the first one is tom coburn from oklahoma. [applause] who actually came to the senate and has done the hard work that so many congressmen avoid. he has looked at spending and mates pacific proposals about what is and what is not proper spending under our form of government and has tried to make the cuts. that is very hard work. there are darn few members of either the house or the senate who really spend the time necessary to look through it and do that. the senate will miss tom coburn when he retires and goes back to oklahoma at the end of this year. i think he has some things that ---- some of her stations some observations. he will be joined by george will. conservativemier columnist in the united states today. that's a mantle that was once worn by bill buckley. but george wears that mantle today. i'm very honored that we have sim here today because he ha thought more deeply about these things than most of us have had in all of his observations. he is worth listening to. that, when we finish our conversation, you can tweet

john: thank you, senator, tom coburn we'll miss your service. >> i will be watching you. >> good. a lot of waste in government that is not in coburn's waste books like the $98,000 that interior department spend on this out house in alaska. and the million dollar spend on this fancy bus stop in washington, d.c. mattie duppler with americans for tax reform, you point-out stuff like the out house, and the bus stop are a tiny part of what needs cleaning out. >> and a million here and there, it seems like a small part of what the government spending. 3.7 trillion every year, but this is how we get to the product of that huge government. with one sense to wh senator whn out house in alaska, another with a bus stop. that is what gets the ball rolling on a lot of big spending projects. john: what gets me most, wer corporate welfare, tax mayor money going to rich people, bicyclist and the right, support it? >> the left, we need some kind of fairness, not fair to give away to corporate america because they are already too rich. john: democrats push public broadcasting, greed energy, art subs

he then handed the gun to outgoing senator tom coburn.eantime governor chris christie whose office is still the focus of an ongoing investigation, will speak in a few minute from now. the cpac conference in maryland. the largest most important gatheren of conservatives of the year. politico calls this event a cattle call of likely president atcontenders. this year there will be no few are than nine potential candidates taking that stage including tea party favorite senator ted cruz who kicked off the event a few hours ago. >> so all of us remember president dole, and president mccain and president romney. they're good men, they're decent men, but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction when you don't stand for principle, democrats celebrate. >> chris christie's invitation to speak at cpac assistants in stark contrast to last year when he was very publicly snubbed by the event's planners a snub viewed as a rebuke for christie's praise for president obama after sandy. according to a new poll christie has a lot of work to do to win

the rifle was apparently ap award for departing nebraska senator tom coburn, because big on-stage rifle exchange is how conservatives celebrate one another. and then there was louisiana governor bobby jindal, whose biggest applause line involved insulting not one but two presidents. >> president carter, i want to issue a sincere apology. it is no longer fair to say he was the worst president of this great country in my lifetime. president obama has proven me wrong. >> but all that was a prelude to this year's main event a man who wasn't even invited to the festivities last year, a man who was not too long ago seen embracing the president of the united states, governor of new jersey chris christie who went after president obama by saying this. >> you're the leader of the government. you see something getting ready to go off the rails and what you decide to do is stay as far away from it as possible. >> for the man who has responded to the greatest cry ses of his career by avoiding discussion, distancing himself from controversy and otherwise blaming everyone around him, the poetic irony

author of "red ink: inside the high-stakes politics of the federal budget," and oklahoma senator tom coburn, author of "the debt bomb" and breach of trust. we begin with philip joyce author of "the congressional budget office: honest numbers, power, and policymaking." the former cbo analyst and current professor of management, finance and leadership at the university of maryland recounts the formation of the congressional budget office in 1974. its internal operation and the nonpartisan economic and budget information it provides to congress. >> when was the cbo form? >> it was formed in 1974. it was, in fact, a reaction to some of the received deficits while they were accesses by the nixon administration it was part of an effort by the congress to try to reassert its role in the budget process. and as important that they created the budget committees and the budget resolution but if you're going to be equal players in the budget process they needed to have the own budget agency as opposed to relying on numbers that came from the executive branch and that's the reason for the cbo. >> if you

