do you -- >> number one,udy, i respectfly disagree with so of the president's characterization. numb one, you'll find nothing in there of any substance havi to do with liability reformmedical liabity reform. he said his people s one to two percent. frankly most of e studies i say say 8 to 10%. as far as y kind of effeive means to buy health insurancecross statelines, again withll due respect, i don't qui see itn the president's an. not to say that 's totally wrong. there are a landfuof ideas. buat its core essence it is a hug expensive, draconian packagthat has government taking over a huge porti. anpeople just don't consid it centrist. >>oodruff: what about his point, congressman, essentially that republicans have to understandhat neither side canet 100 percenor even 80% of what they want therhas to be give on both sides he waseally saying republicans han't been prepared to give anything. >> well,udy w all due respect, we haven't d an oppounity because we haven'been invite mood the negotiations i'm t second ranking repuican, the cond most senior republic on the house dget commi

that's in the nature of a udy though. and it wasur recommendation. they did it.o we gave thean a on that. we have to see how they implement it. there are so centers in the vement tt are doing bett. there's a committee in the coress, joe lieberman and susan collin committee, that have been aggressive in pushing legislation thatould cover a lot of these are but that's oneommittee in one house of congress. that'sot good enough. we're st on too short a time ame. >> warner: f instance on prevention i noticed youave th just a d or a d-plus for tually tightening government rerictions on the labs where these pathogens are ing used. >> yes. 've done several studies of what nds to be done. they're very csistent. we need toeduce the number ofathogens that we are suecting to sutiny today. we're trying to monitor 80. we thinkn fact the are eit that are the most likely to be used by a teorist grp in a weapon. we also are suggesting tha there be signifint increases in uniformity. weave multiple agencies now that are assesng these labs anthe standards from one lab to the other c

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