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And make it better. >> yeah, and this discussion is not being led unless we consider your piece, the opening round of the discussion, in the article you say, most liberals can list the programs they want the government to create or expand. fewer can name the five technologies they want the government to finance, or the fine scientific challenges they want to see mobilized to solve. that suggests some kind of thoughtful, longer range, congressional hearings in some of the impossible appropriation committees. there's no real committee that has this jurisdiction going to say this, to bring people...

Courtesy of Clarion University The state House debated a plan Tuesday that would merge six of Pennsylvania’s state universities into two regional schools. The plan would combine two sets of schools within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). Lock Haven, Mansfield, and Bloomsburg Universities would join together in the northeastern region, as would three western schools: Clarion University, Edinboro University, and California University of Pennsylvania. The moves would not affect the other three state system schools in the midstate — Kutztown, Millersville, and Shipp...

>> well, there is a process called out normal budgeting and appropriations process. that -- the president in his budget that he proposed to congress does call for more money for the budget wall. right now the appropriation committees in the house and the senate are going through that determining how much money could and should be spent on those border walls and on the various crossings and other issues, including taking care of the people that are here. >> martha: i don't know how you feel about the fact that the border agents are being diverted to help take care of little kids and put up tent...

And as an attorney is this even constitutional? >> well, it's not constitutional that's the short answer. power of the purse rest with congress if the president wants money for border wall with méxico he needs to get appropriation from congress, it needs to pass the full senate, needs to pass the full house, it needs to pass the appropriation committees in both of the chambers and as we all know that hasn't happened yesterday, despite the president said what he said yesterday in order to build that border wall with méxico, he needs a specific appropriation from congress to do so even if he d...

Breaking the caps, setting what they call the top line number, how much will be appropriated. at that point, nobody will be surpris surprised. there will have to be another continuing resolution of three weeks for the appropriation committees to actually write the details on the budget. a lot of that work has been done. but that's what we're talking about is an overall number and then the allocations between defense and the faa and the department of agriculture. a lot of that work can be done and can be done by in general february 8th and the final paperwork will be done in the next two weeks....