with brit. i think you have

a "newsweek" poll found bob dole leading then-president clinton by 49-40.think the results were the opposite. he won the next year by 8 points, 49-41. >>> we're back. ten years ago today president george w. bush signed his tax cuts. today the u.s. faces a mounting debt. $2.6 trillion are from the bush tax cuts according to the center for budget and policy priority. democrats are looking at millionaires and billionaires to shoulder the burdens once the tax cuts expire next year. we have a democrat from illinois. let me ask you about this. $2.6 trillion added to the national debt according to these groups. would we be better off without the bush tax cuts never been enacted period? >> you mean for middle income as well? >> overall. if we had to choose between no tax cuts at all or what we got, would we be better off? >> we may be better off. certainly the bulk of the tax cuts went to the wealthiest americans and created the biggest gap in income between the very rich everyone else that we've seen since 1928. but you may be right. but certainly -- >> i'm asking

. >> at the time it was seen as bob dole's health care plan, it was a newt gingrich enthusiastically supported the individual mandate. something changed where people decided if obama likes it, it must be evil. >> no, no, no, no, do not cite newt gingrich as the voice of the republican party. let's take the first vote and we'll find out how right that is. he is according to the media, not according to us. >> the points are well-taken the most articulate reasoned defense of the individual mandate has come from mitt romney over and over again, even his health care speech a few weeks ago as i was listening to him deliver it, wow, he's not running away from this intellectually, i'm not sure if this is smart politics but he's right, it's a conservative notion of it, i think his accomplishments as governor were not insubstantial. in health care he was smart, he compromised, i think the issue for the republican party is what is the argument they're going to make. as a ceo he can make an argument. >> sorry, i know you haven't spoken yet. the people who like romney's health plan like you are d

. >> at the time it was seen as bob dole's health care plan. it was newt gingrich supported, enthusiastically supported the individual mandate. something has changed. people decided if obama likes it, it must be evil. >> no, no, do not cite newt gingrich as the voice of the republican party. let's take the first vote. and we'll find out how right that is. he is according to the media, not according to us. >> the points are well taken. the most articulate, most reasoned defense of the individual mandate has come from mitt romney. over and over again, even his health care speech a few weeks ago, i said, wow, he's not running away from this intellectually. i'm not sure if this is smart politics. he is right, in his defense. it's a very conservative notion. and so i think his accomplishments, and chrystia is right, his accomplishments as governor were not insubstantial. they were very critical of him. in health care, he was smart, he compromised. i think the argument is what is the argument he's going to make? >> i'm sorry. i know you haven't spoke

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. >> narrator: in 1986, at haislip's urging, republican senator bob dole introduced a bill to require distributors of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine to check the identities of their customers, and to make their sales records available to the d.e.a. but the bill immediately ran into trouble, for while nobody had been making much money selling prescription quaaludes, the pharmaceutical industry was making billions of dollars selling cold medicine over the counter. to industry executives like alan rexinger, haislip and the dea were out of control. >> they have a different way of thinking. they have a different mentality. they carry guns. they use these guns. d.e.a. agents are killed. now, in the jungles of south america they need guns. but when you're working in the united states congress, you don't need to carry a gun with you. and we felt like we were being treated just like a colombian drug lord. >> they live in the business community where the name of the game is to make money and sell product. so they are always a little bit concerned about what d.e.a. does in a situation like this,

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bob dole has been quoted as saying the one thing that played into that is that you were a single woman running for office. it just so happens your husband is close to the podium to become and so that is very visible that you are married now. with that mean that the political landscape might have shifted over the years and you might be a more political viable candidate in the future? >> welcome you know, scott and i were dating during that campaign and he is a democrat. [laughter] he would come out and visit me and we would hide him actually. this shows how much loved this man has for me and i have for him. we had a big bear costume we would use in pervades and he's throwing out candy and if we had a bear sash on the kids love it. [laughter] thank you. and i don't know, i think -- i don't think i want to run for anything again. the reason is i will tell you i love campaigning. i love interacting with voters. i headed the fund-raising. i spent half the time on the phone asking people for money and that was the singularly most degrading thing i ever had to do and i think it's a shame what

bob dole, john mccain, even george bush. they were not true emoters. not a hazard getting to the nomination. perhaps when you're up against somebody as gifted as president obama is, then it becomes a problem. i think when you look at what mitt romney has to offer, what they are banging on is that this country has to be about dollars and cents and jobs a year from november and they are banking that his credentials as a businessman and as a certain extent as massachusetts governor will stand him in good stead with republican voters. >> candy, he went for what i would call the economic jug gu lar. he has taken the economic model from europe. it's hard to imagine anything more critical. you're european. >> horrible. >> absolutely. >> but he went through the litany of legitimate economic data, unemployment, foreclosures, everything that has the public deeply concerned but did he given as that will touch a nerve that is sufficient? >> listen, i'll tell you two of the biggest applause lines -- and when you say answers, there were not details. but he did talk

