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Another rate increase may be appropriate fairly soon. Several factors suggest that the pace of rate increases should be gradual. Including the assem tri of risks at the zero lower bound, Downside Risks from weak Global Demand and gee political events. A lower long run mutual funds rate and the apparently elevated sensitivity of conditions tomile. Uncertainly about the location of supply side constraints provides another reason for gradualism. There are potential concerns with this gradual approa...

Black members of the jury. We want to talk about your confidence level in the criminal Justice System. If you are in the mountain , andic, 202 7488001 experience with criminal justice, we want to hear your story this morning, 202 join us onu can also twitter or facebook. We will get your calls in just a minute but lets kick off the conversation with president recent weekly address he made about the criminal Justice System. Some 2. 2 Million Peoples behind bars in america and millions more are on...

Brian what makes them so interesting . Betty part of the interest for me is that there are parts of sumners career that are famous and very well known. Everybody who has visited the theyve heardng, infamous caning. But that is often the only thing they know about him. He left the senate for a few years and came back in 1859. The most interesting part of his career came after that. He came back in 1859 and the most important part was when he becomes a dedicated advocate for civil rights laws. He ...

Line up were ready to take some questions. Hi, my name is sean, and im from the university of san diego. So speaking about incentives for Congress People to take the long view, take the hard vote, what do you think in your opinion is the best solution to incentivizing individual Congress People to take the long view . Well, first of all, nobodys going to do something that deliberately and intentionally causes their loss. That wou defy the laws of nature. So im from kansas so if i went up and i s...

Donald ritie, thank you for ing with us on america history. The senate jority leader i not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . That puzzles a lot of people. We once had a former speaker of the house contact us and say i was the president pro perso ray in the pro tempore but not the majority leader because e speakers of e usee the nate majority leader as their equivalent, their functional equivalent on the senate side. Ofourse the speaker of the house is written ito the const...

In january. Next, we look at the historical role of the Senate Majority leader and its four former leaders, robert byrd, harold baker, and we hear from Donald Richie and mitch mcconnell. Donald richie, thank you for being with us. The Senate Majority leader is not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . We looked at a former speaker of the house, who contacted us and say why is the president pro tem a matter of succession but not the majority leader . That is the functional equi...

He went on to get his law degree, and he had president kennedy come to present his diploma at his graduation. But i thought here he was in a body full of rhodes scholars and yale and stanford and harvard graduates and all of the ivy leaguers with terrific education. He never felt inferior about that. He felt that he never ended his education. He was always reading, he was always studying. I once went with him to an event, and i looked at the back of his car and there was the count of month crist...

They sign their names inside the desk drawers to show that they sat there. All the leaders of the republican parties and all the leaders of the democratic parties are in the center front row seats. Beside them would usually be the party whips, and behind them the senior members of the party. Thats the seat of in leadership . The senate is the 100 personalities are a huge influence on the senate. Even a small change in membership has an impact. Large changes have very large impacts. And especiall...

With live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan and the senate on cspan2, here on cspan3 would complement that coverage by showing you the most relevant congressional hearings and Public Affairs events. Then on weekends, cspan3 is a home to American History tv with programs that tell our nation story, including our series visiting battlefields and key events, american artifacts, during museums and Historic Sites to discover what artifacts reveal about americas past. History bookshelf with the bes...

Of the house, who contacted us and say why is the president pro tem in the order of succession but not the majority leader . That is the functional equivalent. The speaker of the house is written into the constitution, to president pro tem is as well. No mention of a majority or minority leader. The constitution did not anticipate political parties. They thought it was going to happen, but they did not want to encourage political parties. We had no majority leader in the history of the senate fr...