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We need more staff, more electronics, we can't keep up. 15,000 e-mails coming in. e-mails are almost useless sometimes, and i hate to tell people that, but the hill is overwhelmed beyond comprehension. there's a lot of good people there but they are beyond overwhelmed. >> this is how lobbyists' bills get through. they don't have the time. they say, legislate this. they say, okay. >> the hill is fundamentally overwhelmed by the breadth of issue and the staff, i love them, but they are quite young, quite inexperienced, grotesquely underpaid. no way for individual member offices to keep up to dat...

Wants on taxes, on obama care, on dodd/frank and by the way what he wants on medicare. you know, the voucher plan. that's what it is. it also capped the voucher amount. there's no question that that would increase -- >> in all fairness that was the initial ryan plan and has been revised since. i want to ask you about simpson-bowles, speaking of things too late, the president suggested one of the big differences between him and mitt romney was simpson-bowles, yet if you talk to any of the principles involved they were extremely disappointed as are many of your colleagues on wall street and big ...

Prescription drugs, and on dodd/frank, he's been saying he wants to repeal dodd/frank, andrea, every day for the last 18 months, repeal every aspect of it. dodd/frank of course is the bill that reregulated the financial system after the credit market collapsed, the catastrophic collapse of 2008. so does anybody really want to say let's get rid of all the regulation we put in place following that disastrous collapse? romney is saying i don't mean all of that. it doesn't work. it's too late. >> going back to your point on taxes, though, he is now saying that he would eliminate enough deductions ...

Services industry. i know how angry people are at the mismanagement that led to this crisis. but legislating anger isn't the way to solve these problems. there will be shocks in our system in the future, for certain. and we need an early warning system so that the next time it occurs, our system is prepared to deal with it. >> okay. we'll have more on dodd's plan to overhaul the financial regulatory system when he joins us live from capitol hill. and also -- >> chris dodd's going to be here? >> yes, he's going to be on the show today. did i tell you? >> no. >> good, that's the good news. >> wh...

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