Bribery and extortion and in a bombshell announce many he is asking for a criminal investigation. If you tell someone if you dont do this specific act i will not give you a contribution but if you do it i will. And a lot of places john that is a bribe. Senate president , Steve Sweeney is calling on the u. S. Attorney to investigate the knowledge teacher association, for trying to corrupt public officials. The njea and some Police Unions called democrats promising to withdraw contributions unless the bill for pension payments is posted by next week. Njea members protested outside of sweeneys office today while they were telling them that leadership is crossing the line. I will call on state Senate Sweeney to do his job and post and pass that resolution by august 8th. Njea says that the union has done nothing illegal but that the Senate Democrat has not done what he promised. He says he cannot do one without funding the Transportation Trust fund. We want it engraved in the constitution t
I think the reason why some of these have stuck around all the time, as youve said, theyre really politically intractable. But in some sense theres a reason for that, and maybe its not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, the other option is to have absolutely no regulation, right, at the extreme so that theres no conflict over what that regulation and anything goes. And if thats not what were trying to set up, a sort of superregulatory council that can sort of whackamole and bat down anything that is not the least trade restrictive model, thats where youre getting political pushback be. And thats the idea that, you know, citizens want to be able to have some say in what their economy looks like. And in some senses, you know, some citizens want greater Government Intervention in the economy. Cato would say less Government Intervention in the economy. But these are really, really important questions. And it really gets to, again, i think, marjories question when she said raise your hand if
90s the republicans have been trying to get dynamic scoring in after the one to 94 elections. Its always been an option to have it in addition to the projections that are already provided by cbo, right . The article use dynamic scoring for literally every bill instead of the magnitude we discussed instead of the regular scoring . Or are they going to be cases where were still going to also use the regular scoring as well . I think on the basic question ill say what i know and then we can ask the jcp people later. Basically, the rule says if the bill is large enough, jcp and cbo should dynamically score it in the official score to the extent practical. And i dont think anybody knows exactly how thats going to work in practice. But its required for those big bills in the house. And i would supplement that with i think the suggestion that you provide the dynamic score, but also the information what it will look like is perfectly sensible so youll know. On the issue of debt, this is the is
Its a nod to the past. There is a wing that is more reluctant than the other wing it to go to war. Host we will go next to new york. Caller good morning. I am a frequent viewer but firsttime caller. My question is is the president s job to submit the use of force first off . Has he done that . Secondly, i am so sick of my representative schumer pontificating on how the republicans are holding the american citizens hostage. Arent we Holding American citizen hostage with unconstitutional law in protecting immigrants . It just befuddles me that they can use this argument. Guest let me address that piece by piece. Maybe i will start with as far as immigration i dont see the benefits extended to immigrants that are discriminated against american citizens. This is just shielding emigrants from being deported if they are willing to register. I think will be interesting to see what the statistics are on that registration. Im not sure people are going to come out of the shadows. Let me add some
Nobody seems to like it. Craig i think the congressman has a point that there are crosscurrents going on in terms of public opinion, and it is hard to match everybodys expectation. At the same time, i think the American People expect a certain amount of leadership out of congress, and that they shouldnt just be polldriven in how they react. Im not saying congressman smith is like this, but i think people have an expectation that their leaders in washington will rise above that. John thanks for joining us on newsmakers this week. Keep track of the Republicanled Congress and follow its new members to its first session. New congress will best access on cspan cspan2 cspan2 radio and cspan. Org. Tonight on q a, david brooks columnist for the New York Times , on writing an article for the times and the awards he gives out at the end of the year. The sydni awards. The sydni sydni awards are given for the best magazine essay of the year. The idea is that they always come around christmas week.