By all reports, some of them have come back, upwards of 100. They are not here, folks, to buy a house with a white picket fence. Theyre here to hurt and kill us and change our way of life. Joe and i had the foresight a couple years ago to file a bill that would restrict their strip their citizenship, not allow them to hide behind the United States, the rights guaranteed by our constitution, not use that passport freely to come back and north on a whim. We should keep them there, with their new friends. And let them stay there. Right. [applause] unfortunately, it was filed again in this last session. Before they went on their second vacation, two things. They did not close the border and deal with the very serious border threats and they did not also take up that very important bill, as uk has done, as france has done and other countries are doing, because they recognize, hey, lets keep them there. Lets not let them hide. And were not saying, oh, we think these people are on facebook, t
We will begin with campaign 2014 and the tone of this election cycle. What is it like in your state . You can send us a tweet or join the conversation on facebook. Start dialing in now. The National Journal has this headline on their website. Not, politicalr ads have been more negative than ever. A recent study shows that an u. S. Senate races, 55 of ads over the last two weeks were onlyive, which means they criticize the opponent, another 17. 5 were contract ads, ads that mentioned both the opponent and the sponsored favorite candidate. As for gubernatorial and house races over that. Frome than 40 negative the New York Times this morning, evidence suggests the democrats have an edge in the battle for the senate. Column bye upshot nate . Hen. Ate coe writes, the party is benefiting from running more effective campaigns. Democrats have an edge on the air with ads, with one notable exception, and a significant advantage on the ground contacting voters in some of the years most crucial co
Includes 900 billion in subsidies over 10 years for major commercial health insurance. The union health plans are not eligible, and they are being frozen out of that market by the government picking winners and losers. It is a mistake. Question. T what policy should the federal government pursued to improve our nations economy . Governmentsederal responsibility for growing alsomic disparity, and including an increase in the minimum wage. Thank you. The mostion touches on important comment of his campaign, the economy. The economy is the bedrock of so much else and have talked about tonight. The basic Building Block of the economy is jobs. Is pursuingent policies right now that are killing job creation. We have 8 Million People that have dropped out of the search for a job in despair. We have 7 Million People stuck in parttime jobs, and we have millions still unemployed completely. There is no silver bullet, but our concrete, immediate things that this government can do to creation. D f
Political points might not be as critical as it has been. As the political Balance Sheet begins to shift may be ever so gradually in favor of other things than scoring political points, it might even go in the direction of showing that you can govern or get things done. In effect, in this formulation compromise and consensus building can become on some issues political benefits for the Majority Party and maybe for more than that. I will stop right there. I just want to say that i thank you again for the opportunity to the bpc and the political scientists in the Washington Area to talk about the print. We appreciate the publicity that it is getting at events like this. John great. We are going to stay here in our chairs. I will turn to sarah binder. They have comments about the print. Colleen and john noted that it has 29 essays. They are going to go through them one by 1 no. [laughter] they are not going to go through them. They will pick topics of interest. We have it well set up to h
Own question. There is pressure on the side of the hill. You can suggest that members see the causal link going in the other direction, the reason i get elected is because i have a war chest. And that is one way to combat it. It is the sign of the times when the word primaries becomes ever. I might get primary did. Pimrimaried. Before they are freshmen, they sign a leadership pact. Why . Because members are getting dubbed a certain amount depending on their role on the committees and so on. This is increasing pressures for raising more and more money. One more implication of the nationalization of Congressional Election that john referred to is that it is harder for members and income when they vote for members in the apposite party. When you look at it over time, it is a fairly unremarked upon trend. What grew substantially into the 50s and 60s is basically down to what it was before the increase. There is still a small income and see advantage but it is much smaller they are in it us