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and small business job act. aimed at providing regulatory relief. this package imposes a moratorium on any new regulation until unemployment drops to below 6%. it has been three years, over three years since our unemployment has dropped below 8%. this is the 41st month in a row where unemployment has been at or exceeded 8%. this bill aims to curtail the practice of midnight regulations, regulations that are promulgated after the day after the election through january 20 and highlights the increasing concern of sue and settle agreements. as a member of congress, i try to vote the righ...

working with the highway administration, came up with a method of doing it which is called design build to. you design it while you are building it. you do it simultaneously. in the process, they cut the time from nine years to 4.5. they also cut the cost by close to zero billion dollars. yes, -- close to a billion dollars. yes, it will enhance the olympics. gao has included its total in its calculation of the cost of the olympics, but it had to be done, it was a logical expense of the highway trust fund, it was funded in the normal fashion, and because of the pressure of the olympic...

beginning. they have been scouring the scene for evidence of what happened. they do know that the windows had bars on them. they left the victims trapped. an endless waits at the same, but it was too late for a four- year old girl. >> we saw the flames coming out the front windows in the side windows. >> a neighbor watched the raging flames in horror, trying to comfort the mother as her -- as she screamed for her baby left inside. the d.c. fire battalion chief says there were two adults in the house. the fire somehow ignited on the first floor. the residents were unable to escape. th...

interested -- if someone were to call me and asked me if i were interested in being the public editor or ombudsman, how would i respond. i said, i would be interested in talking about that. >> why would you be interested at that time? >> well, being an ombudsman is a difficult but intriguing job. it was before i had run. "the new york times" is kind of the pinnacle of the newspaper profession, i believe. i thought it was an unusual opportunity and i was interested in it. >> what happened next? >> what happened next is there were a couple of phone calls about it. then, my wife and i w...