we're going to go now to claire mccaskill. e looking at the new hampshire town hall meeting and it just seemed so sedate and then we go to missouri. let's play some of those clips. >> if you would raise your hand if you are adamantly opposed to any federal health care reform, would you raise your hand. okay. okay. >> so, anyway, senator, help us out because pat and i were talk ing about how we've never seen crowds like this out in august except maybe when president obama first started his campaign in new hampshire a couple summers ago. what's going on out there? who were those people that were yelling yesterday in the audience? >> well, we had thousands show up and, frankly, there was a large group of people who don't trust government, you know, and these things -- i thought it was terrific. i was up there for two hours. we had a few tough moments but by and large this is what it's about. this is -- i'm lucky to have this job and to be able to get out there -- >> good for you. >> these people are frustrated and they don't trust

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senator claire mccaskill in hillsboro, missouri.ked for two opponents of health care reform to pick out the questions and hand them to her, but this has been a noisy, responsive crowd. let's listen to how she's handling it. >> now, i will tell you this, that the average family right now, if you have insurance through your employer, the average family is paying about $12,500 for health care insurance. if the increases continue to be over the next six years, seven years, what they are right now, okay? if we hold the line and they don't increase more, just hold the level of increases, in the year 2016, the average family's health insurance through an glory will be $25,000 a year. now, i'm worried about that for the people i work for. i think that is a really, really high price tag for most american families. here's the thing that happens right now. any of you who have never been -- it's -- for any of you who have been down to a public access hospital, i was at one yesterday. there was one -- what happens if you don't have insurance, yo

i don't think people should shout down an arlen specter or a claire mccaskill.about that. >> i have never seen ugliness and rage like this in the 32 years that i have been in politics. never anything close to it. >> there was a lot of rage against george w. bush. you can't deny that. >> let me -- >> not rage at this level of intensity. >> stephen, i respect -- anybody that writes and thinks hard like you do deserves respect clearly left, right, or center, but there's been a memo passed around that tells them how to behave. they're told to yell out and interrupt. they're told to stop the tenor of the meeting, to get the person holding the meeting off their game. it's clearly a disruptive tactic. would you agree with that? >> i haven't seen the memo. >> it's put out by right principles. they have been circulating their memo throughout these groups and they're all using the same tactics. >> i don't agree with that. >> stephen -- >> i don't agree with it. i think it's outrageous. >> you're a fair guy. doesn't it bother you -- >> sorry, go ahead. >> i said you're a f

directly ahead, senator claire mccaskill will be here. i will be gentle with her.nd later, miley cyrus. is the 16-year-old being marketed as a sex sex bill: as we mentioned in the talking points memo, senator claire mccaskill was treated me malaise. -- meanly. >> we want to see the government resolves health care -- >> how are you going to vote yes on this bill? you work for us. >> i am so disappointed. honestly, i am. bill: all right, joining us now from st. louis is senator mccaskill. what do you think is driving the anchor here? -- anger hear? >> there is distrust in the government. -- anger here. people are not really sure about all of the plans, the tarp, this stimulus, omnibus, and it is all kind of rolled up into the frustration, and that is the anger that you see. i understand it. it is important that i understand it. i do not think being allowed makes you right, and i do not think that route is a particular persuasive, but at the end of the day, it is important to listen, and i am glad to have my job. bill: was it a legitimate display of anger? >> i think

claire mccaskill had to cancel one because of violence. >> snar claire mccaskill says they didn't cancel the meeting, the school called it off. >>> the people who take care of you to be legit, right? investigators say a connecticut woman posed as a registered nurse and gave herself an award without having proper training. now, she faces criminal charges and five years in prison. here is lynne. >> reporter: we start our day at the door of betty who didn't answer. according to her arrest warrant, the 56-year-old norwalk woman -- a patient complained about getting a shot. stated the antibiotic had to be injected slowly and were very painful when administered by the accused. >> big sur prize? >> big sur prize. just went down the wrong road. >> reporter: when approached didn't want to discuss the matter of the employee outside or inside his practice. >> can't talk about it. >> reporter: the notion that she was a nurse was reinforced when a 41 guest reception was thrown at the inn where she was honor ed as 2008 nurse of the year. problem is, there is no connecticut nursing association. the sta

senator claire mccaskill's office said she didn't cancel her town hall meeting. the school where it was going to be held called it off. >>> judge sonia sotomayor officially becomes a supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when sworn in this morning. she'll take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal employees. then she'll take a public oath to pledge that she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes a key campaign finance case. >>> your 401(k) probably got a boost from news that fewer jobs than expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street. stocks rallied yesterday, closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts off guard. they had expected it to be worse. it is the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year. >>> the better than expected unemployment numbers brought some welcome relief to the recession. a lo

