the victory to republicans over this week on medicare. governor, the other issue you ve made reference to. reported that paul ryan trying to steer stimulus money to companies in his home state. ryan had called the stimulus a wasteful spending spree. on wednesday he was asked about that. here s what he said. a report came out again today in the ap. it was a repeat of that wall street journal article from a couple of years ago where you had asked for stimulus money for your district. is that accurate? i don t recall. i haven t seen this report. so i really can t comment on it. i opposed the stimulus because it doesn t work. it didn t work. today he conceded he was wrong having wrote, after having these letters called to my attention i checked into them. and they were treated as constituent service and veterans affairs are handled pl this is why i didn t recall the letters earlier. they should have been handled differently and i take full
unfair. but i wonder if there could be reforms to the process that would make it less blatantly unfair? would disclosing donations to the member of congress making the appeal on a person s behalf help? yeah, maybe. one of the things, too, including in the issue of donations or in members of congress, sometimes members of congress, you know, were doing just a regular, you know, nice constituent service. they were writing on behalf of a constituent who they didn t know. if you have a member of congress, your representative who s not interested in writing a letter on your behalf, your chances fell to the likelihood of getting a pardon and the guy in the next district over who has a representative interested in writing a pardon has a better chance. the one thing about reform on the issues of pardons is this is completely at the president s discretion. he doesn t need congress to reform this. this pardon office was put together, you know, at the very beginning of this country. grover clev
unfair. but i wonder if there could be reforms to the process that would make it less blatantly unfair? would disclosing donations to the member of congress making the appeal on a person s behalf help? yeah, maybe. one of the things, too, including in the issue of donations or in members of congress, sometimes members of congress, you know, were doing just a regular, you know, nice constituent service. they were writing on behalf of a constituent who they didn t know. if you have a member of congress, your representative who s not interested in writing a letter on your behalf, your chances fell to the likelihood of getting a pardon and the guy in the next district over who has a representative interested in writing a pardon has a better chance. the one thing about reform on the issues of pardons is this is completely at the president s discretion. he doesn t need congress to reform this. this pardon office was put together, you know, at the very beginning of this country. grover clev
unfair. but i wonder if there could be reforms to the process that would make it less blatantly unfair? would disclosing donations to the member of congress making the appeal on a person s behalf help? yeah, maybe. one of the things, too, including in the issue of donations or in members of congress, sometimes members of congress, you know, were doing just a regular, you know, nice constituent service. they were writing on behalf of a constituent who they didn t know. if you have a member of congress, your representative who s not interested in writing a letter on your behalf, your chances fell to the likelihood of getting a pardon and the guy in the next district over who has a representative interested in writing a pardon has a better chance. the one thing about reform on the issues of pardons is this is completely at the president s discretion. he doesn t need congress to reform this. this pardon office was put together, you know, at the very beginning of this country. grover clev
here she is voting, doing her duty as member of house of representatives on the floor. gabrielle giffords stands out among her colleagues and always has for having particular interest in constituent service, being somebody that really enjoyed her job as a legislator in a way that i think you would appreciate as somebody that used to work on capitol hill, so an amazing, touching moment with her, and obviously on a very, very important day for the country in terms of the massive deal between president obama and the congressional leaders. how do you score this event in terms of the deal itself, jonathan? i m sorry, which event? the deal or gabby giffords showing up? the deal. look, it is huge, chris. when you talk about who won? who won? i think senator mitch mcconnell won more than anybody else. he was able to negotiate down the last minute. shows up to be the only guy on capitol hill that negotiates