week helps wounded warriors get home for christmas. all right now on fox news sunday. chris: hello again from fox news in washington. with just over three weeks until the iowa caucuses the republican candidates for president came out swinging last night at a debate in des moines. steve brown watched the action to see who scored and who missed. steve? reporter: chris, there were plenty of attempts to knock down newt gingrich the frontrunner a peg or two but the efforts came up short. we could start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the moon. i m not in favor of spending that kind of money to do that. eeoc said that he would like to eliminate in some cases the child labor laws so that kids could clean schools. i don t agree with that idea. we have differences of view point on some issues. the only reason you didn t become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. now, wait a second. wait a second. that is that was
because they think it s a long shot right now. it is a long shot. and it s going to be hard to be in the republican majority with a democratic president. it s like harry sade it s easy to be in the minority especially in the senate because you have a lot of power to be in the majority in the senate, especially republicans, they re going to have to work with democrats, with a democratic president. that blurs the lines for them when they want to create contrast in the next two years, particularly with republicans trying to defeat barack obama in 2012. it will make their job more difficult. legislatively, what are the next moments look like leading up to their adjournment? what s going to get done? i think we re done. i don t think we re likely to see anything substabtive happen. and i don t think they even stay around much longer than probably this week. but it will be interesting. for democrats, they want to continue to seem like they re working. for republicans, they want
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