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Three members of congress with shared interests. Firmly believe that comcast and Time Warner Cable would have been too big of a company and anticompetitive, not in the Public Interest. It would have led to higher prices from consumer, less choice and it would be too possible these with service. We are also working on dealing with people property and protection of civil liberties. That is legislation dealing with the nsa and foreign Intelligence Surveillance dealing with the revelations about the gathering of telephone metadata, this bill which would pass the house and a big part partisan vote,...

Caller yes, i would like to say that we need to keep the conversation and its context. And the context is right now is that the state who has the power to exercise violence against individuals. In this case, were talking about black men. We need to keep it in the context. It has nothing to do right now with poverty which is a side issue that we can have. We can also have a side issue about black men committing crimes with each other because theres no phenomenon called blackonblack crime. Because when it happens in sandy hook in connecticut, when it happened at the Movie Theater in ohio, you ne...

Thank you for spending a halfhour with us to talk about your 12 years in washington. It ended with the reelection of barack obama. If you could think of adjectives, what would they be to describe these seven years . Interesting. Challenging. Sometimes totally frustrating. Full of opportunities for the country. There were good times during these 12 years, laced together with some that were not so good. 9 11. The anthrax scare. There were also positive things. The election of barack obama i thought was a very positive statement for the country and moving forward in a way out of a fiscal of this....

Ago, whatever plan he had then is over with. This is a new election. The deal that he had a year ago, that does not count. For republicans and people to say they dont understand whats going on, i have a problem with that. The republicans deny anything he puts forward. The president left his vacation and came here. Theyre not being fair. Republicans say they are christians. Theyre not. They did this during his last term and now are causing and all of us to suffer because they dont like the president. This is personal. This has nothing to do with raising taxes. This is a personal attack and i th...

Was then called the nuclear option, changing the rules, turning the senate into a smaller version of the house, where the rights of the minority caucus are ignored. Consequently, we were able to Work Together that way, crossing party lines, crossing with the id administration wanted done or what the caucus leadership on both sides wanted done, it showed we had a certain independence. I will never forget the late senator robert sitting in an office with us all together, sobbing, saying, we saved the senate. We came to an agreement that we were going to vote to give a judicial appointees and up ...