Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today. Its on the conservative case for class actions a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanized this debate. We have three outstanding speakers, panelist i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice here at gibson, dunn crutcher. Is litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. You may have a sense of where his position is on that. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate, and University Virginia law school where he was on the long review, and is alo the author of the chapter in the popular guide series on so please welcome christopher chorba. [applause] our next panelist is the profession selfie wrote the book. He is a graduate of notre dame where he was runnerup valedictorian, but he made up for that when he went to Harvard Law School and one the diploma. [inaudible] a lot easier, a lot easier. And he
Let me turn briefly to a letter that i sent to the vice chair of super vision and some of the other federal regulators in january of this year regarding the basil 3 capital requirements. I support the overall effort. We take you live now to the floor of the house where today lawmakers will be working on several pieces of legislation. Including a bill to detain migrants for theft related crimes. Yesterday, the house passed a government funding measure which now heads to the senate. Two shutdown deadlines on friday. Take you live now to the house floor here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Offeredy chaplain kibben. Chaplain kben would you pray with me. God of all creation, bd you ear toward the earth and hear the cries of your people imprised by their adversaries stol from their lives and loved ones and hel captive by hatred. There are cntss men women and children acrosshe glo who are victims o heartless cruelty. But on thi day w lift up those who remain hel
They are narrowing down what will be still a very substantial, across the board tax cut, not just the same for everyone across the board. Here is what we now know. On the corporate side, were taking that rate from 35 to 15 . This is the goal. Then a 15 tax on passthroughs, s corpse, hedge funds, real estate entities, a lot of lot of donald trump interests would benefit from the lower rate. Standard deduction doubles for individuals and families to roughly 12,600. If that is the case, that sticks, an additional 12 to 15 million americans, who presently go through, detail all their deductions would take the standard deduction. Would make their filing a lot simpler. It would not rule out deductions across the board. Three rates now. That top rate at 35 . As stuart pointed out here. Bottom rate of about 10 . Were going to getting into all of this with kevin brady, man who runs the house ways and means committee. He was for bigger tax cuts the o looking for a border tax to pay for a lot of
Good wednesday morning to you all. Im diane macedo. And im nick watt in for kendis gibson. We begin with President Trump just hours away from embarking on his second foreign trip and the biggest diplomatic test of his presidency. The president is stopping in poland before hell head to germany for the g20 summit and a sitdown with russian president Vladimir Putin. Abcs emily rau has a preview from washington. Emily, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane and nick. For months speculation has grown about President Trumps relationship with Vladimir Putin and when the two World Leaders sit down together expected on friday, they will address some of the most pressing global issues of our time. [ playing hail to the chief ] reporter after a fourth of July Celebration at the white house our country is doing really, really well. Reporter President Trump now heads to poland on the way to germany for the g20 summit and all eyes are on the friday sitdown with russian president Vladimir Putin.
Good wednesday morning to you all, im diane macedo. And im nick watt in for kendis gibson. We begin with President Trump just hours away from embarking on his second foreign trip and the biggest diplomatic test of his presidency. The president is stopping in poland before hell head to germany for the g20 summit and a sitdown with russian president Vladimir Putin. Abcs emily rau has a preview from washington. Emily, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane and nick. For months speculation has grown about President Trumps relationship with Vladimir Putin and when the two World Leaders sit down together expected on friday, they will address some of the most pressing global issues of our time. After a fourth of July Celebration at the white house. Our country is doing really, really well. Reporter President Trump now heads to poland on the way to germany for the g20 summit and all eyes are on the friday sitdown with russian president Vladimir Putin. I think donald trump is in sort of a p