Congressional leaders need to look in the mirror after a disastrous election day. They stay tuned senator rich indian who served as dnc chairman 20082011 said his family pitches for needs and a serious discussion wyatt got voted out and reflecting the mood in the old senate cheevers this morning a tweet hear from senator mitchell rascal mcc k mccaskill and will know for harry reid for leader. We will know the results later on today and later today the senate will gavel in at 2 15 eastern and shortly thereafter the gene amber will hold confirmation of the 3 two District Court nominees a vote to limit debate on a housepassed bill that authorizes a federal law that helps lowincome families the for child care. Looking ahead to next week harry reid said votes tuesday for two key pieces of legislation, one that would overhaul the government surveillance powers, the other is a bill authored by senator Mary Landrieu. You heard a lot of debate on this yesterday, she sees in runoff in louisiana.
What Tax Deductions would you give up as part of a solution to the deficit problems . Here are the numbers to call. For republicans, 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. For independents, 2025853882. You can also find us online. Send us a tweet, twitter. Com c spanwj. Find a son facebook and weigh in there. At journal c span. Org. The Christian Science monitor, asked what we would be willing to give up. Americans would be willing to give up the Tax Deduction for Charitable Giving over other popular tax breaks. Host lets take a look at the results of this poll. 25 said that they would be willing to give up the Charitable Giving Tax Deduction. Almost the same amount said it would be willing to give up their deduction for state taxes. 19 said they would be willing to give up host we would like to hear what deduction you would give up. You can weigh in on our facebook page, theres a poll set up where you can tell us specifically which interests you the most, or perhaps which one you disl
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And it is those human connections. Host the name of the book is hatching twitter a true story of money, power, friendship and betrayal nick bilton of the New York Times is the author. A look at the role the administration wants young people to have on the Affordable Care act. And then the South Carolina tea partys convention. And then the hudson forum on communication policy. A look at the role the administration wants young adults to have. Our guest was Rebecca Adams of cq health beat. Follow us on twitter. Washington journal continues. Host our guest for this segmet is Rebecca Adams. A was a big wrench mark of the Affordable Care act, the role of young people is one of the bench marks. Tell us what you are seeing . On january 13th, the first demographic breakdown was put out. The administration is showing 40 of the sign ups would be among young people. So far what we are seeing is about 24 of the people signing up are young people. Now that is in proportion to the population. About 2
Energy needs and friendlier towards their environment. So why are we doing this . We have got to make the tough decisions. The tough decision has to be made in conjunction with our colleagues on the Senate Finance committee and all the members. I happen to serve on both committees that we need to have the revenues necessary to support a longterm surface transportation reauthorization. We have to recognize the realities of the current revenue flow into the Transportation Trust fund is inadequate as its based on the gasoline tax in the we have been very effective at bringing down the volume in regards to the use of gasoline and or efficient engines alternative ways so we need to look at ways we can have an adequate source so i hope he would be open to things such as carbon fees or other ways to get the revenues necessary but i know transportation is a bipartisan issue and senator inhofe has been one of the great leaders moving forward on infrastructure. Senator vitter also strongly suppo