funding parts of government that need to be funded. you can always pick apart a multi billion dollar, hundreds of billion dollar budget and find some research project you don t like. this government is invested in a lot of research which has led to a lot of important developments in agriculture, in space travel, in medical research. i don t know specifically the ones you mentioned, but most of the time they make sense. most of the time. senator, let me ask you a question that has to do with the tax bill that s going to come up for a vote i guess later today. and it is this. you ve had majorities, democratic majorities in the house and senate. you have a democratic president. it s a party that traditionally stood for people, the middle class and the poor, people quite vul nernlt to the exigencies of life. why has there not been an effort to propose an additional 1% tax or whatever percent tax on people who make over $1 million a year in this country given the
this and others as well. are you comfortable with the transparency? does it go far enough? four or five months ago, it was nowhere close where we need it to get. there s been a lot of pressure put on congress by academics and the financial community. we are much closer there. whatever people may say about the genesis of the goldman sachs case, bringing that case has crystallized a lot of public anguish and say, bring us something real. the exigencies sten shall question is, what do they do that we care about, except creating crazy products and trading them. we are in a better place now but haven t gotten to where we need to be on too big to fail. governor spitzer, thank you very much. coming up, al gore and teachers indoctrinating school kids.