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Moved on and it sounded like black. but i can assure you, if you look at my record, there's no one that's worked more when is and a senator from pennsylvania in the urban communities, both black, hispanics, as well as whites. no one worked more with african-americans, whether historically black colleges. i set up a program to help historically black colleges be able to get better access to educational funds in the congress. in fact, had a summit every year for historically black colleges, not just in pennsylvania, which we have three, but also all across this country. so i will match my record...

The problem in washington, d.c. is ridiculous. the problem are the entitlement programs and this desire to spend more money and that's what i've taken on in my career. i've been for the balanced budget aemth of the constitution. it's one of the major plugs of my campaign. you'll see someone as tough on spending as anybody. >> as you make that case in new hampshire, you know, you run into tea party people who disagree with you on earmarks. you mentioned entitlements. we've had this conversation in the past. you voted for the medicare prescription drug benefit. you say essentially you're holding...

Benefit, once expansive, but once settled upon i said let's see if we can make this as good a program as we can to save money. well, we did. medicare prescription drug program has come in 40% under budget. i was not for and did not advocate for the comprehensive benefit, nor did advocate for it not being paid for, a lot of things in the bill set the template for reform which would save far more money than the expn expapgs of the benefit. those are the things when you're a congressman you have to make those kind of checks, make those kind of decisions that sometimes, as i said in this case was ...

Prescription plan and that's what we are proposing for medicare, give people resources to go out and choose for themselves as what's best for themselves. >> again, a lot of tea party voters and this may come up in the new debates as well, think that medicare prescription drugs was a disaster, washington expanding its reach. a good vote? >> well, what i said was, at that town hall meeting, and what i'll say again is the same thing, that the model we used was a private sector model. one of the reasons i held my nose and voted for it we did have a private sector model for medicare prescription dr...

presidential race moved into new hampshire today and became a ground war. newt gingrich arrived this morning, a fourth-place finnish iowa, opened fire on the iowa winner, mitt romney. >> i find it amazing the news media continues to say he's the most electable republican when he can't even break out in his own party. i don't think -- he'll do fairly well here. this one of his three best states. but the fact is that governor romney, in the end, has a limited appeal in a conservative party. >> instead of striking back at gingrich, romney arrived in new hampshire celebrated the endorsem...