i want to follow up on the question that i think senator franken asked. criminalizing, violating contracts with your provider. when you were asked that question, you responded with the example of somebody who was stealing large amounts of petty cash. i would just suggest to you that there is a difference between stealing petty cash, which i think every american understands that stealing cash is a bad thing to do, with violating the terms of fine print in contracts. i do not think there has ever been a society more bedeviled by fine print in contracts then america is right now. the average american has so much fine print in all of the computer programs they download, in all of their service agreements, their cell phone contracts, wherever you look, whatever you do with the bank has pages. your credit card agreement is probably 20 pages long. americans are tormented with fine print. i do think it would be very -- for the departments of justice to put out a proper, solid policy that would reassure americans that it is not the department of justice in tension

senator al franken, that is all i have to tell you.booing] but i had a distinct advantage, i grew up in a home where there were three brothers and no sisters. that is the best preparation for politics any girl could ever hacve. and they learn pretty quickly do not mess with your sister. but i do have a confession and i have to apologize to you all tonight. i did not bring my teleprompter with me tonight. [laughter] [applause] and i know you ever seen a president without their teleprompter. but in my white house, there will be no teleprompter! because i firmly believe that californians can take the raw, on varnished trade. and you need to know this about me -- there will be no -- in the white house either. i really like the constitution. there is something else i want you to know about me -- i will never wet -- step 1 tel out of the united states and apologize for our great country. [applause] why would we apologize? we are the greatest -- we have the greatest animated principals ever contained in a political document. they were set dow

n]♪ >> reporter: franken stein's pretty intense there, got a lot of cool stuff inside, but what's reallyncredible is how many job applications bay area spirit halloween stores have been getting. there are 45 locations and we just learned from corporate that each of these bay area sites are looking at 1500 to 2000 applications. that's each store! each store only has about 20 to 40 positions available. store manager, couple assistant store managers and staff. spirit says it usually sees a huge application spike in october. this year, though, it was early, as soon as the application opened online in mid-july, when they started getting dozens of them every day. and the influx came early in september. it's the first time they say they have experienced this. now, applications, as you can see on the poster, are not in person. they are all online. this is a seasonal thing, of course. the stores open september at the start for labor day weekend and close right after halloween for november 1. but still so many people applying for temporary jobs, guys. >> every little bit helps. stephanie, thank yo

. >> senator franken pounced. >> that seemed like a fuzzy answer. this coming from the chairman. if you don't know who does? >> franken asked if google uses content from other providers like yelp to drive business to google sites. >> again i've to look but not ware of any. >> the yelp's ceo testified that google did rip off yelp content. >> there was a lot of back and forth but in the end nothing happened. >> nexttag's ceo says google changed. >> today google doesn't play fair. google breaks its reresults. >> and almost all discussion was on whether or not google searches were unbiased before the hearing consumer group consumer watch dog shot this video of the staff and volunteers stalking members of the committee. the organization's privacy chief explained this after the noon.. >> most people don't understand the way when he go online virtually their every move is tracked going from one web site to another web site. and we thought a best way to drama ties this is do something in the real world might be considered stalking. >> he says he would have preferred the committee to talk

senator al franken, that is what i have to tell you. grew up in a home where i had ree brothers and no sisters. that is the best preparation for politics and negro could have. the girls -- the guys learned pretty quickly not to mess with your sisters. i have to apologize because i did not bring my teleprompter is with me tonight. there will be no teleprompter in the pot and white house. -- in the bahmann white house. i really like the constitution and i think that we should follow it, don't you? that's what i thi. here is something else i want you to know, i will never step one. out of the united states and apologize for our great coury. [applause] why would we apologize for the greatest animating principles of this nation that have ever been contained in a political document? they were set down by thomas jefferson himself when he wrote that all of us are created equal. until we have been given liberty and we have been given power by a creator. this nation is in parallel -- unparalleled because we have been blessed by god. the founders

