it's not going to be ray lahood. that talk about how people viewed me as somebody who friendsrtisan, who had on both sides of the aisle. who had an ability to really reach people on both sides. ultimately, on, denny hastert got to be speaker. the other thing that happened that i wrote about in the book, is another democrat came up and me in the chair and said, should we suspend what while we tryere and figure this out? i made a decision. i didn't check with leadership the speaker'swith office. i didn't talk to the parliamentarian. was suchdecision, this a historic day after all that on.gone we needed to proceed with the to takes that were going place on the four articles of impeachment. proceed. democrats walked out as we called for the first vote and came back in. we finished the day up. one of the things i'm proud of, peter, after everything was over, all the republicans met in rooms there in the capital to talk about what the speaker was going to be. this was after the all the votes taken and the house had adjourn

it's not going to be ray lahood. that talk about how people viewed me as somebody who friendsrtisan, who had on both sides of the aisle. who had an ability to really reach people on both sides. ultimately, on, denny hastert got to be speaker. the other thing that happened that i wrote about in the book, is another democrat came up and me in the chair and said, should we suspend what while we tryere and figure this out? i made a decision. i didn't check with leadership the speaker'swith office. i didn't talk to the parliamentarian. was suchdecision, this a historic day after all that on.gone we needed to proceed with the to takes that were going place on the four articles of impeachment. proceed. democrats walked out as we called for the first vote and came back in. we finished the day up. one of the things i'm proud of, peter, after everything was over, all the republicans met in rooms there in the capital to talk about what the speaker was going to be. this was after the all the votes taken and the house had adjourn

you have us in a horrible position and guys like ray lahood are responsible for it. >> got your point. ray? >> al, members of the house do serve two-year terms. if you only want them to serve one two-year term, that's a pretty dumb idea frankly. i do think if you're on social security or if you're a veteran that served our country and received a veterans benefit, if you're getting medicare, i don't think you think it's a good idea that the government shuts down and those people are out of those benefits. our government provides a lot of good services. there are a lot of wonderful people that work in the government and serve the american people. we need to think long and hard about obviously the opportunities that our government provides to our citizens. >> and joe in phoenixville, pennsylvania, democrats line. you are the last call for ray lahood this morning. >> caller: well, i'd like mr. lahood to talk about his idea of bipartisanship starting with the question when obama assumed office, he was confronted by an opposition party that vowed to do everything they could to defeat him an

and he said ray lahood.because i had developed a good style of chairing the house, a style of fairness and bipartisan and making sure we followed the rules and -- >> and you knew the rules. >> and we knew the rules. that was very helpful. so when the speaker's staff called me and said "speaker gingrich wants you to chair the proceedings" i thought, well, this is going to be my one minute of fame in the house of representatives. on the second day of the impeachment proceedings as the house opened up, bob livingston from louisiana who had already run for speaker and was known to have the votes to be elected speak y speaker wright after the impeachment proceedings were over, we were going to go and elect him speaker and he would have been elected in january but because of some disclosures about infidelity not dissimilar to speaker gingrich's disclosures that came about earlier he came to the house floor and i recognized him and he said "i'm not going to stand for speaker. i'm going to resign from the house afte

and so i don't think people really look at ray lahood with a jaundiced eye or with suspect. i think they look at me as more someone who has worked on both sides of the aisle. but i have been a republican all my life and i will continue to be a republican. i couldn't have gotten the job with president obama had i not been a republican because he was looking for a republican. and our friendship, obviously, in doing since we left -- endured since we left the job. host: my worst day on the job. guest: that was the day of the air crash -- host: in buffalo. guest: in buffalo, new york 149 people boarded the plane with the idea that they would arrive in buffalo safely. andbecause of pilot error very bad conditions -- icing on those 49 people pierced as a result -- perished. as a result, we implemented new rules. both of these pilots had flown from the west coast to the east coast before they started flying the plane. so innate our flight. then they are expected to get in the plane and fly it. and they were poorly trained. they did the wrong thing when the plane i stop, and they --

the way we train young drivers and the difficulties in tracking down on distracted driving of the ray lahood was secrete of transportation in the first obama administration, and was a long-time member of the house in illinois. welcome back to the programme. >> thank you, great to be here. >> did anything you try in those years as secretary work? causes? >> when we walked in the door, not one person talked about distracted driving. 18 states passed laws. when we left, we got the number to 42 states, which is good, and people were talking about distracted driving. we had state farms, other insurance companies. car companies were talking about it. but we have a long way to go, ray. here we are in washington d.c., and if you drive around washington, just about everybody that is driving around washington has a cell phone up to their ear, and they can't drive safely when they do that. >> you and i were walking on a d.c. street, standing on a corner of a downtown street. and it was ludicrous, that we had arranged for every second driver to have a phone to their ear. >> we are trying to persuade peo

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. >> ray lahood, the former transportation seark, on secrets just written a book, i. >> what happened was, there was a very, very bad economy that the president was t hear iting when he came in, in '09, he focused a lot of attention on that. within 30 days of his swearing-in the congress passed an $870 billion stimulus bill. and the president then really continued to focus on that, and he also had as one of his goals to get out of iraq and pass national health care. there were some attempts by his new chief of staff, rahm emanuel, to reach out to republicans. but it became clear that it really wasn't going to work. >> then who do you blame for not working congress or president obama? >> i think there's plenty of blame to go around. i think that the president tried in the beginning. i think it became clear that the democrats had the votes to pass whatever legislation was on the president's agenda and i think it became clear that republicans realized they weren't going to be players. and they became very stubborn also. when given an opportunity to be players, particularly on health care

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he is also the son of former transportation secretary ray lahood. new to congress, here about nine weeks. which lawmakers -- he works on the transportation bill. we will hear from rick, an independent in florida. caller: good morning greta, nice to see you, and congressman, nice to see you also. i have some comets and that i will get off the air and listen to your response. transportation, i did some research and it looks a lot of the money that was used the ast time we had transportation bill was used for things like a transportation museum in kentucky. that is what you all need to stop. if the money is for bridges and roads, use the money for that. regarding the immigration and the problem we have with isis and terrorism, i don't understand why congress does not pass a law that simply revokes passports. if you want to be a tourist and go to syria right now, issue just a no go, tourism will have to suffer for a wild. yourdy going over there, passport is revoked. your citizenship is revoked. don't let them back in the country. that also would stop p

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