at this point in the 1996 election cycle, bob dole was leading bill clinton so we have a very long wayt is the better the unemployment situation s it's better news for president obama. the worse, the worse news. >> and you mentioned last week with mitt romney, he's finally commenting on the story line that somehow sarah palin had stolen his thunder in new hampshire when they were both there. let's take a listen to what he said. >> she really didn't ruin my day. >> she tried to. >> in a lot of respects it's the best thing that could happen to me. right now your greatest enemy is overexposure. people get tired of seeing the same person day in and day out. >> a couple take aways. he's treating sarah palin with nothing but kindness. and the other thing he mentioned was about overexposure. as we have seen mitt romney over the past three, four, five months even though he's the republican front-runner, he's had a very selective media strategy, granting only a few interviews as well as writing-on-he sawriting op-eds. he's stayed out of the spotlight but he can't do that forever, we're going to

there was a great interview in the wall street journal on saturday with bob dole who as we know is the great rob eberly strategist and he said that the fate of the u.s. economy and the fortunes of u.s. companies were no longer connected. he thinks that 70% of incremental revenue of s & p companies over the next five years will come from outside the u.s. 70%. so if you take that together with ad age saying only focus on people making more than 150,000, there is basic lay whole slice of america, the majority that doesn't really matter. >> which goes, tim, to our ongoing conversation about the unholy alliance between business and state. and particularly giant business -- >> and finance. >> finance is the biggest but telecom et cetera and the government service of those industries at the expense of the liberty freedom choiz and opportunity of human beings. >> the argument i believe in. the free market argument is in a free economy, companies make businesses by best serving the -- >> customers. >> but you look at wall street over the last ten years, you can't see how they are serving any re

his father and bob dole. it is already worked out. they can try all they want, but it's going to be mitt romney. my real thing is we need 3 or four party is out there. if the tea party would do themself a great benefit by getting an independent party going, because the republicans are just going to let them down like a letdown everybody else. i think everyone is stuck on these party politics and we are getting nothing out here. host: is there someone you would vote for on a third-party if you are not going to vote for the republican nominee for the president? guest: i like ron paul and dennis kucinich. if you want to hear the truth of what we need to do to get out of the press, he was on yesterday. ron paul was on a week or two ago. they're the only two telling you how to save money and get us out of this mess. it is going to the same old, same old. we're going to get mitt romney and barack obama. that is going to be your choice when you vote. host: recovering the republicans speaking at the republican leadership congress -- conferenc

his father and bob dole. it is already worked out. they can try all they want, but it's going to be mitt romney. my real thing is we need 3 or four party is out there. if the tea party would do themself a great benefit by getting an independent party going, because the republicans are just going to let them down like a letdown everybody else. i think everyone is stuck on these party politics and we are getting nothing out here. host: is there someone you would vote for on a third-party if you are not going to vote for the republican nominee for the president? guest: i like ron paul and dennis kucinich. if you want to hear the truth of what we need to do to get out of the press, he was on yesterday. ron paul was on a week or two ago. they're the only two telling you how to save money and get us out of this mess. it is going to the same old, same old. we're going to get mitt romney and barack obama. that is going to be your choice when you vote. host: recovering the republicans speaking at the republican leadership congress -- conferenc

can ruin somebody's day -- you saw some familiar faces there, such as bob dole. senator chuck grassley was sitting in the sea, republican from iowa. there are still 14 senators -- who are still in the senate today. hatch, inouye, lugar, mcconn ell, rockefeller, among the 14 senators who were there 25 years ago when the senate began televising its proceedings. by the way, there were two women in the senate at that time, and are now 17. colorado, democrat. caller: thank you for c-span. i've learned so much from watching c-span. thank you, mr. ritchie, what you are doing. you have one of all things on your show. -- wonderful things on your show. i wish that c-span could educate as a little bit more of about how the senate and house works, they do things that i do not understand, but i've learned so much, and thank you so much, because we need you very bad the. -- very badly. host: ned, what you think about congress on tv? caller: i enjoy it. it is so informative. i believe more people need to watch it. i don't think there is enough people in this country who know ho

