mr. bowles are heading. >> rose: but is that going to deal with social security?everything's on the table for that commission. it's not... there are no bount reis who-to-what they can consider. >> rose: what's your lasting impression of what you have seen over the past year and where do you look at the best year and say we weren't very good at that >> i'm sure we could have communicated more consistently on the health care debate and where it fit into the larger narrative. but understand that this is a town that doesn't really... it's not all that receptive to larger narratives. it's very day to day, minute to minute. >> rose: does the bully pulpit have the possibility of changing that or not? >> to some degree it does. but, you know, unlike the past, even in the era of reagan, the media is so diffuse and there are so many outlets, i fwif example, the president did five sunday shows and the david letterman show last fall. >> rose: (laughs) yes. >> there was a lot of criticism, he's overexposed and so on. but i think a total of 14 million people saw him in aggregat

mr. porter, by the way, has also participated in the week going up to the super bowl in a relief effort for the victims of the haiti earthquake. not only a great football player but a fine person. that said, good things comes to those who wait. thank you to the saints fans

mr. bowles, a former white house chief of staff, and the former very dynamic head of the small business administration, will certainly be looking at tax reform to aid these greatest developers of job formation. the other co-chair, alan simpson, a deficit hawk, recalls that i first became involved with him when we were on the tax issue when i was running csi's 1994. when the strength of america commission offered their consumption tax. it came up without consumption tax and my simplified version what i spend in tax, what i save and invest is not. the tax favoring savings, investment and innovation and competitiveness. this ran into the criticism of problems on transition. surely, we can all agree we need a different tax code than the one today, one favoring savings, investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and growth. paul ryan and the imaginative roundtable for america's future uses similar language. perhaps we can all agree on new ways to increase the revenue stream, as well. let's creatively determine how to do that. let's also ensure that budget cutting does not cut investment for national strength

mr. cordozo's business a bowling alley is going to have to make a decision on the 75% rating. are they going to take that money into put it into health care for existing workers or might they take that money and hire another ship to workers? may be open-- hire another group of employees. for the last eight years in this country, incomes have been flat, health insurance costs have gone up because employers and i disagree with some of the discussion, employers fundamentally want to do the right thing by their employees. it helps them have a more stable workforce but they have had to make the decision that every single employee going in baking, can you keep up with my health insurance cost? when you also have inefficiency we are not just competing against the business across the street. we are competing against businesses around the world and when general motors makes the decision to chevy impala we make on the canadian side of the border and we make the exact same vehicle with the exact same contract on the michigan side. can you blame them for moving their business to canada wh

mr. cao's resolution honoring the super bowl champion new orleans saints. i remember as a child watching the saints play in the old tulane football stadium. and between the time i was a child and now there have been some rough times. but this year was different. they started off with 13 wins. they had three hard-fought postseason victories. i'm especially pleased to say that the victory in the n.f.c. championship and super bowl was due in great part to decisive interceptions by tracy porter in west baton rouge, parish. and mr. burton is right, he went to indiana. to the tune of doing so, he had a pick six against the colts. and mr. porter, by the way, has also participated in the week going up to the super bowl in a relief effort for the victims of the haiti earthquake. not only a great football player but a fine person. that said, good things comes to those who wait. thank you to the saints fans back in louisiana and across the country. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: mr. cao. mr. cao: mr. speaker, i cannot find a more saints fan that mr. scalise. h

mr. cao: i rise today in support of house resolution 1079, congratulating the national football league champions new orleans saints for winning super bowl xliv and bringing new orleans its first lombardi trophy. as a representative for or leans and i'm honored to con great them on their historic season. i want to thank the original 22 co-sponsors and 75 co-sponsors of the resolution for joining me to congratulate and support the saints. i would like to thank my colleagues in the entire louisiana delegation for their dedication to the recovery of south louisiana. we have cooperated in congress to rebuild our region and i hope to continue working with them in the future. the saints' motto has been finish strong and they did that very thing with a 31-17 victory over the indianapolis colts in super bowl xliv. the saints' super victory not only shows the dedication and hard work of the organization, coaches and players, but also represents a beacon of hope for the city of new orleans and the catalyst for recovery throughout louisiana. house resolution 1079 emphasizes the positive influence that the saints have had on people in new orleans an

mr. pierluisi: i ask that the house agree to house resolution 1047. the clerk: house resolution 1047. resolution commending the ohio state university buckeye football team for its victory in the 2010 rose bowl. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from puerto rico, mr. pierluisi, and the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. petri, will each control 20 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from puerto rico. mr. pierluisi: mr. speaker, i request five legislative days during which members may revise and extend and insert extraneous material on h.r. 1047 into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pierluisi: i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. pierluisi: i rise today to congratulate ohio state university buckeyes football team for their victory in the 2010 ncaa rose bowl. on january 1, the ohio state buckeyes of the big ten conference faced off against the oregon dogs from the pac-10 conference from the -- for the 96th rose bowl game. the buckeyes defeated the dogs of a score of 26-17, collecting their secretary of nt rose bowl crown. the buckeyes finished their season with an 1-2

we will be paying for the super bowl as opposed to having an advertising model which would give access to a broader number of people. so, do you share those concerns and mr let you want to comment? the thank senator kat well. i think there is some industry trends that have been going on. to give two examples that bcs is going from fox to espn in the future and monday nights of all went from abc to espn. so, i don't think this merger actually changes that attentional in a way. we would not need eying nbc's if we did not want to find ways to make nbc vibrant, valuable, great impact to some of the laureate did in the past and hopefully what it can do in the future. so i think some of the questions that it raised by that are retransmission consent, that we have been talking about today and i think our industry, and i think we can now perhaps play a constructive role, will be basically 80% of cable operators, 20% of content company after the transaction so in a sense we are going to look at it from those sites and say are their creative and good for consumer solutions that we can propose that apply to the whole industry and not just to one company that addres