today the widespread method of violation could cause more trouble than it could good senators al franken and patrick leahy are worried that the current state of the computer fraud act already reaches too far away he was quoted as saying we want you to concentrate on the real cyber crimes and not the minor things and the committee has. gets a vote on this legislation but one can only hope for the questions about the broad language of the bill could help prevent the government whom over reacting when it comes to computer fraud all the name of fighting hackers anybody remember to protect children from internet pornographers act in two thousand and eleven that's the law which would require i as speeds to keep everyone's internet records along the whole host of other data for up to eighteen months in the name of fighting child porn and this expansion that we just spoke about are starting to remind me a whole lot of that meaning that it is not good. and now it's a back to an operation that was conducted by the f.b.i. almost one year ago on september twenty fourth of two thousand and ten the f.

it's prime much more dramatic than anyone expected and they're going to print an unlimited number of franken you know to ensure they meet their goals to be really interesting to see the ramifications already of the hunt desire for the safe haven so now it's like ok well if switzerland is going to keep their currency down who's next and people talk about the norwegian currency or gold or going back to the dollar which had a nice rally today as a euro alternative so you know this is several more moves to play out but it's a very dramatic move well speaking of dramatic moves to talk about this new vs report that came out that you also wrote about maybe it's really sad that the euro shouldn't exist with the current structure with the current membership. they said it should have been created to be careful i thought it was always wrong do you agree with. i absolutely agree and i think one of the few things they say we're one is that every country that's in the euro right now would currently be better off not being in the euro if you look at all the other european countries that aren't in the euro

shared their anger and even some politicians on capitol hill frowned upon the move and there's al franken and chris coons sent a letter to on star saying on star's actions appear to violate basic principles of privacy and fairness on star six million customers we urge you to reconsider these decisions we also urge you to better inform your customers of these ramifications senator chuck schumer even called on the f.t.c. to investigate on star's new agreement but unless it looks like g.m. service paid attention to the anger of marshall on stars president issued this statement this week. we listened and have decided we will not make the proposed change to our policy when it comes to keeping a gated connection to your vehicle should you decide to cancel beyond her service. so if you look at that on star actually listen to the public service frank it includes are pleased and said that this was the right move by the company but it really surprises me is that the company listen to their consumers think about all the companies who have thrown that concept of privacy right out the window cell phon

writing it was a republican bob franken fighting fighting bob ney was a progressive republican but that was back in the early in a lot of republicans were that that was not a definition of freedom that i think in fact in many ways it's a definition of the opposite of freedom it's which would be catered to say to to to get people to to give up their freedom to them we will take care of you it's the parental instinct just give us up your freedom we will take care of you we will be responsible ok so you give up we have we have two ends of a spectrum at one end it's ok you're on your own period you know it's it's you know does annoy it's whatever you know it's is that they are if but that that's actually one it is we're not going to do anything ok or we'll have an army and maybe the police department and the other and is we're going to own everything you know the the old soviet union which i wonder does this or maybe in some years about maybe there's still some god is not worth even i maybe even i was going to say even cuba you know his name is now but so and somewhere in between people org

thirteen fifty one in franken if they already had this bipartisan support for this legislation it's the answer the postal service will be fine and then we can go on to take care of the real problems that have to be dealt with not been manufactured ones thank you very much charge appreciate it appreciate your dropping a very cute sound if you want to say the united states postal service that is always america itself. as chuck said you need to call your congress man or woman and tell him or her to stop the right wing assault on the postal service part of our commons. it's time for a daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question were republicans get what they want privatized the u.s. postal service or choices are yes republicans have manufactured crisis to do just that or no americans would push back privatizing the post office is the ultimate assault on the commons going to tom hartman dot com let us know what you think that poll will be open until tomorrow very. crazy alert snakebitten a california man is in police custody after munching on an unusual snack a p

