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>> define your job at "the wall street journal." >> i consider myself an investigative journalist. i try to look for the bad things in washington. people who are sometimes breaking the law but often pushing up against the law. i don't really have an exact definition. i sort of look for stories that if people picked up on that they would say that is wrong. five years at "the wall street journal." >> let me go back to march 31, 2006. lots of people in this town talk about this story to this day. it has to do with somebody named emily miller. give us the beginning. >> this is the heart ...

>> define your job at "the wall street journal." >> i consider myself an investigative journalist. i try to look for the bad things in washington. people who are sometimes breaking the law but often pushing up against the law. i don't really have an exact definition. i sort of look for stories that if people picked up on that they would say that is wrong. >> how long have you been there? >> five years at "the wall street journal." >> let me go back to march 31, 2006. lots of people in this town talk about this story to this day. it has to do with somebody named emily miller. give us ...

street journal." >> i consider myself an investigative journalist. i try to look for the bad things in washington. people who or sometimes breaking the law but often pushing up against the law. i don't really have an exact definition. i sort of look for stories that if people picked up on that they would say that is wrong. five years at the law "street journal." >> let me go back to march 31, 2006. lots of people in this town talk about this story to this day. has to do with somebody named emily miller. give us the beginning. >> this is the heart of the jack abramoff scandal. he was ...

Getting there. they are being very, very cautious about telling us they have reached internally that magic 216 number. to say that explicitly. however, there certainly is a lot of optimism and a lot of democratic leaders smiling and feeling good. so there's no question they do feel confident. actually i just want to tell you, i just got on my blackberry, we're talking about the confidence but there are some things that are not breaking their way. john tanner, he is a retiring member from tennessee, he is somebody who actually voted no last time. democratic leaders were hoping they would be abl...

He didn't know yet. he was waiting to see some of the final language in that bill. keep in mind, this legislation is massive. it has thousands of pages in it. there are many lawmakers who say they need to take a close look at the language. let's go to represent john tanner from tennessee, he is also one of the undeclared. a lot of people keeping an eye on him. the most important thing to him, cost control. he really wanted to see the report from the congressional budget office. at the end of the week, he wanted to study it a little bit. let's look at two more. representative earl pomeroy is ne...