Everybody. Im linda feldman. Our guest today is former attorney general eric holder. Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. This is his first appearance at our breakfast. Welcome, thanks so much for coming. Ill dispense with the lengthy bio since we all know who he is. Well, if it contains the positive things, feel free to share it. People need to be reminded. Your judgeship, you are an appointee of ronald reagan, which is a sign of an earlier era. I was one of dutchs favorite judges. Ill note mr. Holder was the nations 82nd attorney general, serving six years under president obama from 2009 to 2015. And he continues to collaborate with president obama today in his advocacy on redistricting. We are also joined by kelly ward, to mr. Holders right. She is executive director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Thank you, kelly, for joining us. And now for the ground rules. Were on the record, please, no live blogging or tweeting. In short, no filing o
Look forward to your testimony. Of the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen, and streamline health and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. We have taken action to cut needless red tape, and make it more difficult for providers to deliver highquality care to their patients. We recently advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare for the American People. Continuing the drive to strengthen a quality and care coordination. A role intee played developing comrades of regulation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. With the American Health care act that was passed by the house last may, we delivered marketoriented solutions that would increase flexibility, reduce costs, and return control of health care to the American People. While this bill is stalled, reliefs has delivered from obamacare. We also took action to prevent several Damaging Health care taxes from going into effect. When it comes to the welfare and antipoverty programs, we a
Appears, more persons should also be able to transition from important support mechanisms and systems into meaningful work. Now this tax reform attempts to be sensitive to the needs of all americans, as it begins to push for a modernized revenue construct that no longer enables the complex lawyeredup quarterlydriven multinationals to unjustly benefit from low taxes abroad, while taking advantages of tax loopholes here. It rebalances the perverse incentives to offshore. At the same time, it uses the lower corporate rates to bring foreign profits back to america and were already seeing the effect. So, on balance, this was a massive historic and necessary overhaul of our antiquated, harsh and complicated tax system. So the families cannot cannot only get by, but can not only get by, but maybe they can start getting ahead. If we can combine this with a Small Business ecosystem of revived entrepreneurial momentum, and a part of that is the next set of policies hopefully that will be empower
On the committees decision to forstigate vetting systems white house staff in the aftermath of the rob porter story and congressman Ryan Costello on republican efforts to reform the informal care act. For the next hour, your thoughts on the School Shooting in florida. That resulted in 17 deaths, 15 hospitalized and the suspect is in custody. The shooting is the deadliest since sandy hook and is now one of the 10 deadliest shootings in modern history. The president tweeted yesterday, condolences and the Florida Governor and members of congress have spoken out about the issue. We will hear from them but we want to hear from you in this first hour. Its about the shooting and the related issues attached to it. Give us your reactions on our social media sites. It was the president of the United States who sent out a tweet about the event yesterday. The florida senators are also weighing in. Bill nelson from florida giving his thoughts if you go to the pages of the Naples Daily News in flori
Great hall. 50 feet wide, 50 feet high. And it is highly ornamented with lots of carvings. The symbol of the vanderbilt family can be seen everywhere. The acorn and the oakley. Which meant strength and longevity. And you will find the acorn and the oakleaf all throughout the house. So that was the theme of the family. And there were all sorts and kinds of marble, a lot of ornamentation. This house is supposed to look like an italian palace. They wanted to make a statement that, indeed, they had succeeded, that they had met the pinnacle, and that they were able to do what they could with their resources and they wanted to create fine homes that were in the style of european mansions. It was built by Richard Morris hunt, the preeminent architect of the time. He was the First American to study at the ecole des beaux artes in paris, and he was the hottest architect of the period. To hire hunt meant that you would have a great showpiece to put on display. And he worked very closely with the