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Moved on and it sounded like black. but i can assure you, if you look at my record, theres no one thats worked more when is and a senator from pennsylvania in the urban communities, both black, hispanics, as well as whites. no one worked more with african-americans, whether historically black colleges. i set up a program to help historically black colleges be able to get better access to educational funds in the congress. in fact, had a summit every year for historically black colleges, not just...

The problem in washington, d.c. is ridiculous. the problem are the entitlement programs and this desire to spend more money and thats what ive taken on in my career. ive been for the balanced budget aemth of the constitution. its one of the major plugs of my campaign. youll see someone as tough on spending as anybody. >> as you make that case in new hampshire, you know, you run into tea party people who disagree with you on earmarks. you mentioned entitlements. weve had this conversation in the ...

Benefit, once expansive, but once settled upon i said lets see if we can make this as good a program as we can to save money. well, we did. medicare prescription drug program has come in 40% under budget. i was not for and did not advocate for the comprehensive benefit, nor did advocate for it not being paid for, a lot of things in the bill set the template for reform which would save far more money than the expn expapgs of the benefit. those are the things when youre a congressman you have to m...

Prescription plan and thats what we are proposing for medicare, give people resources to go out and choose for themselves as whats best for themselves. >> again, a lot of tea party voters and this may come up in the new debates as well, think that medicare prescription drugs was a disaster, washington expanding its reach. a good vote? >> well, what i said was, at that town hall meeting, and what ill say again is the same thing, that the model we used was a private sector model. one of the reason...

presidential race moved into new hampshire today and became a ground war. newt gingrich arrived this morning, a fourth-place finnish iowa, opened fire on the iowa winner, mitt romney. >> i find it amazing the news media continues to say hes the most electable republican when he cant even break out in his own party. i dont think -- hell do fairly well here. this one of his three best states. but the fact is that governor romney, in the end, has a limited appeal in a conservative party. ...