. >> thank you franken. senator bennet. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and again -- excuse me, i really want to thank you for holding this hearing. this is an issue that i've been working on ever since i got here. and now i know why. the testimony i think has been excellent today and i'm familiar with the work that everybody here has done. and i find remarkable the degree of consensus around a lot of the issues that we face and i think that reflects how big the gap is between a statute that was written in 1938 and the world as we're living in it today, the changes that are accelerating because of the shrinking global economy that we face, and this lack of -- an update -- or our lack of a regulatory regime that reflects reality is bad for our consumers and it's bad for our business, and i think that's why we need to be urgent in fixing it. and it's been remarkable to read some of the polling data around. there's some in the mandatory recall suggestion -- first of all the f all. 90% of the american people support it and they believe that when the

. >> that brought this response from senator al franken. >> so we're trying to have a hearing here about whether you favor your own stuff. and you're asked that question. and you admittedly don't know the answer. >> uncomfortable afternoon for schmidt. and add least he didn't have to stick around to hear what ceos of yelp and next tag had to say about google. and barely touching on internet privacy. we'll show you antics that the group took as they tried to make a point with lawmakers on the committee. >> so what does yelp have to snai. >> testifying google scraped information from yelp, using it without permission on google sites and stopped only after government regulators started to ask questions. >> and there is more coming up at 6:00. >> folks at u.s. justice department apparently have expensive taste. a report finds the department spent $16 each on muffins, and other expenses, $8.24 for a cup of coffee. and the doj spent $121 million on 2000 conferences held during 2008 and 2009 and the department says most were held when there were no strict limits on costs. ya think? >> that won'

. >> reporter: bob franken says he doesn't think johnson should be fired. johnson has been on family leave and is scheduled to return to work on monday. >>> saying the school is failing african american and other students of color. >> historically, our students have been overlooked for a number of reasons. we're tired of looking at the statistics and seeing the numbers drop from one year to the next. >> tonight, the naacp went before the school board to talk about issues to address what they say is the disparity of education within the oakland school district. just last week, the district released a list of 12 schools that could be closed next year. some community members are infuriated, because they say it contained high performing schools that primarily served african american students. the college board is offering a positive spin when it comes to that drop. for the high school class of 2011, the mean reading score fell 3 points from 2010's mean to 497. that is the lowest mean score since 1972. the average math score dipped by one point. the critical rea

. >> snasenator al franken pounc. >> that seemed like a funny answer to knee coming from the chairman you don't know, who does. >> he asked if google uses content from other provieders to drive business to google sites. >> again, i will have to look but i'm not aware of any. >> the yelpc.e.o. testified google did rip off yell p's content. >> we understand your concerns and we understand your concerns but in the end nothing happened. >> reporter: and nextag's c.e.o. says google changed. >> today, google doesn't play fare. google rigs its results. >> almost all of the discussion stles on whether or not was searches were unbiased. the consumer was watch dog shot this video of volunteers and members stalking the members of the committee. they explained when we talked to them this afternoon. >> most people just don't understand the way when they go online virtually their every move is tracked as they go from one website to another website and we thought that one of the best ways to dramatize this was to do something that is sort in the the real world might be considered stalking. >> simpso

senator al franken. that is all i have to tell you. that is the tough neighborhood i get elected out of. i had a distinct advantage. i grew up in a home where it was three brothers and no sisters. that is the best preparation for politics any girl could ever have. the boys learned pretty quickly in our family, do not mess with your sister. it is great training. i have to apologize to you tonight. i did not bring my teleprompter is with me tonight. -- teleprompter with me tonight. you have never seen a president with a teleprompter. in a michele bachmann white house, there will be no teleprompter. i believe californians can take the raw truth. there will be no czars in the michele bachmann white house. [applause] i really like the constitution. i think we should follow it, don't you? that is what i think. here is something else i want you to know about me. i will never step one to go out of the united states and apologize for our great country. [applause] why would we apologize for the greatest animating principle of this nation that ha

and bob franken, syndicated columni. wayne, what is perry up to?> in the book he suggests at least social security oughting to abolished. that's on the record, in print, black and white. now he has to deal with that reality. >> that's only nine or ten months ago. it's not a book when he was a kid in college or 20 years ago. that's his position, he wrote it, he's got to live with it. the question is what do you do about that on a political campaign where you said correctly social security is probably our most popular entitlement program, especially for those folks in florida. the campaign knew they had to fix that. >> now, let me ask you, bob, he also suggested in the book it was unconstitutional. now you had he says i meant to say you need to fix it. you don't fix something that is illegal, you eliminate it. >> i think that when he said ponzi, he had just w567d and episode of "happy days" and meant to say fonzie scheme. in other words, he was just throwing words out there. here is a man, who his handlers are saying you can't just say this. rick per

