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Beach yesterday where oil has come up and he talked a little bit, actually talked at length about the long road ahead. >> i can't promise folks here in theodore or across the gulf coast that the oil will be cleaned up overnight. it will not be. it will take time for things to return to normal. there's going to be harmful effects on many local businesses. and it's gonna be painful for a lot of folks. folks are gonna be frustrated and some folks are going to be angry. but i promise you this. that things are gonna return to normal. >> some folks angry and frustrated an understatement. business is...

Hoffman of california during the debate this year on naming yet another mountain, mt. reagan. >> mr. chair, i think this is a terrific amendment. in fact, if anything, i would go one step further. i think we may want to consider going big with this reagan naming enthusiasm and just naming the planet -- we've already talked about a huge part of the ocean bigger than the united states itself and we're sort of piecemealing our way with mountains and other things. but i'm beginning to see some possibility in this. if we went that natural next step and named the planet reagan, i think that might be...

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>> mr. chair, i think this is a terrific amendment. in fact, if anything, i would go one step further. i think we may want to consider going big with this reagan naming enthusiasm and just naming the planet -- we've already talked about a huge part of the ocean bigger than the united states itself and we're sort of piecemealing our way with mountains and other things. but i'm beginning to see some possibility in this. if we went that natural next step and named the planet reagan, i think that might be the breakthrough we've been looking for. >> congressman huffman was very dryly joking about r...

It's like stimulus, it has no impact. >> it has a feel of scraps on the table and it's not a big idea. barack obama got elected on big ideas. about himself, about himself and his story. about health care, turning the economy around, really big things. i think he is gifted in that way. he needs to find something as large as his imagination. >> i think he beat senator clinton who was an unbelievably difficult candidate to beat because he came out against the war in iraq. he may have been wrong it could have turned out fabulous, but he said no this is a bad policy and bad decision. >> he had a se...