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claire mccaskill town hall meeting today facing more screens and more boos.. listen live. >> i'm not going anywhere. [applause] shepard: they took somebody out in handcuffs just a minute ago. we are trying to back up the tape. listen. >> they made their own decisions on what they need to do today. i hope they did not impose on any of you, but let's give them a hand. [applause] now, here is the sad part about this, and i'm going to talk to the cameras in a minute -- here is the sad part about this. we have been at this for an hour-and-a-half, almost an hour and 45 minutes, and there are strong feelings in this room. while there have been some people that have been impolite, by and large, we have been able to get through it, right? by and large, i think we have had a pretty good discussion about this bill and what is in it, what is not, and what people are upset about. the sad thing is, all they will show on the news tonight is that man. [inaudible] shepard: i'm sorry about the audio, but we want you to see this. listen. >> i know many of you are on the interne

gary tuchman, cnn, new york. >> just a short time ago we learned senator claire mccaskill, you saw one of her events in the piece, planned to hold a town hall meeting in missouri on tuesday. that has been canceled. the school district where it was to be held was worried about security. we want to dig deeper with one of the people working hard and sending millions to discredit president obama's health care reform plan. chris scott. former hospital chief executive. helped build columbia hca into the biggest health care company in the world. ousted by his insurance company. his former company pleaded guilty. paid $1.7 billion to settle charges including overbilling state and federal health programs. good to have you in the stud you with us. you mentioned when you came in here, you said, have you seen this tape? they're yelling like crazy. they're not getting much accomplished. that's the main question. i look at this and i say it makes sense to come with your questions and challenge your lawmakers because you are the constituent. what do you achieve when you stand up and yell? >> there ou

senator claire mccaskill has said the same thing. but the congressional budget office tells a different story when it comes to the cost. >> they do. they say it's about $239 billion of potential addition to the deficit. and that was, i think, a wake-up call for a lot of people who are really paying attention to the numbers. it is hard to piece this all together. what i can tell you, john, we have talked about this. i've read through the house bill in its entirety. the way it's written specifically is they say that unless the finance committee can come up with certain money to try and offset some of these deficits it's not going to pass. what i think is a little bit more nebulous, john, is the idea that in the long run through ideas like prevention, adding more wellness dollars to try to keep people healthy in the first place, how much money is that going to save, is that going to help offset things in the long run. >> let's listen to this exchange at claire mccaskill's town hall today. >> can you promise that my tax dollars will not

we went anyway, because we wanted to sfoert senator claire mccaskill and president obama. we wanted to support health care reform. we came in through the back door. there were no signs posted. a police officer said, ma'am, take your purse and have it check. we had the sign open, walked it through the hall. we get to the table where three other officers were. they checked our purse and the signs were open. they said, it is no the our job to tell these people they cannot take signs in. legally, according to the first amendment, i have gone to election polls. >> i get that. i understand. first of all, i'm told that we have the video that you were describing. before you roll it, raj, what you just said is he had it rolled up in front of you in a chair. a female photographer says, can i have a peek of it? owe you unif you reca so you unroll it so they can get a picture and that's when the man comes over. >> we are looking over there. the person in the black is right there the at bottom of the screen asking you to see it. you are showing it right there bottom left of the screen.