. >> reporter: bob franken says he doesn't think johnson should be fired. has been on family leave and is scheduled to return to work on monday. >>> saying the school is failing african american and other students of color. >> historically, our students have been overlooked for a number of reasons. we're tired of looking at the statistics and seeing the numbers drop from one year to the next. >> tonight, the naacp went before the school board to talk about issues to address what they say is the disparity of education within the oakland school district. just last week, the district released a list of 12 schools that could be closed next year. some community members are infuriated, because they say it contained high performing schools that primarily served african american students. the college board is offering a positive spin when it comes to that drop. for the high school class of 2011, the mean reading score fell 3 points from 2010's mean to 497. that is the lowest mean score since 1972. the average math score dipped by one point. the critical reading sco

. >> joining mess is malika from "the washington post," and syndicated columnist bob franken. are you surprised his job plan is aimed at corporate interests? >> well, unfortunately most of the corporations thinks days are laid laid off people except for a few at the top whose idea of a job plan is to hire a few people to build an extension to their mansions and maybe work for minimum wage, and that's only because they can't get rid of the minimum wage. the simple fact is quorpgss in today's society are really just financial instruments, the play things for the wealthy to get wealthier. >> when we look at former governor romney's record, look at the state of massachusetts and we look at where they are, 47 out of 50 in job growth. he has these plans for job creation, it seems like if he had them, they would have worked when he was governor, because there's nothing he's saying now that's new, and they've already been tried in the state he was governor at. >> well, reverend, you're saying exactly what governor rick perry said a couple minutes on a statement after romney's speech,

man, that's like saying jordan is the ninth best basketball player, or franken berry is the ninth best monster cereal. no way. she really harshes on your spanking technique. i know. she has put me on blast in front of the entire sex community. i'm going to take corinne out again, and re-bone her flawlessly. handle it. mm-hmm. hang on. i'll head down with you. hey, just out of curiosity, who's number one? some ass hat named colin zabrowski. so, um, you're backing me? oh, i am backing you. thanks, buddy! austin that was the best date since ever. i mean, you listened, you had interesting things to say. and when i laugh at your jokes, i'm actually laughing. well, the one about the 12-inch pianist, it was kind of a layup. sara... sara: uh-oh. i need to talk to you about something. i knew it. i make up my mind that i like him, he wants to break up. the story of my life. you see, i'm on antidepressants. god, that makes me so happy. i'm sorry. was that insensitive? no, no, no, no, no. it can just sometimes make the physical stuff, uh... challenging. i wanted to say that upfront. challenge is m

everyone from al franken and john stewart. >> how much do they sell for? >> the single issues are $3.99 and the graphic novels are between $9.99 and $14.99. >> we might be doing one on you. >> don't bet on it. i can recite any cliche in a second. i would want to see through people and see what you are thinking. congratulations. great pleasure. this in addition of the news station. martin bashir is up next. ng. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. you had me at "probiotic." do you have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem? are you taking warfarin to reduce your risk of stroke caused by a clot? you should know about pradaxa. an important study showed that pradaxa 150mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there's no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleedin

i understand some liberal senators, al franken, anything he doesn't like i usually like. in this case i might be -- i can't say the words i might be on his side. i can't do that. but i don't want on star or any other high tech gizmo tracking me in my car. is that what's happening? >> you want them tracking you if you pay out for the say please track me. what happens here is you then call on star, your soon-to-be ex-boyfriend and say on star it's me kelly, i don't want to see you any longer. i'm ending the relationship and on star says okay, fine, but secretly saying oh it's not so fine, ms. kelly, i'm going to follow you and know how fast you are going. i'm going to know whether you are wearing seat belt and know where you are all hours of the day. sell to to marketers and police if they ask. >> bill: is that what they are doing. >> that's what they reserve the right to do. >> bill: they have the right when you pull the plug on the service and pay their little fee to continue and the technology in the car does send this information to them? >> yes. they have the informati

