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governor, attacking me, theyll get around to senator santorum and congressman paul. >> when are you going to release your tax returns, specifically? >> an hour ago. >> mr. speaker posted his online an hour ago. we reached out to your campaign, and they said you would not release your tax returns. why? >> i havent thought it through. i dont have an intention to do it. i would be embarrassed to put my financial statement against their income because i dont want to be embarrassed. >> back...

Case that was mentioned involving the steel mill to take money out of this company, that didnt have a properly funded pension and fawn it off on the pension guarantee program is clearly an important part of this story. there are other parts of it that have not come out yet with other companies, where they made changes to the benefit programs of workers. if you have a business and you want to sell it, one of the first things you do, if youre one of the companies that comes in and buys firms to se...

Pensions? >> theres no question, that they were able in the particular case that was mentioned involving the steel mill to take money out of this company, that didnt have a properly funded pension and fawn it off on the pension guarantee program is clearly an important part of this story. there are other parts of it that have not come out yet with other companies, where they made changes to the benefit programs of workers. if you have a business and you want to sell it, one of the first things y...

Town today inside yesmen killing three and wounding dozens more. this is as they gave another defiant speech today. neighboring gulf state qatar blamed him for the political crisis and withdrew from the mediation effort to bring an end to the turmoil. at home, the government wants college students to fight a different kind of conflict. well explain, but first, has a bad economy shortened the life of the nations two biggest benefit programs? ♪

Oversight and government reform committee and i think all are committed to change the way were doing business in washington, d.c. were not here to perpetuate the status quo because its not working. the cuts are important because we need to be on a trajectory to maintain the fiscal sanity that is in this country. we want to restrain the explosi explosive growth of bureaucracy through attrition. coupled with a true pay freeze for the next five years at reforms to government workers generous benefi...

Jennifer granholm. i want to start off by painting a picture. during your eight years, brutal cuts. you cut bigger percentage of your states cost than any other state in the country. you got rid of 25% of state departments, shut down 13 prisons, reformed pensions, benefit programs for public employees. why didnt michigan see the same kinds of protests and outrage that were seeing in wisconsin? >> well, we were protesting, but i was protested against. i think every governor who does big cuts gets...

Financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the u.s. housing market was beginning to falter. at 11:00 a.m. they will hold a news conference call. well get more on the charges and follow that as its coming in. meantime president obama may get a soy bean overhaul bill through the senate. eight republicans may break ranks with the party. that list includes newly elected senator scott brown. wall street also keeping a close eye on senators mccain, collins, corker snoe, bennett bond praefd taxe...

This lawmaker from the 70s. named ungine ujine keogh. he came up with the idea of letting self-employed people and businesses that arent incorporated have their own benefit programs, contribution benefit programs, retirement programs. weisselberg, they say, was allowing himself to be paid by certain entities connected to the trump org as self-employed, even though he wasnt. he was working for the trump organization. and that enabled him to exempt certain amounts of money that he could then put i...

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