can ruin somebody's day -- you saw some familiar faces there, such as bob dole. senator chuck grassley was sitting in the sea, republican from iowa. there are still 14 senators -- who are still in the senate today. hatch, inouye, lugar, mcconn ell, rockefeller, among the 14 senators who were there 25 years ago when the senate began televising its proceedings. by the way, there were two women in the senate at that time, and are now 17. colorado, democrat. caller: thank you for c-span. i've learned so much from watching c-span. thank you, mr. ritchie, what you are doing. you have one of all things on your show. -- wonderful things on your show. i wish that c-span could educate as a little bit more of about how the senate and house works, they do things that i do not understand, but i've learned so much, and thank you so much, because we need you very bad the. -- very badly. host: ned, what you think about congress on tv? caller: i enjoy it. it is so informative. i believe more people need to watch it. i don't think there is enough people in this country who know w

you have bob dole be able to consummate washington insider against a conservative democrat and his tactic is to turn himself back to the 50s and say that bill clinton is as liberal as the presidential image of the 60s to turn bill clinton into this. granted that is bill clinton. in 2000 again it plays out again. you have the frat boy aristocrat george w. bush running against an actual b and more veteran and it becomes this. he turns himself into this. he cites al gore's 60s seeming interest in the environment to turn al gore into basically a 60s grown-up yet be. so this continues to play out. a little bit of trivia. some trivia questions. to make it fun. what was the name of the song patrick swayze performed on the dirty dancing sound track? i have three questions for each section just to quiz you. what famous actor played the course in the big chill? christopher reeve, harrison ford, alec baldwin or kevin costner? no yelling out. and here is the third question from this section. what city is the outsiders sit in? omaha, tulsa, amarillo or topeka? i will give you the answer at the end. th

can ruin somebody's day -- you saw some familiar faces there, such as bob dole.senators who were there 25 years ago when the senate began televising its proceedings. by the way, there were two women in the senate at that time, and are now 17. colorado, democrat. caller: thank you for c-span. i've learned so much from watching c-span. thank you, mr. ritchie, what you are doing. you have one of all things on your show. -- wonderful things on your show. i wish that c-span could educate as a little bit more of about how the senate and house works, they do things that i do not understand, but i've learned so much, and thank you so much, because we need you very bad the. -- very badly. host: ned, what you think about congress on tv? caller: i enjoy it. it is so informative. i believe more people need to watch it. i don't think there is enough people in this country who know how things work. host: how often do you watch it? caller: i watch "washington journal" every day, booktv, you're the program, every weekend, all weekend long. i just wish we got the history section,

been drilled into us to make us these pathetic little nobodies, where would we be if it weren't for bob dole and joe biden. no! . i'm worthy of a free people for us to think this way so i want to just go through these typical arguments that we get, where we would be without our wise overlords. so, for example, poverty, well, poverty, would surely be worse if it weren't for our wise overlords. i mean, they are the ones who brought about the great conquest of poverty that we've seen over the past 200 years. well to the contrary. in 1820, 85% of the world's population lived in what economists call absolute poverty. by 1950, that was down to 50%, and by the early 1980s, down to about a third. and by 2001 it was down 18%. so that meant that that 2001 and 1981 for the first time history we've seen both a percentage and the absolute number of people living in absolute poverty fallen. we've never seen anything like this in history. now, is it a coincidence that we see this kind of progress against poverty at a time when free market economics, albeit, not that we expect. in "roll back" i explain it's

i want a cautionary note here that at this point before the '96 election, bob dole was beating bill clintonflects mitt romney's name identification. he's run once before. people like him. they are taking another look at him. as for mitch daniels, he's the candidate that lots of people in the republican establishment really want to run. they think he has a lot of credibility on issues regarding the debt, the deficit. it used to be george w. bush's chief budget fellow. but he believes, i asked him on a scale of one to ten, is barack obama beatable? ten being beatable? he said he's about a seven or eight right now and he thinks that the field is shaping up. he named romney as one of the people that he was looking at. the other two he named were pawlenty and huntsman. he thinks that the republican party ought to take the democrats right on the deficit issue and thinks the ryan budget could have included not only medicare but social security and tax reform. he thinks it should have gone even further. >> i'm sure some of those things most definitely come up on monday where we get our first shot a

bob dole at this time in 1995 was the head of bill clinton.ople look for somebody that is going to be new and different. i wouldn't put that out. mitt romney's problem is he's got to get nominated. when i take a look at the field, i see a lot of great vp candidates. but tim pawlenty has a really great story. he comes from the midwest, son of a milk driver. all of those things. i give romney a little bit of a b plus or b minus right now. >> romney, at least right now, mary, does much better than all of the other republican candidates in a one on one contest with the president. question, how does this help romney get the nomination? perhaps the fact that he's more winnable? >> what's helping governor romney right now is -- if there's one thing people know about him, it's that he's a manager. what is hurting him, and there are good number here, romney care, massachusetts care, 2 to 1, republicans don't like it he has to win the nomination. that's a big cross to carry. but four out of ten republicans don't have to carry. he has to refrain the powe

