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Countries setting its own commitments not the big u.n. context. i think thats promising. >> how realistic is a unified consensus, a mandate and how important at this point? >> i think theyll get a unified agreement. it will be like an umbrella agreement under which lots of things continue to happen. if they dont get an agreement, that will be a huge setback. i think a lot of businesses for example are looking at this process with great skepticism. people been talking about this for 20 years, not...

>> the way things work right now its top-bottom. you get a dictation from the top as to what amendments will be permitted with strong encouragement how to vote. that means 20 or 30 congressmen out of 435 are controlling what passes and does not pass the united states house of representatives. thats wrong. if thats the way it will operate well the other 400 of us can stay home if 20 to 30 cupel two three dozen are going to have that kind of power. i believe we ought to have a bottom up process wh...

The hands of the powerful chairman and the leadership and your process issues, some of them, im very sympathetic to. could you outline what are the new processes you want to get out of the new speaker? >> the way things work right now its top-bottom. you get a dictation from the top as to what amendments will be permitted with strong encouragement how to vote. that means 20 or 30 congressmen out of 435 are controlling what passes and does not pass the united states house of representatives. that...

That debate there. i believe a bottom up process works better than top down. >> i agree with you on your process changes that you want. if a speaker candidate said to you "i will give you everything you want in process on issues, we will just have to agree to disagree. could you live with that compromise? that at least you have to process that you want so your view on immigration or taxation or whatever the issue is could come to a vote in the committee with the new process? >> its a weighing pr...

>> no. the reason is because i want to show the -- show the congress that this is the way we should be running our congress. i think most people, even those that were running initially, are now moving towards the wording that says we need to have a member, bottom-up process. we need to change the rules, all these things that are now being talked about as reforms. its something i started off with to say weve got to transform the house. so until there is a commitment to do that, im going to stay i...

Comfortable talking to your constituents saying i dont agree with paul ryan on everything but hes the right person to be in the job. >> i think its not as much about the person as it is the process, and to empower all 435 members, republicans and democrats alike, to bring the best ideas from back home so that those ideas are voted on in washington, d.c. and make sure washington, d.c. works for them. as long as chairman ryan is committed to that process, to make sure its a bottom-up approach, not...

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Washington back to doctors and patients. back to states. this is what good, conservative health care reform looks like. it is bold, and it is long overdue. and it is us fulfilling our promises. so i encourage everyone to go online and read our bill at readthebill.gop. is there any questions? christina? >> do you expect some of the changes to the bill [ inaudible ]. >> as you know, we had this bottom-up process. its been over a year long. last year we assembled working groups from the jurisdictio...

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