minnesota, you know how close that was in the franken race. i think that obama is so dragging down the democratic party to defeat, 15 to 20 points if the election were held now. that we really have a shot at 60. >> sean: even california -- first the new york 9, it was a dramatic result in a very important part of the state of nevada. california three out of four californians are not happy with the job he's doing, especially on economics. something has shifted. i noticed in the president's speech today he seemed a little unhinged, angrier than usual, more divisive than usual. i don't know if he's like to the point where he feels like the country doesn't appreciate his greatness, his vision. there's something going on. >> there's something paranoid going on. the -- i believe that there is increasingly a feeling by americans that taxing the rich isn't the answer, because they know that it is the rich who spend money and the rich who give jobs. somebody once said have you ever gotten a job from a poor -- >> sean: i said that to you. >> you said th

al franken supported the war. bill keller of the new york times supported the war. the editor of the new yorker supported the war. john kerry and 27 other democratic senators supported the war. liberals supported the war. our so-called liberal institutions like the new york times and the new yorker completely failed us. in fact in my humble opinion are more responsible for this war that george w. bush. i expect that behavior from george w. bush. i don't expect it from media that provided cover for. bu bush. even bill keller supports it. the new yorker supports it. come on. i know keller has written a huge apology this week or whenever for it. but man oh man. in the last week 1,000 people were arrested in front of the white house over a five day period over this pipeline thing from canada. are you aware of this? there has been a little bit of coverage in the media but 1,000 were arrested. imagine if 1,000 tea party ears were arrested tomorrow. where would that story be on the evening news? this is crazy. i promised to go short. we will go to the back. very quickly. i

thank you. >> thank you. >> senator franken? >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you and ranking member for this very important hearing. let me ask about the heparin. that came from china and baxtr was the distributed it here in this country? is that right? >> virtually all heparin in this country comes from china. it takes one pig to make one vile of heparin. there are a lot of pigs in china. so most of the heparin comes interest china. in that case we traced the contaminated heparin back it china. then it was distributed through baxtr and other countries in the u.s. >> can you comment on whether fda has cred requiring manufactures, as the fda, to hold sub is suppliers and other further down the chain accountable -- chain accountable. i think that would put the cost, instead of on the fda, it would at least put the responsibility on the baxtrs of this world to say, look, i got to check the drugs i'm distributing. >> yes. by all means. in fact we when we have talked about quality systems, as something congress might want to look at, one of the t

. >> bill: the al franken poll? what poll is that? the michael moore poll?> no, no. >> bill: come on. pull stuff out of your hat and you know you can't back it up. >> no, i'm not. >> low approval ratings for republicans in congress. >> bill: low approval ratings are different than blaming the republicans in the house for the decline of america. lesley, under the democratic house, okay, they ran up more than a $5 trillion debt in four years. okay? and it didn't work. the economy is worse. so what moron would blame republicans for the current economic epidemic -- current problems we have in the economic region? allall right. let's get back to the debate. kirsten, when i said to laura, laura knows this is true, that each of the candidates -- this is the problem with these early debates -- has an agenda. they each have something their handlers tell them. you have to do this. in order to survive, michelle bachman has got to destroy rick perry tonight. she has to because all of michelle bachman's support she's now down to single digits in many polls, has gone to p

senator franen rai -- franken raised some claims. drawing on the lessons you have learned, can you suggest measures to be taken at this point to promote competition, to dispel those allegations, and, perhaps, anticipate some of the momentum toward government and a veteran -- intervention? i ask this in the spirit of trying to avoid government regulation and intervention. in my view, some of the companies who occupy your chair have been their own worst enemy in that regard. your frank acknowledgement about a google speaks tried to do voluntarily what is in the consumer's best interest because competition is in a consumer's best interest before there is intervention by a government agency. >> my general answer would be them making the internet when guarantees strong competition. i am understand your asking a more narrow question but there are many start-ups that are potential future competitors in. for example, there are websites the nursing half of the traffic from facebook. google is a small component of the traffic they get. there i

