Experience as a lawmaker. You making the decision that he wanted to come to washington and served in congress, you had a successful business in South Carolina. Why was this institution something that interested you . To be honest, it was not. I wanted to stay in South Carolina and had embarked upon a race for the senate and governor and stayed in town fulltime. The more i campaigned, the more people told me that they thought i would be a Better Congress member. Ultimately, my congressman who was running for reelection decided to retire in the middle of reelection in february 2010. After much prayer and a lot of phone calls, i thought the people were right and i switched over to become a congressman. That was the impetus of the switch, the Health Care Law and my desire to see a guy who spent 23 years within the Insurance Industry want to make sure that had the opportunity to make their health cares decisions in the private sector. The impetus is that thinking coming here, one person can
Power lunch starts right now good day, everybody. Welcome to power lunch. Im Tyler Mathisen as michelle just highlighted, the dow and s p 500 hitting records again. But we are well off those levels at this hour nasdaq basically getting slammed. Down more than 1 . Big selloff in tech. Check out what is leading that nasdaq 100 lower Lamb Research down so auto disk down 15 now applied materials, invidia also in the tank today. In fact, the whole Semi Conductor industry on pace for its worst day in almost a year more on this group coming up forget ten, folks. Lets move on to 11,000. Bitcoin breaking past 11,000 just hours after topping 10,000 for the first time ever. Everybody is talking about bitcoin. Crypto currency up more than 30 in the past week and now up well over 1,000 this year, brian. Its like an auction. Do i hear 12,000 im Brian Sullivan heres what else is happening at this hour. Tyler drilled down on bitcoins record run the nasdaq planning to launch Bitcoin Futures next year.
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