We want to begin on the sunday morning with the question, should the u. S. Require mandatory voting . For democrats, the number to call is 202 7488000. For republicans, the number is 202 7488001. We also have a line for independents. 202 7458002. We welcome our listeners on cspan radio and around the world. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj. Or join us on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. In yemen rebels call supporters to arms. There will be a special meeting with the Un Security Council today in new york city. We want to get your opinion on mandatory voting. Should it be required. . Here is a story from the hill newspaper. This is part of a question in cleveland. Both, the president floating the idea of mandatory voting as a strategy in the short term to counter money and politics. In australia and other countries, there is mandatory voting. Remarks coming in response to the corrosive role of money and politics. The president says that his department of justice would defend voting righ
Tomorrow the key i as well. Adam we have a break in with some news, president obama speaking. President obama i have further thoughts for the press as the day goes on, but the bottom line is the senate has passed a bill that keeps the government open, does not have a lot of extraneous issues to it. That allows us to negotiate a longerterm budget and address a range of other issues, but ensures we are not shutting down the government and we are not shutting down the economy at a time when a lot of families are just getting some traction and digging themselves out of the hole we have had with the financial crisis. I have said before congress has two responsibilities. Pass a budget, pay the bills. I am not only open to, but eager to have negotiations around a longterm budget that makes sure we are investing in middleclass families, helping the economy grow, giving people who are working hard a leg up, and greater security and stability and deals with some longterm challenges and firms ter
We just experience. It is. We have seen three times as much snow on average. All of it has a huge Economic Impact especially on the airline industry. In january, we saw an incredibly number incredible number. We have seen an Economic Impact sales figures were impacted in january due to the cold weather. Impact on people going out and shopping for cars. His shadow. Il saw this is obviously happening. Weekend . E expect this will it continue like this throughout february . Serious, real data. I would like to think i am more accurate than the groundhog. We are looking at a long winter so far at least this week. The first week of february, three storms in one week. One came conveniently after the super bowl, was fans are happy about. That one that canceled 2000 fights on monday when people were trying to get back. Another one today and it possibility of a third storm on sunday. Predictions have been all over the place. It is still a few days away so it is difficult to call. I do not want t
Right or the privilege or the ability to ask for an extension and a raising of our debt when, in fact, we havent acted responsibly with our spending . Nobody else in the country gets their credit raised when you havent acted responsibly. They actually check your credit score. They know what kind of bills youre paying, whether youre getting further behind. So should we in fact tear up the credit card. Should we force some good old adult supervision on congress, to where well actually be forced to make difficult decisions about priorities on how we spend americas money, and when i mean americas money, im thinking people working hard every day, they may not be the highest taxpayer, but it is unconscionable to me that when we spend their money, that were wasting 15 to 20 of it all the time. So i think we ought to tear it up. And the way we tear it up, we just tear it up. We tear the credit card up. We shred the credit card and we say youre going to live within your means. Youre going to st
Again. Again. A lot of gamblers have plenty on the economy. All that Virginia Republican governor bob mcdonald on why the grand old party better let this not so grand squabble drag on. Or come 2014 or 2016, all bets are off. And in asia, fears that the american mess is going to drag on. Lets get going, right now. We will nose negotiate. We are locked in tight on obamacare. The president reiterated, one more time tonight, that hell not negotiate. If they dont take yes for an answer, then i can only conclude they wanted to shut down the government. I would hope that the president and my democrat colleagues in the senate would listen to the American People. Michele bachmann said, finally were where we want to be. Neil that sounds like it went well . They mitt for what . An hour and a half, what happened . What did they do, are you going to get the pizza or the chicken . What happe happened, it looks le shut down will drag on. I had a question, we got to 50 minutes into the meeting there i