Virginia businessman and NASCAR great Hermie Sadler slammed Virginia legislative leaders who are “working to harm small businesses and disregard their constitutional rights” by inserting language at the eleventh hour
decades? could you repeat that? why hasn t the cdc studied this in decades? what s stopped them? yes. 20 some years ago, cdc was funding research into this area. we had a program funded by cdc at the time. led by congressman named jay dickey. congress took from cdc the money that it was using to fund work on firearm violence, gave the money back to cdc, earmarked for another purpose, and inserted into cdc s budget language, and it is now part of the budget language for all of the department of health and human services, that federal funds could not be used to advocate or promote gun control. given how that was done, cdc took that de facto as an order not to conduct research. they have not. dr. wintemute, thank you for the work you ve been doing on this. it is a pleasure. thank you for having me. he has been spending 30 years on the the last 30 years
deeply ideological some of these players are in this game. and of course, it has that republican trademark in it, which is the dramatic cut in taxes and taking the top tax rate down to 25% so that you then, you know, got to do all these spending cuts, cutting medicare. you know, so when you re out there on the campaign trail, why are you cutting medicare like this? well, it s because those rich people can t be paying more than 25% in taxes. right. and by the way, just to be clear, all the spending cuts, they feed into the deficit reduction. they don t pay for the big tax cut. what pays for the big tax cut is about the largest giant asterisk you ve ever seen in any budget which really says i m paraphrasing, but i m taking budget language and telling you what it says. assume we can close enough
you ve ever seen in any budget which really says i m paraphrasing, but i m taking budget language and itelling yo what it says. assume we can close enough budget loopholes, and we will not name one, to pay for $5 trillion tax cut. this isn t even serious budgeting if you wanted to pretend for a moment that s where they re going for this. when i said this is an ideological document when he s talking about his vision, there s really no there there. thank you for joining me tonight. coming up, the ahead of the city council in albuquerque will join me to talk about what that city is now doing in the aftermath of police use of deadly force to kill a homeless man. when does your work end? does it end after you ve expanded your business?
reconciliation. your version of the bill. no one has talked about reconciliation but that s what you folks have talked about ever since that came out. as if it is something that has never been done before. in fact, it has been done before by republican and democratic presidents alike but never for the creation of a policy as huge as health care reform, one sixth of the nation s economy. in fact, reid has been talking about it himself for months as a possible option in order to push this through. it s worth noting that house and senate democrats put it in their budget language back in 2009 in preparation for this possible eventuality, shep. shepard: carl cameron at the rotunda on capitol hill. this morning we started reading about details of what they were calling a possible backup plan for all of this. it would reportedly cost about one quarter of the plan lawmakers have been considering. it would cover a lot less as well. details of this mysterious plan b coming up inside fox re