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Issues before he gets there. >> roger, as you talk about that, it seems as if he would come with a predetermined judgment when he's walking in there to hear cases coming before him. so, to me, when i hear this, doesn't that mean that he's probably coming in there with, as i said, a predetermined judgment about something he's supposed to keep an open mind to? >> most of the justices i dare say come to cases and come to oral argument with a pretty clear conception of what the case is about, and you can see that in their questions. now, sometimes they use the questioning to try to convince their ...

town, said, wait a minute, this could happen. cast your mind back to 1995, thomas. you and i were doing the macarena, and the government was being shut down when republicans come into power during the clinton administration. a similar situation in terms of the timing. there was the -- there were disagreements over spending bills that led to two government shutdowns and republicans, largely, took the blame, for a lot of reasons that perhaps had nothing to do with the actual issues involved. anyway, fast forward now. it's coming up, thomas, march 4th. the bill that runs the government,...

>> the house debates rules for the upcoming health care repeal debate. then president obama talks about the latest unemployment figures and announces new members of his economic team. then another chance to see chairman ben bernanke testifying before the senate budget committee. >> this weekend on c-span3 " american history tv," live coverage of the american historical society. a round table on national security and the public's need to know. as the congressional black -- black caucus mark spitz anniversary. charles rangel on the career. then more about the history of u.s. currency. ...

and what it means for the federal government going forward. here's how you can weigh in this morning on the jobless rate. the numbers are on the bottom of your screen. if you want to send us an e-mail, you can do so. and if you are familiar with twitter.com as many of you who follow us are, here's the breakdown or the specifics on the front page of the wall street journal. that's the "wall street journal." here's another view of the jobless rate numbers from the pages of the financial times this morning. this is james policy writing along with robin harding. there's a couple of stori...

responsibility they're kind of protecting their territory with the concept that they never met a good idea that wasn't their own. so if you've got it -- you know, hey, it won't work for these eight reasons. if i've got it, i've already presented it and it's a good idea. so that comes down when in doubt default to the status quo, which gets us back to the cold war system. so for me it was a great hearing because there's a lot of work to do. but this commission has had -- this is the ninth hearing. we've been briefed pushing 400 meetings and briefings by organizations in the field that...