we'll welcome senator john barrasso, republican from wyoming when mr. barrasso gets strapped in. you know, jartd, we've gone round and round on this and probably will again. all i'm going to say to you is when you cut through all the fog about the buffett tax, this is a backdoor way of raising the capital gains and dividends tax, namely stock market taxes, from 15% to 30% among the most successful investors. and i don't see how that is going to help, a, the market, or b, the economy. >> look, it's a fair point. but i can explain to you how it's going to help. first of all, we need more revenue. second of all, if you look at the history of taxes on capital gains or dividends, there's times when they've been up in that 30% neighborhood and the statistical analysis very clear from the academic literature. i've done some of this myself. it shows that there's really no correlation between the investment and these marginal tax rates. what you tend to see, larry, is is when you start messing around with favorable tax rates, all of a sudden that kind of income gets defined and you have t

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senator john barrasso joins us. >> thanks for having me. >> that video is on gretawire. i realize what senator harry reid was trying to drum up business for his own state and the bush administration had put off limits government trips to nevada and florida because it was seen as vacation. but that will backfire on senator reid. why did they have to meet? >> it just seems -- what american taxpayers need is value for their money and they are not getting it. i think this is the tip of the iceberg. we're looking at arrogance. we are also looking at abuse of power. and what i hear -- and i was at the hearings today, american people deserve and ought to be demanding accountability for the way their tax dollars are spent. this guy, jeff neely, you can take a look -- he's getting paid tonight, greta. he is still on the taxpayer payroll. and that just shows how very difficult it is to remove long-term career government employees, it's more likely that they die on the job than get remove from the job. >> can't you change that? you have the house and the senate. you could change it

the republican health care policy report from senator, doctor, orthopedic surgeon john barrasso that he put out last month, we go straight to number 10, we mentioned a couple, broken promise number 10, get this, colleagues. and this is a quote from president obama, our 44th president. these negotiations will be on c-span. candidate obama promised to televise all health care negotiations on c-span. the process that created the president's health care plan was plagued, unfortunately -- was plagued, unfortunately, and it wasn't on c-span, with back room deals like gator-ade, cutting deals with senators from certain state, you don't have to be a genius to figure out what those three states are. the president indeed even conceded the process, and he said, legitimately raised concerns not just among my opponents, but also among supporters, that we just don't know what's going on. it's an ugly process and it looks like there are a bunch of back room deals, unquote. mr. speaker, there were a bunch of back room deals and i think our colleagues are aware, we got a memo today from my committee,