is in the house of representatives, i represented a district in northern ohio about four hours from windsor, ontario. i used to take bus loads of ohio consumers, mostly elderly, but not all, to canada to buy drugs. it was a peculiar thing for a federal official in one country to take people to another country to buy prescription drugs, the same prescription drugs they could have bought in a local drug store, same brand names, same box even, the same -- this exact same drug, same inert or active ingredients. the price was 1/3 or 1/4. that's the only difference. that's not because of their single-payer health care system but the government did what the ba does this this country, negotiate drug prices on behalf of 38 million consumers and directly negotiate the drug prices on behalf of them with the drug industry and got price savings of 50, 60, 70, 80%. the mccain approach is the right approach in cost savings that are so important will be contributed to this bill if we pass the mccain language without the weakening language. i would add those same kinds of cost savings we can see in the biol

. >> david windsor, when it comes to copyright and piracy, how you deal with that internationally? >> i think we touched on some of it. in most territories, there are strong copyright laws and anti piracy laws. i think the challenge everywhere is enforcement. at the end of the day, as some writers are not going to get paid, there will be some motivation, that there will not be an industry structure that will support the music that we love. also the trade value, the export value of american music is huge. there is tremendous value to many foreign markets. i think we have something, for instance in the u.s., composers did not get paid when there is no performing right in a download, just to differentiate it from the performing right and the sound recording. when you downloaded film or tv show, there is no performance in town. foreign societies to represent composer's own whose songs bad -- it look at and say, this is not right. how can it be and the u.s. we're not getting that? there are different ways of protecting copyright. that is the challenge, making sure that copyright is bein

. >> host: windsor vermont, greg on the independent line. >> caller: im and although mechanic, independent, have my own business and this little project they are throwing out, the bottom line is the american public, we have more money, number one. number two, the first comment, the leedy commenting about the problems, we have competed against the japanese and the bottom line is the american public is so dissatisfied with american made cars we have to go to the research and development as an auto mechanic i see this time and time again the dealerships, the service departments are terrible. people are dissatisfied. they are not going to buy american made cars. keep going back to the european media goals and i feel that -- people with cars that are gas guzzlers have more money, that's why they own those. if they're fortunate to buy a new vehicle, then they are dissatisfied with american made cars. it's called the control. we need to go to research and development and compete against the japanese and that's the bottom line as an automotive mechanic i know what i'm talking about. >> host: thank

from conducting a public forum back in my district and listening to former republican mayor of south windsor, connecticut, john mitchell, and our attorney general of the state of connecticut, richard blumen thall. the idea, when -- richard blumenthal. the idea, when we were looking at commodities and the market, we realized the more and closer we looked at who was regulating these agencies, it was somewhat a case of the foxes guarding the hen house. many have asked, and when they went home over the break and since the financial collapse on wall street, people have been astounded in trying to answer the question of how could it be that bernie may dauf was scamming thousands -- may doff was scamming -- ma doff was scamming thousands -- madoff was scamming thousands into giving up their money. where were the agencies, where were they when speculators were wreaking havoc on the oil markets? i can think of no sector where honesty, independence, and transparency are needed more right now than in our financial and commodity markets. yet the regulatory -- regulators of these markets have been athrou

host: of windsor, vermont. grad on independent line. caller: i am an auto mechanic from independent. this whole project that they are throwing out there -- you know, the bottom line is the american public, we have no money, number one. a number two, the first comment, the lady commented about her problems with american made cars. quality-control. we are competing against the japanese and europeans and the bottom line is the american public were so dissatisfied with american-made cars that we have to go to the grass roots, research and development. as an auto mechanic, i see it time and time again, the dealership's, the service departments are terrible and people are dissatisfied. they're not going to buy american made cars. they will keep going back to the japanese and european-made vehicles. i just feel that these incentive programs, i don't know. talking about maybe newark-type cars. people with gas-guzzlers' some of these people have no money and that is why they on the vehicles. they are fortunate enough to buy a newer vehicle, they