congress and the white house workeded in step with each other. the e whitee house controlled most of the agency's. the e contl of washiton s yo could say 20 p people at the most. yodid n need a lot to lobbyists to lobby 20 people. many things hahave happened. now you have a government run by 45,000 people. a lot of people e on theutside tryingng to translate what outside interests need. >> one senator said lobbyiststs do not know what the country needs. >> this government rticarly now you have a huge number of people engaged i government. the government cannot function without people translating the outside to the inside and the inside to the outside.e. that is what a lobbyist does. what has also changed is the information flow. back then, the information came om thehe agency's. the e only real knowledge that they got was from the government. today,y, we have much betterer informrmation than the government does. >> y you think that the key to your success is information. your ability to absorb information and know what is goingn everywhere at all

we've tried to address this in a number of ways in recent years, many of us workede achers progr. we've approved tax credits that i have supported to employers to higher veterans. recently i was at an american gi forum event focused on business opportunities for veterans on businesses, but with all of these different areas and different skill sets for the veterans who come back -- not all of them are returning off e officers. not all of them are returning ncos with lots of stripes on their shoulder, many have been in positions in the military where they learned some skills about but they're having a hard time matching those skills with the job opportunities that are available there. the program that ms. ckaptur is recommending and that i'm glad to co-sponsor is one that would of those individuals and it would have them not doing make work but real work. she has mentioned some of the projects that you can see in communities across america that are the lasting legacy of president roosevelt's era and initiative inspired by that. she has a very modest program, 20,000 veterans across t

they have to hold more capital than firms which respect ashat international bank regulators have workeding to to try to set up a set of criteria relating to size, complexity, interconnectedness, derivatives, a whole bunch of criteria help determine how much extra capital they want have to hold. likewise, the fed now when it approves a merger of two banks, it has to evaluate whether the merger creates a systemically more dangerous situation. so, we have worked hard and we have put out criteria that were describes some of the variety of criteria including some numerical thresholds that we look at to try to figure out if a merger creates a systematically critical firm which if it does, we're not supposed to allow that merger to happen. so the science of doing this is progressing. it's still very in its infancy. but again, in the crisis, our actual interventions were limited to well, principal interventions were bear stearns and aig along with other agencies. we also provided assistance to a couple of other other institutions but nothing to the extent that the aig situation involved. but we ar

i am workeding hard to build individual relationships.on. any brarder issue we find like we are taking a vote leader today, ending oil and gas projects that have enriched them. we will fail because everything is filibustered and we have difficulty getting cloture on anything partisan. >> we will try to get you some more democratic colleagues. >> that would make a huge difference. >> thank you for the job you are doing representing delaware. thank you for coming in. >> great being with you. >> senator chris coons on the full-court press. we will be right babck. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. york peppermint pattie get the sensation. the newest voice in cable news is on the new news network. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. this former two term governor is politically direct. ♪ >> on your radio on t.v. the bill press show, new on current tv. >> three minutes now before the top of the hour. it was interesting down at the whitehouse yesterday, kind of a quiet day. the president had no