the health care bill would be brought down. but you see what happened there. so i just have a feeling that this will turn into something good for the democrats. i really do. okay. thank you. as always, congressman cummings, thanks for joining us. republican of utah voted in favor of contempt. darrell issa made sure to be aggressive. when he got the job in 2010 he told politico i want seven hearings a week times 40 weeks. jason chavitz is on the oversight committee. issa was aggressive when he got the job in ç2010. he told politico then i want seven hearings a week times 40 weeks. it looks like darrell issa has been loaded since the day he got that subcommittee. and he s going to do it whatever way he can find it. wasn t he out there looking for a fight from day one? no, no. he just said he was.
that have been around for a while, they use them as cover essentially to do some of these kind of things. like this bill they re pushing some of the social writers on spending bills, other things like that. they get blamed for a lot of this. frankly, they are by in large, you know, your standard, you know, issue republicans. john stanton, reporter for roll call. thanks again for your time tonight, john. always nice to have you here. any time. i will say that looking into this empirical question of whether or not the 2010 election, the republicans were elected in the 2010 election, have changed the republican party at all, there s two bits of data out there recently. politico looked at their votes on substantive issues in the house and found that republicans in general were willing to dissent from the party line. dissent from the party leadership 12.34% of the time. house freshmen, the class of ç 2010, was willing to dissent from the party leadership 12.5% of the time. no diff