ride explain jim traficant -- brian: explain jim traficant. ray: he was flamboyant and sarcastic and also for the underdog and in this case at this clip and he is saying baseball cost too much and the average family cannot go see it. he made references to "being me up." he said it in pretty much every one of his speeches. these are the one minute speeches where he gets to rant and rave where all members can all about whatever subject they want to talk about. a reference to "star trek" "beam me up, scottie," he used as his brand was something was outrageous. brian: what kind of discipline do they use for somebody they do not like when somebody uses though floor like this? don: if members were the rules and something beyond the core, you can't -- decorum, you can be forced to sit down and not take part in the debates. that is rare. sometimes we get new senators coming in and especially from the house and they are used to the rough-and-tumble of it all. veteran citizens will often take the junior senators the side and coach them on what a senator

brian: explain jim traficant. [laughter] ray: jim traficant is what you would call a colorful character. he was flamboyant and sarcastic and also for the underdog and in this case in this clip and he is saying baseball costs too much and the average family cannot go see it. he made references to "beam me up." he said that in almost every one of his little speeches like this. these are the one minute speeches where he gets to rant and rave, like all members do, about whatever subject they want to talk about. his reference to "star trek," "beam me up, scottie," he used as his brand when something was so outrageous to him. he would say, "beam me up scotty." brian: what kind of discipline do they use for somebody they do not like when somebody uses though floor like this? don: if members break the rules and say something beyond decorum, you can be forced to sit down and not take part in the debates. that is a very rare occasion. in fact, what usually happens is, sometimes we get new senators coming in and especially f