Important and difficult policy decisions the president made early on. Josh, plunging oil prices and raising gas prices for infrastructure. In the past, you said is on the table. Is it on the table . We have put forward our very specific or postal for how we believe we can make the investment needed in infrastructure in this company. That is typically what the gas tax revenue is dedicated to. Closingbelieve loopholes and using the revenue for closing the loopholes and infrastructure upgrades. Some have different ideas, including raising the gas tax. That is something we will take a look at, but is not something we have considered from here. Among those, chris mercy chris murphy planned to raise by . 12 per gallon over two years. Are you ruling a gas tax increase out for something specific on infrastructure . Loopholes and using the i do not have anything about the specific topic. As it relates to specific proposals, we will certainly consider proposals put forward bipartisan proposals l
Legislative agenda. The most Diverse Congress industry poised to take power and a wave of new lawmakers is arriving on capitol hill. Republicans called it the ranks. And that spirit, the hill should look at the quirks of the voting members and the new congress. There is a Record Number of female lawmakers, alongside 430 men following the departure of michael grimm. You taught senator tim scott is part of the largest black republican lass in Congress Since the reconstruction era. There will be 46 black lawmakers and the new congress. Hispanic lawmakers will have 33 in the house and 30 senators. That is Peter Sullivan reporting on that. The 114 Congress Gavels in tomorrow at 9 00. Next, we hear from former white house officials and the obama bush, and Clinton Administrations. This would not happen without pat griffin. He has been a background of being an assistant director and assistant to be president under clinton. He organized this and he came up with the idea several months ago and i
Congress. We will go tumor real to mur iel. Caller happy new year to you both. I just want to say this. I think the president , president obama, i will use his title president , he will be in command in spite of the majorities of the republicans, ok . Because i think the republicans are on the same train to nowhere. If they bring up the repeal of the Health Care Law and also if they dont deal with immigration. When we talk about immigration we should think about people because it involves millions of latinos, asians, from everywhere in the world. It is as though the republicans are saying we dont have to deal with that at the moment in the same manner that they are saying, we are going to repeal the health care act. If you have ever been sick, if you have ever had a chronic illness, cancer diabetes something that the doctors cannot and do not know about you need health care. I think this country needs to look to people like Angela Merkel in germany, who provides a decent minimum wage f
Above all, on this issue, what i think is the right thing to do is to cut taxes the people in work rather than take more in taxes and redistribute it. It cannot be fair. [indiscernible] i think my honorable friend put it clearly. Many people have seen a pay freeze year after year and Welfare Benefits have gone up. We face a choice. Do we go on putting those Welfare Benefits up, which is not helping those people who are in work, or do we make the tough decisions . The only welfare labour who anyone took seriously said their approach is not serious. He is right. Thank you. May i congratulate the Prime Minister and the u. K. Government of following the lead of Scottish Government in introducing equal marriage, minimum pricing for alcohol, and, previously, on the smoking ban. Will he follow in the lead of the Scottish Government . Because of the measures taken, there is an extra 300 Million Pounds with the Scottish Government to spend. I am happy to say when good policies are introduced, i
Mainstream media in line. And. Just what this dam did not need, more rain. It is all happening now. Jon we begin our second hour with the president s a trip to South Carolina. He is meeting with the ceo of boeing, a company that could greatly be affected by the president America First strategy. Welcome to happening now on this friday, i am jon scott. I am abby in for jenna lee. During that facility today, he will also speak at the debut of the new aircraft production. Jon ahead of the trip, the president tweeted going to charleston, South Carolina, in order to spend time with boeing and talk jobs look forward to it. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts live in North Charleston for us now. You would love to be here as they roll out the new version of the 787, it is the ten version, 18 feet longer than the last iteration, and they have not found one yet so they are looking forward to seeing it left off from the airstrip just outside the hangar where we are. Interesting to note th