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institution forum on congressional redistricting plans that are being considered around the country. u.s. house districts are redrawn every 10 years to reflect population shifts. so far redistricting plans in 15 states have been challenged in court. over the next hour and a half panelist look at redistricting plans in california, florida and texas and how communities are being affected. >> the bewitching hour has arrived. it is 10:00 a.m.. i am tom mann, senior fellow here at workings and i'm delighted to welcome all of you with us here at brookings this morning, and to our lives c-s...

if there is no deal t president is now warning that more than 70 million elderly americans and veterans might not get their benefit checks. >> i cannot guarantee that those checks will go out on august 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it. >> republicans tonight call that a scare tactic. and the president hardly alone in drawing sharp rhetorical lines. from the left, blunt warn thagz the president better not count the votes of liberals, take them for granted, if the deal includes any changes to medicare and social sec...

and respects people for whatever issues they come in for and if thereconflict, they refer elsewhere. national investigative reporter michael isikoff has a different story. he joins us now. michael, you interviewed a man behind a secret videotape which shows him quote getting reparative therapy, was he clear that this is a strategy to change his orientation? >> well, that is certainly the claim, and some of it is backed up by this undercover video sting of bachmann and associates done. basically as the quotes that you showed, martin, make clear that the bachmanns have had some provoca...

years. i don't consider that a tax increase at all, because you are reducing revenue that would otherwise come into the treasury under the alternative minimum tax, and i think almost all of us think is unfair, and replacing it with revenue by reducing tax expenditures, which even the most conservative economists in the country say needs to be done. mr. president, that is the blueprint that senate budget committee democrats are laying before our colleagues. we're under no illusions here. we know that this is a year in which the normal process is not being followed. we skwrupbd stand t...

the purpose of it was to give their independence to the bank regulators. that is an absolute perversion of the constitution. there was a legislative power, and which we make laws, announcing they will not use the confirmation power until you get by that extortion were to can i get to the legislative process a perversion of the constitution. there is one final area that i am troubled by. some of my liberal friends are part of the problem. the single biggest cause of all of this was the ability of people to make mortgage loans with the deregulation or risk. we have dealt with that in s...