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Is guidelines states the change, the gift of travel regardless of the dollar value and paid for by a private source does not need to be reported. the change went unnoticed until a reporter with the national journal spotted it. they say thats part of the problem. >> i only know what i read in the newspapers, i did not know this had taken place. >> reporter: now congress members must disclose travel records to the clerks office instead. the house ethics committee says the information is easily acc...

Say, eligibility and dollar value. >> well were told that gm had put north of $1 billion, up to $2 billion in the total compensation fund. ive talked to others who say that isnt going to be enough. when youre all said and done it could run billions more. what do you think of that? >> speculation, i dont know, its speculation. this is a challenge. some of these accidents occurred over ten years ago. i have to work with these claimants to find the necessary evidence that shows that it was the igni...

Whenever a member of congress takes an expensive trip, watchdog groups and their constituents ask questions why did they need to take this trip? and if they dont have to reveal this trip on their financial disclosure forms, people wont know about it. >> reporter: buried on page 35 in the house ethic committees guidelines provided to congress members states the change, meaning the gift of travel regardless of its dollar value and paid for by a private source does not need to be reported. the unpu...

>>. >> if a member of congress takes an expensive trip, watchdog groups ask questions why did they need to take the trip. if they dont have to reveal it on their disclosure forms, people wont note about it. buried on page 35 in the guidelines provided to congress members states the change, meaning they get to travel regardless of dollar value and paid for a private source does not need to be reported. the unpublicize the change went unnoticed until a reporter with the national journal spotted it...

Successful so theyre the set up for the rest of their life. >> thats half the battle. the other half i want to emphasize is the incentives for coaches are basically all wrong now. tom mcmillan, played in the nba, rhodes scholar, has done fantastic work in terms of coaches compensation. he looked at a number of contracts. the dollar value was $11 additional bonuses for wins and $1 for academic performance. we see that place after place after place. for me, there should be a threshold academically...

>> thats half the battle. the other half i want to emphasize is the incentives for coaches are basically all wrong now. tom mcmillan, played in the nba, rhodes scholar, has done fantastic work in terms of coaches compensation. he looked at a number of contracts. the dollar value was $11 additional bonuses for wins and $1 for academic performance. we see that place after place after place. for me, there should be a threshold academically. if students arent performing at that coaches shouldnt get ...

Tom mcmillan, rhodes scholar, played in the nba, has done fantastic work in terms of coaches compensation. he looked at a number of contracts. the dollar value was $11 for wins in terms of additional bonuses and $1 for academic performance. we see that place after place after place. for me, there should be a threshold academically. if students arent performing at that the coaches shouldnt get anything. if coaches are doing the wrong thing and cheating the penalties should need to follow the coac...

Sinkholes are fairly common. lots of caves and underground springs in that area. the director says he cannot put a dollar value on the damaged cars just yet. i think hes using one word to try to sum is it all up at this early point and that is substantial. might be the understatement of the day. other news now. a u.s. senator announcing that hes got one mega lawsuit coming. its against the federal government. and guess who else? the guy who leads the federal government, the president. on behal...

Congressman, great to see you as always. im so excited you came on because i know you know so much about this. so obviously -- >> great to see you and welcome back. >> thank you. its great to be back. great to talk about stuff like this. so, all right. you obviously heard, you know, paul ryan there asking the cbo director about lowering economic growth. he said it would lower economic growth. in that report the cbo says the amount of work done would drop 2%. thats not saying the same thing as ec...

2%. it might drop less. just to make the point how significant that is, if you took 2% of the economic output of the united states, thats $325 billion a year. that is a lot of money. >> well, of course, erin, as dr. almendor pointed out, he wasnt putting a dollar value on the ability of somebody to spend a little bit more time at home with kids or ability of somebody to leave the job of the large employer and take the risk of starting up an entrepreneurial business of their own, number one. numb...