Bill Foster: “Maybe I'll just close with a pitch for the repeal of the unique patient identifier ban that the medical world has been…”

This made the discharge petition much more effective at its intended purpose, which is sort of to operate as a safety valve against, you know, the Speaker's rather dictatorial power.

I think we should consider adopting this in the coming session of Congress, at least on a temporary basis.

I think it is my personal goal to die before we have another financial crisis, and then I will be doing my job well.

Do you remember with AIG, the real problem with AIG falling into bankruptcy is that it would immediately put a bazillion of the European banks into violation of their capital requirements, which was major contagion that----