capitol hill. that the end of it or does the president send emissaries to lobby for different things? they had a lot of briefings for the media the next thin the committees will invite members of the administration to testify to layout their case for what they think should be funded and what shouldn t be. i think what we will find especially in an election year with a lot of high stakes and wins by republicans in virginia, new jersey and massachusetts, that this process is going to be more interesting this year. greta: is that code for political? i think it will be pretty political. you have to remember, you have members, part of the things they like to do is take home money. think of the louisiana purchase in the health care bill. what happened in nebraska during the health care bill. the end of the day republicans or democrats like to bring money home. there s not a money spare as you can see in these budgets. this budget is an increase of 35% of the deficit in one year. i know
capitol hill. that the end of it or does the president send emissaries to lobby for different things? they had a lot of briefings for the media the next thin the committees will invite members of the administration to testify to layout their case for what they think should be funded and what shouldn t be. i think what we will find especially in an election year with a lot of high stakes and wins by republicans in virginia, new jersey and massachusetts, that this process is going to be more interesting this year. greta: is that code for political? i think it will be pretty political. you have to remember, you have members, part of the things they like to do is take home money. think of the louisiana purchase in the health care bill. what happened in nebraska during the health care bill. the end of the day republicans or democrats like to bring money home. there s not a money spare as you can see in these budgets. this budget is an increase of 35% of the deficit in one year.
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in the concept of western union which helps facilitate the market share we do as a very resilient business model that generates fees. people send money home eighty billion dollars flows through the western union pipes out of four hundred billion on average flows around the world so people think about investments and how they view western union couldn t ask is how much of their revenue mix is recurring is a fee based business or is it one that there are risks credit risks where when lending money that s not the case a western union and a business model just to help facilitate the move the money around the world.
lost this last year, because he didn t bring back earmarks, and i ll show you ten who basically got re-elected for having no earmarks. the game needs to change and change dramatically. to ed s point, it was an interesting year. the old rules did not apply. you know, bob bennett lost his seat in utah. he went home saying, i m doing what i m supposed to do. i m bringing home money, i m doing my job, and the tea party said, see ya. and we can go through other states and find examples of that. that s more about ideology than it was about anything. you had an ideology purification going with the tea party. but ed, you know as well as i do that as a member of congress, your job is to bring home the bacon. and if you don t bring home the bacon and you re losing jobs, you know what, ed i m not sure to lead. i m not sure after two years in which every american family has had to make horrendously tough choices about their personal finances that those rules still apply. i get that