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senator claire mccaskill, the aforementioned is now with us exclusively. the missouri democrat held her own town hall forum on tuesday and it got a bit heated good morning miss -- madam senator. >> good morning, ann. >> both you and arlen specter had a pretty tough time yesterday. and as we just heard from chuck todd's reporting, you didn't have the secret service to protect you from -- from certain kinds of people in the crowd. instead you had everyone coming in to hear you at the town hall meeting which i'm sure you opened your arms to, but they shouted no when you asked if they trusted you. do you understand why? >> of course. first of all, there were a couple of tough moments. but it lasted two hours. and there were thousands of people there. it was terrific. i was proud of the people that showed up, and i don't take that personally. it's that they don't trust government right now. and it wasn't the majority of the audience. it was a huge chunk of them. but i get that distrust. there's a lot of cynicism out there, and it's important that i get out and

matched the scrip budescription sodini was let go because the witness couldn't identify him. >>> claire mccaskillg in missouri today opponents disrupted similar meetings across the country with loud protests. the meeting in st. louis last week ended in a brawl with six arrests. mccaskill's first meeting today, she address sold rumors surrounding the legislation. >> there is nothing in the bill that funds planned parenthood, not one dime for any abortions, there is nothing in the bill that mandates any kind of abortion coverage. that is just simply not true. and finally, how are we going to pay for it? that is one of the hard things. i won't vote for a bill that is not deficit neutral. i won't vote for a bill that's not deficit newt tral. >> mccaskill criticized republicans for opposing a bill she says she helped orchestrate. >> after all those republican amendments were added to the bill, none of the republicans voted for the bill but there were literally over 100, i want to say 142, i don't want to give you a number if it is not exactly right but literally, there were way more republican amendme

listen to clair mccaskill. >> i honestly don't get it. do you all think that you're persuading people when you shout out like that? you don't trust me? i don't know what else i can do. if you want me to go home -- >> senator mccaskill joins us now. he's supporting what they say about the death penalties. >> isakson from georgia wrote the provision that went into the panel and so the patient and family are in charge. it has nothing to do with the government having any control. it's the opposite. it's about the government reimbursing doctors for taking the time to explain the different procedures, to help with any kind of directive. not to take over. so it's so ironic that senator grassley has got that part confused because his fellow republicans from georgia who put it in the bill on the senate side. >> do you think he's confused or is something else at work here? >> you know, listen. i think that there are many provisions of this bill and i think everyone needs to slow down and take time to study it carefully. because if you do, so much o

senator claire mccaskill, a democrat from missouri.congressmen and congress women holding town halls as well. people within the audience getting really heated an emotional about their questions with regard to health care. it goes to show how important this is to americans across the country and why we are doing the best to follow these live events and these various town hauls as people like you and me come forward and want to ask our representatives important questions about what the health care bill is going to do for you and for me. so we will continue to follow this here with claire mccaskill out of jefferson college's field house. interesting. they had to change to this location versus another location, because they were worried about safety concerns. another town hall actually one that took place with u.s. representative russ carnahan, a democrat from st. louis. he had one last weekend and it turned into a melee and six people were arrested. there had to be extra security and eyes on these town hall meetings. we will continue to f

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let's look at senator claire mccaskill and another -- and important state. >> -- an important state.surplus. [heckling] it is important today, it is important that we -- >> nancy pelosi, harry reid, and the rest of the people in congress, are they going to be willing to be on the same plan they are asking us to be on? sean: listen to those crowds. "angry mobs"? "manufactured"? what are your thoughts. >> i think it is organic, and i do want to make this point, and this is important. these are our electorates officials, and i think it is important that we treat them with respect and dignity -- these are our elected officials. this is important. we're going to be bringing something to you next week from our focus group. i hear that anger. but if it is an elected official, even if we disagree with them, i think we should treat them with respect and dignity. sean: i agree, but how about the dnc saying about the people showingç up our "kendry" -- are "angry"? is that manufactured? or is this real passion that people have? how about the respect for the people? >> sean, you are right. this

>> senator claire mccaskill urged everyone to chill, my word, not hers. >> i hope everybody takes a deep breath, quits yelling, both sides. >> the senate's number two democrat claimed the insurance industry is jamming up the protests. >> they want a little clip on youtube to disrupt a town meeting and to sell the congressman running for his car. that doesn't help. >> it was in the late '60's that authorities first found themselves disrupted by mobs, guerilla theater and forms of protest developed by the anti-war left. fox news contributor juan williams is one of the foremost chroniclers of the era. >> these are tactics of the left. these are track ticks that the left created. they are the generators of these very tactic, and so now that other people are adopting these techniques, they are portrayed as out of line and not patriotic. >> the hippies labeled nixon a fascist, an and they are charges still flying around like rocks in the modern day starting with house speaker nancy pelosi tuesday. >> its was a sound meeting on healthcare. >> there are far more similarities between nancy pelosi

