this talk -- lloyd doggett just a moment ago says we have to pay for a jobs program. that's not the fact of it. nothing's going to pay for it. it's going to have to bo borrowed money. the government's going to get out there and have a big jobs program and have to borrow to do it. it's not going to be popular. in the businesses in investing and they're not. if the consumer is spooked and they're not investing government has to pick up the slack. that's what we all learned in grad school. if somebody's going to come out with a new kind of economics, i'd like to have somebody explain it to me. my economics is somebody has to spend some money. if the business community's not spending it and sitting on it for all kinds of reasons, maybe some of it is partisan and the consumer is scare fod spend any money, the government has to do it. it has to do with that way. he has to make this case and he hasn't made it. >> chris matthews, i know you're going to be looking at the perrys and bushes. it's an interesting -- >> that's a good fight. >> an interesting texas rival reason on "

doggett for an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chair. each weekend that my wife and bair back in texas, we tried to devote a little time to our three preschool granddaughters. the joy of being with them, their growth, they're learning, their creativity, and also their innocence and vulnerability are in such contrast in a home where they're surrounded by love and what we see displayed on national tv with the abuse and deaths of too many young children. so we are conducting a bipartisan expression of what we can do about the gap between the many children in our country who are surrounded by loving and supporting families and those who are not. i think we recognize that the death of even one child due to abuse and neglect is just too many. we are aware that there are so many children across the country to lose their lives or are permanently scarred by abuse from a caretaker. we know that there are many reasons why this happens. but the goal of today's hearing must be to improve our understanding of these causes and what we can do to prevent

in this case, doggett is right so he gets a true. >> all right.ther criticism rick perry got from a republican opponent, ron paul said this, his record as governor does not show him as a standout as actually being a conservative. he actually was the chairman for al gore at one time not too many years ago. >> what did you give that accusation? >> we gave that a mostly true. not too many years ago turns out to be 23 years ago so mostly true that the -- >> a generation ago arguably but -- >> exactly. but it's a good reminder. a lot of in that period in the late '80s and '90s, a lot of democrats, particularly southern democrats switched parties and became republicans. at the time perry was a democrat and was indeed chairman of gore's 1988 campaign in texas. so mostly true on that one. perry has been great for the truth-o-meter. we've done i think 69 fact checks of him with our partners the at politifact texas. we've got a lot more to do now. >> well, people ought to dig in and download the app, politifact, you have a lot of work to do, the presidentia

doggett place has been subject to community input. i have been part of the process from the beginning. i am excited to see the recent plan. it looks more terrific than it did several years ago. the extensive streetscape improvements, a one-acre private park maintained partly, wide sidewalks, and large, open space to me is something i look forward to. the project is complying with the newly adopted eastern neighborhood zoning including height. it would be unfair to set standards and not approve the projects that abide by them. as someone who lives in the area and goes by this a lot every day, it would be nice to see some physical bill to examples of our extensive planning process. -- built examples of our extensive planning project. we can began connecting our neighborhood to mission bay and create housing for the employees who will be in this district. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i worked at cca for many years and this project is long overdue. that site has been an eyesore for years. mr. baker and mr. bosley have work

joining us now from austin, democratic congressman loyal doggett. and rick perry have had a long history. he used to be a democrat just like. you. why have you taken it on your yourself to go on and educate people about what your impressions of perry have been. as you have noticed, he has put his boot in his mouth a couple of times this week. now with our economy having so many problems, i just don't think he has a formula other than tall texas tales about how to get america moving again. >> rick perry is someone, i know you know this. but this guy has never lost an election. he's won state wide, he's won in a west texas state house seat, he's won for governor, what explains his electoral success if as you say this is a guy who talks a big game but doesn't do things. >> well, that tough talk and appealing to the extremes has been a formula for success here in texas, even against a very conservative united states senator who challenged him for governor, he's always willing to take another leap to the right. i think taking outrageous statements and mo

>> just as brother doggett was indicating there, perry will make the switches, jump over anybody, pickr pocket and steal your ideas, whatever is necessary to get elected. he made that switch from the democratic party. but even more, he's -- he is out there right now, something that i think is just unconscionable, that is selling obama because obama is an good commandener chief because he didn't wear the uniform. and perry claims that he did. well it's true that perry did serve in the air force a little bit. but he never got his uniform dirty, much less bloody. this is not exactly a war hero. he spent his time, as he put it, flying the colonel's kitty litter around. so you know, we need to look at who this guy really is. i tell you, as you just showed in those clips, this guy has been able to put the goober in gubinatorial here. >> i will have to say that rick per i have loyal. he's always been loyal to the billionaire class in texas. >> what do you mean? >> that's the type of president he will be. his buddies are those at the very top. like the guy that spa swift voted john kerry a few

congressman lloyd doggett is sounding the alarm so he doesn't mess with america the way he messed with taxes. >> welcome. >> matt, great to join you. >> i'm sure we'll hear a case for rick perry. give us the case against rick perry. >> you can tell he's not my cup of tea, but by the bitter standards of the tea party which dominates the republican primary, if you want the most extreme, if you want the most disagreeable, rick perry is your guy. in texas he's done great damage to education. that's where i've sparred with him a little bit. done great damage to our women's health and health overall, and his so-called texas miracle, you know, he's really big on miracles. the miracle he's claiming for himself really is a texas tall tale. created some minimum wage jobs, about 40%, almost, of those created last year were minimum wage or below. taken jobs from other states, but no formula for job growth and economic recovery for americans. >> that's a pretty severe indictment. i know krystal ball's got a question for you. >> hi, congressman. >> hi, krystal. >> he's certainly not my cup of tea ei

um, representative doggett's also introduced a bill called the international tax competitiveness act which has some important provisions on multi-nationals. and also has introduced a bill to cut down on treaty shopping. so that's the problem from the perspective of u.s. as losing revenue to people who are using tax havens. but what about the u.s. as a tax haven? um, the financial secrecy index ranks secrecy jurisdictions based on 12 key financial indicators, and it weights those based on the level or the magnitude of the cross-border financial flows. when the last secrecy index came out, guess who was at the top? delaware. >> the u.s. >> the u.s. >> composite material. >> which is mostly in delaware, nevada, wyoming, places where you can open or you can form a company and not disclose who the beneficial owners are, not disclose who owns the stock. your, um, agent can be a nominee. the permanent subcommittee on investigations in the senate has done some really good work in this area, and they found some things like this. a utah company was, um, involved in about $150 million of suspic

is currently held by one of the more liberal members of the senate and won it be ironic to replace doggett with me. the difference is that he has got hair and i don't but that's the right. the district is a fairly long. it is about 200 plus miles length. it goes from a small part of tarrant county and shaped like a banana on the west side of i 35 and it runs through all the way down to a large part of traverse county and then the end of it is hays county so it is 13 counties. it is anchored in travis county. travis county is about 249,698,000 folks -- people live in that district. 550,000 voting age population but 698,000. yes, maam? >> you are very conservative and you in your thinking, but could you describe exactly what you are -- [inaudible] >> i think there are a couple of different ways. she asked me, she said, you sound to be conservative and have a conservative record. how in the heck did you get there? i parents were not political when i was younger but they have become more political as i have gotten older. my parents were quite conservative. obviously they are conservative in te