brandishing a gun, as he presented an award from the national rifle association, to retiring senator tom coburn of oklahoma. a symbol of strength for a republican resurgence. jeff zeleny, abc news, the capital. >>> and we have a sign of a comeback in these rocky financial times. today, we learned that the net worth of all american households jumped by nearly $10 trillion last year. now at $80 trillion, a new record high. experts say the growth spurt is thanks to the stock market and the housing market on the mend. >>> and as we count down to spring, today, the nation's top weather scientists made a big prediction about what's to come. abc's clayton sandell tells us what they see in the forecast. >> reporter: the snowstorms. the spinouts. >> whoa. >> reporter: the sub zero suffering. even freezing niagara falls. >> it has been a terrible winter. >> reporter: but next winter, we may catch a break because scientists, today, issued a watch for the return of el nino. it shows up every few years. warm, pacific waters, shifting the jet stream from the pattern we're stuck in now to one that looks more

well, it turned out to be an nra lifetime achievement award for retiring senator tom coburn of oklahoma. cpac ends tomorrow with a speech by sarah palin. >>> massachusetts lawmakers are proving a new voyeurism bill a day after a court ruled it was not against the law to sake secret photos up a woman's skirt. well, the legislation was quickly drafted after a man who took pictures under the dresses of unsuspecting women on the boston subway was let off the hook. the ruling said the existing law did not apply to photographic or videotaping people who were fully clothed in public places. >>> strong thunderstorms left a mess across parts of south florida. more than an inch of rain fell in just a few hours. gusting winds knocked out power, tore up trees and scattered debris all over the place, and several sporting events were either canceled or delayed. >>> much more pleasant and dry day today for all of florida, but the rest of the southeast can expect some wet weather. also, it'll be a bit snowy in western higher elevations then changing to a mix of sleet and freezing rain stretching into w

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it was actually the nra's lifetime achievement award being given to senator tom coburn.e stunt did not go unnoticed by mcconnell's democratic challenger. allison tweeted, quote, someone tell mitch mcconnell that's not the way to hold a gun. kentucky women do it better. >>> donald trump, well, he did not use a teleprompter to deliver his cpac speech, but he probably should have. when discussing president obama's disapproval rating, he killed a living former president. >> we're getting into jimmy carter territory. and i never thought i'd see anything like that again. i lived through that time. and it was not a good time. and we're pretty close. i think maybe by next month, we will have surpassed the late great jimmy carter. >> uh, someone tell the donald he's still alive. yeah. >>> okay. so newly obtained staff e-mails portray virginia's former first lady as erratic and overwhelmed. notes say maureen mcdonnell struggled with her position and simple tasks like leaving the governor's mansion would stress her out. she along with her husband, former governor bob mcdonnell, wer

it was actually the nra lifetime achievement award for oklahoma senator tom coburn. >> today at the conferencehe crowd will hear from mike huckabee and kentucky senator rand paul. >> obamacare's gatekeeper calling it quits. he was in charge of the federal insurance marketplace he told congress before the botched rollout that it would work well. this as concerns grow about fraud and mismanagement through the affordable care act. lawmakers are pushing for the a full-time watchdog. >> the clock is ticking for the obamacare deadline. the key demographic is not signing up. the president's latest sales pitch to convince people to sign up. good morning elizabeth. >> good morning. you are right. there's not much time left in a month for people to enroll in healthcare on-line. the "washington post" is reporting one in 10 folks qualify for private health plans in the marketplace signed up and about half have even looked on-line. as the march 31st deadline approaches it is still a little foggy as far as the exact number of enroll knees who were previously uninsured. gary cohen the soon to be former direc

earlier i spoke with tom coburn, who has introduced a similar bill in the senate. >> it's a takeoff ofwe did with the transparency, original transparency bill with president obama that we did in the senate. and what we found is you can have -- fa that the quality of the transparency isn't as good. the other thing we know is that there's only one department in the u.s. government that knows all their programs, and that's the department of education. the rest of them don't know. the only way you can imagine that is make them publish all their programs, make them see and list what it costs, how people are served, and the whole goal for that is that's common sense. american people get that. they want it. >> why do you think it takes so long to get folks on boofrd with this when it comes to the transparency issue. >> well, when you're not transparency, there's all sorts of things that can go on. >> i understand. when you talk about accountability and the public wants that and you hear about it when you go home and folks are complaining that money's being wasted, it takes a lot of effort, li

