Signature legislation. To ask you about the government shutdown. Did that help or hurt conservatives . That topic is constantly debated among conservatives. At the time, and continuously, i argued that it was a bad idea. As long as harry reid is in charge of the senate and president obama is in the white house, you are not going to repeal or defund obamacare. Any strategy contingent upon hising obama to defund signature legislative achievements that he spent the first year of his presidency , staked his whole reelection on, and the idea that this is his one accomplishment and it is a big legislative thatplishment the idea he was going to on do that and you and you based your entire strategy on that was a poor strategy. The publicans ended up caving without getting much in return because they had to. Then, we saw with the deal that was just struck with the budget, it loosens the sequestration cap that conservatives fought for. It loosens them for 2 years. Conservatives originally said,
Federal judge rules this week that the National Security Agency Program that collect the records of millions of americans of phone calls is lawful. Says it does not violate americas privacy rights. It is december 28, the morning and welcome to washington journal. Our topic to kick things off is the end of that extended Unemployment Benefits. Will Congress Renew them when lawmakers return in january . We want to hear from you. For republicans, the number is 2025853881. 5853880. Rats, 202 you can also find us online a on twitter find us online on twitter, cspanwj. And email, were at journal c span. Org. The morning look at headlines. First from the front page of this mornings new york times. The headline the story also making a big in this mornings Washington Post a big slash in this morning post. Igntongton longterm unemployment is the highest since world war ii. There are 4 Million People who have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer. Joining us to talk about that is the hill is a r
Next, a discussion about National Political party nominations, scandal, and comebacks, as well as rules changes for the 2016 election. This is part of the state of the parties conference. It runs just under two hours. We have four papers to be presented. We hope you will have great interest in what they present. More than anything else, we hope you will have Great Questions because this group of individuals have not only studied what has been, but are giving us perspective of what is to come. I think youll find their perspectives very interesting. About party a paper power and the causal effects of endorsements. Seth is at the university of denver and eric is at the public posse institute of california. I will shut up and let them talk. Whats were here presenting this on behalf of our other co authors. We are trying to come up with a measurement of the impact of a Party Endorsement in a primary, which is traditionally a tricky thing to measure. Study toing a fun case do this. This is t
Nominations i dont have my line in here but you only have a few that are not competitive. Versus incumbent renominations that rarely are these things competitive. Betweennd difference these indicators, democrats versus republicans. There is a distinct party difference for this timeframe. Campaigns contents are bit more competitive overall. Republican campaigns typically are not as competitive. Intraparty trends. This is perhaps the most fascinating thing as far as looking ahead toward 2016 and beyond. Haveratic nominations become somewhat less competitive over time. This is suggesting democratic a couple of things. One, the Democratic Party is a little more unified. It also could mean perspective candidates are little more strategic about calculating their chances and not running, which is also a possibility. Republican nominations in contrast, basically competitive in the 1970s. Ray nagin reagan comes along and you have a great deal of unity in the party and that maybe fragmenting in
Society but i was also a believer in a tough approach to the soviet union which means i had ready 30 much at home in the Democratic Party at the time. You had pat point hand. You had Henry Jackson a great senator from Washington State and later on that element of the Democratic Party shrunk to nothingness. And as it did i was without a home. I remained generally without a political home. You could obviously fairly call me a neoconservative then. Host s been 18 years since the 1996 telecommute nations act was enacted by congress and signed by president clinton. Today on the communicators we are going to discuss that its goals and whether or not it should be rewritten rewritten. Joining us are two of the authors of the 1996 Telecommunications Act rick boucher who is a democrat from virginia served in congress from 1983 to 2011 and jack sub 3a republican in texas from 1981 to 97. Congressman feels what was your role in the development of the 96 pelka medications act . Guest it was actuall