Toure cspan cities continues its clock at prine Bryan College station with a the final resting place of president bush, his wife barbara and their daughter robin. Were about 4 10 of a mile label. E president bush chose this site final resting place. So in april, about a year and a ago now, we buried mrs. Bush here and then in after his death in november, and then the funeral inut six days later, december, he was brought up here the up, 4141, in the special car. Amazingly, there were there lined, all the way from houston. Its probably about 80 or 90 miles from houston here. And there were people lined up thealong the tracks, all way here. I was in a bus. We kind of followed the path of train. And it was just amazing. You could see the people all tracks,l over the places likeoe, that. Ended at thetrain university about a mile from here. Ad the casket was put in hearse and brought here. Theres a walkway on the other the gravesite. Lined the walkway all here. Y the Funeral Service here was
Editor, editorial writer and columnist on the editorial page of the news and observer for 31 years. He will introduce our special guest lease help me welcome jim jenkins. [applause] come on up, zuck. In 1973 i saw him first. Across a loud, profane, filthy newsroom in downtown raleigh. He was right out of school. I was still in school. I looked across and is said to someone, whose that . , thats david zucchino. Is going to be the new star here. He had long, dark hair over his shoulders, a thick jet black mustache. It was a long time ago. [laughing] david is a grad of the unc Journalism School and a member not of the journalism hall of fame. In raleigh he became famous very quickly in the newsroom when a new young editor came in and sent out a memo to the reporting staff saying each reporter will submit to his editor every morning and itinerary for his plans for the day. David even then impossible to came, sat down at the old manual typewriter. Its a legendary story. Many of the people w
Thank you. Announcer Senate Democratic leaders voiced opposition to the republican plan for tax reform legislation, saying there were few specifics. They spoke to reporters following their weekly policy strategy lunch meeting. This is 15 minutes. Sen. Schumer good afternoon everyone. I want to thank my colleagues, to wonderful colleagues two wonderful colleagues, for joining me here today. As everyone knows, President Trump put down his phone for an hour to come to the Senate Republican luncheon to talk tax reform. Unfortunately, what the president says about tax reform has been correctly characterized by senator corker as untruths, and corker was being kind. Lets review a few of what the president says that is totally divorced, what the president says and what the public and plan does are polar opposites. The president said this is not a plan for the rich. Blatantly untrue. Untruth number one that this plan is not a plan for the rich. It repeals the estate tax, which benefits the 11,0
Posted this week on the communicators a discussion of the fccs proposal to open up the settop box market to competition and what that might mean for consumers and businesses. Joining us are two guests on both sides of this issue. George ford is a chief economist and mark cooper is Research Director for the Consumer Federation of america. Mr. Cooper what do you think about what they have proposed . Guest competition the settop market. We want competition, competition, competition. We think consumers would have lower prices and more choices if we got bigger as competition to. Host george ford. Guest they asked the question whether the settop docsis competitive. Actually the first question this is their market for set top docsis and the answer really in terms of what is delivered over cable network, no because the settop boxes are a component of the network as opposed to delivering Cable Television service so its the cheapest way to do it in the most efficient way to do it. Host lets brin
Meeting of the longterm budget for not able to all of what theres a lot of pieces we can work on and hopefully we can break it into areas of interest for members on the hill to work on and i would say key is bipartisan. Each piece has to be addressed by the republicans and democrats together. I think the maya is right on target. Our history, we have never had a Budget Commission that has exceeded. That tradeoffs are too broad. Weve had pieces, however. As closer commission is probably everyones best example. Members of Congress Want to be bailed out. They wanted to have someone else make those painful decisions. We dont have that with most budget issues. One of the other examples of the property and plant and equipment for federal agencies, a proposal to the commission if it doesnt already exist to close Certain Agency field offices and properties. Thats an example of for our Something Like that might work but i think we tend to resort to much to this notion of a process fix that a con