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Weakness, not strength. >> and if you guys aren't talking to each other, period, you're doomed. >> that's right. >> go ahead, david. i'm sorry. >> go ahead, david. >> i'm sorry about this. i tease many fellow members on this. i'm coming to this conclusion, democrats, republicans, conservatives, liberals. it's more complicated than that. it seems like washington has communication with folks who do math and live in math fantasies. if we would do fast decision making, i think we could move on in many ways. >> i think a precurse or to that, though, is making sure we have availability. people belie...

Have a financial sector that works for the productive economy rather than have the productive economy work for the financial sector. so these are big issues -- i hope david and i and others can work on this together and get us moving again. >> first of all, david, how much do you agree with what you just heard, and to the extent you do, how much currency do the two of you have to sort of inject your paired identity into the current political culture? >> my hope was actually going for the home run play. one way peter and i became friends, we were in the elevator together and we talked about the...

An ability to point politically at the jobs issue. >> this is exactly the type of jobs action we should be taking in washington to help our economy. i always said that the true engine of job creation in this country is the private sector, not the government. >> joining us now, congressman peter welch, vermont democrat, and david schweiger. i've had great interaction with both these gentlemen and i look forward to sorting out this piece of legislation. i want to start, if i could, with you, peter, and specifically around the expanded ability to raise money by making it much easier for individua...

We'll be watching this, and i think david and i would both be willing to make whatever adjustments are required to make sure we have integrity in that market, otherwise it will fail. >> let's move to the broader conversation. go ahead, david. sorry. >> the word "balance" is very, very powerful here. you want to protect investors, but on the flip side, you also don't want making money and growing and winning on an investment to become such a small portion of the population where only qualified investors who meet certain standards. how do you make it so much more ego egolitarian. you have to fin...