Discuss. And later, Siobhan Hughes on the Senate Tax Bill and potential changes to the legislation. Host good morning, it is wednesday, november 29, 2017. The federal government is 10 days away from a shutdown, and the past for a spending bill is less certain than it was 24 hours ago. Congressional democrats skip the meeting set with President Trump and other members, and now with the december 8 deadline moving closer. President ats and the have said they will both play each other if the government shuts down. Who do you think will shoulder the blame in the event of a shutdown . Give us a call, democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And if you are on social media, you can catch up with us on twitter and facebook as well. A very good wednesday morning to you. We are asking your reaction today after what happened yesterday when it comes to this looming budget battle. Here is one of the headlines from todays Washington Post. To start a tense months of
Member. And to update the procedures. So i applaud them both for their work and its something i think well pass quite easily. Beverly, youre on with tom cole. Caller i have a question. This is this is a really upsetting me over the childrens fund. I have a grandson who is a disabled child. Everything that he gets he has to have in order to live. If this fund does not go through, and my daughter loses the funds, my grandson will die. Why havent you all done something . The house has done something. The house has passed the reauthorization the chirnz Health Insurance program. The senate has not. I think they will. We understand how important that legislation is to people like you and your circumstances and your grand son so i dont think theres much likelihood that it wont be extended again, but your case underlies the urgency of getting that done. Theres a part of it to put peoples minds at rest. Theres no reason for you in my view for you to go through what youre worrying about. I suspe
The rules committee will come to water and thank you very much for joining us. We said we would be here at 3 00 and we made it. We are having a lot of fun. The committee will be considering the hr amended that will to verily extend federal funding until january 19, 2018. Fundsegislation fully National Defense programs for the entire fiscal year. Billion for the department of billion for the department of defense. This includes important emergency funding for missile activities. And as we all know, our troops and commanders must have the resources they need, especially in Uncertain Times and the time of the holidays. This legislation will allow them to continue to advance peace with the resolve of superior powe firepower and professionalism across the globe. The legislation authorizes and extends funding for the chip program for five years, some thing that is very important to me. Not only from being from dallas, texas but as an advocate for children especially those with disabilities.
For moving reconciliation legislation. So theres something known as the byrd rule where the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that three provisions, two related to some education tax issues as well as striking the short title of the bill, those provisions were not ruled in order on this reconciliation legislation, so they had to scrub that of the bill, bring it back to the house, vote for it. Its really nothing more than a forn formality. House leadership has proven they have the votes to pass. All of that activity yesterday seemed to grind to a halt the deliberations in the rules committee on 2018 federal spending, the continuing resolution and the back and forth reflected in this headline of your piece with jennifer shut saying house gop readies ping pong match with senate on the stop gap measure. Whats that mean . Yeah. So me and jennifer, my colleague paul, we have confirmed with gop aides and with lindsey mcfer phn is they are trying to bifurcate the defense bill. And send it to the se
Airplane theres plenty you should know before you get to the airport. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National with some of those details. Mel, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Still only seeing really delays out of los angeles this morning and even then not that many. So, things do seem to be moving pretty well given the fact that this is supposed to be a record year for Holiday Travel. This seventh year in a row travel has increased. Its not your imagination if you think there are more people on the airplanes and the security lines. Weve seen a couple of different configurations here going on in these t. S. A. Lines. Right now this is pretty normal. Passengers are moving pretty steadily. Now, when the k9s are in operation, then its a little bit of a different scenario. They come back and forth and they sniff the shoes and the bags and those instances then people dont have to take off their shoes at security and it really does make things go a lot quicker. We ti