Answer. All the opposite side has to do is to stop supporting a bill that would allow the biggest banks in america to rip off the people one more time. We bailed out the richest banks in america with the peoples money. The people do not want that anymore. And so this provision thats in the bill that would allow them to basically put us all at risk because they want to trade these derivatives and be protected with fdic cannot go on. And so there are a lot of other things in this bill thats unacceptable. I am the Ranking Member of the Financial Services committee and i worked on doddfrank. Theyre trying to undermine doddfrank. Theyve been trying to get rid of doddfrank piece by piece. We have to fight it every day. I am not going to let the people down. Democrats are not going to let the people down. Were not going to vote for anything thats going to give the store to the biggest banks in america one more time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expired. The gentleman from
Federal judge rules this week that the National Security Agency Program that collect the records of millions of americans of phone calls is lawful. Says it does not violate americas privacy rights. It is december 28, the morning and welcome to washington journal. Our topic to kick things off is the end of that extended Unemployment Benefits. Will Congress Renew them when lawmakers return in january . We want to hear from you. For republicans, the number is 2025853881. 5853880. Rats, 202 you can also find us online a on twitter find us online on twitter, cspanwj. And email, were at journal c span. Org. The morning look at headlines. First from the front page of this mornings new york times. The headline the story also making a big in this mornings Washington Post a big slash in this morning post. Igntongton longterm unemployment is the highest since world war ii. There are 4 Million People who have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer. Joining us to talk about that is the hill is a r
Here is how you can weigh in this morning. Republicans,for democrats,0 offor independents. Or you can reach out to us on facebook, off of twitter, and at journal cspan. Org. It was a fourpage document that was put out by the administration, showing some of the cases they are making as far as what they have found in syria. This is what was unclassified, not everything was put out there. You can also find this document at our website, cspan. Org. A little bit from it also it says there is more to the document and the information that was given by the administration yesterday. Kerry givingstate the case, we will show some of those clips as well during the course of our first 45 minutes together. For the information that was given on syria yesterday, we want to get your thoughts and if you were convinced by it. If you want to give us a call, the phone lines go ahead and make those calls. Theill get an update from white house perspective of possible u. S. Intervention. The White House Corre
0 the conversation from a serious discussion about u.s. policy to the realm of the ridiculous. so rand paul now let the senate confirm the cia director? stay tuned. and is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship? president obama invites paul ryan to the white house for lunch after dining with senate republicans at the jefferson hotel. swanky too. how did the meeting go? just fine. great. wonderful. i am more optimistic just from a personal standpoint. senator bob corker was at that dinner. what sde think? we ll get the details. north korea today threatening a nuclear strike against the u.s. as the u.n. passes its toughest sanctions yet. the strength, breadth, and severity of these sanctions will raise the cost to north korea of its elicit nuclear program. taken together, these sanctions will bite and bite hard. direct from that vote, u.n. ambassador susan rice joining us live from late-breaking details. and we ll hear from house intelligence chair mike rogers. an
on election 2010 but this much we know. when the 112 congress convenes on the capital january 3, 2011, there will be nearly 100 new members and the freshman class. about 70 of them republicans. at this point, no one has stepped forward to challenge john boehner s path to speakership and harry reid will be returning as majority majority leader, at least for now britain notable losses include committee chaired james oberstar, i skelton and john spratt. a longtime congressman paul kantor skeet kanjorski was also defeated. the gop picked up at least 60 seats in the house to bring their total in the new congress which convenes january 3 to 240. 218 are needed for a majority. 12 house races are still too close to be called. as you can see, the democrats have the power in the current congress, 255 to 178. the senate will be led by the democrats. the margin will be somewhere between 52-54. that accounts for two independents who caucus with democrats. several races are still not c