he talks to claire mccaskill. what do you need. brings in evan bayh.w indiana is different than lags year. what do you need. what can you agree with. he brings in nancy pelosi, henry waxman and does what leaders do, bring them together. >> the bottom line is, dr. king took drugs we're not going to reform health care. my grand dad said, if you are going to stand, stand. if you're going to sit, sit. don't wobble. the president is wobbling on this. >> i'm going to make that the last word. thank you both very much. coming up, "meet the press" minutes. remembering panelist robert novak. >>> finally here in our "meet the press" minute, we remember robert novak who died at the age of 78. he had a long career in journalism. his columns were a must read. his appearances on this program over the past 45 years were always enlightning. two years ago, he spoke to tim russert about his long association with "meet the press." >> you have been appearing on "meet the press" since august 9, 1964. remember the first guest? >> senator ma jjority leader mansfield. he has d

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that is claire mccaskill.eople there watching and say that so far this have gotten pretty contentious. we are going to listen in a little bit. >> a co-op instead of a public option. a co-op would be a pooling of risk in a non-profit company that could also compete with private sector. thank you for your question. [applause] the next question is from don berra. would you like to ask her question, or would you let me to read an offer sheet? >> [inaudible] >> this question is about tax dollars for abortion? here is his question. can you promise my tax dollars will not fund abortion? i can tell you, there is not one word in the bill that would allow federal tax dollars to be spent on abortion. >> it's not true! >> next question. >> could i please respond to your answer? >> you want me to say why? you want to respond? ok, i will give you a minute. >> the associated press, usually a liberal group has talked about obama coverage. a few weeks ago katie couric interviewed our president. she asked, do you favor a govern

i appreciate it so very much. >> joining us now in missouri, senator claire mccaskill. you've had a much publicized noisy meeting where the reviews for you are very positive. the reviewers seem unanimous in the notion that there's at least one united states senator who knows how to control an unruly classroom. where did you pick up those skills? >> being a mom. in fact, i said at one point during the meeting i'm going to have to use my mother voice. i have three teenagers, one's not a teenager anymore. one just not a teenager. so i had to do that. i apologizes on my twitter afterwards saying i was a little condescending. >> well, you've managed to get through it and managed to have a real dialogue about this. i want you to listen to something that senator chuck grassley said today. this is important because you have not been in the room of six of the senate finance committee. >> right. >> where they're trying to work out a deal that will be a bipartisan deal they're hoping can get 60 votes in the senate and move through the senate smoothly. it's a small group. you who h

originally defended the protesters saying, you know, a lot of democrats saying it's an angry mob, claire mccaskill tweeted these are real americans, and then she heard it from real americans. >> i don't understand this rudeness what is this? i don't get it. i honestly don't get it. do you all think you are persuading people when you shout out like that? beg your pardon? you don't trust me? >> so, she is not on the ballot next year. i bet she's happy for that. is that the mood out there right now? it's hard to tell. you're in a room, but is that the real mood or just the mood in those meetings. >> i think the yelling is not -- when you're in one of these rooms looking at the people standing up and shouting, it's not the majority of the people. it's a significant minority. the day before that town hall meeting, which was in hillsborough, she was in popular bluff, missouri, it was very loud but one-fifth to one-sixth of the crowd standing up. and maybe claire mckcaskill wont win them over, but what the people sitting there wanting answers. they may have concerns and are not yelling them. those are th

thing that struck me, you see these angry crowds yelling at arlen specter, you work for us, claire mccaskill having to tell people to be quiet. and then you see this event where the president of the united states says, is there anybody out there who's suspicious of this? he's asking for someone to sort of come -- in truth the person who stood up was not exactly, you know, someone -- these angry mobs we've seen. melinda's exactly right, the disconnect i was really, really struck by. >> specter looked pretty good, surprisingly good, just standing there, taking it, you know. trying to put his point across but standing up to the angry mob looks a lot better. >> he's a great argument for american health care, i'll tell you that, look at this guy. he's 80 years old going head to head with this guy. anyway, chris cillizza, a charming event. melinda, you're the best. what's the thing called? >> politicsdaily.com. >> politicsdaily.com. join us tomorrow night 5:00 and 7:00 eastern for more "hardball." "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. >>> which of these stories will you be talking abo

