. >> dudley, my acrobatic puppy. >> how is that thing not tipping over?clearly this dog ought to be working for the circus, because he can maintain this pose and not tip it over. eventually it does, but i'm pretty impressed by dudley. >> really embarrassing. put me -- ah, dudley. >>> youtubers across the land like to make fan videos or tribute videos for their favorite famous people, musicians. this one, a little bit creepy. ♪ i remember when you met me the first time but i knew all about you already because i followaled you around and then you see i learned every detail of your life ♪ >> you might recognize this gal. this is lana from the overly attached girlfriend internet that was wildly popular. this time she's got a bit of a taylor swift tribute fan video to the tune of "we are never ever getting back together." ♪ i'm never, ever getting back together ♪ >> except she's really going to stay with this guy. ♪ we are never, ever, ever going to break up ♪ and we are never, ever, ever going to break up ♪ >> her lyrics are good. i've got to the say, her abi

rumor says your boy and ed dudley struck it rich. do tell. pull any iron on me you critter. you poisoned critter. what did you aim to do with a story like that? i, i didn't say it was true. i said i heard it. you heard what? where? who said it? turn me loose and i'll tell you. when i get good and ready and you answer me when i talk to you. well, they were talking about it in town. saddle bump came in, came into the saloon and he was talking about it. he said he saw it. go back and tell him he's a liar. go back and tell him the next time he talks against ed dudley i'll ram the lie down his throat on the end of a forty five. pull yourself out. now get off of my land and stay off. that won't be hard to do, remembering this... how indian. how. you're on the mchenry ranch. what's your name? me tonto. tonto huh? well do you want something? you hungry? no time to eat. me bring bad news. you too? your son dick, him get shot. go on. him find gold, ride to file claim, somebody shoot him in back. ah huh. just who do you think d

the impression that we should always open and dudley fun things or increase funding -- open-endedly fund things or increase funding without some degree of financial pressure for efficiency, safety, and other things is something that we need to avoid. obviously congress wants to make sure you have the amount of money that you need to run your organization, but there needs to be some financial pressure on an organization to be more efficient. it sounds like what you are doing is totally going to be very successful. thank you. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. mrs. norton? >> this is a question for mr. alves. in your inspector general's report, there is a troubling section on human capital management. you have found, i am quoting you now, only limited progress in implementing your recommendations. the most troubling part -- sentence says, in addition amtrak was increasingly at risk of encountering skilled shortages, as highly experienced, longtime employees retire. first i want to know where the gaps are, when you're talking about safety and risk. and then i have to ask mr. boardm

we will have a talk by our own vice-chairman, bill dudley, and the presentation with the economic club leadership award. t me thank all of you and wish you a happy holiday season. a discussion from gene sperling. on this morning's "washington journal," we will look at the fiscal deadline this year. >> as a country basis at the upcoming fiscal deadline, a look at some of the fate -- of the challenges facing state governments. we will have live coverage from the u.s. chamber of commerce beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span freak. here on c-span, a discussion about bonded for federal services and programs for older americans. it will be hosted by republicans on the senate committee for aging with live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> national economic council director gene sperling says any deal on a must address the debt ceiling issue. he spoke at the center for american progress and answer questions. this is about 40 minutes. now it is my great privilege to introduce gene sperling, who is the director of the white house national economic council and assistant to the president for

i mean if you have dudley or yellen, or somebody of that ilk or anybody that they're likely to appointifference in policy. i mean so i'm not worried about bernanke. would it have made a difference if you had a republican, if mitt romney was there and it would have gone different? yeah, could have made a difference. but i don't think you're going to get that much different with policy the markets should be concerned at all about it. >> david, really quickly. we're out of time. remind you about your friends you were going to call out? >> yeah, i was supposed to mention a couple of my friends who have crushes on, who is the australian anchor? >> mandy. >> i'm not going to mention their names right now, i just scared them and their heart just stopped. but i -- i'm just going to give them a huge break on that one. not going to mention james' name or phil's name or any of my other friends. not going to mention their names. >> well done. >> very kind of you. >> i'm a nice guy like that. >> david, thank you very much for coming in. >> you can call him when you -- like if you change everything,

so what buckets they buy in, would they mess around, dudley had a big concept, they might want to mess around with mortgages again. that kind of information would be probably more leaked out to the marketplace by now if it wasn't for the fiscal situation. so there's quite a bit of uncertainty and the fed will definitely have -- it will make for a really exciting process tomorrow. >> it's exciting presser? have they ever done an exciting presser? >> this is his chance to really prove it, i think. yeah. and the surprising thing is, andrew, that it's generally accepted that they're going to come back in. these are large amounts of -- you're now talking about taking out over 90% of new treasury supply again. so on this is a big deal. given what japan is doing, there are six countries with negative nominal rates already. >> okay. we'll see juicy first half of next year. but kevin ferry, thank you for that. and, joe, before i go, i need to just make one quick comment to you. i said to the audience -- i don't know if you heard this. maybe you were wincing when i said it. i said happy monday.

we will have a talk by our own vice-chairman, bill dudley, and the presentation with the economic clubdership award. t me thank all of you and wish you a happy holiday season. thank you very much. [applause] rex president obama talked to union workers in michigan today about the economy and the so- called fiscal cliff. that is coming up next on c- span3 then a panel on innovation and the economy. later a conversation about how the fiscal deadline and sequestration could affect national security in the defense budget. >> on tomorrow morning's washington journal, and look at the so-called fiscal cliff and what happened of budget cuts take place in january. jim doyle on the aspect of businesses. after that, charles clark with domestic program cuts. and more about the issue with the brookings institution and ethics of public policy center. and your e-mails, phone calls, and tweets. live tuesday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> president obama talking about the economy and the need to reach an agreement with congress on the january fiscal deadline terry the president spoke at the daimler