keep him or her commentaryto come usually have this is going to play out. >> you mentioned the john tierneyrace in boston but do you have any hope of winning any seats in new england beyond that are beyond that? are there any speak i think so. we are not done recruiting in some of those seats. we have some really interesting people who are looking at running very seriously and are working through their own issues, family issues. it's always important to have your family fully supported when you venture down this path. and you can go up to new hampshire. frank is running again. richard, as you well know, is running again. and i just think that we need to be competitive in new england and can be competitive in new england. and we can grow. remember, we came out of 2010 with the biggest majority since world war ii. we held the second biggest majority since world war ii in 2012, a point i often have to make to our donor community who still are one is that romney actually won because they invested so heavily, he must have the. and then we go to the discussion about the senate and all the things

is a "new york times" article or an opinion piece lesser crimes rethinking life behind bars by john tierneyand the other is -- and the inmate population while increasing public safety by our corrections director eight t-wall. the record of the appearing will remain open for one additional week for any further questions or testimony that anybody wishes to offer. let me once again thank each of the witnesses for coming and lending your expertise and in the case of chairman talley and the secretary you're very long and well-earned personal experience in this area. i think what you have done politically to make these changes happen in your home state are very impressive and i'm sorry getting unanimity the way pennsylvania did but unanimity by one vote is pretty darned impressive. so i offer a lot of careful work into the kind of product would both be unanimous and impactful. you can do unanimous all day long if you wind up with no results but doing something that really makes a change and getting the kind of political support at home and in the legislature is a very significant achievement. i'm

republicans are not the only ones that have some primaries, but democrats where they have them, like john tierneyat is a serious challenge that he has in the primary, and they will be weakened as a result. on health care, do republicans have to unite around republican alternatives? and be,now, a, we have, we can lay out how we have this in the system. the challenge we face though is we have a long situation. the president of the united states has made it clear he has no intent of ever repealing while he is in office, and even so our multiple attempts to suspend it, repeal it have met with pretty unified resistance from most democrats and certainly the majority leader of the senate and the president, so at some point, you say, we tried to warn you. this goes back to a memo from the energy and commerce committee a couple of years ago, i think while we were still in the minority, talking about the plans and the cancellations, because i think the ratio range was within their own documents, then. get muchd not attention, but they have seen this coming for a long time, so i think now, it is how is all