Six key gop senators. It is interesting a mall gum. The latest hurdle seems to be a spending bill, budget bill. Not that the government lights go out but there is concern about how long do you keep it going latest talk is a twoweek measure . Do you believe that . A twoweek measure. To get us over christmas. I kid you not. We have a a chief congressional correspondent. This will be bigger issue than the tax cut thing, by and large been resolved. We have arguing back and forth today, but what do you make of this . First of all i dont think the tax deal is settled either. Today the Republican Leadership handed out three pages of differences that the house lawmakers have to look at and consider when they go into negotiations with the senate. A lot of them are small differences but those are 30 or so differences they need to work through. As for the spending bill, youre right, that will really take the oxygen out of the room for the next couple weeks. Right now theyre talking about a twowee
Of vladimiritic putin discusses russias influence in the u. S. And other countries. Washington journal is next. Returning to the Legal Framework that covered the president rom clintons announcement in 1996 to 2015 is not going to destroy the internet. It is not going to and the internet as we know it. High the fcc chair a jeep pai reversing regulations from the Obama Administration, known as Net Neutrality. Ahead on the washington journal, we will begin with your calls and comments, your reaction, and mean for you. All eyes on Congress Next week with the expected vote on that republican tax bill, but new concerns this morning from the hill. Com. Obstacles emerge as the gop races to the tax finish. We will be talking about all of these, but we want to get your reaction to the secs fcc cs repeal of Net Neutrality. If you support the measure, call us at 202 7488000. If you oppose, 202 7488001. We want to begin with what a of what Net Neutrality is and the impact of yesterdays 32 decision.
During a National Ceremony outside the white house. Taking part in the ceremony was gary cohn, White House National economic director and the chief advisor to the president. This is about 45 minutes. Welcome. I want to greet all the thousands of brave souls who did not look at the Weather Report when they planned to be hair welcome. I want to greet all the thousands of brave souls who did not look at the Weather Report when they planned to be hair hand that may nor the actual weather when they took the trip over and joined us for this Lighting Ceremony of the National Hanukkah menorah here on the ellipse and washington, d. C. I am the executive Vice President of american friends of lubavitch the sponsoring organization for this event. Thank you. We are delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate hanukkah, the festival of lights, which marks our religious freedom here on americas front lawn. This is a privately sponsored event. We are going to condense the program some because of the
Now a discussion on bitcoin and the future of crypto currency. From washington journal, this is about 30 minutes. Washington journal continues. Host joining us is brian knight, Senior Research fellow for the Financial Markets working group at Mercatus Center, and he is here to talk about bitcoin and the future of cryptocurrency. Thank you for joining us today. For people like me who really do not understand this very well, bitcoin andt is cryptocurrency . Is a computer protocol used to set up a peer decentralized network where you have a valuable token, a bitcoin, and a distributed ledger. One of the thing that is unique is instead of a centralized party maintaining the database, it is maintained by all of the Different Computers on the protocol simultaneously. That is why they call it distributed ledger. The goal was to set up a system for payments and value transfer that really is not subject to reliance on a centralized party. Host why was this developed, and how does it work . Deve
If you say no, 202 7488001 send 202 7488001. Send us a tweet. All eyes on the house and senate. We will have the coverage on the cspan network, but first we will tell you what is in the bill. The Corporate Tax rate will drop to 21 from a current rate of 39 . The top individual income tax 37 . Drops from 39. 6 to it increases the standard deduction for all who take it. Businesses will get a 20 discount on the individual tax rate. The alternative minimum tax is. Etained but it is narrow the corporate alternative minimum tax is taken out. State and local productions are capped at 10,000. Student Loan Interest remains deductible while graduate Student Loans do not. Joining us is Bernie Becker who has been following this for politico. Walk us through the schedule this week. What can we expect . Guest we expect the house to take this up on tuesday. After that, it would move to the senate. President trump hopes to sign this by the middle of the week and by all accounts, it looks to be on a pr