Hour on the investigations into Sexual Harassment on capitol hill and the second hour on british Prime Minister theresa mays animation of president rumps on this friday, december 1, all lies on the senate as gop leaders scramble to win over enough colleagues to vote for tax reform legislation. 11 00xt vote will come at with a final vote later this afternoon. But first, gop leaders and the aite house need to convince few of their own senators to vote yes. We want to get your thoughts on tax reform legislation this morning. Republicans, call 202 7488001. Democrats, call 202 7488000. Independents, call 202 7488002. You can go to twitter as well at cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, this push for tax reform on capitol hill. The senate expected to take a final vote today. But first, they need to secure more yes votes. The banner page on drudge report tax hike to pass tax cut. The final vote was delayed yesterday. These deficit concerns. It played out on the senate afternoon,rday late when democrats pushed for many times yesterday, for the bill to be sent back to committee. During one of those votes, we led by senator bob corker, republican from tennessee, get into what looked like a Heated Exchange with leadership over the deficit. According to the washington sent Senate Leadership lawmakers home after this and began to search for a new way to offset the cost of the legislation. They are looking to win the support of several senators, including mr. Corker, who led a small group of colleagues intimating that the bill not drive up the nations debt. That vote was held open for a little over an hour while they all discussed what will happen next. ,ccording to the express chimes the gop scrambles for deficit most. Votes. One of those senators also concerned is senator jeff flake of arizona. With the headlines leaders trying to sway flake as gop package gains support. Republicans did pick up senator john mccain from arizona yesterday. He said he would vote for this gop tax plan. What is your thoughts on it . This is how it played out, according to politico. Multiple gop senators leaving the chamber after dramatic Late Afternoon votes said a key proposal for deficit hawks a trigger to raise tax rates if sufficient Economic Growth did not materialize would not pass procedural muster and would need to find Something Else to satisfy the block of deficit hawks hold out. It doesnt look like the trigger is going to work. Whip. As Senate Majority they are just going to automatically put tax increases in. Period. Thats why you sought that our page from the drudge, tax hikes for tax cuts. Host cornyn suggested that figure may need to go higher. We will see how that plays out. In the meantime, your thoughts on this. Lets hear from ed, a republican. Caller i feel like we need these tax cuts. I know for myself, i need it for my pursuit of happiness. Theres a building that ive been saving all my life to build a building to help people in my area. Met tax cut will help achieve my goal of building that building. Host ok. Sheila in georgia, democrat. What are your thoughts about the tax reform . Caller good morning, greta. Bill, ive been watching it. And im 67 years old. Medicaid, ande, Social Security. And from what i can see, they intend to cut all of that. Host where did you learn that, sheila . I havent heard that they plan to cut Social Security. Thats not part of the plan for this tax reform legislation. Caller i dont know where i heard it. Host youve been watching the you tuned in yesterday design the senate floor, you probably saw Heated Exchange between senator sherrod brown, democrat of ohio and senator dan alaska dan sullivan, republican of alaska. Listen to what the two of them had to say. [video clip] tax system in place and when i hear my colleagues disingenuously say the democrats, because they dont like our tax plan, that means they are for the taxes the way it is. Well like that in states like ine we dont like that states like mine and eastern oregon, where Companies Shut orn production in lima springfield and moved to beijing and get a tax break for doing that. We want to close that loophole that this bill explodes that loophole. If a plant shuts down and barbara town or shuts down in , the company under this bill would pay a rate of 20 on the profits. If it shuts down and moves to asia, he can build a new factory get a tax reduction for the cost of moving and pay u. S. Tax rate of zero. Why wouldnt they move . The issue on Economic Growth, we are talking about growth, growth, growth. I have not, in three years three years heard my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say that Economic Growth of 1. 5 for almost 10 years is good for the country, good for workers in ohio. I take back my time. The senator from ohio has the floor. This is the question. Do you believe that the new , gdp growth, 1. 5 for the entire future . Is that what you believe . Course of course i dont believe that the new normal. Its the same game you play before. If you are not for our tax plan, you are not for tax reform. Nobody believes that. Of course we dont think 1. 5 is the new normal. Time, 20ow the last years ago, when we focus on the middleclass and cut taxes for the middle class during the clinton years are the economy exploded. 