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Control. so, we're going to have to keep working. we have some new members who will be supportive of this. ted cruz from texas. i'm cautiously optimistic. >> they call them something else. >> that happens sometimes but there's no question the number of ear marks dropped enormously in the last come with the moratorium in place. there wasn't a single ear mark anywhere? i cooperate guarantee that but there were thousands and thousands of these in individual bills before we got this moratorium in place. now you got scrub hard to fine a single one. so i want to make this ban permanent -- >> in the ...

>> neil: which essentially is spending when all is said and done. >> these are tax credits but some are refundable. some you get a tax credit and it could ex-sea exceed your coe tax bill. paying we he will pay you money to engage in these particular industries. wind mills. algae, or that sort of thing. >> neil: seems a good pork package never dies. >> republicans in the house said no more ear marks. instead of special towns getting their own bridge funded special corporations are getting their special little carveouts whether rummakers or algae ethanol people or in the case of ge, wind mills a...

Have problems becoming speaker boehner again? >> no. >> greta: none at all? has he done a good job? >> he's been speaker of the whole house-- >> has he done a good job? >> here is the answer, has he been the republican right wing strongman? no. has he been the speaker of the whole house? sometimes in fact, recognizing that the art of the possible is not in his party alone, yes. is there someone going to challenge him? no, i don't expect it. does he have a dilemma which is ultimately, it isn't working as well as we'd like to, we're not able to message and oh, by the way, we're not united in the...

Have problems becoming speaker boehner again? >> no. >> greta: none at all? has he done a good job? >> he's been speaker of the whole house-- >> has he done a good job? >> here is the answer, has he been the republican right wing strongman? no. has he been the speaker of the whole house? sometimes in fact, recognizing that the art of the possible is not in his party alone, yes. is there someone going to challenge him? no, i don't expect it. does he have a dilemma which is ultimately, it isn't working as well as we'd like to, we're not able to message and oh, by the way, we're not united in the...

Three days and not going to have ear marks, not going to have favorites. if you look at what's in the bill as we talk about it yesterday. what's in the the actual fiscal cliff legislation, tens of billions of dollars, 75 billion dollar worth of tax goodies, what they call, what they were extending, but basically these were favors that were done from particular industries. >> megyn: hollywood. >> like hollywood and nascar and algae growers and all kinds of folks got goodies in there and this is how republicans said they weren't going to operate. they're mad at boehner for that, but he told them...