Fiscal rules. Many on this committee have suggested establishing longterm debt to gdp targets. Credible fiscal targets could guide fiscal Decision Making and improve the way Congress Budgets and spends. At our hearing last week, there was talk about a revenue estimating committee. We dont even address how much revenue were going to have to work with. Credible fiscal targets could guide fiscal Decision Making and improve the way Congress Budgets and spends. Most important, such targets could encourage congress to focus less on near term spending battles and more on longterm Fiscal Health of our country. Another area ive been concerned with is how we budget for disasters. I note that according to the witness testimony, since 2005, federal funding for Disaster Assistance has tototalled at let 450 billion. While we regularly appropriate funding for Femas Disaster Relief Fund as part of the annual appropriations process, according to the congressional are provided for supplemental appropria
Townhall. Com parties. He talks about the Republican Partys relationship with young voters. Here is a look at what you will see tonight. Millennials are the biggest generation right now and the Republican Party is not super popular among men millennials the millennials and i think there are barriers that the face of the party will have to change. And on a couple issues, whether it is gay marriage, for example. Changesou start making to appeal to a new group of voters that think differently than their parents and grandparents come about alienating the parents and grandparents whose votes you rely on as your base to win elections right now . That is when the growing pains in the Republican Party that i will be fascinated to see how they handle that over the next, maybe not the next few years, but over the next decade or decade and a half. The current integration of the Republican Party i do not think would be a viable party in 20 years. Announcer the townhall Political Editor guy benson
Apes this is president nixon talking to his National Security advisor, dr. Henry kissinger of january of 1972, and month before the historic trip to china that february. [indiscernible] before we start the program, i want to introduce a special guest to our audience. President nixons younger brother, ed nixon. [applause] and with that, dr. Stoner, the stages years. Dr. Stoner thank you very much for having us here. We had a wonderful tour this afternoon of the library. We all enjoyed it very much. Im going to start our discussion by picking up on the tape that jonathan just played for us which was nixons idea of formulating friendly relations with china to counterbalance soviet power in the early 1970s. He turned out to be very precedent in not worrying about china necessarily in 1972, but worrying about china further down the road. We find yourselves now in 2017 with a new situation in both china and russia are important to the United States and global affairs. Since mr. Nixon was pre
Townhall. Com parties. He talks about the Republican Partys relationship with young voters. Here is a look at what you will see tonight. Millennials are the biggest generation right now and the Republican Party is not super popular among men millennials the millennials and i think there are barriers that the face of the party will have to change. And on a couple issues, whether it is gay marriage, for example. Changesou start making to appeal to a new group of voters that think differently than their parents and grandparents come about alienating the parents and grandparents whose votes you rely on as your base to win elections right now . That is when the growing pains in the Republican Party that i will be fascinated to see how they handle that over the next, maybe not the next few years, but over the next decade or decade and a half. The current integration of the Republican Party i do not think would be a viable party in 20 years. Announcer the townhall Political Editor guy benson
Washington journal continues. Host as the debate over health get continues, we want to welcome ron pollack, now a member of the Convergence Center for policy resolution, and gracemarie turner, president of , also an Institute Number of his Convergence Center. Ron pollack, i want to begin with you. You have two different perspectives on health care. How did this project, about and what are your best recommendations . We had discussions about it. It looked Like Congress might repeal the fourth all caps but would not put something in place. We had discussions about what should we try to do, perhaps on a bipartisan basis, that could actually provide as meaningful coverage for people as possible, so that the replacement would be significant. Some point, itt really would make sense to try to get people together on a bipartisan basis that even those who support the Affordable Care act, or opposed before the care act, are there some things we can find Common Ground on, so the American Public g