The National Constitution center as you know is the only institution in the country chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Those of you that have been to the townhall should be able to recite that Mission Statement with me in unison, and im so proud of the superb programs weve been having over the past couple weeks to fulfill that mission. Just last night an introduction with the university of pennsylvania we had a future panel about the nsa surveillance with peter from the Intelligence Commission and Charlie Savage and anita allen from the university of pennsylvania. March 5 we are going to have our First Partnership with the intelligence squared, a great series where alan hirsch of its of Harvard Law School full of the date whether the president has the Constitutional Authority to target and kill american citizens abroad which is a topic we will be talking about today into Zeke Emmanuel vice provost and my crewmates in ph
At this point we have seen Small Businesses all over this country who are losing the ability to compete, who are not expanding, who are staying under 50 employees, who are not hiring and who are forcing employees to move to parttime work. According to the chamber of commerce, survey of Small Businesses, half of Small Businesses eligible for the employee mandate are either moving to parttime workers or forcing fulltime workers to go parttime. This is not a small problem. This is not a marginal problem. This is a problem all over the country. You are a he talking millions of Small Businesses. And another i believe its 24 are not growing to stay under 50 employees. Which means theyre not hiring people. Anyone struggling to find a job, Small Businesses provide twothirds of all new jobs. Small businesses are crying out that obamacare is killing them. And, unfortunately, the United States senate is not hearing their crisis. Their cries. For the millions of americans that are facing the threa
Has there been an effort to have it translate to the other chamber and what kinds of chamber and what kinds of we are having it in the freshmen class. This weekreat dinner with the freshmen members from the democrat side of the aisle and the republicans. You how many bottles of wine we went through. And what we talked about was coming together, to get things done. Women are born networkers. Were born communicators. Multitaskers. Were solutionoriented. And i think there are lots of opportunities for us to come together and make things happen. Hats why i came to congress im somewhat discouraged with be level of dysfunction, to honest. And to the extent that we can be moving the change in ball forward, advancing things ,n behalf of our constituents and the country. Thats what we want to be a part of. Oldtimer, ive been here longer than many of you alive. En been we used to get along, used to women ate bipartisan dinners far more often than the etc. Of marge, so if they are still going on,
Congress is back in session today. The house gavels in at noon eastern for general speeches. 2 00 eastern for legislative work. The senate is also back at 2 00 p. M. Here is a preview of the week ahead on the hill. We want to take a step back and talk more broadly about congress. It is going to be a busy week. Is on therowicz phone. He is a reporter with the hill. Thanks for joining us. Budget us about the first. Weve been waiting for the larger omnibus spending bill to be unveiled. Is that happened has that happened yet . And has not as of last night. That is the big mission of the week for congress. They will have to do it in two stages. They will have to pass a short term bill through saturday and that will give them time to wrestle through the giant, a little bit more than 1 trillion spending bill, for the rest of the year. It seems like theres is a lot of agreement just to do it that way. And then that will fund it and give them three or four days to figure out the spending bill.
Mandates for expensive green energy production. With more on this, jails sweeney, senior fellow at hoover institution. Welcome to the show. Good to have you here . What is going on here . What do you think is driving electricity Prices Higher . The, combination of several things. But the Biggest Issue is, that the distribution infrastructure. The transmission, transformers and the wires and all of this distribution infrastructure that was built 40 or 50 years ago, fully deappreciated. Were not paying for it and it will have to be replaced. Most of the estimates of large increases of electricity prices we expect will be mostly driven by the need for new infrastructure. The second thing driving it, less important, is the, the move towards better cooling of electric generating plants. We now have a cooling system that water goes through and you kill a lost fish and a closed system. A closed system is more expensive but it has less damage to the fish stocks. And thats a second, more import