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in 1994, of cose, the republicans won a big victory in the house. in 2006, 12 years later, we won a victory and enlarged that victory in 2008. wh is my point? my points that both parties ought to get the message that, look, if you're not doing the right thing, we're going to change horses. i think the american people want us both to work together to solve problems that are real problems, not ideological left and right problems, but problems that they see in the terms of their jobs, in the debt that confronts their country. those are the two major issues in this election. we need to address both. >> mr. hoyer, what changes do you plan to make in the tax bill before bringing to the floor and do you expect ultimately that they will be passed and ultimately sent to the president to be signed into law? >> the answer to the second question is yes. the answer to the first question is honestly what the senate passes first, they're going to pass something, they're going to bring it up on the floor tonight as you know and perhaps pass a bill, not perhaps, i t

and eventhough the per capita income is fairly cose in the two countries. in india it's $3,067, in india, $2010. not a great wayin which to end this discussion. but i have to remind you that secretary of state george schultz once said hope is not a policy. we have to wait for the policymakers coming up with practical soluons to the problems. i thank you all for coming. i want to thank you for >> next, a look at regulating the home mortgage market. next, we talk about the u.s. 2010 national account. then a form on partisanship. >> on c-span christmas eve, speaker of the house nancy pelosi and other members light the capital tree. then michael dukakis and charles gibson talk about the preparation for a presidential debate. christmas day, former prime minister tony blair on the role of religion. garrison killer it talks about humor in public life. sandra day o -- sandra day o'connor and david souter talk about the high court. >> the 111th congress gaveled out for the last time a ship. before leaving town, several legislative items were sent to the president's

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. >> host: david in cose that mesa, california. please go ahead. >> caller: thank you very much. mr. rushdie, if you had a chance to sit down with secretary of state clinton and the object was to overcome the tyrannical three ogg rah si in persia and establish a secular representative government, what factors and what steps would you suggest considering overt or covert pressure sanctions, economic developments and the interest of the women's movement, the union movement and the students in persia? >> guest: well, look, again, let me just reiterate that i'mha

the bill came, and the ceo cose chief of staff said, hey, boss, do you really want to continue to pay these guys who are beating up on us? he said, no. and so we quit. and it became a big story. it was very fun. but they use outside lobbyists, they use, there's a, they have a person under contract that is a contract lobbyist who used to be the regional administrator for the epa. her name's mary, she's great. she knows what she's doing. they have a firm under contract that was -- and these are all public filings anyway because, you know, if you do this, you have to be, file lobby being reports. they have a former head of the council of economic advisers, republican, who's a contract lobbyist. and, but the ultimate corporate decisions on what the position is, will be are not made by the outside lobbyists. they're made by the in-house people. i don't make them anymore, i'm a has been, but my successor does working with the other senior officers in the corporation. and that is a very typical model where you hire a lot of outside guys. southern company has a huge lobbying phalanx of people

this is a very different kind of enterprise, and of cose in that case that was a prior restraint case and the supreme court ruled that it was not -- the standard hadn't been met for suppressing that information is as often notable that five of the nine justices said if the case came to them after publication as a prosecution they would strongly consider publishing the times prosecuting to the conviction of the times of the information was of the character that was prescribed, so i think the prosecution of wikileaks, just judging by scandal we have here in the pentagon papers case i is a viable possibility. >> yes? >> thank you, mr. chairman. on the disssion about whether wikileaks is part of the crowd roared up wherever that is a fruitless labor that. i agree drawing a line along those directions is simply not going to be coherent. but i also in terms of a summary of things want to come back to how clear it is from this discussion that the starting point is the classification system, the bottom line is it cannot be any coherent solution to these issues without going back and examining