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Going to be joining us in just a second. First, welcome, all the people out in live stream land. Well be taking your questions on hash tag politico breakfast. Tweet us, welcome to the others watching. Appreciative to the bank of america for making these conversations possible. We had a Great Partnership this year, including conventions, election night, and so were very, very excited to be ail to bring these substantive conversations about the most important issues driving washington to you, thanks to the bank of america. Thank you, john, and thank you to your colleagues. You may have gotten ca...

Budget that has been worked on by the Congressional Black Caucus, which reduces the budget and creates millions of jobs in a fair and balanced way. Let me just close by talking about one final area, mr. Speaker, that we as members of this body need to stay focused on and thats jobs and growing the economy. In my home state of nevada, we still have a stubbornly high Unemployment Rate above the national average. Despite improvements in certain sectors, theres far too many nevadans who are still looking for work. Many who have been out of work for now more than a year, year and a half, going on t...

Has seen Discretionary Spending drop three years in a row. Never before in my lifetime have we seen such a thing. I credit this body with being a driving force in that because we were elected by the American People who want to see their fiscal bucks put back in order, but we succeeded on the discretionary side. Discretionary turns out to be the easier nut to crack because that money doesnt go out the door unless this u. S. House of representatives acts. That distinguishes it, mr. Speaker, from mandatory spending. Thats the third set of columns on my chart. Mandatory spending, as i said, 2 3 of...

To hit a new alltime high. Were very close to that, as a matter of fact. One question here at the schwab Impact Conferences, whether or not the individual investor is back. Theres a debate on that issue in certain circles. Probably nobody has better intelligence on that than the man who runs schwab, ceo walt b bett bettinger is with us. In fact, schwabs stock is at a multiyear high as a result. Here we go again, my coanchor, the budget battle could be hitting an impasse already. Taxing the socalled rich more is apparently back on the table for some top democrats. There is already concern this ...

Others on the hill with a rewrite of the 96 act and one of the principle things we wanted to do was to be able to plan. I think you guys gave us 110 rulemaking said we had to do roughly in 18 months so we were doing an awful lot of planning and that just got eliminated which meant when we came back to work we were all working double time to try to catch up. Host were deadlines extended . Guest the deadlines in terms of the fcc were extended obviously for certain kinds of filings. But you know the most critical thing was congress didnt give us any slack and i dont think they shouldve let me pas...