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 are on with ray lahood. caller: thank you for taking my call. ray would think i am an extremist because our like to see the constitution and the way we have the republic set up or have two-year terms for congressman and there is a lot of turnover, what he is advocating for is an incumbent party where families send their he calls thats -- bipartisanship when you can get in a cozy little party and cut deals. really what should happen is the debate on policy should happen in public. past without all to me seeing it. i never even had a chance to call my congressperson on that. the citizens don't know the relationships when you have a cozy little parties he is talking about. in terms of shutting the government down, yeah, i think it should be shut down occasionally when you are spending more money than you are taking in. guys like ray lahood are responsible for it. host: got your point, al. all,: well, al, first of members of the house to serve two-year terms. if you only want them to serve one two-year term, if that is what you are suggesting, that

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

. >> we are back with ray lahood, he served from 2009 until 2013, he 2013, he served seven turn in thes. house. let's talk about this highway debate between the senate and the house. do you like what the senate is doing? they have a six-year bill, they are not going to fund it by raising the gas tax but do you like with her head. >> guest: i like the fact that there is real bipartisanship between senator in half, who is, who is now the chair and senator boxer. this is the same thing that happened a few years ago when senator boxer was chair of the committee. they work together and they put a two-year bill together, map 21 which is now expired but extended in the house. the bipartisan part of it i think is a good signal. transportation has always been bipartisan. there there are no republican or democratic bridges or roads. this is about what we can do for our friends and neighbors around the country in terms of putting them to work in filling potholes. i prefer six-year fully funded bill, i prefer raising the gas tax which has not been raised in 20 years. but the idea that the senate h