as commissioner kovacic noted nevertheless ask a number of questions. for example, how often should the commission review rules and guides. how quaint modify programs to make them even more responsive to the needs of consumers and businesses. the ftc's new regulatory reform website just went live today because not everybody reads the federal register although any of you do. it serves to provide greater transparency for members of the public to understand regulatory review efforts and allows them to more easily comment on her ongoing brew reviews as well as on the ftc's process to review its rules. it also contains links to 37 rules eliminate over the years as well as easy links resources like a schedule and a streamlined hsr premerger foreign. commission staff to identify statutes on businesses around the commission. although both may be laudable some statutes passed by congress and the track from the unofficial word. commissioner moehler alluded to this with respect to licensing issues. someone exam will is for back taxes in 2003 and it came out of the

betrayal of this country that we the so don't take me to one side says hey i want you to meet wrong kovac. and. i had no idea and also there's frank who pick right in front of me you just have this or someone who spent his life doing good things and i think there is no greater right here that could be part of the peace process right now involved in bringing him into this forest children's hospital dealing missed nation and committing ourselves to never allow what happened in the iraq war in vietnam to ever happen again i told him that i'd seen born in the fourth of july in iraq and it really made him happy to write you want to tell her to tell you remember that i knew i had a right so yeah that's a variation of that point it really felt like the whole interview come full circle . that you're sitting in iraq. and watching for the fourth of july about road proving. and see how he dealt with the ghosts of war but protesting that he just hit with such force of that's exactly what i needed to do. and so following his example. because it's only. so reasonable they drilled into him as a vietnam

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joining me today to my right immediately is bill kovacs who's the senior vice president for our environment, technology and regulatory affairs division. to his right is john murphy who's vice president of our international policy division, and to his right is mike eastman who is our executive director and our labor, immigration and employee benefits division. i can't tell you much more, i don't think, than what you've already read, seen or heard in the papers about the ongoing debt negotiations. i think the one important thing to note is at least the principles that are in the room -- principals that are in the room negotiating all to a person have said the same thing, and the good news is what they are saying is default is an unacceptable outcome. so i continue to believe optimistically with everybody at least saying that that everybody realizes the repercussions of failing to achieve that. and while we'll have fits and starts, at some point we'll have resolution here one way or another and avoid default. having said that, let me start with john murphy because from a congressional perspect

kovacic in the way that you've answered questions, you're telegraphing or telling us that you two actually work together. and i really appreciate that. i think that's the way america expects our agencies to work. so i want to thank you for that. and jon, you're doing a good job. so i like that you're actually -- >> is this a setup? >> no. there's no comma, but coming here. i like that you're already attacking the issue of finding the regulations that are not very useful anymore. and don't serve the purpose. so good job. that's exactly what my bill that's in a different committee wants every agency, independent agency, to do. and it's not -- it's to provide the flexibility and i want to talk to you, sorry, commissioner northrop. >> ann is fine. >> because we can sit here and say good job on cribs. but it's amazing to me that we're sitting here talking about bicycles and a.t.v.'s and large cars and trucks that, 6, 7, 8-year-olds play with but yet we're regulating them. so you have to admit, mr. adler, there's some absurdity to the law. do you agree with the rules and regulations -- >> i thin