host: for megan mcardle, little rock, arkansas. democrats line.r: i was just wondering, we're talking about insider trading in congress, and people are talking about the supreme court. i think it goes all the way to the white house. a few years ago when george bush was in office, a lot of people do not realize, but he met with the president of fannie mae with student loans, and they made an executive order. i am wondering by any chance did you investigate that? guest: the top executive branch officials who have financial sticks and this put their money in blind trusts. for example, there was a big issue with hank paulson, the secretary, and attaof the time he was president of goldman sacks before he became treasury secretary -- angoldman sachs. at the time, people were saying he had to give up some parts of the deferred compensation and people were saying this is a huge sacrifice he has to make. it turned out because the market crash, he did well out of putting those assets and a blind trust. in general, this is not an issue with the president and

megan mcardle joins us to talk about her article about whether

host: megan mcardle our guest until 10:00. mark from florida. caller: good morning. and true professional you are. i want to make a point. i think a problem we have, in our history when the executive branch and legislative branch have run amok and corruption, which i think what has happened, and you will never get anyone in congress because they have friends, family that do investing for them and the kids run through different things, but in our history, the media and the newspapers used to be the ones that have the power of another little check and balance to where they could inform the public of the culture of corruption in such. what we have now is i think the media is corrupt as well. if you look at big business media and who they are in cahoots with as well -- look at the martha stewart case. they busted her on telephone calls and this and that. the media cover that 24/7. host: caller, thanks. guest: there is a lot there. there is a lot the the fact is that congress is in charge of regulating itself, largely because of the dangers of having congressman subject t

this week our guest megan mcardle. you can find the piece on the atlantic.com if you want to read it for yourself. but megan>> guest: so in the 90s there was a professor who did a study where he actually basically -- it was a study of kind of observational data. he looked at what the disclosure forms the members of congress have to file and he tracked those things with -- things that had happened to companies they owned. bensen bought some dairy companies before regulations that affected what they were doing in terms of prices and so forth. and so there was a -- a business professor in the south who saw this. it made sort of splash on one of those news shows and like 60 minutes-type shows he said and so he was watching and he thought that's not right. you need to do this right and you need to look and see if as a whole does congress outperform the market and so it took him forever. he had to get all these disclosure forms. this is back before really the internet and they weren't really available and so he actually goes

host: megan mcardle, herpes is in the november issue. we will go to the house of representatives. host: caller: . use will be in order the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., october 26, 2011. i hereby appoint the honorable chip kravaac to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner. speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall the event continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. this is a special moment for american agriculture as well as an opportunity to address th

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