my colleague, senator franken, just raised yelp!'s allegations, the other kinds of claims about anticompetitive conduct so my question to you is: drawing on the lessons that presumably you have learned as you very forthrightly acknowledged, can google suggest measures to be taken voluntarily at this point to promote competition, to disspell those allegations and perhaps dissipate some of the momentum towards government intervention? and i ask this question in the spirit of trying to avoid government regulation and intervention. in my view, some of the companies who have occupied your chair before you have been their own worst even me in that regard and your very frank acknowledgment about google's responsibilities and its approach, i think, speaks an approach to, in effect, try to do voluntarily what's in consumers' best interests because competition is in consumers' best interest before there is intervention either by a government agency or by a court? >> my general answer would be that making the internet win guarantees very strong

thank you. >> thank you. >> senator franken? >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you and ranking member for this very important hearing. let me ask about the heparin. that came from china and baxtr was the distributed it here in this country? is that right? >> virtually all heparin in this country comes from china. it takes one pig to make one vile of heparin. there are a lot of pigs in china. so most of the heparin comes interest china. in that case we traced the contaminated heparin back it china. then it was distributed through baxtr and other countries in the u.s. >> can you comment on whether fda has cred requiring manufactures, as the fda, to hold sub is suppliers and other further down the chain accountable -- chain accountable. i think that would put the cost, instead of on the fda, it would at least put the responsibility on the baxtrs of this world to say, look, i got to check the drugs i'm distributing. >> yes. by all means. in fact we when we have talked about quality systems, as something congress might want to look at, one of the t

. >> senator franken. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr.baker, i want to ask you a question, follow-up on a question from chairman leahy. in recent case the department of justice has actually argued that the violation of websites' term of service or employers' computer use policy can constitute a federal crime under the computer fraud and abuse act. in other words, thunder interpretation of the statute, people could conceivably be guilty of a federal crime for checking their gmail or their weather if their employer's computer policy prohibits them from using their computers for personal reasons. two federal judges have found this reading of the statute to be unconstitutional. because people don't read those policies and when they do, they can be, as you know, complexen anden confusing. don't you think it would be worthwhile to address the concerns of the federal judges in updating the statute? >> as i said earlier, senator, thank you for the question. as i said earlier, we're happy to work with folks to address these concerns. i think that

i want to so support the remarks of the senator from minnesota, senator franken, and the senator fromermont, senator sanders, who have described beautifully several different aspects of this debate. senator franken said how is it that so many on the other side rush to support funding for wars and rebuilding in afghanistan and iraq and never ask for one dime to be offset, and yet at a time when americans need help, they are not, let's say, leaning forward. i think there are a lot of americans, not only from around the country but from their own states that might be very puzzled by this sudden commitment to find offsets when it comes to rebuilding neighborhoods in minnesota or vermont or neighborhoods in virginia or massachusetts or in other states, new york, that have been so hard hit. i think they will have some explaining to do, which is why i'm hoping that today when we retake this vote that many of my friends on the other side will consider the leadership showed last night by senators blunt, senator brown, senator coats, senator collins, senator heller and senator snowe. these six

senator franken? >> thank you, ms. creighton, you worked very closely on the microsoft case over 10 years ago. there are many parallels on that case what happened google is doing today. you might not agree with that but i think you would agree that isn't enough for google to just say trust us. in fact, i think you said that. they need to explain to businesses and consumers what they are doing and why. in the microsoft case, a technical committee was created to help monitor and enforce the obligations in the final court order. to be clear, d.o.j. hasn't filed a suit against google and i'm not suggesting that they should but i do see some merit in google taking the initiative of creating a committee oftologists and other small businesses that could review the algorithm of tweaks and ensure google is treating everyone equal. what do you think of that idea? >> i would have to defer to company in terms of whether that is a good business idea. i would be extremely concerned about that is just another word for regulation. i d

