meant to say there, when you hand out $1 trillion in t.a.r.p. just before this president came in, most of it unspent, $1 trillion nearly in stimulus, that this president asked for, plus this huge expansion in health care and government, it has a corrupting effect. when i look at waste, fraud and abuse in the bureaucracy and in the government, this is like steroids to pump up the muscles of waste. but first of all on t.a.r.p. that was before the obama administration. that was pushed through by the bush administration, so how could you call the obama administration one of the most corrupt ever if the bush administration pushed t.a.r.p. through? i wasn t talking about t.a.r.p. legislation. what i said you just said now that s what you meant. what i said was the administration got this money, that money sent trillions of dollars of extra money were basically used like presidential earmarks, handing them out, deciding what to do with general motors and chrysler, who lives, who die
the hip with the administration. governor kaine said the president s going to work with republicans when we can but not play mother may i with them. how does this president how do you suggest as a conservative democrat this president find that balance between working with republicans on some things as you want him to and other times saying no way? again, i think the lame duck is a good model to look at. the democrats were still in control of the house at that time, but if you look at the compromises that were made, we moved forward in a way that was bipartisan, something that was lacking in previous congresses, not just the democratic-run congresses. i m optimistic the president will find a way to navigate through a democratic senate, a republican house. he s in the white house. we have to find a way to get it done. and are you going to be able to get that done, congressman cummings, with a senate more divided than it was a couple months ago? i can t speak for the senate. i c
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it was the obama administration, because these people are nominated by the president, confirmed by the senate, the obama administration investigating itself and coming up with a legitimate finding that there was no wrongdoing in spipt of the way it looked. that s government doing its job properly. i want to fact check what you said in this morning s los angeles times. after a trillion-dollar stimulus that doesn t create jobs, the american people believe we need more oversight, not less. on the first part trillion-dollar stimulus that did not create jobs you say. bloomberg has a story out also saying employment probably rose for a third month in december bringing u.s. payroll growth last year to 1 million and pointing to further improvement in the labor market for 2011, economists said before a report this week. how can you make the case no jobs have been created? maybe the white house didn t create as many as advertised no, doubt about it but how can you make the case that they ve
harder. they felt he could have had a better deal with the tax bill. no doubt about it. but the facts still remains that we re going to, you know i think some people have gotten the wrong message about this election particularly the republicans. i think what the electorate was saying, they want us to work together. they want us to work with republicans when we can, to try to make their lives better. they want government to work for them, not against them and i think that there will be maybe some things that we can work together on but again we ve got to, they ve got to come half way. remember, they ve been on the side lines throwing spit balls saying no, no, no, no, no, no, no. and now they ve got to do something. congressman, the president tried to work with republicans in december to do something, and you opposed the tax deal. you didn t want him to work with republicans. which one is it? i oppose the tax bill because i saw what was coming up this year, as i said before i do beli