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independent. >> madam secretary. if it doesn't happen during this lame duck session? guest: we're looking at delay. we go back to the committee again, the senate foreign relations committee and start over. if it fails and just takes a couple months itill be the spring. no. could be as much as another year or 18 months. we will be 2-1/2 years potentially without a verification regime on the ground. that does not serve our interest. host: the cynic in me says if you give them lead time, they will hide illegal operations. guest: that's a great question. one the things we have learned, w...

that is baltimore on washington journal." enjoy the rest of your sunday. . . >> senator coleman, thank you very much for being here. >> we just heard that you have said that if michael steel decides to run, you will not be a candidate. >> republicans don't have to beat up on republicans. secondly, he campaigned and supported me. i have been very, very candid with the chairman. there's been challenges with major donors. on the other hand, i don't think so these gotten enough credit to bring the tea party into the republican coalition. i don't think it's productive from my perspective....

the fourth idea is connecting small farmers to markets. today over half of our budget is cash. with that cash, we spent over 80% buying food from the developing world. over half the people in the developing world who need help our small farmers, most of them women. 80% of the agricultural work is done by when. -- done by women. we had discovered that you can purchase in markets in the developing world and not affect the small farmers. they are not necessarily getting the fruits of their labors from the markets. i have been shown something i have yet to find. when the harvest, but t...

host: the former governor of their york recently wrote that the congressional lame-duck session which begins tomorrow should be the last in history. she wrote, on november 2nd, the voters replaced the democratic majority in the house representatives with at least 61 new republican members who campaigned on lower spending and less government power, allowing members who are not reelected to legislate a national policy or set the federal budget for 2011 is like allowing a fired employee to run the office for another two months or now in your -- or allowing your ex- spouse to write your ...

caller: i would like to challenge c-span to have a conversation on mountain top removal mining. it's destroying west virginia and appalachia. it's the dirtiest way for the coal industry to make money. a lot of this coal can be mined under ground. when they go from a thousand feet in these mountains and dumping this product, this violates the clean water production act. we cannot do mountain top removal legally in the united states. the probm is the legacy that's left for this, this rubble that's being removed from these mountains and shoved into the streams contains heavy metals and ...