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Southeastern Connecticut lawmakers — and by extension their constituents — will be well represented on the powerful Appropriations Committee when the General Assembly reconvenes next month, however that might look in these continuing pandemic times. On the other hand, local Democratic representatives were shutout when incoming House Speaker Matt Ritter of Hartford announced the 26 committee chair assignments. Several new chairpersons have less seniority — five will be starting only their ...

Culture, rush limbaugh, everybody going after him. a sudden change of heart, where he called the speaker of the house paul ryan the outgoing republican leader, keechb mccarthy into the oval office and tellingly, in that meeting, a very rare occurrence. not just leaders, those would leaders but leaders of the house conservative caucus as well, mark meadows and jordan was there. they wanted to stand and fight. they made that stapp on the floor. after nancy pelosi said the $5 billion funding would ...

>> this is gary cohns last meeting if in the cabinet and of the cab. and he has been terrific. he may be a globalist, but i still like him. he is seriousry a globalist. there is no question. but you know, in his own way he is a nationalist because he loves our country. >> okay, so globalist. now where have we heard that before? well the one thing for one thing in a statement tuesday to the office of management and budget director mick mulvaney as a right-wing and founding member of conservative ...

Right-wing koevt and founding member of conservative caucus the coworker i worked closest and best with at the white house would be a globalist. it sounds like a mainstream term, a description of an economic and political ideology. but its more than that. its also become a dog whistle to right-wing conspiracy theoryisting. of the anti-defamation league tells "the new york times" the far right uses global i. as shorthand for world view based on anti-submitism. and accident phobia. the presidents ...

Market. its doing nothing, its waiting for the president to speak later, waiting for the details of this plan, but it is sitting at a record high. it has been rising in anticipation of an administration that has promised to be business friendly. when you look at some of the details like lowering the corporate tax rate to 20 from 35, limiting the tax rate for small businesses. its at least injecting a positive atmosphere. >> judge napalitano: let me be the skunk of the garden party. under the con...

...what you love. ensure. always be you. kelly: welcome back, the push to repeal and replace obamacare may not be over. despite the failure in the senate in the wee, wee hours yesterday republican members in the house which passed health care reform bill are hoping the senate will keep at it and president trump tweeting after 7 years of talking repeal and replace, the people of our great country are still being forced to live with imploding obamacare. republican congressman mark walker from nort...

Obamacare. were hopeful there may be a vote soon. we dont want to put an artificial deadline on this, though. we learned that a few weeks ago. we want to keep getting this thing in a better place. >> shannon: good morning, doug, what is the latest on the passage of healthcare within days? >> the latest word from the president himself comes from an interview he did late yesterday afternoon with "the washington examiner" where he said republicans are very close to getting a healthcare bill done. b...

Plan to repeal obamacare that included some changes. our next guest has some news on that process, i am joined by dave sherman, senior writer for reince priebus and co-author of the reince priebus playbook, must read for sure. what are you reading about what is happening? >> the house freedom caucus, the conservative caucus that has been a thorn in the side of leadership for a few years is now in favor of the healthcare bill with an amendment drafted by house freedom caucus chair mark meadows an...

He says that can continue and snow ball if he gets a lot of his agenda through. that includes a lot of infrastructure spending. will that do the trick? >> the markets believe the agenda is intact. maybe delayed but its in tact. perhaps the infrastructure spending if further out. what is fascinating, he met with ceos and union leaders. hes working out to working class, the people that put him in office, infrastructure spending. its about good paying jobs, middle class jobs. that creates a strong ...

Conservative members always. there were more moderate members who were going to walk away from that bill at the end. thats why the vote was pulled, right? so, theres a narrative out there always against the most conservative members in the conservative caucus. and they were called right wing and all this kind of stuff. i follow james madison, i did a ph.d in economics, i went to princeton seminary, i follow adam smith from the scottish enlightenment who gave us free economics. thats not right wi...