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neil: i'm sure you heard senator tom coburn say the vast majority of enrollees are re-enrolling in insuranceith no brain achievement particularly when many of those customers were forced to give up land that they like. what you think of that? >> a couple of things. number one is the best data that we have and they are suggesting that there are a number of people who were previously uninsured to the uninsured rate goes down. and a lot of those people who are switching over our people who would've moved into moving in and out of private insurance. >> of the numbers that you think that we will see, what did you say, 80%? because to hear republicans tell it, it is nowhere approaching him. >> the best is that we have is that the uninsured rate from the end of last year through early march of this year, not even affecting last couple of weeks is down about two to 3%. 300 million people and that is about 69 million people who have now been recovered. neil: how does that work with the millions that are paying a lot more for coverage of they already had. >> that is the net increase. so that reflects

plans including the conservative republican study plan and another plan offered in the senate by tom coburne. what we are seeing is a lot of talking points, principles that mccarthy outlined. we have heard them before. this is a rehash of many previous conservative proposals. part of the reason is because they can't come to a widespread consensus in the conference. they are returning to positions and policy recommendations that have a lot of support on the right. this is more of a document, in my reporting, to alley conservatives in the house, to get them excited and talking about banl as a unified course rather than something that could pass both chambers in a divided government. >> who is leading the effort? doesn't seem to me like an organic idea. this is leadership trying to rein in members ahead of the midterms. >> exactly right. kathy rogers said come april when house republicans go on rece recess. this is what they say on capitol hill is a messaging operation, an initiative to get everyone talking about the same thing. who is leading the effort? eric cantor, the broad leader of the p

gun was a lifetime achievement award from the nra that he handed off to his retiring colleague tom coburnly for health reasons. the more common weapon in the room, of course, were words. >> we have long thought and said this president is a smart man. it may be time to revisit that assumption. >> man. here to talk about it all, kacal lee, and ron forney. last night president obama warned democrats they could get walloped in the midterm. tell us more about that. >> i was traveling with the president and he hasn't really talked about this in this way this time around yet. and so he was very concerned that they could get walloped, that if people sat on the sidelines, it seems like he was remembering 2010 which was a shellacking as he said. >> as opposed to the thumping that bush talked about. >> and now a wallop. >> every midterm has its own. but let's talk about cpac. and seeing if republicans can get it together. there were two competing versions what have the party brand needs to be. here is texas senator ted cruise talking about the need to stand firm and not compromise. that's the way to

. >> featuring also the republican senate leaders retirement gift to senator tom coburn, cpac style. we'll discuss. >>> and happening now after being dised last year, chris christie welcomed back to the cpac podium. we'll share a remarkable moment of prayer at the senate namaste. >> we make our word. our mind is center and proceeds, speak or act with your pure mind and happiness will follow you. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the state department today imposed a ban on visas for uk crane yan officials and business leaders. this on top of an executive order from president obama that would allow the public naming of these parties and the seizing of their assets. these penalties did little to stop the russian authorities in crimea who today moved a referendum that gives citizens a choice of remaining part of the ukraine or becoming part of the russian federation. joining me now is ian williams. the situation seems to be dialed up, not dialed down. we talked to the ambassador there and we'll have that interview coming up. it seems as if russia is ignoring all threats an

my colleague tom coburn is getting treemd at md anderson. they're not going to let him go there. if he does go, it costs $33,000 out of pocket. we're giving up the choice of insurance, but we're giving it up for bobbles like diet counseling, and we're no longer able to go for cancer treatment. people come from all over the world for cancer treatment because we're the most advanced. now that's being excluded or precluded by certain people. >> you can't go to memorial sloan kettering in new york, md houston, some of the best cancer centers in america, not included in the plans, and people are losing their doctors that they already work with. the question is every single thing that was said to the american people is now turned out to not be true. millions have lost their plans. millions are losing their doctors, and millions are paying more, and they're not saving $2,500 per family per year. can you argue that this is a bait and switch? this was sold under false pretense? is there a legal battle here somewhere? >> realize all of this craziness on birth control, hobby lobby offers th

the minority leader of the united states senate brandishing a gun on stage and handed it over to tom coburnr headlines, chris christie, who was snubbed last year at this conference, today had a star speaking spot. the governor, who has been plagued by the bridgegate scandal wrapped up his address in the last hour. take a listen. >> we're about making government work. leadership is not about standing on the sidelines and spitballing and that's all we see, all across washington, d.c. it's not what we see in the states. >> along with mitch mcconnell and christie, this year's bunch includes a slew of 2016 hopefuls and young guns and controversial conservatives and few tea party politicos. i'm going to suggest a radical agenda to you, hope and change. >> hope and change. hope and change. wondering what else to watch for here is our viewing guide here at rfd. will the gop's divide be on display? listen to this. >> big massive civil war, it's tea party versus establishment libertarians versus social conservative and infighting and conflict and back biting, discord. look, i'm irish, that's my idea

