Going to our website and entering Manhattan Institute in the search bar. Were going to go live now to capitol hill as the House Rules Committee starts two days of hearings on earmarks. President trump has suggested that those earmarks be restored. They were taken away in february of 2011. To ensure that the government allocates taxpayer dollars responsibly and in light with the values and wishes of the American People. Over the years, the manner in which congress fulfills those duties has been the repeated topic of discussion, debate, and calls for reform. While most agree that the constitutional responsibility to determine how taxpayer money is spent lies with the legislative branch, we can also agree that abuse has been associated with the process. This has, understandably, fueled concern among tax paying citizens. As a result, earmarking became known a process known for its secrecy and selfinterested motivations. Despite efforts to reform the earmarking process, and increase transpa
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With iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countries, thats when we came up with the idea of codepink. We originally wanted to by code code hot pink but the url was already taken so we payment code pink. Host how do you pick your issues. Guest we started out not wanting to be an ongoing organization. We just wanted to join the masses and mobilize to stop the invasion of iraq. And so we dead that. We got involved. We had tremendous support around the country. Without really trying we found we had hundreds of thousands of people that signed up t
Coming up next from earlier today code pink founder was on the indepth program to discuss her writing and answer viewer questions. Among her books bridging the global gap how to stop the next war now into and at the most recent, drone warfare. Host Medea Benjamin how and when was code pink found it . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how he we could deal with the Climate Crisis and during the lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11 and we started laughing about the colorcoded alerts. Remember that yellow, orange, red and seeing how it was to keep people in the state of fear and that we needed another colorcoded alerts to say theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us and not a wholesale nation of countries and thats when we came up with the id