we have martin sabo, who served for a long time in the minnesota house of representatives, including a speaker from 1973- 1978. he went on to washington, where he served for 13 terms, i believe, in very important positions. congress passed a budget act that played a major role in the reduction of the deficits during the 1990s. we have a colleague of mine and teaches courses as well as working with us in some of our other programming. he was a representative in the minnesota house from 1979-2000 seven. he was also speaker of the house from 1999-2007. i want to begin by recognizing my colleague, who would like to ask a few questions. then we will broaden the discussion how to include steve in the conversation with our panelists. >> thank you, larry. around the country, the conversation has changed a little bit since yesterday afternoon. congress has had some action on a bipartisan budget agreement, which i think is very good for the country. i would like to look at my two friends. gil gutknecht was my right arm on the house floor. speaker sabo, as of yesterday, being the chair of the b

we have martin sabo, who served for a long time in the minnesota house of representatives, includingspeaker from 1973-1978. he went on to washington, where he served for 13 terms, i believe, in very important positions. it passed a budget act that played a major role in the reduction of the deficits during the 1990s. we have a colleague of mine and teaches courses as well as working with us in some of our other programming. he was a representative in the minnesota house from 1979-2000 seven. he was also speaker of the house rom 1999-2007. i want to begin by recognizing my colleague, who would like to ask a few questions. then we will broaden the discussion how to include stephen the conversation with our panelists. >> thank you, larry. around the country, the conversation has changed a little bit since yesterday afternoon. congress has had some action on a bipartisan budget agreement, which i think is very good for the country. i would like to look at my two friends. gil gutknecht was my right arm on the house floor. beaker -- speaker sabo, as of yesterday, being the chair of he budg