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December 19, 2011
they need to sit down and work it out. >> there is a disagreement between the two chambers. and we sit down and rethe differences. that is what i believe the house will do. >> message from harry reid that thought vote in the senate including the 39 republicans meant the issue would be finished until february responded, senator mcconnell and "i" negotiated compromise in speaker boehners request. i will not reopen negotiations until the house follows through and passes an agreement negot...
December 18, 2011
You were on the freddie mac payroll to the tune of more than $1.6 million, how do you answer critics who say that you are being hypocritical. >> barney frank was in public office with direct power over freddie mac. he exploited that power just as chris dodd was in public office when got special bargains from countrywide a firm which went broke. they were using power. i was a private citizen engaged in a business business like any other business. if you read the whole thing that they posted i sai...
December 18, 2011
Payroll to the tune of more than $1.6 million, how do you answer critics who say that you are being hypocritical. >> barney frank was in public office with direct power over freddie mac. he exploited that power just as chris dodd was in public office when got special bargains from countrywide a firm which went broke. they were using power. i was a private citizen engaged in a business business like any other business. if you read the whole thing that they posted i said they need more regulations...
December 17, 2011
Dna. thanks to a moment of candor from chris dodd, now head of the motion picture association of america, we now know what model those pushing the stop online piracy act have in mind for their efforts to create a host of crippling restrictions on internet activity. dodd positively referenced chinas efforts at censorship telling "variety" when the chinese told google they had to block sites or couldnt do business, they managed to block sites. yesterday the bills opponents were able to convince ho...
December 17, 2011
discuss. we have sticking around for the entire program, heather boucher, randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers and josh barrow, a contributor and fellow at the manhattan institute. congress had a lot to take quar of before their holiday break. on friday, they passed a trillion dollar spending bill that will fund the government through next december. they agreed to a payroll tax extension for 160 million americans and unemployment insurance and funds it the...
December 17, 2011
entire program, heather boucher, randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers and josh barrow, a contributor and fellow at the manhattan institute. congress had a lot to take quar of before their holiday break. on friday, they passed a trillion dollar spending bill that will fund the government through next december. they agreed to a payroll tax extension for 160 million americans and unemployment insurance and funds it the medicare reimbursement known as the doc ...
December 16, 2011
Economy works. this president doesnt know how the economy works. i believe to create jobs it helps to have created jobs. >> chris: thank you. speaker gingrich, on the freddie mac website in 2007, you said this -- "i like the gse, or government sponsored enterprise, like freddie mac model. making homeownership more affordable is a policy goal that i believe conservatives should embrace." now in an earlier debate, recent debate you said politicians like barney frank, who in your words profited fro...
December 16, 2011
Economy works. this president doesnt know how the economy works. i believe to create jobs it helps to have created jobs. >> chris: thank you. speaker gingrich, on the freddie mac website in 2007, you said this -- "i like the gse, or government sponsored enterprise, like freddie mac model. making homeownership more affordable is a policy goal that i believe conservatives should embrace." now in an earlier debate, recent debate you said politicians like barney frank, who in your words profited fro...
December 16, 2011
Learned the lessons of how the economy works. this president doesnt know how the economy works. i believe to create jobs it helps to have created jobs. >> chris: thank you. speaker gingrich, on the freddie mac website in 2007, you said this -- "i like the gse, or government sponsored enterprise, like freddie mac model. making homeownership more affordable is a policy goal that i believe conservatives should embrace." w recent debate you said politicians like barney frank, who in your words profi...
December 16, 2011
Status both to enrich himself, but as we see so often in our politics, right now to wreck the policies for the rest of america. >> yeah. >> he cant walk away from that. >> and, mika, he -- even the freddie mac people are saying his job was to influence republicans on the hill. >> we all -- >> because there was a concern at this time that republicans were going to shut down freddie and fannie. it had been a scandal ridden agency. they looked at great suspicion at people like barack obama and chri...