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Until president obama endorsed the idea. then all of a sudden republicans started to think of it as a bad idea. six republican senators who originally cosponsored forming a deficit commission voted against it once president obama signed up for the idea. sam brownback, mike crapo, john ensign, kay bailey hutchison, james inhofe, and john mccain, profiles in courage against their own policies. but its not just the deficit commission idea. this keeps happening over and over again. >> its also why w...

Presidential appointees come to tell you, if you dont do this publicly, therell be a collapse, then therell be a collapse, because confidence is so important. so we were the ones who insisted on putting some pay controls on there. youre going to have ken feinberg on later. we also said, no, you cant do the $700 billion all at once, youve got to do it in sections. if you look at the way it was administered under president obama, it was administered in a much fairer way. moreover, because of some ...

Salaries, no guaranteed salaries, no guaranteed bonuses other than a base salary. give the remaining compensation in the form of stock, so that your individual compensation is tied to the success, the financial success of that company. and dont let that stock be transferred until three, four, five years out so that long-term growth in the company will also influence your own individual compensation. thats the goal in terms of how we structure pay going forward under my program. in could it -- co...

In the form of stock, so that your individual compensation is tied to the success, the financial success of that company. and dont let that stock be transferred until three, four, five years out so that long-term growth in the company will also influence your own individual compensation. thats the goal in terms of how we structure pay going forward under my program. could it -- could there be changes made in corporate law, corporate governance structure, regulatory structure, so that thats the w...

New compensation prescriptions at the federal reserve, at the s.e.c., at the fdic. and to rein in the huge excessive bonuses, you have the bank fee legislation proposed by the administration. youve got the volcker proposal in terms of breaking up powerful banking entities. when you look at the whole menu, not just what im doing, you see a rather concerted effort here to rein in pay. and when you add the g-20 principles proposed by secretary geithner, you get an international effort here to try a...

>> tucker: i guess what bothered me about it -- i think probably your macro view on this is probably right, not on trump but on trade, prosperity, et cetera. your analysis seemed to ignore the nature of the distribution of the wealth. one of the reasons trump was elected is because a small group of people got really rich during the obama years to come up with a middle-class language. you are seeing the same phenomenon across western europe. as of something that politicians need to address otherw...

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Move in and pouring over the boxes. what will lawmakers want to know when they sit down today to ask questions of the energy secretary? tennessee republican mash that blackburn is a member of the house energy and commerce committee. she will be at that hearing less than an hour. first she will join us live in "americas newsroom" and tell us what she expects will go down there. bill: she is fired up about this. you will hear from her first-hand. congressman while taking swift action to make sure ...