mr. shuster and asked him the same thing. he said jim oberstar and by our joint at the head. we have different viewpoints but we reach a common ground. we stuck with it. we forged something better for the country. not everyone has the best ideas. if you find common ground, you reach good ideas and good policy and -- that is workable for the country. throughout 2007, 2008, we passed a significant legislation recall authorizing amtrak which had not been done in 15 years. mr. micah came from one perspective and i came from another. he wanted to engage the private sector and i did not think that would be workable. as we talked, as we look each other in the eye and laid out specific proposals, there was a trust between us. he is not setting a trap for me and i am not setting a trap for him. we are being open and honest with each other. we are seeing what we can do for the public good. we achieved an authorization for amtrak that eventually in the following year, 2008, president bush signed into law. i can say that for the state revolving loan fund and other bills we passed in 2007

mr. shuster and being me.self. >> couric: matthew james morrison grew up spending plenty of time alone. as the only child of two army nurses who were constantly moving. but after a summer stint with a children's theater in arizona, ten-year-old matthew finally felt at home. >> called the herdman's go to camp. the made-up show that they did. i played ollie heardman. a lame song "we're the roughest, toughest, meanest punks in this whole town, yeah ♪ >> couric: he kept on landing these roles at the buena park youth theater in california. like the pubescent prince charming in cinderella and charlie brown's beloved beagle in snoopy. >> being in the arts as a child i think sometimes you can get made fun of and stuff. but i didn't care. >> couric: did anybody ever try to throw a slushy at you? >> no, no slushees. who does that? did we make that up on the show? because i never heard of that. >> couric: high school was already a safe haven since he attended o.s.h.a., the orange county high school of the arts. and as if

mr. shuster in said "where your republican traveling with jim oberstar?" he said that we were joined at the hip their reach a common ground -- joined at the hip and we reached a common ground for the better of the country. not everyone has the best t ideas. they are out to do throughout 2000 and 2008 we passed significant -- throughout 20007 in 2008 we pass significant legislation. he had an idea of engaging the private sector. as you looked each other in the eye -- as we looked each other in the eye, there was a trust between us. he is not setting a trap for me and i am not setting a trap for him. on are being opene and and this to see what we predict open and honest to see what we can do for the better good. -- we were being opened and honest to see what we could do for the better good. there is one pass in 2007 and then again in 2009. there were a host of other cops that brought the first affordable pay system on the department of energy, burst of affordable pay system about big -- there were a host of other ones that brought the first affordable pay sy