the lobar just being aware of constituents isn't being met in the modern congress. there's a lot of constituents the door on scene. there will be tough choices and so the book isn't saying that the standard is acting for eight in every interest so that is impossible but at least to be aware. >> professor miller in your research do you find that congressional district is too big? >> that is one of the implications i think can be drawn out of this work so these limited and by u.s. perceptions and at shaping their behavior and by trees this by looking at participation committees. are they asking questions what comment or the making i look at their voting record and i find that legislators who are sponsoring or see a more complete balanced district tend to vote more moderately. they tend to sponsor more wells so it has an impact. the reason they think they may be too big is your presentation is really a tough job. psychologists have been telling us legislators and their staff are human, too and so they are subject to the same limitations and we are asking them to do you

he also knows a whole more history than his colleagues -- itit is a lobar -- but relatatively smartethan the people he is debating. having said that, he is somebody who is a fabulous to who just cannot hp himself -- can make a lotf sense until the 59th minute and then he has to exaggerate. it is just in his dna. >> when i say the democrats should be careful of what they ask f -- i mean, this is a weird year. >> it is a very weird year and democrats, hard to remember, but they thought having ronald reagan as thstandard bearer would be good for them. that they could beat him. they could be wrong about this. but newt gingrich has a way of stepping in it. let's not forget he did essentially plead guilty to an ethics violation, in which he paid $300,000 when the republicans controlled the house. >> also, with ronald reagan newt gingrich is really going to get it in the neck from his own party. you see the establishment and lining up to take shots at nhnhtsa gingrich. but if he got the nomination, the record against him would be handed to the democrats. >> as of the co-author of the new politi

standards of washington is there is nothing illegal about it the ethics committees have the amazingly lobar when it comes to earmarks. as long as congressmen hassert introduces anything the benefits themselves to show least one other person at least one may be the neighbor or your cousin benefits other than yourself, it is difficult and you can do it. i count in the book where this have been a senator has a stake in a real-estate development earmarking $66 million and run by his brother who was part owner and the ethics committee approved it to said it is okay because there's other beneficiaries. this is the method and the techniques the insiders use and i believe part of the reason that we don't see a huge amount of difference in the growth of government and the size of government in part because all of the profit centers are in seeing government grown not get smaller. talking about the insiders let me talk about crony capitalist and the people on the outside. what has happened in america is a lot of financiers and corporations have come to the conclusion is a much better business investme

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the way with benefits and pensions and the like, stockholm folks by retrofitting senior citizens, lobar their energy costs 25%, lowering their carbon emissions, creating jobs. so i am a guy telling the white house as i mentioned have a lot of conversations back-and-forth and the last conversation we talked about tone and rhetoric because it does matter but i know that when it comes to the epa standards the head of the conservation voters yesterday was going on about what one side says denying science that human beings have -- this is an irrefutable evidence now that these things have an impact and you have another side that says we accept responsibility. we may not be moving as far and fast but we accept responsibility and a lot of things that don't catch the national attention people don't like talking about regulations but the administration passed a lot controlling emissions from factories and cleaning up kohl not to where we want it to be but taking steps to change standards in the united states of america so we can discuss how we can encourage the obama administration as a lot of u

the way with benefits and pensions and the like, stockholm folks by retrofitting senior citizens, lobar their energy costs 25%, lowering their carbon emissions, creating jobs. so i am a guy telling the white house as i mentioned have a lot of conversations back-and-forth and the last conversation we talked about tone and rhetoric because it does matter but i know that when it comes to the epa standards the head of the conservation voters yesterday was going on about what one side says denying science that human beings have -- this is an irrefutable evidence now that these things have an impact and you have another side that says we accept responsibility. we may not be moving as far and fast but we accept responsibility and a lot of things that don't catch the national attention people don't like talking about regulations but the administration passed a lot controlling emissions from factories and cleaning up kohl not to where we want it to be but taking steps to change standards in the united states of america so we can discuss how we can encourage the obama administration as a lot of u

the way with benefits and pensions and the like, stockholm folks by retrofitting senior citizens, lobarrgy costs 25%, lowering their carbon emissions, creating jobs. so i am guy telling the white house as i mentioned have a lot of conversations back-and-forth and the last conversation we talked about tone and rhetoric because it does matter but i know that when it comes to the epa standards the head of the conservation voters yesterday was going on about what one side says denying science that human beingshave -- this is an irrefutable evidence now that these things have an impact and you haveanother side that says we accept responsibility. we may not be moving as farand fast but we accept responsibility and a lot of things that don't catch the national attention people don't like talking about regulations but the administration passed a lot controlling emissions from factories and cleaning up kohl not to where we want it to be but taking steps to change standards in the united states of america so we can discuss how we can encourage the obama administration as a lot of us do to partner