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Hundreds of thousands more. peter doocy has that live from washington. >> reporter: jon the rewards program was called hats off. it cost $250,000 to be precise. the way it worked is if you excelled at your duties for the general services administration you could earn points and they could be cashed in later on, kind of like a tkeuf and busters, for things like ipads and gift cards and other electronics. the gsa's inspector general tried to kill this bill back in 2010 at the same time they were investigating that vegas extravaganza. but the public building services commissioner bob peck kept pu...

Krauthammer. steve? >> it's accurate to call him offensive today. he couldn't describe what had happened at the department of energy as incompetence. there was no bankruptcy and asked if mistakes were made monitoring the approval process after the loan he said no. he wouldn't cop to it and refused to answer the question. that is the big picture. the damaging testimony came in an exchange with a democrat, of texas, who asked him about the process of subordinating the loan during the restructuring. green, a democrat -- >> bret: which means so people follow it, taxpayers would be put behind the i...

Krauthammer. steve? >> it's accurate to call him offensive today. he couldn't describe what had happened at the department of energy as incompetence. there was no bankruptcy and asked if mistakes were made monitoring the approval process after the loan he said no. he wouldn't cop to it and refused to answer the question. that is the big picture. the damaging testimony came in an exchange with a democrat, of texas, who asked him about the process of subordinating the loan during the restructuring. green, a democrat -- >> bret: which means so people follow it, taxpayers would be put behind the i...

Overreached a bit. governor kasich came in and the beat a very successful democratic incumbent that would hold him off. there was a lot of excitement about kasich. his approval ratings are pretty dismal having to do with this measure. incidentally, i think there's a good argument that ohio really overreached, went a lot farther than the wisconsin bill. ohio covers cops and firefighters, public safety employees. the wisconsin bill did not do that. the firefighters union in ohio, the bill was we're going to shovel this bill back down -- shove this bill back down kasich's throat. that was from th...

And then you've got situations, as i said, where you've got an economic situation where people have basically lost everything they have. so, basically, all someone's got to do is look at the votes and say, okay, why are you saying no to everything. why are you blocking everything? and why are you joining with the tea partiers to stand in the way of this president, who has actually done a lot to lift americans up. and so, all we get is spitballs from the sidelines, complaints from the sidelines, and i think, basically, what the republicans are doing is what i call rope-a-doping. they're just ho...