Transitions, sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Former House Speaker john boehner joined a discussion on the Incoming Biden Administration and the 117th congress. The mir i hadian International Conversation also included former transportation secretary Rodney Slater who served in the linton administration. Ms. Verstandig thank you, thank you. Its an honor and privilege to be here. Meridian has been very much a part of my personal and professional life and i very much appreciate the opportunity to be in dialogue with this distinguished group of panelists today who are both friends and colleagues and i think that group is very much representative of the things that you just laid out. And theyre the themes of disgraced democratic experience this great democratic experience that we here in america undertake and have undertaken for the last 240 years. But it is a Bipartisan Group and if i can just add a p. S. On my personal bio, as everyone who knows me well, not only do i do
i don t think we ll get the briefing until thursday. that briefing was going to be the gang of eight. but lots of members wanted it and were entitled to it. i asked that it be expanded to the whole senator and the president agreed. reporter: one area where there s bipartisan support is for permitting reform. mr. schumer: i don t know if he ll call for it in his speech but it s something we need. permitting reform will make it easier to implement much of the green energy that we have. i think the bill we proposed actually according to most of the modelers, including the great model in princeton i forget their name, the guy has two s s in his name, like shelby summers, i don t know what his name is. it shows the permitting would decrease the am of carbon going into the at moss fever atmosphere so i m for it. reporter: some democrats have called for tax increases. what s your position on that? senator schumer: on the debt ceiling, it should be done without hostility, without