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Brookings institution on the legislative and political significance of the 115th congress so far. Host in front of the white house by the president yesterday republican lawmakers gather on the south lawn to celebrate passage of their tax reform legislation. It is the first of major changes to the u. S. Tax code since Ronald Reagan in 1986. All but a dozen republicans in the house voted against the proposal. Democrats in the house voted against the proposal. We will take the last part of their ar...

It is good to rate a congress compared to others. Lets take the first year of the Obama Administration. In the first two years the Affordable Care act passed eventually, this one had some problems, the pastor tax bill and theres a lot of things that are important but they failed in repealing the Affordable Care act, yes they they have not done very well, they had some oversight hearings that we have not seen those with russia, if theyre in my class, i would give them a d. Because of what they di...

Crossed. Washington journal continues. Host at our table we are joined y James Thurber who is professor of government at American University and also ounder and former director of their center for congressional and president ial studies and from brookings institution. Thank you both for being here. Rate this current session of congress. We are coming to the close, the year of the irst 115th congress. How would you rate them . Has it been a success . Rate to the good to compared it other congress...

Continues here on aljazeera after talk to aljazeera all season by. Aljazeera where ever you. Think. You can war is all. The more than four and a half years iranian refugee perus but chinese has been living in the limbo on a remote specific island he was sent there by australia after he tried to reach its shores by boat. For our. It is a prison it was a prison. Even worse than a prison because. The prisoners in or around the world nobody porcher them you really see it as torture yeah of course yo...

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Less than the men . Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night and we begin with that deadly midair collision in south carolina. Authorities say a fighter jet smashing into a small plane, pieces of the jet and the plane raining down on a neighborhood a piece of one of the engines right there. Eye witnesses describing a ball of fire in the sky. It happened ten miles outside charleston and at this hour the ntsb the air force both investigating, drivers in the water. The...

But will they be paid 40 times less than the men . Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night and we begin with that deadly midair collision in south carolina. Authorities say a fighter jet smashing into a small plane, pieces of the jet and the plane raining down on a neighborhood a piece of one of the engines right there. Eye witnesses describing a ball of fire in the sky. It happened ten miles outside charleston and at this hour the ntsb the air force both investiga...

Us to prevent iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon is through principle diplomacy and agreement thats structured exactly like this one, that requires iran to take some significant steps to curtail their Nuclear Program and to agree to have those steps be rigorously verified by the International Community. Ash carter is going to be in israel next week. Hes going to be asking sort of what the israelis need. What if the israelis ask for these bunkerbusting bombs and equipment that would allow them ...

Website, cspan. Org history. Youre watching cspan youre watching American History tv, all we can every weekend on cspan3. Memorialetnam veterans was dedicated on washington, d. C. s National Mall in 1982. Restonuthor james discusses the memorials creation. Of,s reston is the author art, memory, and the fight for the Vietnam Memorial. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am the lisbon centers vice president. James reston is a Wilson Center global fellow. I believe so is it . I was going to an eve...

Me and from the side Henry Kissinger said, by definition, the people who cannot hear will not respond. [laughter] youre at the Wilson Center and today is another in our books at wilson series featuring the latest book by the remarkable james reston who is a Wilson Center global fellow. The topic of the book deals with a contentious period in the history of the vietnam war, and the book itself deals with the contentious debate over how to mark that war and the american role and sacrifice during t...