Wisconsin, illinois, indiana university, all the president s of those universities will be joining us here on washington journal. Up, the Brookings Institution is holding a Panel Discussion on the independence vote in scotland. I believe september 15 is when the vote will be held. All indications show that the vote is close. Two administrators from the university of edinburgh there. It is just Getting Started now. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] i want to welcome you to one of our first event in our revamped brookings conference space. I am thrilled that the microphone works. It seems fitting to inaugurate our new facility with the big question of certainly next week, the prevent potential revamping of the United Kingdom. If the referendum moves to a yes vote, the renovation will be an overhaul to a system that we have known for 300 years, and many of us here on the panel are a product of. Welcome toghted
Of the materials it collected. Thats done by the executive branch. I want all of the 9 11 materials to be on the public record. They should be. I dont see any reason to classify it. Host chris, buffalo, democrat. Go ahead. Caller yes. It seems to me that the last me we actually won a war was the first war in kuwait. We actually paid for that war because george bush sr. Raised taxes and basically got voted out of office. Do you think the republicans hat run the congress now would actually want to pay for anything that we do now instead of running us back into debt . Well, im a Firm Believer in paying your bills on a current basis. We havent done that. We like to get into the wars, fight the battles, and then not pay the bills and let the debt pile up. Thats not a good way to run the country. Thats not the way we should run the United States. So if youre going to fight a war, lets come out and pay for it one way or the other and it seems to me to be a very important component of the stra
Country. And the fact is, that would be an Important Role for those caucuses to play. We need to share the many faces of immigrants, including the undocumented in our nation. Do you believe that the 1965 Immigration Reform law that ended Northern European preference expanded the diversity that were experiencing in america . I think it played some role. So do birth rates and the like. I will say that even, again, i do think we have to be more realistic on the quotas. We have people with families for in some cases, decades and decades and beyond. It would seem to me to take that into account and reunifighting families. What is the likely timeline for congress to start debating an actual immigration bill . What is plan b if the republicans dont go for a full package . Im hoping on plan a. I will say this, we dont expect that this will just be up to the congress. Weve seen in the past, particularly, with this donothing congress of last session that they respond to public pressure. I think
Inauguration coverage. Speaking of congress, republicans at the house retreat this weekend have decided upon a plan they will vote upon next week to extend the debt limit by three months with hopes of using the federal budget as a way of tackling spending. What do you think of that strategy . You can call us at 202 5853880 for democrats and 202 5853881 for republicans. 202 6280205 for independents. Send us a tweet at twitter. Com cspanwj you can send us comments on our Facebook Page and our email at journal cspan. Org. From the Baltimore Sun a story about the weekend retreat and a detail about the plan. Writing debt limit vote set. Heres what they write host attending the retreat and writing a story about it, jonathan strong from roll call. He is their staff writer. Jon, can you give us a little bit of the thinking by house leadership as to how they came up with this as a plan . Good morning. Im happy to explain it. One of the parts of this plan thats been a little misconstrued, its no
What do you owe the variance to . Heroic efforts on behalf of people as facilitated by government. That was phase one. Now we have to go to phase two. Big challenge Going Forward is testing. It will not be done perfectly. We cant bring it up to scale in in period of time. I will tell you that. We can do better working together than working apart. Thats the federal state partnership. I will do my part as a governor. The other governors will do their part. The federal government is involved in testing. We have to Work Together and do the best we can. We will. I have faith we will because we have in the past. The govern signed an executive order to allow Funeral Directors who retired or from out of state to be able to be licensed immediately in new york to help with some of the backlog. On the weddings yesterday the executive ordered that we did allowed clerks to perform the weddings remotely and today the governor signing a new executive order to allow anybody who is licensed to be able