you have bob dole, a constant washington insider running as a conservative democrat in his tactic isturn himself back into the 50s. and say that bill clinton is as liberal as the image the presidential image of the 60s, lyndon johnson to try to turn bill clinton into this. here is bill clinton was george mcgovern and granted that is bill clinton. and in 2000 again, again it plays out, you have the threat boyd aristocrat george w. bush running against an actual vietnam war veteran and it becomes this. he turns himself into this. besides al gore's 60 seeming interest in him are meant to turn al gore into basically a 60s grown-up yuppie. so this continues to play out. are right now with little bit of trivia. we are going to break this up and to trivia questions just to make this a little fun. we are going to give you the answers in the end. what was the name of the song that patrick swayze performed on the dirty dancing soundtrack? if you want to write them down just to follow along, have some fun. see if you can get it. a i've had the time of my life, b she's like the wind, c avian the

i said couldn't have picked a better guy, the first call i got was from bob dole and mrs. dole saying this is one of the finest men we have ever worked with. and he is. he is a prince, a rare gem. i trust and admire him greatly. he is the numbers guy and i do the color. now you mentioned a 21% gdp hysterically and so on who they get a powerpoint and i say i had a mortar platoon in the army and i didn't hear that question. if you could take that i would appreciate it. therefore i get the heat off me and you heard me do this before. i just say when we started this, we said we are doing this for 15 reasons. he has my money and usually they say why are the men doing this which means at this age. but what we said is we have 15 reasons, he has nine grandchildren, i have six. first we thought we were doing it for our grandchildren. the deeper we got, we found out we were doing it for our children. and now we found out we are doing it for everybody in this room. that is where this beebee is. this is a stinging bomb in the garden party. it doesn't matter what part of it they are go

to meet anyone one which occurred by bob dole to work on his washington staff or she was deputy toldgn pitch end of the decade with the new york stock exchange. in 1990 she ran for public and congressional seat in kansas the last way fewer than 1000 votes, trying attention during the campaign by writing the bicycle around the district. she served as commissioner and acting chairman of the commodities future trading commission for government relations at the nist for financial institutions. before joining the fdic she taught about financial regulation at the university of massachusetts. our guest speaker did play a key role in managing the reaction to the two and a financial meltdown and was praised for foresight in issuing warnings about the dangers of wall street investment in subprime loans. system stability implemented programs that provided temporary liquidity measures and guarantees to unfreeze credit market and increased deposit insurance limits. during her tenure, the ftse closed the most thing since the savings and loan crisis. she led the fdic resolution strategies to sell f

bush, what bob dole saw when pat buchanan cleaned his clock. >> herman cain, has the highest voter intensityoes he have to do tonight to keep the big mo? >> keep his mo going, keep his juice flowing. you know, he's the showman in the group. he has to do as well as he did in south carolina in the fox debate and keep people smiling. but the truth is your shouldn't rule him out because he's got legs in new hampshire. >> yeah. >> he could be the dark horse. he could be the person that emerges as the conservative alternative to romney and then two african-american candidates conceivably which would make for a very interesting story line. >> it would make for history, that's no question about that. jennifer donahue, thank you so much. nice to see you. talking to you later throughout date. >>> kiran, back to you. it's chilly, but very exciting. everyone is very excited today as this -- the countdown gets started for this big debate tonight. >> we'll be watching 8:00. a late night but an interesting one. thanks. >>> opposition forces in libya claim they have a copy of moammar gadhafi's top secret ba

when i think of people like bob dole, for example, hubert humphrey, barry goldwater, lyndon johnson, who served for many, many years. some whom i have served with who has been there 10 or 20 or 30 years to have an of -- unbelievable experience and judgment. i just disagree that you would in any other circumstance go to a mechanic and say i would like to select the one with the least experience, or select a doctor with the least experience. the same is true in public service. i indicated -- you may not have heard me -- i decided to leave at retire and do other things because i didn't want to be there too long. i did see people stay too long. but many of those there for a long period -- i could mention some on capitol hill who have been there a long time who i think did an extraordinary job. there are others who have been there a long time who should probably do other things. host: he served in the senate from 1992-2011 and now senior policy adviser for a law firm and doing other things in d.c. let's go to ed, republican caller from dearborn, michigan. caller: thank you for taking my c

