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Welcome to the center for American Progress, i am the executive Vice President of external affairs. Im so delighted that you could join us today. In our recent report reviving antitrust, it highlighted the idea that the economy has grown more consolidated with more power be good time concentrated in the largest firms in america. This is in no small part of the conservative assault on both government and the middle class. This assault has played out not just in the courts, but in antitrust enforc...

Now moving to some challenge territory when theyll be taking you through. Before that, let me mention something i start with about the choice of the day. And there were a few chuckles. April fools day, why would she do it . And we see throughout medieval history. Its not just between powerful, but conventional ideas and assumptions on which we want to challenge today in an open and respectful way. You notice here there are two empty chairs. These chairs along to you and the audience says at leas...

Its my pleasure to invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lin...

We have a market flash on at t. Take a look at shares of at t and time warner. Bloomberg reporting that Senior Executives at at t and time warner have been meeting to discuss various business combinations including a possible merger. It says the talks are in early stages but reportedly the talks of a combination and reported take over has been discussed. Shares of at t are lower but we are looking at timec warner higher on this report. Back to you guys. Here we go again. Thank you. The days lea...

And im dominic chu sitting in for wilfred frost this morning. U. S. Stocks are on their strongest threeday rally since the turmoil in august. The dow and the s p up more than 5 , the nasdaq gaining around 6. 5 . This is the First Time Since october of 2011 that the s p 500 has rallied at least 1 in three straight sessions. U. S. Equity futures right now pointing to what could be perhaps a little bit more of a modest pause well call it. Its early. Were not really moving anywhere. The s p, dow, an...

We need a president who can do parts of the job on behalf of all americans who believes in the basic proposition about our country. Then when each and every live up has a chance to to their own godgiven only then then and could america live up to its potential. Can build elp, we that future together. Please, join me on march 1. Thank you all for everything you to make sure we vote with confidence and optimism and future that we shape. Thank you all very much. The candidate speaking in st. Paul, ...

The communications and technology subcommittee. Representative shimkus, thanks for joining us. Guest its great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Host and also joining us, david mccabe of the hill, thank you for joining us. Pleasure to be here. Host theres an effort in congress about who controls the internet, internet dominance, and you have a piece of legislation that deals specifically with this. Could you set up our audience and let them know what the issue is and what your bill addresses...

Is mandated. I think 13 its on the table. And a couple have vetoed it. What states individually do is up to them but certainly along those lines we recognize thats valuable. And are you saying that its a federal regulation . Im not familiar with the process. Im just learning. Okay. Because the extent that those are out there, what were doing is were trying to pick up the slack for a lot of failed federal agencies that havent paid attention to that. I think its extremely valuable to have so we wa...

Appeared to be sweating at the time, was seemed happy to be leaving the room now that the hearing had concluded. I thought the most interesting thing was those conversations that didnt get captured on camera. I did mention one about chairman gowdy and mrs. Clintons aid, huma abedin, but there were other moments, other members of Congress Talking to each other. We devote gaveltogavel coverage to the house and senate, the house on cspan and the senate on cspan2. And when it comes time to those key...

All of the women, shes going back just pulled over the side of the road and asked gore to speak to her about what she was doing. To make herself. I remember her taking homeless men and women into home in gaithersburg which did not please the neighbors. And so then she moved into the neighborhood where there was a problem with a rundown house to i let her pick it up from there to talk about what she does house of help and the city of hope. Thank you, bob. Good afternoon, good morning, everybody. ...