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Welcome and thank you for making the effort to get here. I dont think any of us thought that the iran story we would be focusing on would be the story, the story of protest, domestic unrest, the biggest demonstrations we have seen since 2009. Whatever one expected to be talking about this week and next week was the question of sanctions waivers, decertification of the gcpoa, and efforts of congress to amend legislation. That is all still in play, but now it has been cast in a different light by ...

Because he changed his name to block chain to talk about hooters you could talk about hooters yeah thats a company here in the United States which is as the name suggests its like a rush it was a restaurant chain it kind of went out of favor because of all this whole hash tag me too and when was the rice becoming a little bit more prominent and hooters was a chain where you go in large breasted women serve you bigger food yes thats the concept of food hers and one of the companies that owns a lo...

Abortion bill. The senate will debate a bill reauthorizes the fisa act. Watch the senate live on cspan2. House speaker paul ryan, thank you for coming. Members of your party are saying the changes need to be made. Speaker ryan it is good to be back with you. Anytime you do massive legislation like this, this is the biggest rewrite of the tax code in more than 31 years, the last big rewrite was 1986. This is more comprehensive than that. We knew all along, when you had such a massively right of t...

They need to be some fixes. What changes need to be made. Speaker ryan it is good to be back with you. Anytime you do massive legislation like this, this is the biggest rewrite of the tax code in more than 31 years, the last big rewrite was 1986. This is more comprehensive than that. We knew all along, when you had such a massive rewrite of tax laws, you are going to have some technical changes that will need to occur. For instance, we rewrote our entire International Tax system on how we treat ...

Update on immigration policy negotiations. At 8 30 eastern, holly harris of the Justice Action Network on prison sentencing and reform. And at 9 00, Darrell Burnett of Education Week on the failing infrastructure in u. S. Schools. Host good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. As you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. We w...

International economics in cash flows. That we knew that would need some revising. So far, though not a lot really , needs to be done, other than i would call small things. Steve no republican support for the Affordable Care act, no democrat support for this bill. Is that the new norm . Secretary perry i hope not. I was surprised that not a single democrat voted for this. I think they will be regretful of that, because in 20 days, you have seen two million families, two million workers getting r...

Following a commission on president reagan. Since then, we have been and covering and exposing uncovering and exposing government waste. Host how are you funded . Solely by individuals, companies, associations, no government monday. Host this conversation about earmarks is a response to a comment the president made. Our system lends itself to not getting things done. I hear so much about earmarks, the old earmark system, how there was a great friendliness that they had other problems with earmar...

House speaker paul ryan, thank you for joining us. Lets talk about the tax bill. Members of your party are saying there need to be some fixes, some revisions to the bill in 2018. What changes if any need to happen . Speaker ryan it is good to be back with you. It has been a while. Anytime you do massive legislation like this, this is the biggest rewrite of the tax code in more than 31 years, the last big rewrite was 1986. This is more comprehensive than that. So we knew all along, when you had s...

Going to our website and entering Manhattan Institute in the search bar. Were going to go live now to capitol hill as the House Rules Committee starts two days of hearings on earmarks. President trump has suggested that those earmarks be restored. They were taken away in february of 2011. To ensure that the government allocates taxpayer dollars responsibly and in light with the values and wishes of the American People. Over the years, the manner in which congress fulfills those duties has been t...

We welcome everyone today. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Article one of the constitution explicitly gives congress authority for spending. Is oversight authorization central to congresss responsibility to ensure the government allocates taxpayer dollars responsibly and in line with the values and wishes of the mecca people. It has been the repeated topic of discussion and debate and calls for a forum. We can agree that abuse and a lack of transparency have often been associated wi...