what does congressman stupack want to do when it comes to reforming safety laws going forward? >> members of the energy and congress -- energy and commerce committee are working on legislation now. i think you will see an increase in the budget of nhtsa. in 1980, they had 119 investigators. they have about half of that today. i think you're going to see, potentially, a requirement that foreign automakers designate a person in the united states with the legal ability to recall vehicles. the big issue is that the authority to recall vehicles at toyota rests with people in japan. there is concern within congress that someone in the united states should have an authority. that is something i think foreign companies will potentially object to. i think there will be more requirements on safety devices like break shift override and event data recorders and hiking fines, potentially making the penalties topper -- even criminal penalties for an executive that knowingly failed to recall a vehicle. they did not go that far in 2000. but there is so much outrage in congress. i think there i

[applause] bye bye, stupack. you need to understand something here.e're not in a nanny-state induced, like europe and canada. -- we're not in a nanny-state in duduced coma like europe and canada. we organized. when they passed the bill to tax energy consumption, we raised of principled, conservative candidates to run to defeat them. [applause] when democrats saddled us with controlling shares of car companies that union bosses had driven into financial ruin, we did not complain. we drove ourselves to a tea party. [applause] when democrats started counting down to the end of the bush tax cuts with glee, we did not give up. we started counting down to this november with glee. . . that is what you get for putting your trust in democrats. [laughter] we saw the switchboard meltdowns and the outcry and we thought it would require it -- we thought it would remind the democrats who they work for. instead, they passed the most radical power grab in this country's history. at a time when our country's leadership should have been focused on creating jobs and kic

[applause] bye bye, stupack. you need to understand something here. in a nanny-state induced, like europe and canada. -- we're not in a nanny-state in duduced coma like europe and canada. we organized. when they passed the bill to tax energy consumption, we raised of principled, conservative candidates to run to defeat them. [applause] when democrats saddled us with controlling shares of car companies that union bosses had driven into financial ruin, we did not complain. we drove ourselves to a tea party. [applause] when democrats started counting down to the end of the bush tax cuts with glee, we did not give up. we started counting down to this november with glee. . . that is what you get for putting your trust in democrats. [laughter] we saw the switchboard meltdowns and the outcry and we thought it would require it -- we thought it would remind the democrats who they work for. instead, they passed the most radical power grab in this country's history. at a time when our country's leadership should have been focused on creating jobs and kick starti

what does congressman stupack want to do when it comes to reforming safety laws going forward? >> members of the energy and congress -- energy and commerce committee are working on legislation now. i think you will see an increase in the budget of nhtsa. in 1980, they had 119 investigators. they have about half of that today. i think you're going to see, potentially, a requirement that foreign automakers designate a person in the united states with the legal ability to recall vehicles. the big issue is that the authority to recall vehicles at toyota rests with people in japan. there is concern within congress that someone in the united states should have an authority. that is something i think foreign companies will potentially object to. i think there will be more requirements on safety devices like break shift override and event data recorders and hiking fines, potentially making the penalties topper -- even criminal penalties for an executive that knowingly failed to recall a vehicle. they did not go that far in 2000. but there is so much outrage in congress. i think there i

in number of members of congress, particularly stupack are working very hard to develop legislation that will make it safer and easier for people to dispose of the drugs once they are no longer needed. host: one viewer writes "no amount of government interaction will stop the demand for drugs." carbondale, illinois. welcome. caller: the war on drugs is the most unsuccessful war in american history. it does nothing more than locked up millions of nonviolent americans in the industrial complex because of an outdated law. the controlled substance act of 1970 says that cocaine is a schedule to drug and that marijuana is a schedule one drug. anyone out there with half of a brain would say that marijuana is less addictive than cocaine. we are in afghanistan, not because of the oil, but because of the politics of heroin. read the book by alfred markell i, "politics -- alfred mccloy, "politics of heroin in southeast asia." guest: i said we should stop using the phrase war on drugs the first day i got into office. frankly, it does not make sense. when you talk about a war analogy you are limited