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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., is authoring bipartisan legislation to make permanent the rewards given to whistleblowers who root out commodity trading wrongdoing and waste, which already has
Get some of those governors out. a lot of them got in, rick scott in florida, got in -- tom corbett in pennsylvania, sort of the perfect one. they got in on this wave, they have no busy being there. and i think this is the year we're going to take them back. >> and i think part of the problem in 2010 is illustrated by the fact that today, you mentioned earlier, that the afl-cio had to come out and say, no cuts to social security in any deal. harry reid came out today, no cuts to social security in the event that we just give back on the sequester. and who are they talking to? they're not talki...
While we breathed a sigh of relief that this chapter is finally over, we have to admit, it gave us some great click three fodder. we take a look back at some of the moments that define this mess, in a tone befitting the congressman who fell asleep in the middle of the whole thing. good night, shutdown, wish it was all just a dream. good night to the guy in the corner of the screen, good night, conan, who furloughed his crew. good night to the couple who still say i do. good night, priests, good night to the congressman who fell asleep. the second awesomest things on the internet today, the deb...
But congress can't pass a bill. we have a sequester, because no one wants to make the hard decisions that need to be made on entitlement and everything else that we need to do, to be fiscally sound. so what do they do? they take the easy way out and they shut government down. that's not dealing with the debt and that's not fiscally responsible and it has nothing to do with dealing with the nation's debt. that is governance by cowardice. >> well, we are now going to enter a phase in which we're going to have a prolonged negotiation about the way out of sequestration, and all eyes are on what yo...
Economy is growing is slower because of the debt. i think the debt is a, you know, it's a medium to long-term problem. i don't think it's a right-now problem. so they are focused on that to the extent of everything else. and i think that's a huge problem. >> and that, michelle, is because the debt to me, as taken on this kind of symbolic residence, it's not necessarily about the numbers attached to it, it's some manifestation of the ills of the country, and there's no amount of empirical argument that could dissuade people that that's the problem. >> chris, if you look at this, everybody wants...