Unfair for the people who come at the end of the discussions because they do not have a their testimony. I thank you to please keep comments to a limited three minutes. Started, i would like to ask all of the drafting Committee Members to introduce themselves. I tell you, i say it is an honor and pleasure to serve with these ladies and gentlemen from across , a verytry compassionate and Brilliant Group of people who are trying to synchronize the problems that our constituents are going through, the issues that are. Acing americans because we great pleasure to let them introduce themselves briefly. Thank you very much. And the policy director for senator Bernie Sanders. I am a member of the toledo tribe. I am Bonnie Schaeffer from North Carolina and florida. Im honored to be on this committee. Fromd Luis Gutierrez chicago and i want to say hi to all my friends in phoenix, arizona. Cornell west. Teacher and citizen. Tandon neera tanden. Wendy sherman. President of the arabamerican instit
Sailors were in a helicopter, there were another two or, i think, three sailors ones still missing. So they do, they make that sacrifice day in and day out, and their family makes it alongside of them. Im not going to go into the introduction, i have a paragraph here, because you did such a wonderful job, thank you very much. And before i start my comments, i thought it might be helpful for me to hear from all of you as to what concerns you and whats on your mind today as we sit here, january the 10th, 2014. This is the first meeting of the conservative women network, and i just what is on your mind . What do you think should be the priorities for the United States of america . Repealing obamacare. [laughter] anyone else . Cutting taxes. Anything else . Standing strong on the key social issues. Life, etc. And im delighted to see one of my former staffers here who now works in the prolife movement, and christy obrien, thank you for coming. Its so great to see you. Well, and i think prob
Documentable influence of large contributor networks on Office Holders comes at the agendasetting stage of the process. Not on final roll call votes. Thats why its hard to do the research. We have tons of exampled evidence of bills being especially kept off, not passed. Its especially the negative power of stopping a bill from moving forward, but also amendments to create special breaks for people. I dont think theres much doubt that this happens. The question is can you document that it doesnt happen in a clean election state. I havent done that work. But i do know that a traditionallyfunded state, especially working through Party Leaders, the agendasetting states thats quite important. Second, on the question of whether clean elections produces more extreme Office Holders, i want to get again, this time i wont get in the weeds. We have have a private conversation later. I just want to say that i strongly disagree with the paper that, the unpublished article. I have a different interp
Serious and lifethreatening weather conditions are expected as early as tomorrow evening from outer banks to new england. New york, pennsylvania, maryland, virginia and North Carolina plus the district of column yeah have already declared states of emergency. A Tropical Storm warning is in effect for parts of florida. Well have more updates on sandy later in the program. Right now i want to turn to politics. This, my friends, is 26. 86. 26. 86, not a hunl amount of money. Certainly not enough for a spiffy new iphone 5. It will get you plenty of itunes downloads. Not enough to take the whole family to the movies, but you could probably treat yourself to lunch at applebees. Imagine that 26. 86 compounded every second. That is 1,611. 60 a minute. Thats 96,696 an hour or 2. 3 million a day. Suddenly 26. 86 doesnt seem so modest because 26. 86 is how much both candidates combined are spending every second of every day this election cycle which is why on thursday, we cross a milestone in ame