>> and then, jackie, senator tom coburn today in an op-ed in "usa today" writes, these enrollees, as much as 89% were previously ensured, helping 5 million americans re-enroll in insurance is no achievement, particularly when it meant many customers were forced to give up plans they liked. what do we know about how accurate these numbers are right now and when we'll see meaningful numbers? >> what we're seeing, there's a policy argument and political argument, and right now, democrats haven't really come up with an idea to push this. there's an enthusiasm gap. republicans who really don't like this bill, this law, really don't like this law. and democrats haven't been able to, the liberals and the democrats who like the health care law, it hasn't matched up. that's something they are going to have to work to close in order to stay alive during the midterms and beyond. >> what about this argument over the numbers and what they really are, ezra, how do you see it? >> this is actually really interesting. we don't know the precise number of people previously uninsured and now have insura

underplayed is they used to have a bill, it was called the patient's choice act, it had paul ryan and tom coburnch of other top republicans on it. the problem for that bill, which came out i think 2008, potentially, is that it shared a lot with obamacare. it had exchanges. it had subsidies that worked in a very certain way. it had a bottom line of what the essential benefits had to be. so now that obamacare has that, it can't have those things in it so they need these new ideas but they don't have new ideas to replace the ones that obamacare took them from them and they had to abandon. >> they don't have new ideas. that is my take away from this discussion. ezra klein, thank you as always for your time. >> thank you. >> that's all for now. i will see you back here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern. "the ed show" is up next. . >>> good evening americans and welldom "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work! >> after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration -- >> held no you can't! decades of trying. >> it's harming those people who need help most right now. >> we proved that this government

there he is giving a rifle to retiring senator tom coburn for an nra courage award. of those on the right, i think you could say. he's up for re-election today, facing a conservative primary challenger. maybe the rifle helps his image a little bit. john, christine? >> who's on deck, paul, today? another who's who list of speakers. >> reporter: yeah, we had a bunch of potential gop 2016'ers yesterday. let's start with rick perry, the former texas governor. mike huckabee ran in 2008, rick santorum ran last time around, and the new candidate on the right, senator rand paul of kentucky. tomorrow, the results of the straw poll. much watched and analyzed, but is it a true barometer of what happens two years from now? >> senator george allen can tell us about the straw poll. thanks for being up with us. >>> coming up on "new day," kate bolduan joins us. >> good morning, guys. happy friday. we'll be following breaking developments in ukraine. president obama and vladimir putin spoke on the phone for about an hour on the crisis, but of course, the question is, did it accompli

tom coburn writes -- why only 26% of americans now support the law here, that is from senator tom coburnrom oklahoma. line. is on the she is enrolled through the aca. caller: good morning. actually i am not enrolled myself. because i am from massachusetts my son was already enrolled. because of the aca my daughter had previously been enrolled until she was 26. under mytely she moved husband's insurance. she moved to south carolina which is always a concern that my children were going to move to another state. is disabledildren and one be able to get insurance. not the way he does here in massachusetts. just went through the exchange last month. enrolled and made her first payment. i had to do it her -- do it for her. she wasn't going to get around to it. i was very happy. host: what was the process like for people who haven't run through the same steps as you have for your daughter? my husband and daughter were negative about it. they insisted it wasn't going to work. i used the information from her. once i got that information from her it did take me about -- i don't remember how bad it

senator tom coburn has one. tom price has one. each plan has its virtues.fying principle is clear. we believe you should pick your health care plan, not washington. [applause] once again, the gop is where the action is. just as it was at the beginning of the revolution -- the reagan revolution. you know, people forget that cutting taxes was once controversial, even in our own party. senator bob dole used to make fun of supply like jack. he used to say that the good of -- that a bus load he wondered to the idea. when he ran for president, he promised to cut tax rates across the board. that is what we call the battle of ideas. i saw this with my own budget. when i introduced my budget for the first time in 2008, i had just eight cosponsors, eight backers who wanted to stick their back out. -- stick their neck out. in the tea party members got elected and now the house has passed it three years in a row. [applause] this is how it always is. you fight it out. you figure out what works. you come together. then you win. it's messy. it's noisy. and it's a little b

