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documents that have nothing do, nothing to do with the death, the terrible, tragic death of this agent. so everybody is focused on trying to get to the bottom of that issue, which as you know, was a program that started under the bush administration, was continued but then stopped by the obama administration. everybody has a bipartisan interest getting to the bottom of that it wasn t the doing of one administration or the other, it was a terrible tragedy, we should get to the bottom of it but for the republicans to decide to make this the political i shall owned the first time the history of the united states, bring a contempt citation against the attorney general of the united states when we have so many pressing issues on the jobs and the economy, suggests that they are just trying to run out the clock on the economy and focus on these other issues. the. congressman chris van hollen, thank you very much. thank you. do you think the average american is sitting been a and they ar
down from the beginning. senator mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate said their object all along has not been jobs and the economy but the defeat of the president and we have the irony here in the white house where we can t even get a vote on the president s job proposal, pending since september, yet they want to vote for the first time in u.s. history to hold an attorney general in contempt, with all the other things that are going on here at the end of this month, the transportation bill that provides investments for transportation expires. at the end of this month, student interest rate loans will double and yet republicans are focused on this issue, which is why you see the american public holding this republican congress in contempt in the opinion polls. you know, one of the things i have been talking to republicans the last couple of days about this, they say to me, we can t forget there was an atf agent who was killed in this and whose family wants answers a
the fed would do and what they thought the fed should do. many people wanted the fed to be more aggressive, and he is deflecting right now at this hour in this conference criticisms that the fed has been too incremental and that the monthry policy tools they have to keep interest rates low and boost the economy have been somewhat lumpy for lack of a better word. the fed chief used that word himself saying that s the way monetary policy sometimes works that they still have tools to try and boost the economy. but they don t want to pull them all out at once and that this should keep interest rates low for a very long time. thank you very much. and more on the breaking news out of the house committee s vote on eric holder. i m joined now on the phone by new york democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney, a member of the house oversight and government reform committee. thank you for joining me. thank you. i wish i could be on set, but we re working hard here in congress. absolutely. h