Radio app. Today over at Georgetown University a forum on the legacy of former president bill clinton. Up next we hear from rahm emanuel who was a Senior Advisor to bill clinton. Hes now the mayor of chicago. Bruce was domestic policy director in the clinton and white house and other aides take part. This runs an hour and 10 minutes. Good morning. Welcome back. For those that werent here earlier im the executive director of institute of policies and Public Service and couldnt be more excited to get todays conversations started. This morning we are going to begin with a discussion reflected on bill clintons vision of america. The goal of his of this symposium overall is to really drill down on the vision, the bring him to lped the campaign of and to office the and we couldnt be more excited about that this year. In order to think about that, though, its important to look at the Historical Context of bill clintons election, and what happened in the 25 years between his graduation from ge
Live in montgomery college. Are gusty as they are everywhere, 35 recently at Reagan National and 38 Miles Per Hour in fredericksburg and martinsburg but that is below the criteria for wind advisory. Editors will climb into the 50s. Temperatures will climb into the 50s. In the afternoon, dropping into the 40s tonight. Later tonight, clouds increase around the area. Because of a system we alberta clipper, a lowpressure center developing in the central plains. This thing will start to go to the east tonight and in the overnight, 1 00, 2 00 in the morning, there could be light snow but temperatures above freezing on the ground, upstairs a few thousand feet where the precipitation is made, below freezing so we could see some snow. The cause of the warm anything that accumulates will be on grassy areas. Through tomorrow, the system as it comes through, gusty winds will develop overhead causing streamers of snow showers to come out of the great lakes. Now a team election, just grassy no accum
Sets a standard in cant create jobs were workers to of least 10. 10 an hour worth of work. Then maybe in a modern economy there are not jobs that need to be created. Dont know. If i could address, you are exactly right. That is what we mean. Businesses are destroyed. If the business cant afford to pay any more they can raise their prices. His true and some markets. So job destruction and company destruction go handinhand. This is never created. The harder it is to start a business with your are created. And destroying jobs that are never created, if you want to think of it that way to while a little bit of a contradiction in terms, with the regulation, every federal regulators for as low 150 jobs a year. So if you want prosperity, and i think thats what were talking about, prosperity, you get rid of the regulations and the private sector can create jobs and you want have those businesses. Yuma businesses that will be. Last question, you can have a legally mandated federal wage, higher
Good morning. We are in for a treat. We have two authors with us this morning who have vast experience in the world of politics. So our conversation about the future and changing american politics in the future couldnt have two better informed c contribut contributors. We will talk for about 40 minutes and then invite you to ask questions. So as you listen think about what you would like to share with us. I will start with introducing the speakers. Al from is infounder of the democratic leadership council. In feb of 2010, the New York Times magazine called the organization under his leadership one of the two most burped think tanks in history. I wrote something about this but al points what what was in his book is better than what i came up with. It called it one of the two most important think tanks in history. From played a prominent role nhl 1992 election of bill clinton and served as domestic policy advisor. Before forming the dlc, he was the executive director of the House Democra
Solidly middleclass folks and more than 90 in bankruptcy because of a medical problem, a job loss, or a family breakup. The squeeze on the middle class was getting tighter, and more and more families were deep in debt. Bankruptcy was their last option to scratch their way back to dead flat broke and tried to build some kind of future. Credit Card Companies saw this and they figured out that they could boost the profits if the squeeze these people a little harder. So they wanted to change the bankruptcy laws so that hundreds of thousands more people every year would be locked out of bankruptcy and left mired in debt. Their profits by squeezing people, drowning in medical debt and deal with job losses. I was truly appalled. Now, understand how this fight shape the. Credit Card Companies were smart. They had already led to a lot of powerful folks to support them, both democrats and republicans. They had money to lower. They had lobbyists galore. And the families going bankrupt, they had n