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Praise, you talked only about taxes. You said essentially that you have pushed this item for local Property Taxpayers for the region that albany was very proactive in pushing Thistaxpay Faso only talked about the environment. This is to eliminate and save new york 19 Property Taxpayers millions of dollars. If this is about reforming medicaid, why are and you your colleagues only talking about tax cuts . Youre praising tax cuts. I wholly support john faso and mr. Collins amendment. Here in wester...

What happened? >> no, simple. its a very republican district and it doesnt matter how much money, what is it 20 million, the dccc spent 6 million in that district and ran ads with pelosi. set the pelosi thing aside. thats not my problem. my problem is the dccc blew its entire like bank account but you get my point, on a race of a 30-year-old who didnt live in the district who never had run for office against a very bad candidate and by the way, the campaign put out a postmortem memo that said os...

Away in south carolina, in the old john sprat seat, archie parnell was running he lost that race by 2700 votes. eight votes per precinct. how much did they spend there, around $275,000. they sent out mailers, none of which had archies name on them. did radio, they did tv, they did facebook. they did all kinds of things. heck, they even wired $145,000 to the south carolina democratic party who then proceeded to wire it back to them for some unknown reason. i dont understand that. what i do unders...

Along with the john sprat fritz hollings lines. the kennedy administration was influential to me. i always considered myself a democrat. >> i have to ask at the thanksgiving dinner table, is politics always a topic of conversation around the colbert household? >> politics is an interest because it was part of our lives in washington, d.c. where local news was national news. it was part of our lives just by where we were located. politics is a fascinating subject and we talked about it around the...

Change, but then you look at somebody like linda mcmahon in connecticut whos spent this much already in just the primary in the scene being vacated by chris dodd, she says shes going to spend maybe 28 million more. what does 28 million bucks buy these days? >> keep in mind were talking about senate races so 22 million is quite a bit of money if you spread it across the country. and republicans are going to spend a lot of money in some of these districts to dislodge some democratic incumbents who...