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Unacceptable. what chance do they have to be contributing numbers to society? >> no child left behind set out to change the landscape by expanding federal funding and awarding achievement through standards based assessment. >> the new role of the federal government is to set high standards, provide resources, hold people accountable and liberate school districts to meet the standards. >> the federal legislation basically said what the states had to do but there was a fair amount of flexibility t...

Deliver this fessage -- message today, were not playing that game. im not going to say whats in, im not going to say whats out. i want this commission to be free to do its work. >> reporter: free to do its work. everything is on the table. that means medicare changes, social security changes, medicaid, it could mean more revenues, it would keen a value added tax, sort of a variation on a national sales tax, all those options are on the table, there are 18 members of the commission, gregg, 14 do ...

Some fear the commission will recommend value-added tax, variation of a national sales tax known as "v.a.t." if adopted it would hit the middle class and poor and undermine the famous campaign promise. >> i can make a firm pledge, under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. not payroll, not capital gains, not any of the taxes. >> reporter: in an earlier weekly radio address mr. obama said this about taxes and those earning less than $250,000. >> on...

Some fear the commission will recommend value-added tax, variation of a national sales tax known as "v.a.t." if adopted it would hit the middle class and poor and undermine the famous campaign promise. >> i can make a firm pledge, under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. not payroll, not capital gains, not any of the taxes. >> reporter: in an earlier weekly radio address mr. obama said this about taxes and those earning less than $250,000. >> on...

The plan that bp is going to try. they tried, david, to drop this concrete box over the hole to contain the oil flow and have it siphoned up to the pipe of the surfa surface. that didnt work. >> reporter: well, theyre still working on a variation of that system, that massive dome that they built to put in place, actually filled up with crystals that clogged it up. so they set it aside. their solution for this is to try a smaller dome. theyre calling it a top hat. its only about five feet tall, a...

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