You ca you. The headlines reflect the dollar figure attached to this request from president obama and whats going on in the southern border. 3. 7 billion urgently needed. Other papers providing a break down, at least in broadways, of how the money will be spent. This is from the Associated Press this morning as far as how the breakdown goes. But when we look before we look at that, and there is the request, 1. 8 billion to care for unaccompanied children. For transportation, detention and removal, 1. 1 billion. To look at border agent pay, 433 million. The hiring of additional Immigration Judges, 64 million. We talked about that reaction from members of congress, michael burgess, a mike he control doctor tweeted this, saying that here is the message to president obama, on the border crisis, saying the president needs to come here. We heard from the minority whip, steny hoyer. The house must act, the time is now. Joining us on the phone to give us a little bit more input on this request
Limits for all elected officials. Termresident already has limits. Your governors, senators, mayors, city council, dog catcher, tax collector. Are you in favor of term limits, yes or no . Here are the numbers. Host you can also reach out to us by social media. Host i want to show you some of the numbers from the recently released gallup poll. They ask americans support for establishing term limits for federal lawmakers. Suppose on election day you could vote for key issues as well as candidates. Or againstote for the number of Terms Congress and senate can serve . Nationally among adults those voting for term limits are in the 75 range. Those who say they would vote against term limits, 21 . Those who had no opinion, 5 . Breaking it down among political parties, republicans, those voting for, who say they would vote for term limits, 82 of republicans questioned in this gallup poll, 82 say they would vote for term limits. 15 say they would vote against. 3 say they have no opinion. Indep
Some are asking whether that is an indication on whether he will push for stronger gun control laws. Question for you is and should u. S. Gun laws change . Here are the numbers to call you can also find us online. Send us a tweet or join the conversation on facebook, or send us an email. Our question for you is whether u. S. Gun laws should change . Heres the headline in usa today jumping down into the story, it says others are exploring the question of gun laws. We will hear some comments from members of congress this morning. Congressional democrats are vowing to push for stricter gun control laws. Several democratic lawmakers called yesterday for a new push for gun restrictions, including a ban on militarystyle assault weapons in the wake of the connecticut massacre. Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein is the author of an assault weapons ban that lapsed in 2004. She said she would introduce new legislation soon. Senator dick durbin said that lawmakers will hold hearings on guncontro
I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve. I promise you and im going to keep serving and fighting in the same way that you have seen in the past. Thank you. [applause] and i can tell you that one of the things as i travel across the country, everyone always wants to know how in the world we got the best federal delegation in the country. All i tell them is that South Carolina is blessed. We have a great group of legislators that fight every day, that get what we want and they fight for it. They just dont go along with the pack. They fight for it. I am so thankful that so many members came to be supportive of tim. I want to make sure that we have our senior senator speak who i often, who i enjoy working with and who has been there every time i have called him, senator lindsey graham. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. Well, tim, if you add up all of the courses that we flew together, people will begin to understand how the government works. Here is the good news. I made 80
Entirely. Its refreshing that the president is acknowledging that this is a problem. Also refreshing to hear the president say hes going to do everything he can to take care of this problem. Were going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position. Options for solutions is something thats under discussion, but there is no specific option right now. We didnt do enough good enough job, and i regret that. Do i wish things had operated totally smoothly on october 1st . You bet. We are now more than 30 days into one of the greatest website disasters in history. Was october a bad month . You bet. I want to go in and fix it myself, but i dont write code. You know, Kathleen Sebelius doesnt write code. Ultimately, the buck stops with me. Nice to see you, carl. Great to see you. Its pretty fair to say the president , the administration, is on the ropes, certainly on the website, and a good start is a good apology. A lot of republicans are unconvinced, as Rush