She will be introducing one of our favorite lecturers from the university of wisconsin, press minor who is actually a georgetown at the moment. I will let her discuss what he will be speaking about. Justice ginsburg has been a great friend to the society and has been a storm narrowly generous in giving her time. No one in the society can call a time when she declined other than when she has been out of the country when we requested for assistance. We thank her again this evening. [applause] but we have just a moment. Let me have just a moment. I know. Give me a moment because Justice Ginsburgs special, as we all know right now. Justice ginsburg was born in brooklyn on the ides of march in 1933. She graduated with a great distinction from cornell and she was doing superbly at harvard for the first two years when she moved to new york and finished at columbia. Workingt two years for a federal judge in new york. She learned swedish to be able to write a book about swedish civil procedures
If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call us at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zone, 202 7488001. You can also send us your thoughts on twitter. You can leave a comment on our facebook page. This fight between president elect donald trump and the labor unions started after what appeared to be a victory last week. He had negotiated a deal with a factory in indiana to keep jobs from moving to mexico. That deal became controversial after these comments from a union leader in indiana. Here is the story in the cannotgton. washington post. The story says that chuck jones, the president of united fuel workers, which represents carrier employees have felt optimistic when donald trump announced he had reached a deal until thee 1100 jobs union leader heard that only 730 of the projected jobs wednesday and 550 Union Members would lose their livelihoods after all. Jones hoped donald trump would explain himself. When he got up there, and for whatever reason he
A busy, maybe unpredictable week, and where the minefields . This is a big week for the white house and congress. Lead of the week as possible government shutdown. While i dont think there will be a government shutdown, the odds have picked up a bit. If they do not fund the government by the end of the week, there will be a shutdown. The biggest x factor is trumps wall, the funding. Republican leaders in cumbersome and sent to do it as part of this spending bill, will do it is another one. Democrats are saying they will not support any bill has a dime of funding for the world. Conflicts bythe rayna. On the backdrop, obamacare and the on and off again republican effort to repeal and replace obamacare. House republicans are getting closer to a deal cousin can get some of the Freedom Caucus initially is the first bills that had to be pulled from the house floor. The jump white house making it clear because theyre 100 anniversary they would like a house but this week. That is highly unlike
Line for republicans were kimberly is waiting. In mine. Waiting, des moines. Good morning. Caller the morning. People forget that Ronald Reagan was a movie star and he was just fine as a president. Jindal, heobby sounds like he is totally jealous. He seems insecure and has to tear donald trump down who seems to be very selfconfident. That appeals to us. The american public, we are not stupid. We get tired of the same machine running. I am a number of the National Healthcare regime. The first thing they want to do is go out to d. C. And offer a lot of money. That was a complete turnoff. These people believe they should be doing the right thing, that whoever pays more. That to me is a mob. Thanks. Guest that line is the most powerful line in a doll trunk campaign speech. I think that caller speaks to that. I dont agree between the comparison of trump and reagan. He was a twoterm governor of california. He was involved in politics. In Democratic Politics and then later on in conservative
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