depth debt are the biggest problem right now. mcconnell says those issues are going to dominate congress between now and the end of march. several newly elected senators expressed these concerns. you need to put everything on the table. but what i hear from the administration and if the the washington post is to be believed, that s way way in extreme of what i think is necessary or even should be talked about. and it s not going to pass. i don t think the federal government has any business having a list of law abiding citizens who choose to exercise their right to keep and bare arms. a house republican leadership aide says jobs would be another key issue at the top of the congressional agenda. shep? shepard: mike emanuel in washington tonight. thanks. a lotto winner dropped dead one day after he claimed his prize. and now investigators in chicago say somebody actually poisoned him with cyanide. here is the victim with that winning ticket back in july. he won about 425,000
million budget shortfall. the county manager told its employees to stop buying bottled water, but that same manager was making 425,000 bucks and included a $30,000 luxury car. george lewis has been following this story. he joins me now live from burbank to talk about this. george, i know we are a capitalist society, but you have found even more examples of this in the state of california. so explain what you ve been finding and how state and local governments are justifying these big salaries when they can t actually balance their own budget sheets. yeah. the whole thing got kind of got kicked off when we looked at the case of bell, california, where the city manager was being paid $800,000 a year. that s twice what president obama makes. now he s in jail awaiting trial in a case that involves his assistant and four members of the city council. and then the l.a. times yesterday published a list of 199 los angeles county employees who are making over $250,000 a