Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to address Congress Although he will not be speaking with the white house because the white house will not speak with someone close to an election. Special ewessing number israeli israelipalestine relations. She said that its much larger than partisan politics. Your reaction . It was a smart thing to say. Shes not the first person to say it. It was written in politico, if thats the wrong publication forgive me, but he talked about the relationship being too big to fail. And there is a sense that america, the United States and israel share values, and israel is an important ally to the United States, not just tactically to the middle east, but its a democracy and the two countries tend to see things the same way. Thats the way most americans feel those who follow world affairs. It would be unpolitic and unrise for Samantha Powers to do anything other than to underline the shared values between israel and the United States. She said that
These programs not to mention massive cuts in the food stamp program. But mr. Pres. , in the midst of all of these devastating cuts to health care education, nutrition that impact working families the budget do something else. I suspect people were listening. He he is being partisan. It really cant be this bad. This is reality the republican budget. I no the media does not write about it much, but that is what it is. In addition to making massive cuts in health care education, nutrition what else do they do . At a time when the wealthiest 400 americans paid a tax rate of just 16. 7 and 2012 at a time when Hedge Fund Managers pay a lower effective tax rate than working families are Truck Drivers are nurses oes based on an amendment they did is it ishes t is abolishes the estate tax. The the estate tax provides a 269 billion tax break for the middle class. Lowincome people. Not so. This repeal applies to the wealthiest not 1 percent but the top two tenths of 1 percent. Republicans pass t
I am not going to use my limited budgets on folks who refuse to work. [laughter] [applause] forget that. What is important for the future is which one of us speaks no Space Command that is me. As as the media keeps reminding us, neither one of us beach spanish. Spanish content starting now. Your on. [laughter] [speaking in native tongue] jose cuervo. Dude, thats not spanish, thats canadian. [laughter] all right. All right. In brigade lysias. The macarena. Mentos, the fresh maker. Dont cry for me, argentina. Enough of that. Lets get back to ted cruz. An open senate seat in texas yeah,. Yeah, but that campaign did not have the best launch. The website did not work. Even republicans said that it was a bad idea. He is obama care. That is why it is about time for texas to turn blue seriously. Seriously. Texas is so read that they approved a textbook that has moses as a founding father. Moses is someone to look up to. He only believes in ten laws. And the only reason he has name recognition
Been several years since we have increased the minimum wage, and i support an increase in the minimum wage, but i do not believe that at a time when our economy is so fragile as is indicated by the very slow increase in g. D. P. That was reported this morning that we can afford to increase the minimum wage by some 39 . I would note, madam president , that just a year ago, president obama was suggesting that we should increase the minimum wage to 9 an hour. I dont see any change in the Economic Conditions that would have caused him to abruptly change his position and now be advocating 10. 10 an hour. I know, madam president , that there are many lowincome families that are really struggling in this country, and i believe that our economy could accommodate an increase in the minimum wage, but the congressional budget office, a nonpartisan entity, has told us that the consequences of going to 10. 10 an hour would be a loss of some 500,000 jobs at a time when our economy simply cannot affo
Welcome to the Cato Institute to an unprecedented book foryum. My name is ill ya shapiro. Im editor in chief. The latest volume of which were releasing this coming tuesday at our annual constitutional Day Conference i hope youll attend as well. Today, however, youre in for a different kind of treat. My good friend has written what will surely be considered the definitive account of a oncein alifetime case the constitutional challenge to obamacare. Not the definitive academic but the inside story of a legal and political tug of war that embroiled all three branches of government. The book, which the the wall street journal called excellent, offers unrivelled access to the key Decision Makers with interviews with more than 100 people that lived the journey. Academics, attorneys, activists. Now, 14 months have passed since chief Justice John Roberts made obamacares individual mandate attacks. I was in the courtroom that fateful june day, and my emotions quickly cycled through shock, denia