let's ask franken luntz. is it working? 28% approve of what he's done with the economy? however, this class warfare tact, taxing millionaire, almost every poll does show a majority of americans supporting that, including a significant percent annual of republicans. so the rhetoric itself, the public has become tired of. but the idea that the rich should pay more with all due respect to republicans listening, yes, the american people actually think so. >> brian: even though the irs has o shown the rich are paying more and the numbers do not back up his statement, it doesn't matter? >> no one realizes that 47% of americans pay no income tax at all. nobody realizes that the top 10% pay almost half of all taxes. actually more. >> brian: let's talk go governor rick perry of the here is what he said at the -- here is something he wants back that he said at the debates. let's listen. >> if you say that we should not educate children be who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of

that federal response to the recession and financial crisis helped to pull the economy back from the franken made the recovery stronger than it would have been without it. one of our witnesses last week, dr. mark zandi come along, long with dr. allen blinder the chairman of the federal reserve, completed a study last year that measure the impact of federal actions to shore up the economy. including both the fed's monetary policy actions in the fiscal actions taken by the congress and the administration. here is a quote from their report. we find that its effects, it being the federal response, on real gdp, jobs and inflation are huge. and probably averted what could have been called the great depression 2.0. when all is said and done the financial and fiscal policies will have cost taxpayers a substantial sum, but not nearly as much as most of fear do not nearly as much as if policymakers had not acted at all. the comprehensive policy response save the economy from another's depression. as we estimate they were well worth their cost. this chart, the next chart, shows dr. zandi and dr. blinde

that federal response to the recession and financial crisis helped to pull the economy back from the franken made the recovery stronger than it would have been without it. one of our witnesses last week, dr. mark zandi come along, long with dr. allen blinder the chairman of the federal reserve, completed a study last year that measure the impact of federal actions to shore up the economy. including both the fed's monetary policy actions in the fiscal actions taken by the congress and the administration. here is a quote from their report. we find that its effects, it being the federal response, on real gdp, jobs and inflation are huge. and probably averted what could have been called the great depression 2.0. when all is said and done the financial and fiscal policies will have cost taxpayers a substantial sum, but not nearly as much as most of fear do not nearly as much as if policymakers had not acted at all. the comprehensive policy response save the economy from another's depression. as we estimate they were well worth their cost. this chart, the next chart, shows dr. zandi and dr. blinde

senator franken. >> thank you. i'll try to be fast because i know senator bennett has to get out of here. i have to preside in a few minutes. dr. martello, as we heard from mr. johnson, the generic companies are working with the f.d.a. to do their fair share and provide the f.d.a. with additional resources to increase foreign inspection capacity. while i realize that the brand companies don't occupy as much of the market as generics do, would your member companies be willing to contribute to securing the supply chain through increased user fees? >> thanks very much for that question. i think it's important to recognize that since 1992 the user free, prescription drug user fees that we are look fog re-authorize next year have supported preapproval inspections since their inception in 1992. as the g.a.o. has reported, the majority of facility inspections that are conducted are both preapproval and g.m.p. inspections combined. our industry is really committed to this issue and has supported inceptions in the form of u

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that federal response to the recession and financial crisis helped to pull the economy back from the franken made the recovery stronger than it would have been without it. one of our witnesses last week, dr. mark zandi come along, long with dr. allen blinder the chairman of the federal reserve, completed a study last year that measure the impact of federal actions to shore up the economy. including both the fed's monetary policy actions in the fiscal actions taken by the congress and the administration. here is a quote from their report. we find that its effects, it being the federal response, on real gdp, jobs and inflation are huge. and probably averted what could have been called the great depression 2.0. when all is said and done the financial and fiscal policies will have cost taxpayers a substantial sum, but not nearly as much as most of fear do not nearly as much as if policymakers had not acted at all. the comprehensive policy response save the economy from another's depression. as we estimate they were well worth their cost. this chart, the next chart, shows dr. zandi and dr. blinde