22 million private sector jobs. But a dozen years ago, president bush did to tax cuts for the wealthy of the view that trickles down everybody will do better. Eight years of president bush, no net job growth. Host thats the debate occurring on the senate floor yesterday. The joint committee on taxation issued a report saying to republicans that that legislation they are considering would not pay for themselves. The tax cuts would not pay for themselves by generating enough revenue through Economic Growth to offset the tax cuts. As republicans have claimed. Instead would add 1 trillion to budget deficits over the next 10 years. That did not sit well with senator bob corker and others. He had already been on the fence over deficit concerns. He insisted Senate Leadership find a way to mitigate the cost of the bill. Thats from New York Times, on their front page. Thisdent trump tweeted about the bill. Republican senators are working hard to pass the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country in the bill is Getting Better and better. This is a once in a generation chance. Obstructionist dems trying to block because they think it is too good and will not four. Credit for. Home sales and Business Investment showing rising optimism. The economy headed into the final stretch of 2017, powered by one of the sturdiest periods indexesh, driving stock to new heights. The dow jones jumped 331 points. Host middleton in owner, west virginia. Democrat. What do you think about this . Caller good morning. Personally, i dont think its going to change that much because im 70 years old and im not worrying about too much on windows vista get back on what i am supposed to get back. I want a fixed income, i dont have a house payment or nothing like that. Its going to be good for me. ,ut you know, we call in republicans, democrats, an independents, and everybody has their opinion on whats going to be. It falls on deaf ears. You can watch people in congress , they were even talk to each other. The talk over each other. If republicans want to do this, they are going to do it, regardless. They want to say the democrats wont work with them. They dont want to work with the democrats, because they know they can pass it without them. Host right now, its not clear that they can. They dont have all their republican colleagues with them, yet. Caller they will. They are just like anything else. If one goes over the rocky cliffs, they are all going to fall behind, just like a bunch of cattle. Host would you say that about democrats, too . Caller yes, i would. Host alabama, tim on the democrat line. Caller my comment about the tax plan is its going to wind up affecting the Social Security payments that we get. Im 67 years old. They havey in which it trickledown, and they say this tax plan will pay for years, in for five when it doesnt pay for itself, and they are going to come back two isrt two, and part use of security might help pay down the deficit that didnt they down in this plan, number one. Host where did you read that . Its i didnt read it anywhere. Host you are just thinking thats the strategy. Caller i heard on one of the tv shows, i think it was cnn, about explained that the trickledown doesnt work. To plan two will takes all security. People loselion insurance and you cant claim interest on your house or student loan, now universal urity which is affected by you have your Social Security, which is affected by it. Host robert in indiana, republican. Caller the democrats say they want to work with republicans, but look what pelosi and schumer did the other day. They wouldnt meet with the president. The democrats dont want anything but to spend money. We had it for eight years, we have immediate in the white house an idiot in the white house. Wants to put trap down. We need to get together, but the democrats are not going to do anything but put trump down and republicans down. We want them to be in there to work for us. Host two you think that this tax cut bill will be good for the economy . Caller i really do. Yes. Its growing, growing, growing right now. Its crazy. You can see the country has started to turn around. Caller i would like to say that the democrats have had eight years and messing up our economy. ,ow, with 20 trillion in debt no one is doing anything to do anything about it. Debt,ed to rein in the and we cant rein in the debt, at 1 growth like we had with mr. Obama has been all we had. 1 . Now we are up around 3 as an average. Tax money is made that way. The more you take in, the more you can make in taxes. If you cut the taxes and you make it all one Playing Field for everybody, maybe we will get a break. But we wouldnt have to pay anything. Cant stop taxing us to death. California, massachusetts, we pay so much of our incomes in taxes. I dont understand how we survive and its getting harder and harder. With these people pressing on us. Host you are others may be interested in the wall street journal, story on tax cuts. Companies raced influence lawmakers is one of the headlines. When the house passed its longawaited tax overhaul in november, ge has potentially big problems. One part of the bill could cost the conglomerate more than 1 billion in new taxes if it becomes law. The measure would restrict the ability of ge to deduct the losses of some overseas units under new onetime tax on profits earned overseas. Host below that story in the wall street journal, is this headline what the overhaul could mean for six different industries. When it comes to banking, Financial Firms pay among the highest effective tax rates of any major industry, making a possible drop, a 20 over rate highly profitable. Host host ted from flushing, new york. An independent. Obamas administration, the growth in his time, you should not forget that obama had seen the country totally wiped out and we know what happened. We should be fair in criticizing the past. But coming to the future, for me, i still do not believe that those corporations, when they lower their taxes, they are kind enough to invest in the United States. Thats the bottom line. The idea that when the reach when the rich and the powerful will be kind for the average americans, we have seen that. Im not against tax cutting blindly time not rushing this. We should take our time. Maybe we should be talking to because as you try to elaborate, there are many people who are going to be hurt by these things. Case, if this thing