host: we are pleased to welcome representative gerry -- gerald .onnolly -- gera you mentioned you held a town hall meeting last night. what happened? guest: we had our biggest town hall meeting ever, 31,000 people on the conference call, and we did a poll on medicare, and we ask them, do you favor the paul ryan approach which dismantles medicare, or did you prefer to keep medicare the way it is? 1300 people participated, and the results were overwhelming. it was 73% to 23% favoring maintaining medicare as we know it. host: which is pretty much the same as the abc/"washington post" paul. how do you get 31,000 people on one conference call? guest: people can e-mail, get on the phone live. an awful lot of people participate. we can get the more substance as a result. this was my 11th, and by far the biggest. host: when it comes to cutting the national debt, on a scale of 1-10, where is your concern, and what would you do? fiscal hawks. i've balanced 14 budgets in a row at the local level. we can not print money. i believe we have to live within our means and get our fiscal house in order,

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