In fact, chairman in fact, i joined with chairman fred upton to request additional funding for communitybased organizations to help seniors actually enroll in Medicare Part d. I have that letter right here. Unfortunately the republicans have actually taken steps to ensure that consumers do not know all the benefits and protections provided by obamacare. In june, Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, Senate Minority whip john cornyn sent letters to major sports leagues warning them not to help could be sumers consumers be educated about the benefits of obamacare. After Medicare Part d, democrats like me hosted events in order to boost awareness and facilitate enrollment. This has not happened with obamacare. Several republican members have even stated, they will not help constituents who call and ask for more information about the benefits of obamacare and how to enroll. Those republican efforts will only harm American Families and Small Businesses and cut short the relief americans n
And total accounting for that. But he isnt about to do it and it can be done, obviously. If a person is gay and seeks god and has goodwill, who am i to judge them . Children born today grow up in a World Without doma, and the same children who happen to be gay will be free to love and get thated as thea and i did with the same federal benefits and protections as anyone else. At 2013. A look back all of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At 2013. Look back it was an historic year. Edward snowden exposed how the National Security agency amid the nsa, built a worldwide surveillance apparatus while Chelsea Manning wasnt it said 35 years in jail for leakin your secret documents was sentenced to 35 years in jail for leaking secret documents. Pope francis warned about the journey of unfettered capitalism. Tens of thousands were killed in syria. The philippines was devastated by typhoon haiyan. The Supreme Court struck
And total accounting for that. But he isnt about to do it and it can be done, obviously. If a person is gay and seeks god and has goodwill, who am i to judge them . Children born today grow up in a World Without doma, and the same children who happen to be gay will be free to love and get thated as thea and i did with the same federal benefits and protections as anyone else. At 2013. A look back all of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At 2013. Look back it was an historic year. Edward snowden exposed how the National Security agency amid the nsa, built a worldwide surveillance apparatus while Chelsea Manning wasnt it said 35 years in jail for leakin your secret documents was sentenced to 35 years in jail for leaking secret documents. Pope francis warned about the journey of unfettered capitalism. Tens of thousands were killed in syria. The philippines was devastated by typhoon haiyan. The Supreme Court struck
But the marriage is obviously going very well indeed. Spina bifida roast, in 1997. What did you see in that clip you may comment on . Nothing. It is Andrea Mitchell who was a terrific journalist. You cannot emphasize that enough. It looked just seeing that right now it looked like a friendly washington event. Jokes are told. Looks like a lot of comedy. Anything wrong with that . No, not really. I think the reference he was making was to Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspans wedding that had been held around then. They are a power couple. Andrea mitchell is a great journalist. Alan greenspan is one of our most powerful economic minds in the last decade. It is an interesting dynamic when you have this crossover between friendship and social life. But the president of the Motion Picture association told you he would never lobby. He did. I think what chris dodd is implemented in this book is the impermanent feudal class, which is a term that tom coburn uses. It is used to describe the imperm
Over, there is a whole other story on the back. I want to ask you to start off, who is this man . Sam mcclure, founder of mcclures magazine. He was orphaned by his father. His mother immigrated to america, lived in incredible poverty but dreamed of becoming a journalist. He has a dream when he is a young man of creating a magazine. It will be a cheap magazine, not the harpers, but 10 cent people can read it. He will hire staff, pay them for years to do research so that they can come up with real pieces of fact and stories that will persuade the country that we have to do something about the problems of the industrial age. What year . He starts in the 1890s 1893. The magazine flounders until it really grows. When did you decide that you were going to feature these so called muckrakers . I am not sure i can fully remember what happened except that i started with Teddy Roosevelt. So much had been written about teddy that i needed another story. I got into taft knowing they had been friend