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Liability reform, put legislation forward to buy insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, allow access for patients with pre-existing conditions, and make sure there is a permanent -- permanently prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion. you've done the medical liability reform and the abortion deal, but you're only about two out of five there. how come there has been nothing to allow insurance to be bought across state lines, allow for those folks with prekisti pre-e conditions to know they can get care. >> i like the theatrics on the floor. the problem is, we had 107 amendm...

Crack down on chinese currency manipulation. speaker boehner and eric cantor refused to allow that legislation to the floor. how does mitt romney say he will crack down on chinese currency manipulation where house republicans very much like yourself will not move on it? >> well, luke, you know, you don't have to be from buffalo to understand there is what you can do publicly, and keep the pressure on in terms of negotiations that are going on behind the scenes, between our two governments. you have to be careful, especially, i think, with the chinese in that sometimes if we take an action that...

You scratch past the surface there is nothing there. so that's problem number one. problem number two is it is a little bit tone deaf to go into, you know, an audience like the naacp and almost be on the offensive when you're talking about the president. >> too much on the offensive or should he -- >> he's not supposed to make the case against the guy he's trying to deprive of office? he's running against mr. -- >> that's part of the romney problem. he hasn't made his case. he's good at attacking the president. he's not really good at attacking the problem that he has. >> i want to ask a consp...

Jobs and if jobs is the priority, then we're going to have to replace obama care. >> well, that wasn't the clip we were talking about, but he was, in fact, talking about how his financial statements that says we, of course, released all the financial statements that are required by law in years of tax return. tax information is there. other financial disclosure is there. the same information level that john mccain and john kerry for that matter released when they were running for president. we went out and looked back. we have the graphic of how many tax returns previous presidential candidate...

How does that play for you in november? is this going to be a problem for house democrats trying to win back the 25 seats that america now believes health care reform is a tax hike? >> well, it is not a tax hike. it is really important to realize that less than 1% of americans are going to be paying this penalty for not carrying health insurance. let's remember that three people an hour die in this country because they can't access health care. 26,000 a year. what this law is going to do is make sure that people get the preventive care they need, so that they're not going to have the extraordi...