This is just over an hour. [background noises] [background noises] we have cspan here so we all have to behave. Good morning Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is Shalonda Young director of the White House Office of management and budget. This is her first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome. Director young hills from louisiana urges degrees for Loyola University in new orleans and she worked on the hill for years pierced most recently as a staff staff director and House Appropriations. In 22 atd once she became acting omb director a year later it was confirmed easily by the senate including 14 republican votes. I picked up one. [laughter] way to go. In this day and age that is something for director young was a key negotiate of the debt ceiling talks last year. We will be interested in getting her take of all the government funding issues now urgently on the table. So again welcome. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here, pl
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Allows them to allocate a certain amount of money to the candidates running for office and the candidates can take those vouchers would say a 50dollar voucher here if they agree to limit the contribution that they take to the vouchers in a small competition, lets say 100 frankly. 50 dollars would be about 7 billion in 2014 the total amount spent by Congress Shall candidates was 1. 5 billion. Which means that this is real money to point his the voucher system would mean that money comes from many people and not just the. 04 were not just a. 024 . So it filters perhaps because it is not everybody that is going to participate, but it isnt biased in the way that the Current System is biased by allocating the funding to the tiny tiny fraction of the 1 . Democrats have been pushing this idea of matching funds John Sarbanes from maryland, the governor by the the peoples act that basically takes the small contributions and multiplies them up to 91 to make them much more valuable. As a 100 beco
Action on immigration. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can join the conversation on twitter. You can go to face the. Com cspan you can go to facebook. Com cspan. We will get your thoughts and a minute. At of texas, this is cbs story. A judge blocked president obama s executive action on immigration. The decision comes after a hearing in brownsville, texas. It puts on hold mr. Obamas orders that could spare as many as 5 Million People who are in the u. S. Illegally from deportation. The judge wrote that the lawsuit should go forward and that without a preliminary injunction, the states would suffer irreparable harm in this case. In the white house in a statement defended the orders issued in november, as within the president s legal authority, saying the Supreme Court and congress can set priorities in enforcing immigration laws. The department of justice has indicated it will appeal the decision. It would be healed it would be heard by t
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