he talked with c-span about his legislative priorities and the importance of family and public service. congressman, why did you decide to run for a house seat? i looked at the chance to run for a house seat as the ability to take some of the things i have worked on at the state level to the national level. issues, especially involving the environment that can only be addressed at a and a comprehensive way at the national level. this was the primary reason that i did this. what is the biggest difference in your mind with your work at the state legislature where you served many terms and now, being here, not too far from the virginia assembly, but here in washington? the biggest difference is the amount of latitude you have as a congressman. you have staff that can dig into an issue for you. the virginia legislature runs up for a shorter period of time so it is more regimented. in the congress, you make it what you want it to be. i want to dive into environmental issue
act completely? does notises it but repeal it. congress is using a budget technique to try to get the bill through. it is called budget reconciliation. it cannot be filibustered in the senate and only needs 50 votes. that is the good side if you want to pass the legislation. the difficult side is that there are a lot of things you cannot do in budget reconciliation. everything in it has to be directly attributable to the federal budget. it has to add or subtract from the federal budget. there are many things they cannot do in this bill and they are not doing it which was initially are to the problem for a lot of conservatives. they promised to repeal the whole thing but to do that, they would need 60 votes in the senate. that is what set up this whole difficult situation. what is included and what is excluded? included is everything having to do with the money. it repeals all of the taxes that went into the affordable care act to a for the health to pay for people to ge
and the people inside of washington said our we can t shift power we have to do that. we have to have power in washington. so that is the battle going on. more power to the bureaucrats this is a struggle going on. this is the topic of power to the people the road to freedom and prosperity for the four, seniors and those most in need of the best healthcare. peter is the author. this is book tv on c-span2. joining us on booktv is the editor of the claremont review of books. that is the country s leading and possibly journal of the conservative book review. if you don t see it that often but it is on the newsstands and you can find it at claremont.org and it s a conservative think tank. tank. how did a -begin-quotes it again about 16 years ago because of the felt necessity. they are in the new york review of books and the sunday new york times book review and new republic book review pages that were prominent and eminent place for liberals to review one another s bo
all americans living here and following are not, not that their lives will be protected. [cheers and applause] thank you. we are going to be topped and we are going to be smart and we re going to do it right. america will be a tolerant and open society. america will also be a safe society. we will protect our borders at home. we will defeat isis overs these. we have no choice. we will ensure every parent can rates their children in peace and safety. we will make america rich again. we will make america safe again. we will make america great again. thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much, everybody. appreciate it. [cheers and applause] sharemarket imac donald trump speakman response to the massacre in orlando speaking specifically of immigration. the live shot of the capital with the flag at half staff. reporter with the national public radio, npr. i ll political reporter calls for an expansion of immigration to countries with pro
teens.ed writing in my i started publishing an american spectator when i was 18 years old. , and fromin manhattan the age of 11 or 12, i would wander around to movie theaters and see stuff after school and on weekends. inot fundamentally literate movies that i could write about them. that was over 37 years ago. now, if you are 18 or 19 years yearsou have another 37 that you have something to be responsible about it i don t know if it is as easy as it was then. fores had only been around 50-60 years then, and now they have been around for 90 years, so there are more movies to take account of. reviews,ou reach her you see politics sometime. how influential have movies been on what our political culture is? it s the quake question about whether they reflected or lead it. i think for the most part, movies reflect our political culture, and they are an effort to gain the largest possible audience by being the most capacious they can possibly be not to offend the people as much as