>> tom coburn. that changed the outcome of the game and kate wins it with 1400 points.own in a close game with 1,000 and norm at 800. this was a very close game and that means, kate, that you are one step closer to becoming the first ever up against the clock national champion. you have advanced in this bracket. next week, as you can see, isaac and alex and susan paige will be competing against each other for a spot in that championship match against kate and one other contestant april 5th. that is the date of the finals where we will crown a champion. congratulations, kate. bill wolf is back now to tell you what you are going to be playing for in that april 5th championship game. >> congratulations. as today's winner you've won a spot in the up against the finals spot next month where you'll face off for the grand prize, not one but two amazing dinners for two at new york city's renowned restaurant founded by chef tom colighio. we'll throw in a bottle of wine. back to you, steve. >> all right. i want to congratulate you again, kate, on that. >> thank you. >> you were e

we will hear from republicans, tom coburn and kelly ayotte. as well as patty murray. this is about 40 minutes. >> something significant happened. i am from oklahoma. david green and his wife started a group called hobby lobby by making picture frames in their garage. with the profits they made, it was his faith and practice in his day-to-day decisions that led him and his family to build a successful nationwide company. over the years, the business has grown. 602 stores now with plans to expand. they have an annual revenue of upwards of $2.5 billion. david has had success despite the countercultural way. all of the retail stores closed at 8 p.m. each night and all day on sunday so will use spend time with their families. by thes is appreciated some 16,000 employees who are paid above the minimum wage. benefitbby generous plan includes an on-site clinic and eligibility to enroll in medical, dental, and prescription drug lands tom and long-term disability and long-term insurance in a 401(k) plan. this is something that they have done long before obamacare came along. at

budget office, "the wall street journal"'s david wessel, author of "red ink," and oklahoma senator tom coburn, author of "the debt bomb" and "breach of trust." we begin with phillip joyce. the former congressional budget office analyst and current professor of management, finance and leadership at the university of maryland recounts the formation of the congressional budget office in 1974, its internal operations and the nonpartisan economic and budget information it provides to congress. >> host: when was the cbo formed? >> guest: cpo was formed in 974 and it was, in fact, a reaction to some of the perceived excesses. well, there were actual excesses by the nixon administration. it was part of an effort by the congress to try to reassert its role in the budget process. and as a part of that, they also created the budget committees and the budget resolution that if they were going to be equal players in the budget process, they really needed to have their own budget agency as opposed to relying on numbers that came from the executive branch, and that's really the reason for the cbo. >> host:

we conclude programming on the federal budget with oklahoma senator tom coburn author of the debt bomba bold plan to stop washington from bankrupting america and breach of trust how washington turns outsiders into insiders. the two-term republican senator and ranking member of the homeland security governmental committee and member of the committee on banking, housing and urban affairs presents his spending on federal programs. the senator premiered on the three-hour author interview and call-in program in depth. >> in breach of trusand breach w washington turns outsiders into insiders you write ten things congress doesn't want you to know about how it does business. number one, the appropriations committee staff knows more about the content of spending bills than elected representatives serving on that committee. number two, the congress routinely used as emergency spending measures to permanently increase spending. number three, the members are routinely bribed for votes by the given total control over millions of dollars to be used for their projects. do you want to address any of t

we will hear from republicans, tom coburn and kelly. as well as patty murray. this is about 40 minutes. something significant happened. i am from oklahoma. david green and his wife started a group called hobby lobby by making picture frames in their garage. t long ago. i can remember their doing that. they were able to open their first store which was about 300 square feet. with the profits they made in their little garage operation, it is david green's faith, practice and his day-to-day business decisions that led him and his family to build a successful nationwide company. over the years their business has grown to 602 stores. they have 602 stores now, madam president, with plans to expand, hobby lobby has an annual revenue upwards of $2.5 billion, and david has had success despite running his business in a very countercultural way. for instance, all of the retail stores close at 8:00 p.m. each night and all day on sunday so employees can spend their time with thraeur -- their families. this is appreciated by the company, some 16,000 employees who are paid ab

