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Normally that person would go through the senate confirmation process and these members, three of them did not. they were recess appointments that were rather controversial. thank you. >> as you know by the way the head of his consumer finance position has also not been -- has not been senate confirmed, so this is a pattern. megyn: appointed at the same time and equally controversial to the other side. steve, thanks again. ironically we are getting this news on the same due that the bureau of labor statistics releases new data on union membership. in 2011 rates of union membership in the priva...

That should be addressed by congressional hearings. smith worries it might encourage irresponsible spending by the state. rove notes talking about bankruptcy makes it harder for states to borrow money because lenders fear they'll never get paid back. shannon? >> shannon: jim, thank you very much. congressman paul ryan will deliver the republican response to "state of the union" address. he is chairman of the house budget committee and he will speak from the committee hearing room. the government says labor unions dropped their workforce to 11.9% down from 12.4% in 2009. union membership fell t...

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Thing to do. it is an estimate there. are many ways to arrive at this estimate. we use something called the residual method. we are estimating something. taking a guess based on characteristics of folks who are here. >> greta: how about ethnic background? >> we talk about undiagnosticmented immigrants 11.9 mill kwrolg for 2008 of those 7 mill john from mexico -- vast majority are from latin america with mexico being the dominant -- >> greta: can you determine -- let's take arizona any specific impact uponv state of arizona. >> for the state of arizona while that doesn't seem as large as califo...