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therefore, under the ots, that is absolutely ridiculous. i am glad that the office is gone. >> there are 330 two co- sponsors/ -- there are 332 co-sponsors currently. 66 of them are democrats. what is your position on the particular bill, including the expansion of the role of the fed? >> people want to know more of the secrets of the temple. that may be a phrase from before you were born. it was required reading in my day. many of us are not surprised, at taken aback, when the fed had $80 billion to put into aig just out of the blue. we woke up one morning and aig was receiving $80 billion from the fed. for was the money coming from? not only that, we had more. a balance had to be struck as to what is required to run the fed and irresponsible way, what transparencies there should be, so that the american people have more knowledge about it. i am really not familiar with the details. >> the reports on the current health care plan shows that it is arctic coughing up -- how much are you concerned with the cost of health care? >> i believe they

as, etcetera, and now try to collapse the ot as an office of comptroller -- i do not know what it means all of us. i think the community banking needs to weigh in did the fed is more on the federal side, as opposed to state registry banks. but t

ots with the occ? that's what my bill does to me, i think it's a brilliant idea and needs to be done. >> senator, you're absolutely right, one of things that help produced this crisis was in our country, we allowed people to choose the regulator. to put risk in areas where it would be least well regulated. that level of unevenness and as part of that, we are looking at the areas in our system where most -- where we're most vulnerable to shopping for regulators and regulatory arbitrage. you pointed out one example and one of the more compelling examples of the failure or ur system. the failure or and to say we're looking beyond that, we're looking at that. and it's something we need to do globally, too. because we need to make sure that we're not vulnerable in the future to risk -- we get ]4

ots with the occ? that's what my bill does to me, i think it's a brilliant idea and needs to be done. >> senator, you're absolutely right, one of things that help produced this crisis was in our country, we allowed people to choose the regulator. to put risk in areas where it would be least well regulated. that level of unevenness proved tragically damaging to the stability of our system. fixing that will be critically important. as part of that we're looking at the areas in our system where we're most vulnerable to that kind of shopping for regulators. you pointed out one exam. . it is one of the more compelling examples of weakness in our system. just to say we're looking beyond in that, of course we're looking at that. we know it's something we need to do globally too. to make sure we're not vulnerable in the future, to risks just moving offshore to other areas where it could present a bigger risk to the system. more evenly enforced across the u.s. financial system and bring the world to the higher standards as well. >> you also made an excellent point where you talked about the excessive leverage in

indiscernible ] >> he is taking the e going ot of the game, and that's what -- he is saking the ego out of te game. he could have been the guy to win the game and say if i geta fastball, i'm going to swing o matter. but he doesn't. he shows that patience. he makes rodriguez throw the ball over the plate. it doesn't happen. very close pitch the last one. he goes down to first base, let's the guy behind him do te job. and jones comes up. jones does the same thing. that was a tough pitch to tak. i know jones because looking for a fastball. it was just below the knees, another good job of unselfish hitting, the kind of play that wins ball games. i love to see that. >> and here is rich kranitz who has two rookies in the rotati. berken was an unusual game, yu look at the line, and you thik he didn't pitch well, but one hit over the first five innings, he had the tough 6th inning, but he kept you in the game. and he has to learn from whate does. number one, give the team a chance to win. >> you're right. he threw a great game. that's not really the -- you have a lot of guys taking pitches. especially cora, yo

i forget what the expression is, where the he cannlers veto is the term. where somebody doesn't like something and you let him skew the entire discussion and you basically give big ots a veto. the evidence is that there is no problem in units that have openly gay members. and their records speak for themselves. they should be judged on their merits. which is all that anybody of us is asking for. host: we have another message from twitter. we need your voice out there. let's take another call. caller: thank you for c-span. i'm highly disappointed in the obama administration in so many areas. it's luke warm at best, expends no health care benefits at all to partners of gay marriage. guest: that's why he called, because there is only so much he can do short of legislation. have you called your member of congress and written urging them to repeal don't ask don't tell and pass hate crimes law? we've dropped that phone call. you mentioned a meeting coming up next week at the white house. tell us a little bit more about that meeting, how that advances the issue. guest: well, gay advocates in washington had various national organizations had called for a meeting to discuss