2013. He says that when he returned, he hardly recognized the institution because of the amount of time members spent buying for dollars. Today, congressman join us, to get members of congress to put down the phone and actually solve america passes problems. Our guests will speak for a few minutes and then answer questions aired we have a number of reporters listening on the phone. If any of you listening in would like to ask a question, please email them. Welcome. Would you like to begin . Rep. Jolly a sincere thank you. I knew we wanted this to be a bipartisan effort right out of the gate. We did accomplish that. I will spend a couple of minutes talking about the actual construct. I think the narrative has been told and i will give you a little of my perspective and i know rick has comments as well. In many states, including the state of florida, state legislators are prohibited from raising money when in session. Judges on the ballot and elected in the state of florida as well as a
, david jolly was first elected in 2014. With a reelection bid only six months away, he said he was shocked to hear from party elders in the next six months he needed to raise 2 million for the in february, he introduced the stop act which would handle members of congress from personally asking for money. Representative nolan was one of the first two back sat. He was elected to congress in 2013. He says he hardly recognized the institution because of the amount of time members spent dialing for dollars. Today congressman jolly and nolan join us to discuss what is necessary to change washington to get members of congress to put down the phone and solve problems. We will have some questions in a few minutes. A number of reporters are listening on the phone. If anyone listening and would like to ask a question, please email them to press club. Gentlemen, welcome to the National Press club. Congressman jolly, would you like to begin. Thank you to the National Press club and to my colleague
I did not know judge scalia well. I only had an opportunity to speak with him at length once. But when i did, my lasting memory was that this conservative firebrand was such a gentle man. A gentleman. A person of clear faith who treated everyone he met with dignity and respect. Judge scalia could be harsh in his o pinions but by his own admission, his favorite friend on the court was liberal jurist ruth bader ginsburg. And regarding the importance of civility, judge scalia famously said, i dont attack ideas, pardon me, i dont attack people, i attack ideas. If you cant separate the two, you ought to get a new day job. We celebrate judge ska caliscal. This town could use a big dose of both. Now, turning to governing in 2016. New blood has rushed into the house over the last five years. More than 150 of the 246 members of the House Republican conference have been elected since 2010. In the senate, more than half, 29 of 54, republicans, are in their first term. Republicans, their first ter
Your back, you scratch mine and we spend the money. But as a consequence were borrowing a Million Dollars a minute. I think we need to be very aware of where we are situated as a country. I think we need to be very aware of the consequences of continuing to borrow a Million Dollars a minute. I think as we go forward we have to understand what the founders intended for our country. We need to understand where our richness, where our greatness came from. Were the richest, greatest, most humanitarian country ever known in the history of man. In 2014 alone we gave away privately, through charity, nearly 3 400 billion. That doesnt happen in cuba, they dont make wealth. If you want to know why we won the cold war, we beat russia and all of communism because the engine of capitalism defeated the engine of communism. Because we produce great wealth is why we were able to defeat the soviet union. If you dont know how wealth is created and you dont realize where wealth come from, if we dont real
Michael brown. Todays panel, fox business senior correspondent, Charlie Gasparino, jack hough from barrons and david asman here. The show is called money. That is what well focus on. It costs businesses in the area a fortune. At 4 00 we have a lawyer that represents a lot of those businesses. Weve got people planning right now, all the radicals in ferguson, none care much about the death of this kid. What they care about is having protests and doing best they can to destroy the system, capitalist system. That is what theyre in business to do, most of these protesters. You look at them, look at resume, look where they come, from same old crowd, the crowd that was here with down on occupy wall street. But the thing is there is one guy in particular who really deserves mention. That is al sharpton. Al sharpton in many ways inciting people to dot worst. This is disturbing. He was in the front row at the white house when they announced the nomination for the next attorney general. He is a r