quite an impressive majority in these areas, celinda. >> that's right. also think what is interesting here is, first of all, mitt romney yet again flip-flopping but more to the point, his position would take away health care benefits, benefits, hospital visitation rights and benefits in a number of states. his position is one for a century ago, not today. >> now, e.j., you wrote a very compelling column about your own change of heart. the president talked about his evolution but i don't think anyone wrote more passionately than you did about your own evolution in this area and you said -- i'm quoting you and then you can expound upon t you said, i was sympathetic to granting gay couples of rights of married people but baulked at applying the word "marriage" to their unions. like a lot of people, i decided i was wrong. that's four years ago you wrote that. >> i did. and i decided i was wrong because i had always been a supporter of gay rights but i felt that it was asking too much of an awful lot of people in the country who were moving very quickly on th

celinda, i'll start with you, it's your poll. the democratic and republican side doing this.n of error. your big number on here has independents, romney up ten, which is a little bit different than others, although independents are a hard group to measure. everybody measures them a little bit differently. >> they are a hard group to measure. they swing around a lot. >> we had obama up before in the previous battleground. it will be back and forth. >> small samples too. >> that sort of reverberate. but certainly setting some conventional wisdom here about independent votes. >> it's a warning. and these independent voters are more downscale, they're more populous than even democratic partisans. these independent voters are more hard hit in this economy. and that's why you're seeing the president launch an ad that really talks about, that he inherited this economy, and he's done what he can and we're not done yet. but these independents are really going to swing around, who's better on the economy in that choice. >> michael steele, i think the most important thing we learned thi

but new numbers from democratic pollster celinda lake show walker and barrett in a dead heat at 49 to 49. and it's a miracle governor walker isn't polling through the roof considering all the money that he has raised and the commercials that are running. walker's campaign raked in at least $6 million in the last five weeks. it puts his total fund-raising at over $30 million since january 2011. and it's a good thing walker is raising all that money. he needs to pad his legal defense fund. new campaign finance reports show that walker has transferred $100,000 into his legal defense fund since may 3rd. he now as $160,000 sitting in the account. meanwhile, national democrats are finally showing up to the badger state. dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz stumped for barrett in milwaukee and racine, wisconsin, today. chair of the democratic governor's association, martin o'malley, will campaign for barrett in wisconsin tomorrow. and reports surfaced that bill clinton is sorting out his schedule for a possible visit to the badger state. it certainly can't hurt. but there is one high-profile d

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just one bad apple and the rest of the portfolio was strong, is becoming increasingly clear that celinda which is the tip of the iceberg. too often this administration takes liberties with the american people's money based on the assumption government knows best. today without understand what happened the federal government tries to play. with that i would yield to the gentleman from ohio, my good friend from cleveland, mr. kucinich. >> thank you very much. good morning, mr. chairman. members of the committee and to our guests who are testifying in a moment. i'm grateful for today saying because i think it will serve to dispel the misconceptions about the department of energy's loan guarantee program. recognizing that energy independence is critical to america's future, congress created the loan guarantee program in 2009 to support innovative energy projects that involve more risk than is typical for project and corporate finances. my friends in majority would can duplicate the wealth publicized bankruptcy of deacon power and solyndra threaten to tank the department of energy's entire lo