brock said no. he wouldn't give him one reason and the reason brock wouldn't was because of course -- he was from tennessee, a former senator from tennessee. he and howard baker were very good friends and the senator minority leader who hadn't taken a position on the troy and he was close to gerald ford and was supporting the panama canal treaties and he was frustrated with brock and the national republican committee and never raised another money for the rnc until after he took control of the party, after he got the nomination in july of 1980. >> so he -- if i have my history correct, the panama canal treaty actually passed. >> yes. >> is it fair to say that president reagan lost the battle but won the war in the sense that it positioned him from a philosophical standpoint to help coalesce the conservative coalition. >> absolutely, john. by the time the passage of the treaties in the senate of 1978, the american people who two years ago supported all the treaties and the polling show the american p

brock says, no.wouldn't give him one dime and the reason brock wouldn't was because he was from tennessee. he and howard baker were good friends who was a senator minority leader who hadn't taken a position to the treaties. so reagan was furious as you can imagine with brock and with the republican national committee and after that never raised another dime for the rnc until after he took control of the party after he got the nomination in july of 1980. >> so he -- if i have my history correct, the panama canal treaty actually passed. is it fair that president reagan lost the battle but won the wore in a sense that it positioned from a philosophical standpoint to help coalesce the conservative coalition. >> by the time of the passage of the treaties in the senate in the spring of 1978, the american people who two years before had supported the panama canal treaties now all the national polling has the american people vastly opposed to the panama canal treaties. reagan had convinced them even though,

senator brock joined them now. -- senator brooke joins them now.plause] >> thank you for your very warm welcome. not want the record to show that i have turned on the sun for you since you've been here. politicians sometimes takes credit for things they have absolutely nothing to do with. [laughter] but i am proud that after a rainy entry into washington that the sun is shining and you will be able to enjoy this very beautiful, beautiful city and this magnificent structure, the capital of the greatest country in the world. majority leader, steny hoyer, republican leader, mcconnell, minority leader j,ohn boehner, -- minority leader -- your back? thank you for coming back. and my dear friend now, the speaker of the house, what a wonderful thing is to have as the speaker of the great house of representatives, a lady. [applause] >> e. think that progress, but i don't think it will be long before and will be the president of these united states. >> he started this, together with eleanor holmes norton. he called me one day and said come to my office, i w

senator brock joined them now. -- senator brooke joins them now.ank you for your very warm welcome. not want the record to show that i have turned on the sun for you since you've been here. politicians sometimes takes credit for things they have absolutely nothing to do with. [laughter] but i am proud that after a rainy entry into washington that the sun is shining and you will be able to enjoy this very beautiful, beautiful city and this magnificent structure, the capital of the greatest country in the world. majority leader, steny hoyer, republican leader, mcconnell, minority leader j,ohn boehner, -- minority leader -- your back? thank you for coming back. and my dear friend now, the speaker of the house, what a wonderful thing is to have as the speaker of the great house of representatives, a lady. [applause] >> e. think that progress, but i don't think it will be long before and will be the president of these united states. >> he started this, together with eleanor holmes norton. he called me one day and said come to my office, i would like to

information that has been released now and what we can do to alter procedures or create second layers to brocko block that from happening. does that make sense? >> yes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i don't think i heard a definitive answer to the question -- or the other agencies notified about the badges in the document? have you made contact with them with reference to those specific badges or identification for these various law-enforcement persons, yes or no? >> yes. >> thank you. let me change the subject because in terms of the whole move of trying to protect our borrowers and to secure the travel to and from our country, we just passed a legislation here called the tourist act to try to encourage tourists to come to the united states because we are losing so much money because no other -- because more americans are going abroad than visitors are coming here. i don't know who can answer this question, maybe the secretary of state or a mine security, but have we noticed any impact on tourism as a result of are seeking to have this list and the screening and fingerprinting and this process?

there's 2% of people who don't know who brock obama is or who george bush is.n it goes into the people you're running against. local politicians who may or may not be supporting you, and may not be supporting your opponent. you can also put in groups labor unions, and ra, put that into a favorability and then you get a sense of what people do, what they think about these people. two ways to do about it is just a personal preference for your pollster. if you do have a favorable or unfavorable opinion about them. and then some people do a dummy thermometer scale soa 02 mack 100. it's the same results but it's a personal preference. then you have your horse race. are you going to vote for candidate x., canada wide. not is followed up a how certain are you about that. it shows how strong people's convictions are about that person. people tend to be fairly honest about whether or not they are open to someone else or if this is just, that's who they're voting for regardless of what you tell them. then it tends to follow up with how we want to test your candidate bio,