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>> well, the question you have to ask is who is he afraid of offending there? who boos american soldiers, mr. romney, and are they friends of yours? and now for the big number. everyday concerns to be heard by your representatives in the house of representatives. well, so does everyone else. that's according to a new report by the congressional management foundation. apparently capitol hill has been experiencing a surge of constituent correspondents in recent years, thanks to recent hot-button issues like health care reform and the debt ceiling debate. what's the total increase in letters and ...

Increase. between 2008 around 2010, and department of transportation, that shut up a whopping 548%, and, congress department shot up 219%, department of education, 181%, there is ongoing budget battles between the house, the senate and white house. who gets it down there? that america is broke? >> the people are starting to get out outside of washington but i would say on both sides of the aisle they like to spend money but for different reasons and have been bipartisan too often and they get together and spend all of this and should be bipartisan and cut each of their own programs that they l...

Department of transportation, up 548 percent in spending, commerce department, up 219 percent in spending. department of education, up 181 percent in spending. those are whoppers! i mean, is anyone getting the message, mary katharine? >> well, that's the question. i'm not sure politicians are getting the message. the saving grace of all this, because we have a colossal problem ahead of us, this is very hard politically to solve, the saving grace maybe be -- may be that the american people are actually saying you really need to deal with this and i don't think that they're going to be satisfied...

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