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Documentable influence of large contributor networks on Office Holders comes at the agendasetting stage of the process. Not on final roll call votes. Thats why its hard to do the research. We have tons of exampled evidence of bills being especially kept off, not passed. Its especially the negative power of stopping a bill from moving forward, but also amendments to create special breaks for people. I dont think theres much doubt that this happens. The question is can you document that it doesnt happen in a clean election state. I havent done that work. But i do know that a traditionallyfunded ...

Periods. Quitetrue, they are gone a bit. Right now, they are really in the one solid work going to of the year, eight or nine weeks where either the house or senate or both are in session in washington. It is absolutely true they spent a lot of time not in washington. Guest i am sure a lot of them would argue that they need to spend time in washington not in washington, in their home district. It is an avenue of criticism that we hear. The president gets criticized when he goes on vacation as well. Im not sure it is fair to say that all those 137 days are not necessarily vacation. Thing, whent...

Mandates for expensive green energy production. With more on this, jails sweeney, senior fellow at hoover institution. Welcome to the show. Good to have you here . What is going on here . What do you think is driving electricity Prices Higher . The, combination of several things. But the Biggest Issue is, that the distribution infrastructure. The transmission, transformers and the wires and all of this distribution infrastructure that was built 40 or 50 years ago, fully deappreciated. Were not paying for it and it will have to be replaced. Most of the estimates of large increases of electricit...

The work opportunity tax credit expired. Why not extend that, not only to those groups who qualify now but also to people who have been unemployed for a long time, to encourage employers to take a advance on them, to bring them into the back into the work force where they want to be. We could also include other provisions. For example, i have a bipartisan bill with senator donnelly and senator manchin and members on my side of the aisle that would fix the definition of fulltime work under obamacare so that it would be 40 hours a week and not 30 hours a week. We would go back to the standard de...

Nd. Jacki schechner im sorry, jim is not here. He is in the bathroom drinking. Thats a lot of information. [ glugging sound ] [ door slams ] stephanie were having too much fun at speaker boehners expense this morning. Yeah he has had a rough go lately. Media right had a story that he was getting ready to step down, but then they pulled that story. I dont think thats actually the case. They have the vote up today, and i dont think thats going to happen. I think that probably came from somebody who was frustrated with him, and leaked the news and somebody ran with it. Stephanie jacki i have a st...