here is john palmer. >> they're having a family feud on capitol hill over television, and who will ben it. house sessions have been carried on a special cable tv channel lately. and house speaker tip o'neill, trying to control this particular airwave. >> that special cable tv channel john palmer, the anchor you saw, special cable tv channel he was talking about was c-span. delivered gavel-to-gavel coverage of every session and public affairs programming to fill out the rest of hours. in the niche world of cabled, c-span has been such a hit there are three of them. three different c-span channels if you can believe that. in 1984, c-span was five years old. cable television itself wasn't much older. that is where newt gingrich comes in. the significance of cable television, significance of having a cable tv showing the house floor sharing everything. he was an outsider, irritant to republican leaders. congress was a very different place back then too. there were real authentic moderate republicans, liberal republicans. lots of them. gingrich took charge of a small band of conservative b

john ritter, robert palmer and one other person.at, and that's why they get that thing. hey, barbara. >> hi, how are you? >> oh, ah! sneak up on me. merck out with quarterly results earlier this hour. joining us onset is barbara ryan managing director of fti consulting. i'm kind of cursed with -- i remember like unimportant things. and what i remember is that you were never that excited about merck except as maybe a yield stock and i'm wondering whether you're more excited now or is it still just a yield stock? >> well -- >> do you remember when you were saying that? after vioxx. >> yeah, high-coupon bond. >> yeah, what you said. and that's not worthless, that's pretty good information. that's the one thing i remember. >> for merck. >> yeah. >> merck has had a long and very strong history in drug development. and has been an invader in a lot of different categories, not the least of which cholesterol, osteoporosis, vaccines. but they go through their cycles. and so merck has had a very difficult time with generic competition which i

the first nonyankee to win three rings with the same team since jim palmer who did it as an oriole in '66, '7 o and '83. well, for johny. a world series trophy in his first season as red sox skipper. of course, the other side, mike matheny got to the nlsc last year in his first year as a skipper. the world series this year and after the disappointing results here in game six moments ago spoke with our ken rosenthal. >> here with mike matheny. mike, michael wacha was so good all postseason wachlt was different tonight? >> well, i think they jumped on a couple pitches and got more plate than what they normally do. but every time i see them pitch, they're going to be more educated. we have to stay under the curve. and they came out very prepared. they got the big hits. >> the guys led the series 2-1. you had two more game at home at that point. obviously things didn't work out the way you wanted. from your perspective, what happened? >> well, i think it comes down to what we just talk about. they got big hits when they needed to. i think we both had good pitching all the way through the series. when it comes down to it,

. >> we're going to start with anna palmer, lara lipman, richard bowman, peter nicklaus, and john stanton. anna? >> going to ask about the chamber -- [ inaudible question ] >> actually, it hasn't, no. >> seriously, i'm glad to have a lot of people trying to get into this issue in getting serious about it. hopefully we'll be able to bring them to a consensus not on the issues. people have a lot of agreement on the issues. but on the best way to move forward. the chamber continues to do well. we had an extraordinary continuation of our success in the courts. go back to the end of last year when we had the last one of these debt and deficit issues. i looked at what happened on the tax side. i looked at what happened on the sequestration side, i looked at all of that and i came away and i said we continue to do well. the most important thing to understand about your question is that the two things that we actually do -- we're advocates and we build coalitions of people. and groups to try to get something done. no one organization makes anything happen in this city. and bruce johnston and his

john lutz, tommy andolini, rick dorocc. ko, chip as sinders, christa powers, tyler yingling, michael rebuck, chris mindich, jamie rhodes, michael pock, andijan tai palmer. they reflect the best of public service and i will always be thankful to them and the work we have done together. of course, the greatest thanks goes to my family, my wife general chained our children al and hanna have always given me their unconditional loved and support. i could not have done this without them. i'm lucky to have them. mr. president, i was born and raised in new jersey. it's not just my home state. it's my home in every sense of the word. the honor of representing the people of my state, my friends, my neighbors is almost beyond description. after all, there can be no greater calling for any citizen than to have the opportunity to represent the people of your state in the highest counsel of government. so although the past five months have passed very quickly, my deep sense of gratitude for the opportunity to serve will stay with me for the rest of my life. mr. president, my experience as a member of this body has confirmed what i already twhawts true: every member