turned to bob dole, chairing the finance committee, and howard baker. they came to the table, not as republicans but as americans. that's what we need now. we have to come to the table as americans. i love being a democrat. my family were democrats. we're going to be democrats forever. but what i love more is being an american. i got into politics as a protester. in other countries they would have thrown me in prison. here they put me into politics to stand up for the people. i would not have been able to go to college, i would not have been able to pursue the american dream. i love america and i want america to have a great future ahead of it. we have to stop acting like, are we the red party and the blue party. we've got to start being aing like we are the red, white, and blue parted. i've heard about these pledges to grover no norquist. i take a pledge to the flag of the united states, one nation, indivisible, under god, with liberty and justice -- justice, justice, justice -- for all. that's what we need to do. i take an oath, too. it is on the cons

bush and bob dole. this year is the introduction of the tea party and had has added an element of uncertainty in the nomination process. there are roles that will make it a more wide open process. ed says that the candidate will emerge stronger from that process. i think if the candidate gets drawn for to the right to win that nomination and response to the more shrill voices and a republican party, that candidate will not be a stronger candidate because this country once -- want people to work together to solve problems. i watched the debate the other night and there seem to be broad agreement that the president was destroying the country and was responsible for all manner of ills. i don't think that is really what most americans believe. that is not the debate that one. but if their candidate emerges strong or not will depend in part upon the candidate's ability to resist the pull to the right, to stay in the mainstream and get through the process doing it. >> let me spin off the tea party a little bi

i said couldn't have picked a better guy, the first call i got was from bob dole and mrs. dole saying this is one of the finest men we have ever worked with. and he is. he is a prince, a rare gem. i trust and admire him greatly. he is the numbers guy and i do the color. now you mentioned a 21% gdp hysterically and so on who they get a powerpoint and i say i had a mortar platoon in the army and i didn't hear that question. if you could take that i would appreciate it. therefore i get the heat off me and you heard me do this before. i just say when we started this, we said we are doing this for 15 reasons. he has my money and usually they say why are the men doing this which means at this age. but what we said is we have 15 reasons, he has nine grandchildren, i have six. first we thought we were doing it for our grandchildren. the deeper we got, we found out we were doing it for our children. and now we found out we are doing it for everybody in this room. that is where this beebee is. this is a stinging bomb in the garden party. it doesn't matter what part of it they are go

a personal advisor to president nixon and bob dole, he also served as an ambassador to nato. mr. yoder: after leaving politics, he founded hamilton bioventures, a company focusing on investment and life science technologies. he is survived by his wife, eleanor, and children, william and hanna, as well as step-children. my heart and the heart of the third district is with him and his family during this difficult time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from the mariana islands rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. sablan: mr. speaker, it's getting ridiculous. that's what the chamber of commerce said about the department of homeland security's failure to issue regulations implementing federal immigration in the northern mariana islands. and i agree. it is getting ridiculous. three years since the law was enacted, 18 months since it took affect, two oversight hearings, letters from congressional leaders, meeting after meeting and still no regulations. workers don't know what their status w

bob dole has been sated as saying that maybe one thing that played into that was you were a single womanhappens your husband is very close to the podium today. so that is very visible that you are married now. so would that mean that the political landscape might have shifted over the years and you might be a more viable political candidate in the future? >> well, scott and i were dating during that campaign. and he's a democrat. [laughter] so he would come out and visit me. we would hide him actually. this shows how much love this man has for me and i have for him. we had a big bear costume that we would use in parades. i'd say you put the bear costume on so nobody can tell who it is. the kids loved it. so thank you, dear. and i don't know. i don't think i really want to run for anything again. the reason is, i'll tell you i loved campaigning, i loved interacting with voters, i hated the fundraising. i spent about half my time on the phone asking for money. that was the singularly most degrading thing i had to do. i think it's a shame what we put members of congress through to do this.

elizabeth dole took over for bob after he left the senate. and this was a very important issue for her, but it has always been one that's been bipartisan. and one that helps lift other people up because we really do have so much here. i yield back. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. farr: i want to make one short comment. i rise in opposition. what happened to this program is that we contract with countries to create these incentives to get kids to go to school. you have heard the incredible stories, jim mcgovern just gave us, on his experiences in vissutting these countries. it's not only that these contracts are made with countries so that they have to put something into it, but they also have a way of working themselves out. it's not one of those going back to the comment earlier about nannygate, this is a work yourself out of a program. you can get off the program by having it work. and then you can move the moneys to another country. i think it's an outstanding program and worth keepin