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Committees like the ways and means committee hit a very significant traditional role and they worked in a bipartisan matter. that s gone. congress members in the committees have been marginalized and i just i ran to use the power of this office to change my community and to change the country and i don t think its happening under this current leadership. congressman, thank you for articulating it that way. i ve thought i ve said there s only four positions that matter in congress of the 535 members and that is the two leadership positions, the ranking and the majority leader, whatever it is. we call it speaker of the house side. they call all the shots. let me ask you this, i hear a lot of grumbling. i ve heard grumbling from the new members and the old members. nobody seems to have the guts to step up. why is that? its early in the process. the elections were just concluded. there are six weeks left before ....
Nothing leaked for six months. that was a good thing for this country, because we needed to concentrate on other things. tom: i totally agree. at six ordinary. the fact that a secret of this magic mags you could kept his extrude extruder. dagan, what you re saying, nikki haley is a powerful preacher don t act on it speaker. she can talk about what the president s agenda was. what he s tried to call bush and foreign policy pretty hopeless and she s stepping out of their current role, my guess is we have not heard last from her. i don t think this is the final chapter in the nikki haley story, and i very much hope she will remain a vibrant part of our foreign policy. harris: how about this chapter the new york times has obtained excuse me, the washington post very different the washington post has obtained the resignation letter from investor haley. i just want to read a couple of blurbs here. dear mr. president , it has bn an immense honor to serve the country in your ....
Whether he d be willing to walk away from this. the speaker said yesterday that s not the case, he s the guy making the hard sell. we ll see if he stays that way, keeps doing that or if there s some sort of behind-the-scenes change that gets it off course. kasie hunt, i ll let you run so can you try to catch some of those lawmakers. i want to go to sue now because nbc s current count has about 20 house republicans that are saying no, they won t vote for it as it is or leaning no. does paul ryan not know his caucus or is this a reflection that this is just not a great bill? t speaker can only get them so far. the thing i heard from the leaders is that the closer on this is going to be trump. and more than half of the republicans in congress have never served with a republicans in the white house. their muscular memory has been to be opposed to what the white ....
Flights under 14 hours. yeah, right. long flight. that is a long flight. these rules are obviously coming why? congress is unpopular politically. it will look good if it speaker is trying to cut back on travel abuses. in washington, there is a loophole. the new rules do not disclose congress to disclose all flights, how much it costs on military aircraft. a lot of times military aircraft are used for these type of things, $120 taxpayer dollars went to congressional delegation flights on military aircraft between 2008 and 2009. average cost about $500,000 per trip. those still do not have to be necessarily reported as well as the military liaison traveling with the congressional delegation, they don t have to necessarily report how much they spend on food, boos, whatnot. there is a loophole. but on its face congress is going to not use taxpayer money ....