, really got physical at some point this is how claire mccaskill, the senator today on "morning joe" described the experience of going to that town hall, watching people mixing it up and having people shout to her, which shouted do you trust me, they shouted no. this was the senator this morning, the day after. >> it was absolutely authentic. these folks like manufacturing. this is a grass roots things on both sides. both sides are organizing it is great. i'm so blessed to be from missouri it is a split even 50/50 state in so many ways, i get the far left scream agent me and the far right screaming at me and we try to find that middle. >> until you have to run for re-election. what you wrote about in your article today, dan, the people who are concerned about really arguing about something else, you wrote, "it is clear that the health debate has become a proxy for a bigger fight over whether the the federal government is assuming too much control over the economy. obama is on the defensive over health care because his initiative is specially because they have a public insurance optio

clair mccaskill having to tell people to be quiet. the president of the united states says, is there anybody out there who's suspicious approximate this? about this? he's asking for someone to sort of come -- in truth the person who stood up was not exactly, you know, someone -- these angry mobs we've seen. melin melinda's exactly right, the disconnect i was really, really struck by. >> specter looked pretty good, surprisingly good, just standing there, taking it, you know. trying to put his point across but standing up to the angry mob looks a lot better. >> he's a great argument for american health care, i'll tell you that, look at this guy. he's 80 years old going head to head with this guy. anyway, chris cillizza, a charming event. melinda, you're the best. "politicsdaily.com. >> politicsdaily.com. join us tomorrow night 5:00 and 7:00 eastern for more "hardball." right now it's time for "the ed show" with ed schultz. >>> i'm ed schultz. this is "the ed show." good evening, americans. live from 30 rock in new york, it's "the ed sho

missouri senator clair mccaskill's tuesday town hall at a high school is cancelled after school officials cited the safety of their staff and the senator tweeted last night and she was disappointed by that cancellation. >> rick: two terrorist suspects are dead after a raid in the -- and the investigation of last month's attacks on hotels in jakarta and authorities say five other suspected militants are in custody after police seized explosives and a car bomb and last month's attack in the end kneesian capital -- indonesian capital killed five people. >> jamie: people in a huge illegal gun and drug bust, 200 illegal guns and 200 grams of cocaine and $50,000 in cash in raids around new bedford thursday, after a 6-month wiretap probe nicknamed operation lightning bolt. >> rick: the white house continues to push hard for health care reform. even as more and more town hall meetings are disrupted, or cancelled by americans, who say they are angry and they are scared, and joining us now, is a columnist for the "wall street journal," john fund, good to see you, john, thanks for being here and wha

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every show to denounce them and call them names and talk about astroturf by contrast, senator claire mccaskill, democrat from missouri, said in her twitter account, listen, i think this is just real people. that's the choice. the real terrorism going on is msnbc and the liberal media somatic cell upside down. >> player liberals sought to americans that there play for the pharmaceutical companies that don't want this to happen. >> of pharmaceutical copies are for this third greatest trick in american politics ever. they had the drug company back room deal at the white house, the insurance company running as if in favor of healthcare reform and they are being vilified by the democrats at the same time. it's a really neat trick to make jane brought this up. she update us to have been asked to contact if they see disinformation about fark the shelter plan. this into our major garrett get into it with are not collecting names for the e-mails to me by asking him than person markets the goal here. i don't understand what the particular goal is? >> the particular goal is too. >> to e-mail the white ho

hoyer, congressman pelosi, president obama, robert gibbs, his spokesperson, here is senator claire mccaskill there, this woman is encouraging these town hall meetings, taking on all comers and any part of the state of missouri, i think that's exemplary, what is the big deal here? >> i have to agree with you, lou. democracy is an endless meeting when you discussion and some heat and noise. sometimes you have democracy. when you have hidden gathers and people don't have discussions, that's not democracy. what that is is congratulating politicians for doing things that they may not, should not and probably might not have done had someone been looking, different issue. >> an entirely different take, errol, this president has had demanded as of last friday the house and the senate pass something that is unshaped, unmarked, and unscored. and wanted that to be policy for six of the nation's of the economy, for all of americans, and against that, we also have now the leadership and the house saying you're un-american to oppose it. my god what's going on? >> the un-american part was, you know, to sho

