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Inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. During his public career, jack kemp was celebrated as a different kind of republican, comfortable with minority americans, concerned with the challenges of the poor, interested in the health of cities. This past weekend in south carolina, the policy forum that bares the former nfl quarterback, new york congressman, and housing and urban development secretarys name was convened by his pro tocchet tocchet. Yes, some progress has been made, but when you take a look at the war on poverty, i think there is a problem, and the problem has been our...

Lobbiest turned around and supported the American People and passed policies that upset his former colleagues greatly. Host and gigi sohn is special council through the fcc and Gautham Nagesh and with the wall street journal. We look forward to having you back. I love the show. I will be back. Cspan created by companies 30 years ago and brought to you as a service by your local cable or satellite provider. Coming up, former graze congressman talks about his trip to iran and scott talks about education and then a talk about defense spending. On the washington journal tomorrow virginia congressm...

Talk about a small world, though. It blows your mind. Back to your point, i arrived inat 3 30 in the morning and i think every light was on when i flew in. Was it thursday night . It may have been. Anyway every light that you can imagine was on and there wasnt a cloud in the sky so it was a great view as you arrived. We arrived and i should identify doctor here sitting in the front row and he was my guide as we landed there. One of the funny things that happened is we got off the plane and went through there passport area and they were short on vips because a lot were there to atened the confe...

Energy the energy issues. But i went on because of the Health Policy. And on that committee, Health Policy was not just medicare, or medicaid, but also Public Health, and Environmental Issues that affect health. So one of the areas that i quickly became involved in, for decades, was the Clean Air Act, because the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water law and other such environmental laws related to Public Health. And you spent i mean, you describe this as being a constituent issue for medicare, and elderly constituents. But you also spent a whole lot of your time working on behalf of low i...

Glass ceiling and equal pay and equal work status. Well, you would think so. As representative is here. Hi. Hi. Why dont we again, the Glass Ceiling still very much exists even though we are female representatives who can and do make a difference, but its still my colleagues on the other side who dont want to pass the pay equity, who dont want to do things that help the family, especially the women whos normally the head of the house in latino families in terms of raising children, educating them and going out to work. Maybe working two jobs to be able to help the family. Its unfortunate, but ...