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Independents independents, call 202 7488002. You can reach us on facebook or twitter. The house gases budget, a win for the gop. The house on thursday passed a republican budget would boost defense spending, social welfare programs, and target obamacare. In what gop cast as the victory for fiscal sanity. It passed to 26 to 197, 14 republicans joining every democrat in opposition. Republican leaders have pointed to the budget framework which balances in a decade by cutting more than 5 trillion from spending as yet more proof that in all gop congress is governing effectively. The senate is expec...

These six men. Its taken so long for them to be charged. Theres no question what happened. Host im sorry, maybe you can call in again, we can get your comments again. Going to move on to virginia, independents line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Im from virginia where, you know the American Dream was born here. Jamestown in 1619, you had your first africans get here to this country, became the greatest nation on the planet in terms of talking about the ideal of democrat sifment and independence for all. It hasnt happened. And here in virginia, we have a place called fort monroe where th...

Common core. The idea is that this is common core that you have assessments is really not true and people have been opting out. Florida had the most meaningful accountability system in the country. We also have the greatest learning gains in the country. They go together by the way. Its a comprehensive reforms that create the rise of achievement. We were on the nape test, you cant teach for that test. We were 29th out of 31 in 1997 on the fourth grade reading test. Ten years later we were six out of 50. Florida hispanic kids do two grade levels ahead of their counterparts and equal to 33 state...

What a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. Not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a oneman show. It most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. One of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. The speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of how a speaker should be. Sam rayburn saw National Needs and he made things happen. He was an activist ...

Home to sell to customers around the globe. Good morning. Welcome to Aljazeera America, im stephanie sy. Said day three of the Government Shutdown and the first facetoface talks between congressional leaders and president obama have failed to end the stale made. Lawmakers met wednesday. The goal was simple, reopen the federal government. Neither side was willing to budge and they left those talks with no deal. I would hope that the president and my democratic colleagues in the senate would listen to the American People and sit down and have a serious discussion about resolving these difference...