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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100724:15:16:00

comparable better pay, you could save taxpayers money. david: part of the problem, even if they are fired they get a pension. pension of the chief, the manager of the city would be about $600,000 a year for life! this is an outrage. the bigger problem is that you have the seniority system all over the public pension world and the public sector. you have people who get the salary increases for being there. and a lot of them are incompetent. i don t think we need a hard cap, because we do need for the public sector to be competing for talent. if we have a great person to lure from the private sector, pay them very well. david: but let s be clear. no city manager is worth $800,000. particularly in a town where the average income is $30,000 a year. no way. but you know what the problem is, as a society we have come to accept the wide difference between public sector and private sector workers.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100401:20:31:00

care bill. and then the seniority system, by which chairmanships are decided. senator brown for one, wants the gavels of the chairmanship decided by member elections, based on merit, not merely based on a politician s ability to stay in office forever. not to mention the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster, the growing enemy of majority rule, we re all familiar. and to top it off, it currently takes a two-thirds majority, 67 votes to actually change any of the senate rules. senator tom udall says even that rule needs a makeover. and joining us now, is democratic senator from new mexico, tom udall. part of that band of senators trying to change the system. senator udall, welcome to the program. how are your efforts being received? thank you, dylan. good to be with you today. it s a pleasure to have you here. what do they think about all this crazy talk about all you guys? well i don t think it s very crazy talk.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100226:12:31:00

seniority system which has allowed the 30-year lawmakers who have been so entrenched and get caught up in a lot of this deal making. she stood by them. sometimes you do wonder. you see folks that don t learn the lesson from the problems that hit the other party. we ll find out. the pressure if it happens would come from rank and file members and would come from those in swing districts say don t make me having to defend the problem now. you can never overestimate how the symbolic impact of some of these scandals on capitol hill. i know mark foley episode when you had danny hastert and everyone fumbling around with it. a lot of republicans said we re getting killed on the campaign trail every day because of it. david gregory, thanks so much. we ll be watching your exclusive this sunday with john mccain. that should be fascinating

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20160704:08:44:30

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20160704:06:44:30

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