chris dodd who crafted a bipartisan lecturer -- reform bill after the florida miltown was quoted as saying the goal of american law should be to make it easy to vote and hard to achieve. we are americans. we can do both. to civil rights. one is the right to never be prevented or intimidated from voting. we had a history in many states. poll tax, literacy test, bizarre registration hours. we passed the civil rights law to prevent that. the second city right not to have your vote canceled up by someone who is an illegal alien, and died, voting twice, or someone who does not even exist. that to file its your sole rights. we can do both. now, an obstacle to this is to reference the previous speaker on fast and furious, the eric holder justice department. they claim there is no voter fraud america. the clinical want to poll taxes. eric holder himself said that. they are suing any state that they can sing their voter i.d. lot is unconstitutional even and has been up held by the supreme court. so where are we with the lyrical the justice department? a complete stall. well, this is no accident. th

you leave the pittsburgh metropolitan area, which is democratic, you run into the old mining and miltown areas where coal and steel and lead and paint and glass -- all those industries that may pennsylvania economy dominate, in particular steel and coal, over the course of about 40 years after world war ii, those industries went away. the economy suffered and suffered severely. the voters out there are typically democratic blue-collar working-class men and women, roman catholic in religion -- certainly not all of them, and pro-union. these were the quintessential reagan democrats. they were in counties adjacent to pittsburgh like beaver and westmorland and washington and corrine and further to the east -- kim-shree and fayette. those counties have a propensity to vote republican, particularly in the elections. they are culturally conservative, pro-gun, pro-life, not particularly fond of gay- rights. then think of pennsylvania, draw a big t up the center of the state, fanned out across the new york border, not quite getting to erie or the northeastern part of the state, the big t -- that

to have a person that supports the barbarians, the very parasites who caused the miltown in this country in 2008. that is to his votes for. it is design to have people find out what the further hedge fund. he takes that out. even chuck grassley said he is carrying water for wall street. that has to stop. >> i would ask -- the question when to the priority. we have so many pressing issues. to put a bill to rack up the deficit and to impose new taxes to fund political campaigns. thinkm not for that and i that is wrongheaded. what does that have to do with creating jobs or educating children? listen to what each of us is saying. there is nothing but insistence that everything is wrong but no prescription on how to fix it from mr. powell. we have to help small businesses by lowering their taxes. we have to make sure regulation to talk overtake the launch but our spirits -- the entrepreneur spirit. make sure that others can have access to health care. we want to make sure that is replaced so that businesses are nerousrdened by that owners la law. >> maybe you would have voted with medicare pa

the pittsburgh metropolitan area, which is democratic, you run into what we call the old mining and miltownareas, where coal and steel and lead in paint and glass and all of those industries that the pennsylvania economy dominated, particularly steel and coal. over the course of 40 years after world war ii, the industries went away, the economy suffered severely. the voters were typically working class men and women, roman catholic and religion and prounion. these come as steve, are the quintessential reagan democrat and they would be an counties adjacent to his spurt like beaver and westmoreland and washington ingrained and further to the east, cambridge, fayette. those counties have a propensity to vote republican, particularly in big elections. they're culturally conservative. pro-gun, pro-life, not particularly fond of. if you think of pennsylvania and drive big t. at the center of the state and fan out across the new york border, not quite getting to the northeastern part of the state, just a big t. that's the conservative blue area of the state. it's basically white. as protestant, do

eroded the new york times magazine that in 2008 when the financial crisis, you know, when the bank miltownwas upon us and john mccain was decided to suspend his campaign, his decision to do so came as a result of a meeting he had with his economic advisor team. all of these work big corporate donors. romney was among them. all of those guys basically said take it. take whatever bush is offering. this small town expand. the next day, and facts and romney went on the today show and said, yeah, i support it. that's one thing. he has not modified his support of tart. if they're is a president romney and if there continues difficulties with the banks, then under those circumstances, yes, there could be a recipe for more regulation. >> what impact, if any, do you think that the changes in california and their method for electing congressional representatives will have? >> are you referring to the redistricting? >> yes. democrat versus democrat, republican versus republican in their system of electing. >> if i am understanding your right, you are referring to -- now there was a kind of bipartisan