Must the communicators, monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. Next reporters and scholars familiar with house and procedures discussed the legislative process for the 115th congress. From the brookings institution, this is an hour and a half. Thank you for joining us. For those of you standing in the back, there is an overflow. Thank you very much, i am sarah bender, the senior fellow in studies, i have the pleasure of moderating today. I will introduce our speakers, just a bit about the book. Then we will get it going. To my left is molly reynolds. A fellow here in government studies. The author to except as to the role. Pointl be the launching for us in politics and applications for policy and him particularly health and tax today. Vox. H cliff, from bo just a very, very brief comment to get us going here. I have to say that if you have not seen mollys will get. You should. It strikes me as the very best of what bookings has to offer. Which is twofold. In politicalrooted science
Springfield, massachusetts by congressman richard neal. Us as Congress Turns its focus to tax reform. We have rachel, congressional reporter from politico. Reporter for, tax the wall street journal. Thank you for being here. With ant to start out transition we are seeing now on Health Reform on tax reform. Republicans have gone the partisan round. To put together a republican bill that imploded. Some on the hill are suggesting that may be tax reform could be done on a bipartisan basis. I want to ask you how confident you are that they will be able to Work Together on tax reform. There is a distinction that has to be drawn between the president and the senate republicans. Senate republicans have collapsed their effort to repeal the Affordable Care act which the president continues to talk about. I hope that as we proceed, the tax reform, a stubborn issue, that there could be room for bipartisan corporation. It strikes me that there is broad agreement on what is wrong with the taxco. 31
Took the first big step of his presidency in terms of dealing with the crisis. Saying he would declare it an emergency, saying he wanted to dedicate time and resources and money to this crisis. Because we havent seen the actual declaration yet, it is hard to say what this will do. Thingeral, the number one you can say is that this will mean a lot more awareness and attention on the issue. The easiest thing to say, this will put a spotlight on what is going on around the country when it comes to the crisis. From there we are looking at what the laws are that govern Emergency Declarations, to get a clue towards what he might do. Usedneral these things are for Something Like a hurricane or flood or a tangible event that is concrete. Public Health Emergencies are declared when it comes to Communicable Disease like influenza or the h1n1 virus. This is a novel use. We have not seen emergency for a broad used and multifaceted thing like the opioid crisis. Host when will this become official a
Obamas eight years in office. Heres how you can let us know. If you think they have improved, give us a call at2027488000. If you think the have not 7488001. 202 or our post on Twitter Facebook page as well. Gallup on january 9 took an assessment of president obamas term in office. Taking a look at the eight years asking people what they think has occurred under those eight topicsn a variety of lost up specifically, Race Relations. The responses, 25 of those cold said when it comes to Race Relations, that progress has been made. Stoodid that it has still. 52 saying there has been lost ground when it comes to the topic of Race Relations under president obamas eight years in office. That is gallup on a poll that came out on january 9. We want to hear from you, your thoughts on Race Relations here in the u. S. , if they have improved in the eight years president obama has been in office. On facebook, post or twitter. To give you context of the things that president obama has said, we will
Our next newscast is tomorrow morning at 430. Late show with Stephen Colbert is next. Our next newscast is tomorrow morning at 4 30. Yeah, it could be a wild ride to work. Michelle griego and kennchoi will have all if news you need. Goodnight. I dont know if you watched the tv this afternoon but president obama held his last press conference today. He talked about the complexities of peace in the middle east, universal health care, job creation. Pretty boring stuff. And man, i am going to miss being bored. laughter cheers and applause at one point not going to be boring. Its going to be exciting. At one point he did have some strong words for russia. I think its important just to remember that the reason sanctions have been put in place against russia has to do with their actions in ukraine. And it is important for the United States to stand up for the basic principle that big countries dont go around and invade and bully smaller countries. Stephen well said, big countries dont invade