Touted it in the weeks leading up to this march. Conservatives are still happy that at least this bill, which was considered last year is now being considered on the floor. It is an issue that also came up last september in the gao report that said some of the federal subsidies under the health law were being used to cover some abortion services. Is this the kind of measure that we we mentioned at the top that the march for life happening in washington this week, is this the sort of measure that these abortion bills that really have to be passed by the house . Yeah. Theyre pretty much messaging bills at this point. In the senate it will be difficult for them to pass and obama issued a veto threat last year on this federal funding for abortion bill. Melanie covering it all covering Health Policy and the abortion bill debate in the house. You can follow her reporting on twitter at mzanona. Thank you for joining us. Thanks. And legislation is being voted on the house floor right now. We w
Ladies and gentlemen there is one more lost child. Im sorry, shes over here to my right, your left. Shes 9 years old from north dakota. Shes looking for her parents. If you see anyone, theyre right over here by the gate. We continue to cover the u. S. Conference of mayors winter meeting underare way way in washington. President obama addresses the group this afternoon. Thats coming up 4 45 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan. All this month were covering state of the state speeches and governors inaugurations, which you can see at cspan. Org. Tonight, well bring you some of the speeches beginning at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Including republican governor nathan deal, in georgia. Larry hogan, the governor of maryland. Tom wolf of pennsylvania. And new mexico governor suzanna mar tee hes in martinez. Thats 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Org 2. Andrew keen, author of internet is not the onser eranswer on how the public is being used for profit. People went to work for factories. The
Burdens. Keeping them on board is going to be an effort. So if we wind up in a situation where we reached an agreement that all of our partners believe is in their security interests, our security interests, the security interests of other partners beyond those making the agreement and then that agreement was to be in some fashion unravelled here i think what would result is the sanctions regime that so many in this chamber have labored so hard to put in place, that would likely unravel. Implementing additional sanctions, we would be unable to implement the existing regime. Iran would be off in that sense potentially scotfree. Thats at least a danger we would have to grapple with. One question on sanctions. As a potential tool to the negotiating table, consider a resolution from the United States congress stating our clear intent upon the failure of negotiations to reach fruition to enact the kind of crippling sanctions that were all beginning a discussion about today. Clearly it would
A few moments ago we heard the president lay out his vision for the year to come. Even if we may not always agree its important to hear different points of view in this great country. We appreciate the president sharing his. Tonight, though, rather than respond to a speech, id like to talk about your priorities. Id like to have a conversation about the new Republican Congress you just elected and how we plan to make washington focus on your concerns again. We heard the message you sent in november loud and clear. And now were getting to work to change the direction washington has been taking our country. The new Republican Congress also understands how difficult these past six years have been. For many of us the sting of the economy and the frustration with washingtons dysfunction werent things we had to read about. We felt them every day of we felt them in red oak, the little town in south western iowa where i grew up and am still proud to call home today. As a young girl, i plowed th
You know, to expand our airports, we are increasingly relying on passenger facility charges for the capital we need. How can we support the administrations proposal to raise that cap and how can we support your efforts and vice versa on that . Well, this is a vitally important issue. Right now, theres a its a 4. 50 cap on the pfc charges. We proposed lifting that cap to 8. Which would provide these are moneys that airports can use flexibly to improve their facilities. It takes a little bit of the structure of the Airport Improvement Program away and puts that money at the local level so that you can use that money more flexibly. We are big supporters of this. And again this is a place where i think conveying directly to members of congress how this impacts you, what plans do you have for your airport that could be enhanced if you had more nimble dollars at the local level that could be used to enhance that vision . Thats the area of disconnect that i think we have up here. And by the w