also spoke or the senate gop leader who entered holding a rifle and gave it to retiring senator tom coburnconnects with people. he says what needs to be said. and to me, he's the only personality who will be able to stand up to hillary clinton. >> but christie arrived to bad news in a brand new poll. they in ten republicans say they would never vote for him. >> i'm personally not a big fan of him. >> she's angry about christie embracing obama after hurricane sandy before the last election. and bridgegate is hurting him too. >> i thought it was impressive. he showed himself to be in charge, but i don't think i'd vote for him. >> why not? >> the scandal really bothers me. >> despite that criticism, the crowd responded well to one of christie's more traditional messages, that republicans need to be for their own ideas, not just against democrats. last year, he was snubbed, he wasn't even invited to one of the most important gatherings of conservatives. >>> the los angeles lakers, they've been a franchise for 54 years. didn't start off in los angeles. minnesota, right, the lakers. minneapolis?

tom coburn, a senator has been going to m.d. anderson.the president is guaranteeing you die counseling, but losing your coverage. >> people are going to make their own decisions. cancer doesn't know if you're a democrat or republican. they'll know for sure, they won't wait for a 30 second ad to find out if it's work and those are real stories. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> coming up straight ahead, do you know kids conceived by a donor don't have a right to know who that parent is? even if that parents has medical secret that could change the child's life. two heads are better than one to figure this out. we have arthur aidala and keith ablow. they promise to argue this out and move this story forward. at least that's what it said on the blue card. ♪ ♪ >>> this may be the dumbest criminal ever. not only did he pick the worst place to break into, but how police caught him red handed take a closer look at your fidelity green line and u'll see just how much it has to offer, especially if you're thinking of moving an old 401(k)

but the "wall street journal" was, back in 2004, along with tom coburn and myself, one of first outletsy were right. everybody else was wrong. we were right. everybody else was wrong. then, last fall, they made the argument obviously against the government shutdown. the conservative rock rift, "wall street journal" editorial page along with charles krauthammer, myself, and i can count it on one hand, early on, "the journal" was out early on predicting doom, and the editorial page was right, and republicans should have listened to them then and myself. now, the "wall street journal" editorial page once again offers wise, sage advice to the republican party, to the republican base. okay, you're not going to repeal it. you can have 800 votes to repeal obamacare. find the parts that don't work, fix it, pass it in the house, and then force mary landrieu, kay hagan and mark pryor and other conservative moderate democrats that are running for re-election, force them to vote no, or force harry reid to vote no. turn that into your spectacle, not another meaningless vote on the floor of the house

as the toughest guy in congress walked out on stage handed a rifle to retiring oklahoma senator tom coburn pretty weird right it was to me it's easy to pass off mcconnell's gun toting inference is cheap political theater i guess because it really is cheap political theater but if you do that you're ignoring the bigger picture of why mcconnell had to carry iraq full in the first place even though he's the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell who by the way is up for reelection this year is extremely unpopular among conservatives they think he's a rhino a sellout many of his party even refers to him as the turtle mcconnell walked out on stage with a gun to give his best rambo moment but for most of us it was a giggle moment this isn't the first time a republican politician has made a show of how tough and how conservative he can be even when the scene looks like ridiculous satire because that's what that looked like that's because as tom recently pointed out at its core the republican party is really just a party of billionaires and it uses social issues like gun rights to keep the r

lungren republican senators jon kyl now heritage foundation president and then senator jim de mint tom coburn john ensign and bob corker were also in attendance the meeting was also attended by republican propaganda group frank luntz and by former speaker of the house and current c.n.n. pardon that newt gingrich who told us about that meeting on this program during the dinner the republican conspirators vowed to bring congress to a standstill regardless of how badly congressional inaction would hurt the already hurting american economy and people in essence they pledged to each other to obstruct filibuster and block any legislation that might improve the economy and make president obama look good congressman pete sessions told the national journal in march of two thousand and nine that the republicans said. plan hatched at the caucus room restaurant would borrow up age from the tactics of taliban terrorists he said that taliban insurgency we understand perhaps a little bit more now because of the taliban insurgency is the way they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and cha

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