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To fix or is that something where the white house might get involved. that s the important point is we in the obama administration all salary increases for political appointees has to be cleared by the white house. that s to ensure there s party n parity in the agency but across as well. we had tone of ethics because president obama set that tone. you have donald trump who, frankly, not only is indifferent to ethics but been blatantly hostile to it. they clearly haven t set up the processes to check these kinds of abuses. on the staffing issue, the large raises that we re discussing, the way that s been reported out and i should say that scott pruitt denies having known about it, it looks like the white house may have not cleared some of the people he ....
frank and candid are always interesting diplomatic code words when year overseas. thiser boehner in today s the washington post. for all of washington s focus on the president s outreach to republicans, it s his engagement with members of his own party n that will determine whether we succeed dealing with the challenges facing our economy. the fact is there are folks on both side of the aisle that talk a good game on the idea of reforming medicare or doing something about social security, nobody wants to own the plan. they want to agree to it reluctantly to a plan brought up by the other side because here s another fact. medicare and social security are universally popular and even in a republican primary getting caught messing around with social security without a reason is bad politics. so any time you hear this from either side, the other side ....
That eventually your money does run out and you ve got to save who you can and toss some others overboard. when are you going to begin to toss some of your weaker democratic candidates overboard in terms omoney? we don t think we have weak democratic candidates right now. okay. you didn t expect an answer to that. clearly, we will look at and if there are candidateshat are very substantially behind and th ctooman t make it, clearly we ll have to make some tough judgments. but with all due respect to my good friend carl holtz, who i think is a terrific reporter, that decision has not been made as chris van hollen made it very clear. in fact, betsy markey who was one of those mentioned in carl s article, are absolutely top priorities for me and for our party.n betsy markey is tied in the polls. frank kratovil is slightly ahead. so these candidates are in very good shape and they re going to win. thank you so much. democratic leader steny hoyer, we appreciate your time. appreci ....