host: we are with jonathan cowan, the president of "third way." you and other groups put forth three strategies for helping with gridlock. one of them is changing the way we do redistricting. the article pointed to a couple of states which put forth policies to do that. explain what kind of change you would like to see on that and you have any evidence it could work? guest: guessing your viewers were frustrated by gridlock in washington and no news there. one thing that has to happen to change the dynamic is to lessen the power of the two polar sides -- the furthest left in the furthest right. if you look at a lot of the voters in this country, and not just independents, but democrats and republicans, many of them feel that they as a centrist or moderate have too little a voice in washington and people who are more liberal and more conservative have less of it which in washington. what you can achieve through different redistricting schemes and other similar processes such as changing primaries is actually lessening the power of those extremes. th

. >>> on washington journal tomorrow morning, we'll talk about politics and the economy with jonathan cowan, president of third way. cliff guffey, president of the american postal workers' union, discusses the future of the postal service. and we'll look at the debate over environmental regulations with national journal correspondent coral davenport. washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7 a.m. eastern. >> on october 3rd the supreme court will start hearing oral arguments on whether states can be sued for failing to pay the required rate set by the medicaid act. this saturday hear a similar case arguing that states can't be sued by private parties to enforce medicaid compliance supporting virginia governor wilder, future chief justice john roberts. >> it may be helpful at this point to return to the language of the statute. that language specifies that a state medicaid plan must provide for the payment of rates which the state finds and makes assurances satisfactory to the secretary. >> listen to c-span radio and washington, d.c. at 90.1 fm, nationwide on xm satellite channel 11