Israel and whhamas. Is israel snaf particularly when we know that palestinians and gaza may just rest unand rearm for the next round . Finally as you head out into the thanksgiving traffic, ask yourself where president obama still hasnt given the green light to the Keystone Pipeline that would give us jobs and energy n independence . Now a truly Bipartisan Group of senators is telling the president to make a decision right now. First up this evening, this is the big question. Will we get a deal done or might president obama just let us go right over the fiscal cliff, take the recession, and simply blame the gop . This is a serious question that im hearing from washington all the time. So lets talk. We have cnbc contributor jack bernstein, former chief economist, and art laffer, former reagan adviser. Im not attacking obama or anything. Im just saying there is a lot of talk of stalemate. Well perhaps go through where, why and how. Staffs have been meeting unsuccessfully. Some people are
Restrictions. So again as a situation where the money leaves the contributors hand, loses control over it the money goes to a single party. Indeed i could make this even worse. I can say lets say the speaker of the house where the majority leader of the house solicit this money from particular people. So solicit somebody to ante up his threepoint 6 million. That meant Justice Kennedy said in mcconnell equate both to the recipient of the money and the one who solicits the payment. But the speaker, majority leader can solicit 3. 6 million while the Party Members and you tell me theres no special influence that goes along with that . Feedback we know from the city and are not quick prococorruption. That is not the sort of corruption that would sustain this limit, especially in light of the severe restrictions on speech and association that it imposes as the Political Parties compete against each other in as the candidates have to compete. In buckley, the court sustained aggregate limit. W
Important that issue is for our nation and world. Hes given literally his life as an expert on human rights around the world and leading the Helsinki Commission and just talking with us about the importance of this and whats happening with the ukraine and in russia and in europe just recently. So you know, the issue of freedom and private enterprise and opportunity and education and energy selfsufficientry are goals that i mean, we pressure here. And it is possible for the rest of the world and our allies around the world. But what signal does it send if america is not willing to do its part when it comes to production right here in america and transporting oil and fall gas and other emerging fuels, alternative fuels, alternative sources of electricity, when were not doing our very best . So i know that its contentious but i wanted to come to the floor to talk, senator hoeven i think gave a excellent defense of why the Keystone Pipeline is important. But i would just want to underscore
Shale gas if we go get it and if we allow it to be exported. Remember, please, russia controls a great deal of the energy that europe uses to heat their homes. Hes got europe over the proverbial barrel unless america jumps in. Sandra smith is here. Yes. Stuart so if we hello. You have an opportunity. Stuart yes, from Angela Merkel of all people, any european. Thats why everyones saying, hello, president obama, this is an enormous opportunity to become energy independent, become exporters of oil. Heres the opportunity. If we were to speed up the process, we could probably do it in a few months. Stuart will he do it . Thats your question. Huge opportunity here. Lots of people knock manying on his door. Knocking on husband door. I say its still going to take a long time stuart come on, charles. I tell people to buy lng. Its 54 right now. But those export portals that are needed still take a lot of listen, i know the Company Inside and out. I called them the day they got the u. S. Approval
Least 10. 10 an hour. The American People do not want us to cut Social Security. In fact, more and more americans want us to expand Social Security to make sure that when elderly people reach retirement age, they can live and retire with dignity. Mr. President , i think there has perhaps never been a time in the modern history of this country where the political lines have been drawn as clearly as they are right now. If you listen to the koch brothers, if you read the republican ryan budget in the house, their positions are quite clear. Tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and significant cuts in the programs that are life and death for the middle class and working families of this country. That is not what the American People want and it is time we began to listen to the American People. Its time that we took on those people, those billionaires who are spending huge amounts of money elected candidates that represent their interests, and its time we listened to the working fami