Comers remarks were short. If he found anything that was, he would have leapt at the chance to say it. You would think that he would have led the entire commentary just a few moments ago with whatever he seems to have found. That was fox news host neil cavuto, not buying what james comer was trying to sell on capitol hill yesterday. Were going to go through Hunter Bidens closed door testimony to the House Oversight Committee Later in the show here. Plus, the end of an era for senate republicans. The partys longest Serving Leader in the Upper Chamber is stepping down at the end of the year. Well take a look at Mitch Mcconnells legacy and who might replace him. Of course, were going to talk about the shocking news we all heard yesterday. The death of beloved comedian and actor Richard Lewis. Well talk about that and play for you some of joes interview with him, which happened just several weeks ago. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, february 29th. With us, we have the
Thank you all for joining us today for this important hearing. Ranking member kavanaugh and i think all of the witnesses for joining us today, as well. Including our witnesses and from ohio and pennsylvania. We look forward to the testimony of each one of you. As you know, last month news broke about an environmental disaster caused by Norfolk Southern train to ram it near East Palestine, ohio. Less than a mile from the pennsylvania border. Less than a trained around it in the subsequent hazardous relief and led to the controlled burn and the evacuation of some 2000 people. This tragic incident is a reminder of the importance of following the golden rule in treating other people the way that we would like to be treated if they todays hearing is an opportunity to put ourselves in the shoes of those impacted by this disaster. Examining the Immediate Response, and to ensure long term accountability for the cleanup efforts. It is our responsibility in congress to answer, one, what went wro
Meeting will come to order. Weve had a lively back and forth. The one thing we havent done is process any amendments. I want to talk about the plan for how we will proceed this afternoon. Before that, id like to say just a few words in summation of this mornings debate. So far today the debate has been almost entirely about the meeting of the latest jct distribution table. As the discussions went on, weve seen in some smoke and mirrors and weve seen members talk past each other and weve heard our share of strong arm arguments. Cutting through all of this, here are the basic facts that should at this point be beyond dispute. First, nothing in the mark impacts the availability of the Insurance Premium tax credits. Weve heard the chief of staff of jct specifically tell us that was the case. Second, nothing in the mark discourages anyone from taking advantage of available tax credits to sub sidize the purchase of insurance. Mr. Barthold confirmed that. Third, the distributional effect weve
Understand how much of a hole its going to blow into the Housing Production but i expect that there are other unintended consequences by twhesm just found out last night that wind and solar will also have the same issue in being impacted by this. I hope we can adopt my amendment and fecks this. I hope we can slow down and understand this important part of our tax code. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Senator grassley. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, im not going to vote for this amendment but i do appreciate that she brings up an issue that we better be very, very certain about, not only because of low Income Housing but also because of Renewable Energy and she mentioned wind and solar, something that should not be touched, and it is hurt very badly in the house bill. Shouldnt be tutched by any of this stuff. We made an agreement three years ago to be in transition get rid of the tax credit 20, olar 21, for wind in and as i indicated yesterday or two days ago in our discussion in my v
And they continue to demand prosecutors file charges against the officers who killed brown and garner. Eric garners own daughter made this demand thursday. Erica garner also tried to keep her fathers story alive by putting her own self in the same spot where her father began to die on that sidewalk there in Staten Island where police, you have seen the video, placed had imin that choke hold. She says shes overwhelmed and thankful for the nationwide response to her fathers death. Everybody feels and thinks the same way im thinking. Im not crazy. They think in the same way im thinking and its a good thing. Let me bring in evan perez who has been all over this. We have seen eric holder in atlanta, cleveland and now today hes in chicago. All taking part in this roundtable wanting police and wanting communities to have a dialogue. Thats right, brooke. These meetings hes been having, hes got a couple more. Hes got philadelphia, oakland coming up. These are all about putting more pressure on