passes, the verdict will be on the people. If we dont see it, were going to kick out all these guys and 2018 and we will back to square one to maybe say we have to dismantle this tax. We should not play a childrens game. What this country needs is stability in politics, but dont see any stability or wisdom in our politics. I fear is that we will be a country of whoever wins power will dominate and when you lose power, you are going to avenge it. We should not criticize obama blindly. Obama received a country totally destroyed. Expect that gdp to rise with zero practicality. Host more of your thoughts coming up on this push for tax reform to rewrite the u. S. Tax code throughout todays washington journal. I wanted to share some other news from capital hill. Nancy pelosi reversed herself from earlier in the week and had this to say about representative john conyers, 88 years old, dean of the house and the Sexual Assault allegations against him. [video clip] pelosi these are serious, disappointing, and very credible. So sad. The brave women who came forward are hoping for justice. I pray for commerce and conyers and his family and wish them well. However, congressman conyers should resign. Congressman conyers has served in our congress for more than five decades and shaped to some of the most consequential legislation in the last 10 the means however, consequences for everyone. ,he matter how great the legacy thats no license to harass or discriminate. In fact, it makes it even more disappointing. Yesterday, house took the first step mandating Sexual Harassment and discrimination training and that resolution on the floor. The next step, very important for congress to pass, thats resolution in the house to mandate nondiscrimination and nonSexual Harassment training. The senate have their own resolution. However, the next step is a bill that must pass the house and the senate, and thats the need to toohe need to the me act. Its being discussed now and maybe some additions will be made. We will all Work Together to lead the fight to end sexualharassment and abuse, not only in congress, but in every workplace across the country. Everywhere in our country. As for us capitol hill is concerned, we want to be sure that everyone who works here who might be a victim of this, whether it is staffed to staff, members of staff, member to member. Understands, its all over. Its a new day. And the courage of the women coming forward is something that difference, but also, the attitude in the country, which i think some of the springs from the election of donald trump as president. Leaderhe democratic calling on congressman john. Onyers to step down mr. Conyers lawyer says he will not be stepping down. You also heard the leaders say they are looking at additional legislation to deal with Sexual Misconduct. There will be a hearing next week before the house of administration committee, go to cspan. Org to find out details of that. They will be taking up this issue of how Sexual Misconduct is reported in the house. Joining us on the phone is elana schor with politico for more on this story. Lets just begin with congressman conyers. Stressospitalized due to , his office is saying, but not backing down. There is an ethics investigation into what happened. Where does that stand . Guest its important to remember that the House Ethics Committee has no rule for how long its investigations can take. The American People might see this issue is quite serious, however, the Ethics Committee is still working on serious ethics matters dating back to early 2015, almost two years ago. I do their work behind closed doors and their limits on how long they can take. To say where it is other than exists. Host what is the process for the Ethics Committee to start the investigation . I will show the viewers who sits on this committee. Five republicans, five democrats. What prompts them to investigate a fellow member . Host guest theres the office of congressional ethics, nominally independent arbiter of congressional behavior created after the last major wave of congressional scandals around 2006 and the oce investigates these matters and refers it to the Ethics Committee. If you go on the Ethics Committees website, you will be able to see oce referrals past cases, but thats not the only way they can take something up. They can also take something out the majority of the Committee Recommends that. In that case, they hold on this on conyers. Host what can the Ethics Committee do . Guest in terms of host in terms of consequences. Guest thats really tough to say. The Ethics Committee doesnt have the ability to force member to leave the house. Ability tohave the require changes to the house rules or set a precedent that would create changes to the house rules. In order to century member, you have to take a vote censure a member, you have to take a vote. But its impossible to say this early in the process. Host will they hold public hearings . Guest no, they will not. Theres no rule preventing them from doing so, but this is the committee that the overwhelming majority of its work in secret. When they issue a report, typically, what do the reports say . How much information is given to the public about their investigations . Guest it totally varies depending on the case. In this case, we are in uncharted waters, because the core accuser in the center of the scandal went on tv earlier this week and talked about her story, contrary and nondisclosure agreements that she signed as a condition of taking the settlement. Ordinarily i would say nondisclosure agreement might bar that, but one of the parties to the gradient to the agreement has broken it. Its anybodys guess what happens then. Host to the senate, where al franken has been accused by another woman, this is from the Cincinnati Enquirer yesterday, that senator franken grow pure told cnn ye