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Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. The california gop may have some soul searching to do at their state convention at burlingame this weekend. While there are challengers in the gub ernatorial race, scott brown intends to lead. No doubt republicans have their work cut out for them. Their share of registered voters are shrinking, now less than 30 , they hold no state offices and have limited power in sacramento. The chair, senator brilty, is rebuilding from the ground up, a job he says could take up to a decade. Joining me now to discuss what challenges are ahead for the Republican Part...

Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. The california gop may have some soul searching to do at their state convention at burlingame this weekend. While there are challengers in the gub ernatorial race, scott brown intends to lead. No doubt republicans have their work cut out for them. Their share of registered voters are shrinking, now less than 30 , they hold no state offices and have limited power in sacramento. The chair, senator brilty, is rebuilding from the ground up, a job he says could take up to a decade. Joining me now to discuss what challenges are ahead for the Republican Part...

186655press. On all of the stories of the day. Well also look for your comments on twitter. Welcome your comments on twitter at bp show and on facebook, become our friend if youre not already, facebook. Com billpressshow. Lot going on. President obama coming up to capitol hill yesterday, meeting with House Democrats and meeting with Senate Democrats. Where he apparently got a lot of questions about the Keystone Pipeline and questions about rumors he might consider appointing Larry Summers, former treasury secretary under bill clinton, appointing Larry Summers to be the new head of the fed. A l...

Ensure they would not accept a pay raise during the fiscal cliff. There was a pay freeze extended for this fiscal year to 2013. This would extend it through the budget window. As i mentioned earlier, there is a typo in it. Those technical corrections will be made. My point with this amendment amendment is we will be running deficits throughout the decade no matter what budget is accepted throughout the committee. If you look at the house budget, it does not balance until we get to the end of the decade. During that, we should not be taking a pay raise. Without objection, a vote. All those in f...

Want their projects to be funded through the tax code, because unlike a preparations, it is not examined every year. That is a very clever strategy and puts them in a very different class and working people who are benefited by programs that are funded every year. It is unacceptable if you come to the core concept of fairness. The actual language in the reconciliation instruction refers to the level of revenues. The explanatory instructions in the back, page 61, talks specifically about addressing this and fairness in the tax code, the spending programs that should be examined as early as any ...