Originally given seven years for ratification. Congress reported to change the rules. I filed the first lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of that change of process on behalf of Washington State legislatures more than 30 years ago. We won that case. The rule was, you cant change the rules in the middle of the stream. If you have to have an agreement on the subject matter to start with and you cant change the rules in the middle of the stream, this fearmongering going from the extreme left and right is just nonsense. The power of the convention is no different than congress. You can call a convention for a particular purpose. Congress could propose amendments for a particular purpose. Just because Congress Proposes an amendment on minimum wage, doesnt mean the whole constitution suffers. You are a constitutional lawyer. How many times have you argued before the Supreme Court . Just once. I have filed lots of briefs but only argued one time. You ever think about why the founders pu
And www. Cspan. Org. As candidates what the fairgrounds and speak at the candidates soapbox. Today, scott walker, followed by carly fiorina, and then lindsey graham. Tuesday morning, senator marco john kasich30 and if i look like. On wednesday, rep. Will speak at 11 00. On friday afternoon at 2 30, take cruise. Ze. Ted crui join the twitter conversation at dmrsoapbox. Campaign 2016, taking you on the road to the white house. Washington journal continues. Host joining us is Michael Farris, cofounder of the convention of the States Project. Here to talk about their efforts to amend the u. S. Constitution. Tell us what profit you to get behind this effort. I have been working around government for about three decades. Specifically here in washington d c. I became convinced that the combination of big ceilings eight cities, big media, and y and Big Government the burden of Big Government on us will never be solved inside the city. If we are going to do that, we need to get outside of washi
Sanders and Hillary Clinton will be calling for significant increase in the minimum wage. Sense because the economy is consolidated. It is not efficiently allocating resources and paying workers what they should be earning in a truly competitive market. Host teddy downey is executive editor of the Capitol Forum here to talk to us about economic populism. For republicans 202 7488001. Democrats 202 7488000. Independent line 202 7488002. Wall street is betting on bush financialns disclosure. A report came out on how much the Bush Campaign and the Clinton Campaign are getting from wall street. I will play some comments that Hillary Clinton made recently about wall street and what she is calling quarterly capitalism. Im not talking about charity. Cleareyed about capitalism. Many companies have prospered by improving wages and training their workers that than yield higher productivity, better service, and larger profits. To cut costs by holding down or even decreasing pay and other investmen
Determined law enforcer can really do. A guide by the name of been lasky had more of an impact by himself in that agency than thertgage market b had in the years it was working on the same issue. Yorksmall office in new was really determined to change the behavior of the industry and crackdown on misrepresentation and conflicts of interest. It doesnt take a lot of determined law enforcers. To make big change. That is another reason people in washington are focused on the president. Senators of several running for president is bernie sanders. He was interviewed on meet the press yesterday. He talked about the issue of income inequality. We are resonating all over this country because we are talking about issues that are life and death issues to the American People. And that is the collapse of the american middle class. The massive and grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in this country. The fact that we are the only major country on earth who doesnt guarantee health care for
Will join us on set and talk earnings, technology and perhaps future were watching Hurricane Irma. President talks tax reform today. Europe is relatively mixed our ten year yield below 207 this morning stocks set for a rebound futures point to a higher open big tech leading the premarket. Its one of the most powerful storms recorded. Puerto rico and the florida coast bracing for land fall by this weekend. Meg whitman on set. The ceo joins us live at post 9 in just a few minutes. Futures are in the green following tuesdays sell off in which financials suffered the worst day since may. Treasury yields hit the lowest level of the year. We talked about banks yesterday getting hit by not just the lower rate environment but the prospect of insurance pay outs. They were pressured across the board. Plus all the dovish fed speak is getting people to say maybe the banks wont be helped by a regular tightening path next year and that all came to pass youre not seeing any real concern about Financi