police had to carry a woman out of forum with senator claire mccaskill. they say she became -- irate wh sign was taken away from her that was not allowed. >> you don't trust me? okay. you know, i don't know what else i can do. i don't know what i else i can do. if you want me to go home. okay. let me -- i -- please, please. >> well, pennsylvania senator arlen specter also butted heads with some of his constituents. they accused him of trampling on their constitutional rights. spector said he would not pull for a bill that adds to the deficit. >>> get ready for the octomom, the documentary. fox has set up a six-figure account for the children. he says that this doesn't exploit them because the footage was already shot. >>> when it comes to music the generation gap may not be that big after all. the beatles are the most popular group for people from 16 the 65 and then some. ♪ >> they rated highest in a pew center poll. michael jackson under 30, the eagles 30 to 49 years old, and frank sinatra 65 and older for bob. >>> a police report shows that a famous col

i know you represent a lot of folks, as claire mccaskill just said, who are upset. what makes you the most frustrated? >> that i was lied to. >> about what? >> well, a week before the town meeting, i called senator specter's office and talked to one of his people. i never attended a town hall meeting before. so i called his office to find out all the particulars as to what was going to happen. because i had a whole litany of things that i wanted to discuss, and not ask questions but to discuss. i went over things with the gentleman that i talked to. i told him more or less what i wanted to discuss. >> what were the things -- what do you want to discuss? what do you feel like is not being discussed that needs to be? >> well, i wanted to discuss how the president has broken his oath of office. he took the oath twice. on january 20th. within -- well, it has been less than seven months, and he has broken his oath. >> where specifically do you feel that he has broken his oath? >> well, i have a list of 31 -- >> give me your top three. >> the czars are one objection. what

he talks to clair mccaskill. what do you need? he goes lbj. what do you need?an bayh. evan,ian indiana a lot different this year than it was last year, what do you need? and he brings on the other side, nancy pelosi, henry waxman, and he does what leaders do. >> he's got to get more people involved. >> he brings people together. >> the bottom line is that dr. king warned years ago of people taking the tranquilizer drug of gradualism. my granddad said all the time, if you're going to stand, stand, if you're going to sit, sit, but don't wobble. >> i think i'm going to make that the last word. tavis smiley, joe scarborough, thank you both very much. >>> up next, our "meet the press" minute. remembering longtime reporter, columnist, and "meet the press" panelist, robert novak. [ female announcer ] olay regenerist is on a roll new anti-aging eye roller. reduces puffiness immediately -- and also helps with lines and wrinkles. not surgery. this is our way to do your eyes. >>> finally here, in our meet t the press minute, we remember robert novak, who died at the age o

. >> reporter: missouri senator clair mccaskill also face aid furious crowd recently and had another town hall scheduled next week at a high school and the school district cancelled it citing concerns of the safety of staff and students who might be on campus at the time and mccaskill thinks it is time to step back and cool down. >> bad manners and frankly not persuasive and i hope everybody takes a deep breath an quits yelling, both sides, and let's talk, let's discuss these proposals, and let's answer questions... >> reporter: now, republicans say even if organized groups are behind these protests their getting these passionate crowds to turn out, meaning their message is resonating with people. and, that demonstrations are practically an american tradition, and that this is free speech. rick? >> thank you very much and is there any constructive conversation going on, at these health care town hall meetings? democratic congressman eliot engel from new york, a member of the internally and commerce committee. which managed to get a house health care bill out of the committee, before

it is claire mccaskill from missouri. >> she wants to up the fuel standards. >> these are trivial gamesel efficiency and global warming and middle east dependence. it is immeasurably small. >> if you want to put more money into it, that will stop that argument. >> this is not economic stimulus. this is ought foe si -- this is auto industry stimulus f you are the son or daughter of a car dealer, you're thrilled. it is just shifting the spending. the details of the program, too, are, i would say, the perfect example for republicans to seize on and to warn about the problems of big government programs t was supposed to start july 1. it couldn't, because it wasn't ready. the administrative costs were $50 million to make this thing happen. when it started on july 24, within two days, the computers crashed. dealers were not able to register the transactions that they had dement in, and they were facing $15,000 fines essentially. the e.p.a., in the middle of the week decided to change which cars were eligible for the cash for clunkers program right in the middle of the week! >> you talk about