and max baucus that i had lunch with served six terms in the senate. or perhaps two terms in the house. thank you very much. >> i personally to have three branches of government only the executive branch as limitations. so we limit the president to true terms. -- two terms if we limit the other branches but also the judicial branch i don't think eight years which is the limitation but you have to do it the way the executive branch was limited. and with future colleagues not to do unilaterally. bid usually the ones who go out into years sometime as the conservative some go to congress to redistribute your wealth and they can stay there a long time. if it is constitutional it will apply to everybody then you can have fallen at -- have a limit. >> gone of first the emphasis of my talk was on congressional delegation. over the years the presidents have then aggressive where they did not have statutory power. with was not right before or right after pearl harbor it was clear war was coming and he said i want congress to pass authority for national productio

>> guest: former maine senator who was somebody who wanted to work is able to get max baucus was then chairman of the senate finance committee in many ways was slowing down the process because he was desperate to have a bipartisan senate finance committee bill? there are so many ways that this would've managed to fully. instead they panic. they have to find some of the kathleen sebelius certain qualified to run hp chess but she did not washington political skills. she just hadn't been here. -- to run hhs. they had a great plan, it gets upended because he can't get confirmed over a tax issue. they abandoned the idea of having a ceo of health care. it's essentially what they're doing to we are going to put ceo of health care reform. if you look at every problem they ran into from getting the legislation passed to getting it written to implementing, the problem was no one person was accountable. and yet their initial plan, so they have derided it and then they abandoned it i would argue to quickly. >> host: what conclusion do you draw about the debate that went on at this point that whet

the legislation that i introduced last year with max baucus actually enhances this role in trade negotiationsby giving specific directions to the administration as to what they need to deliver and get an agreement through congress. and that includes the passage of the tpa legislation. my plan is to move carefully but quickly to mark up the tpa bill. i'm currently working with the ranking member to see if there are improvements to be made so that we can introduce a bipartisan bill that we can move in short order. but i want to thank both of them for working as well as they do together and with me. if president obama can be more forward leaning members of his party starting with tonight's state of the union address, i think we can get this done weekly. that is what i am committed to do. while this remains our top trade priority, there are other important elements of our trade agenda. this congress has to move to renew the generalized system of preferences and reauthorize the customs and border protection and the immigration and customs enforcement agencies and reauthorize the growth and opportu

the tpa lejs that i introduced last year with the two former chairman dave camp and max baucus actually enhances the negotiation by giving specific direction to the administration as to what need to deliver to get an agreement through congress. absent the passage of tpa legislation, there is no other way for congress to effectively assert itself and its priorities into the ongoing trade negotiations. and my plan therefore is to move carefully but quickly to mark up a tpa bill. apparently working with ranking member widen and chairman ryan to see if there are improvements that might be made to tpa so we can introduce a bipartisan by cam rale bill in this congress that we can move in short order. i want to thank both of them for working as well as they do together and with me. if president obama can be more forward leaning with members of his party, starting with tonight's state of the union address, i believe we can get this done quickly. that is what i am committed to do. while tpa remains the top trade priority, there are other important elements of our trade agenda that also deserve t

dave camp and max baucus republican and democrat, had come together and say we would do this bipartisanly, revenue neutral tax reform to lower the rates for individuals and corporations. speaker john boehner at the time said he would designate the very first bill of the congress to be tax reform. that is a very symbolic gesture on his report showing that house republicans would want to pass a tax reform bill. now, this all changed when dave camp actually introduced his bill. he introduced a and businesses around the world and around the country said listen, we can't have this tax reform draft because these deductions and credits you are going to get rid of to lower the rates companies are going to hurt our business. we don't want this . house republicans turned against dave camp, went 180, and didn't even vote on it in the house. these businesses are going to have to be willing to give up these deductions, these credits, to lower the rates. the question is are they willing to do that? i don't know. at the same time we will need a lot of bipartisanship, democrats and republicans working to

t purchase a legislation that i introduced last year with the two former chairman dave camp and max baucus, actually enhances congress's role in trade negotiations by giving specific directions to the administration as to what they need to deliver to get an agreement through congress. absent the passage of tpa legislation, there is no other way for congress to effectively assert itself and its priors into the ongoing trade negotiations. my plan therefore is to move carefully but quickly to mark up a tpa bill. i'm currently working with ranking member widen and chairman ryan to see if there are improvement toss it. pa so we can introduce a bipartisan bicameral bill in this congress we can move in short order. i want to thank both of them for working as well as they do together and with me. if president obama can be more forward leaning with members of his party, starting with tonight's state of the union address i think we can get this done quickly. that is what i'm committed to do, while tpa remains the top trade priority there are other important elements of the trade agenda that deserve