Selma will not forget. President obama reflecting on that days events in selma, alabama. We want to start with your thoughts on Race Relations in america. By the way, events continued today in selma, alabama on cspan 3. Our phone lines are open with your comments. 202 is the area code. 202 7488000, democrats. 202 7488001, republicans. 202 7458002 independents. You can also send us a tweet cspanwj. Or send us an email journal cspan. Org. It is 7 00, daylight savings time as we move our clocks ahead one hour. The president s speech, as he honors the courage of americans the 50th anniversary of the margin in selma, alabama. Then your times the New York Times has a speecn article. On one side of the side was the protesters who knew they could end the day as martyrs, on the other side, Alabama State troopers, eager to play the role assigned to them by history. Many of the moments of National Reckoning have been accept lease brutality or failures of the criminal justice system. 50 years on,
Orders. I want to point out most of that is about in the timing of implementation of parts of the Affordable Care act. I think it bears are act or refusing to enforce its. This is most important compliment. He has been phasing it in and is made decisions along the way to certain pieces of it and they need to meet be delayed by more than one year. This is exactly what presence and administrations have always done and are expected to do in implementing complicated pieces of legislation like the Affordable Care act. George w. Bushs secretary of health and Human Services said three days after one of the most important delays of the so called employer mandate was announced, this decision was wise. He compared it to decisions that he and president bush made when their implementing the Prescription Drug benefit in medicare which many of us are personally familiar with now. Complicatedery piece of health legislation. It also had a very bumpy introduction was not very popular. They have a lot o
Tax exempt status. Our phone lines you can also join in on facebook and social media. You can also email us at journal cspan. Org. Lets take a look at the headlines from the super bowl cities. Post denver and this from the Seattle Times from the Richmond Times dispatch you login to espn. Com, there is a story about the tax exempt status for the nfl. Tom coburn has proposed an amendment to the marketplace fairness act that would end the nfls exemption from Tax Exemption. Before you start comparing the nfl to the american red cross, it is important to know why it is a taxexempt organization. It is classified as a trade or that is organization under the 501 c six code. Angus king spoke about why he wanted to change this. [video clip] this is ridiculous on the first place. It is an organization designed brand. Ote a particular i love going to games, i love watching the games. After this bill i may have to go to nfl games under the witness protection program. This isnt about the teams. They
The continuing trend of broad expansions of presidential powers. is eroding the powers of the legislative branch. Constitutionally, the vital decisions of government were not to be decided by the stroke of a pen from the president, with no