Answers as power lunch from d. C. Begins right now. Welcome to power lunch. Here is what else is on the menu today. So much for d. C. Drama crushing the markets. Investors shaking off the political turmoil for a day. Is it rally on again . And for how long . Plus, for foot locker today, no thrill of victory. Just the agony of defeat. This stock sinking and smelling like an old shoe. Two allbeef patty special sauce pickles onions all sesame seed bun for mcdonalds. The burger boom alive and well on wall street. Brian . Kayla, thank you. And i want you to know im keeping your desk clean. Ive been using it. A one of the wildest weeks we can remember. The president getting ready to depart for his first overseas trip since taking office. Reporter when he talked to white house officials about the trip they used words like historic and words like reset. Both in terms of domestic politics with a tough week in washington, d. C. And in terms of the International Picture and resetting the debate i
Republicans are in disarray after failure to kill obamacare. What do you make of the latest roadblock on your efforts to change legislation. Guest obviously it is not a positive development see if you recognize it for what it is. In my personal opinion i think the senates going to have to do Something Like that. In action is going to be inact ion is unacceptable. Host what about what the house did, they let they did a pretty big bill. Can these two bodies reconcile on the issue . Guest i work in a bipartisan said that we will take on issues, get it is health care we should learn lessons from the Affordable Care act and other times. Maybe its time for us to start reaching across the aisle. We are are the engaging in that process as we speak. I think it is time. You are impacting real americans in a negative way. Host our guest will be here for half an hour. We have lines for democrats, republicans and independents. We will get sure calls as soon as they come in. You are elected in 2010.
Rep. Schneider it was an extra ordinary experience. It was the highest honor, greatest response ability i could ever have representing the people who sent me to washington to reflect their values and priorities. It was a wonderful opportunity. We had a chance to work on a lot of important things. Protecting the Affordable Care act, to working on immigration, to working on addressing gun violence. I am excited to be back and continue the work we started four years ago. You are a democrat and lost reelection. Any Lessons Learned . Rep. Schneider it was a strange year. I was asked what i thought about running again, i looked and said im not changing my positions. I dont think i lost in 2013 because of my position. We have to do a better job of getting the message out, having people understand what it is we are fighting for. This time i think we did a better job. I lost by 2 . This time i was able to win by more than 5 . But that was a reflection of talking about the issues people care abo
Of important things from protecting the Affordable Care act, trying to fix it and move it forward, to work ing on immigration and working on gun violence. Im excited to be back to continue working. Any Lessons Learned . Why do you think you lost . It was a strange year. I was asked when i was thinking about running again, what positions are going to change. I looked and said im not changing my positions. I dont think i lost in 2014 because of my positions. We have to do a better job of getting our message out, having people understand what it is were fighting for. I think this time we did a better job. I lost by 2 . This time i was able to win in a difficult year by more than 5 . But that was a reflection of talking about the issues people care about. We have to have an economy thats growing for everybody and working families believe they can get ahead and give their children a better quality of life. We have to tackle this gun violence thats effecting our communities and cutting down
A panel of historians talk about antivice campaigns through the first halftime 1900s. Like crusadse against oipium and prostitution. Reform groups often had competing tactics. This was hosted by the american historical association. It is about an hour1 2. Welcome. It is my great privilege to be the moderater of this panel. We have three really fine papers and a comment today. Well just go in the order in the program and i will introduce each person before they speak. So if were ready, well get going. Our first presentation is by harle fisher, professor of modern global history at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology. The author of many wonderful stories including san scrist sociology ant zpw peerism. Race class. And the editor of limits of british control in south asia. The title of the talk today is eradicating the scourge of drink and the unpardonnable sin f inleaget sexual enjoyment. Thank you for these kind words. Thanks to the audience for coming out in this weather. As the t