>> miss watson, bob herbert from demose.g problems in detroit is the concentrated poverty. it's just so many poor people, so that there is a problem for lack of demand which makes it very difficult for businesses to get started locally. so my question is how do you attract people to come into detroit, if you don't have jobs that attract them and if you don't have a sort of a base of income that would support a business that they might try to establish there? >> i appreciate that question, bob. there is a gold mine that already exists not only for detroit, but for cities across this nation. it's called hud dollars, housing and urban development. did you know, bob herbert, that there is a 20% set aside when cities like detroit receive hud dollars in the 200 million was received in 2011, 10% of that should be set aside just to help you hire people and provide businesses, contracts with those hud dollars. so that section 3 level of the hud regulations has been on the books for 40 years, unenforced. gegs w guess who is fighting f

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darrell thompson, bob herbert, bill douster, who's sort of th the -- keeps in touch with everybody and everything -- and the floor staff. the floor staff of the majority and the minority leaders. it's -- it's just simply to be grateful to them and to make sure that you say that to them personally, that you say it publicly and you say it frequently. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that from this point forward, that any time spent in quorum calls be equally divided. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. rockefeller: i thank the chair. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. a senator: mr. president, i rise and ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: mr. president, last week president obama unveiled his start-up america legislative agenda. it marked the one-year anniversary of his start-up america initiative, an ambitious, impressive national energetic letter led, by among others, legendary innovator and founder ofa.o.l., steve case. it was a strategy on how the young

herbert hoover? four years, trillionnn dollar deficits. at the end of the his projections, he has got another $11 trillion in debt. he won't deal with entitlements or nothing. >> bob--. >> sean: paul ryan in your party tried to. >> bob: if mitt romney, there would be bigger deficit than barack obama. >> paul ryan look alike throw in bob's grandmother throwing him over a cliff. >> most of them. it's demagogue by your side like everyth

bush was able to clinch the nomination in early march followed by bob dole, as you can see, and then george herbert walker bush in april. reagan eventually in 1981 in may but the longer you go, the more damage you'd do to the party is the conventional wisdom. >> can i just point out that karl rove, great guy, he knows he's been around for, you know, everything, the architect but they -- that's more established -- establishment wants to see a quick win. they want to get a quick frontrunner in the g.o.p. someone getting the 1144 delegates needed to get the nomination and then start going after president obama. but can i just -- very quickly, i interviewed sarah palin last wednesday night and i asked her that question. she said what about a brokered convention? she said absolutely in the realm of possibilities. not life on pluto. maybe there is life on pluto. i don't know. but not -- and i also said would you be willing to jump in if given that opportunity? she said yes. >> all i was going to add to that is karl rove said that's not the conventional way that things work. but i don't think there's anyt