To receive the congressional gold medal in recognition to his service to the nation as a soldier, and statesman. He is going to be presented the medal by a part san group and congressional leaders. This is going to be in the row ton d. A. He was a only gop president ial nominee to endorse the president. The gold medal has been arranged for george washington, rosa parks to frank sinatra, and the congress highest display of achievements and contributions. Mr. Dole spent 35 years in congress and most of them in the senate where he rose the post of the republican leader, and a position that he held for a record nearly 11 years n. 1996, he was the partys nominee for president and losing to bill clinton and he lost two earlier bids for the nomination. He was are also gerald fords running mate in 1996. There you can see the capital row u ton da, rotunda, and we watching as it is preparing to begin and the remasrks are to b starting at 3 00 p. M. Eastern time. Ladies and gentlemen, your attent
Business and assaulted a teenaged girl and now officials are worried because there could be more victims. John rogers joins us live from sarasota to explain why. Reporter this is very shocking because police say he had only known this girl for a couple of days. If he dock this to her he can do this to someone else. Reporter Sarasota Police say last month 45 yearold fernando palamino hired a 16 yearold girl to work at his restaurant. She was so youn she was only working there for two days. Reporter but her stint ended in horrifying fashion. Police say at around 1 00 p. M. On october 15th. Palaminos wife left to run an errand he locked the door and assaulted the teenaged girl. The girl ran away crying to a nearby business and called the police for help. This restaurant is very popular in the area. I mean thats terrible. Reporter scott dixon works nextdoor he said palamino is friendly and this crime has he and his family on edge. Thats scar i thats for sure. Reporter we visited palaminos
It is a tax credit that people with low incomes receive as a kind of bonus for working, the more they earn, the larger the tax credit up to a certain point. Then that, clinton and first Lady Hillary Clinton were engaged in a deeply divisive with congress and the American People in general that the future of the health care system. Clintons efforts to Reform Health care at the time failed, so the white house was occupied with health care at the time. And then in 1995, a new congress was inaugurated. This congress was controlled by republicans. That led to a year and a half of haggling between republicans and congress and the white house over what kind of welfare reform would ultimately be enacted. Eventually in the summer of 1996, almost 20 years ago to the day, clinton signed the welfare reform bill. That bill was signed in 1996. What were some of the key changes it made in the welfare system . Max i think the most important change is that welfare can no longer be taken for granted. Pe
Advantage of by blacks, and that most blacks are on welfare. They should go to the Public Library and look up the data. Look up the facts. They dont know that we have three classes, just like everybody else. We have the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor. Some very poor. We will not be angry with people if we know the facts. We would not be so bitter because we have something going on in our country now where there is a lot of animosity and resentment and hate, but by people that are not informed. Gloria, i am going to thank you for your call. You can see a beautiful picture of our Nations Capital there. It is 9 00 here in bc. Dc there will be plenty of time for your calls when we open up the phone lines again tomorrow morning at 7 00 on washington journal. On august 22, 1996, president of clinton signed a law aimed at reducing the number of americans who depend on Welfare Benefits. Temporary assistance for needy families, or tanf replaced a Welfare Program called a to families wi
That would i just poverty by increasing Economic Growth and wage growth and job creation . If you look at the data, we never recovered to normal since the last recession. We do not recover to normal levels of wage growth. What is the best way to address Economic Policy to get the economy growing again . What ideas does anyone have to adopt policy . Why dont we run down anybody anybody . Taxeed a reduction in the that is slowing a Economic Growth slowing Economic Growth. We may never return to levels of Economic Growth. We are not going to see the labor force increase significantly. Right now it is on immigration that is keeping our population even stable. I think we are not going to see increases. Michael, you talked about that already. Minorities have moved into the labor force, we are not considered again. Automationng toward as of the tools for growth and productivity. I think we may not return to the the 4 to 5 growth of the past. To the degree that we can, i think it is going to r