Reflecting on bill clintons vision of america. The goal of the symposium is to drill down on the vision that helped bring him to the campaign and to office and we couldnt be more excited to start that this year. It is important to look at the Historical Context of bill clintons election and what happened in the 25 years between his graduation from georgetown and is election. Before we bring everyone up i ask you to sit back and enjoy what those 25 years were like. Coming out of arkansas in the postwar area, civil rights, caucasian boy who had an abiding sympathy to injustice, to go to georgetown happened to him. Behold he aspired to be like a king and john f. Kennedy. These delays he was moved by their power of words. He got some scholarship money, made his way to georgetown, fell under the tutelage of j william fulbright, fulbright in the 1960s was a powerful us senator, not only a leader in education but a great talent scout. He saw in bill clinton the best arkansas had to offer. Bil
What are you afraid of . Mr. Chairman. Let me finish. The gentleman control it is time. You havent done anything of importance. Its the blind leading the blind whether its you or its the speaker this is a disgrace to this committee. Mr. Chairman. Are you going to have each of these amendments taken up separately . Each of these amendments will be offered and during your five minutes you have the chance to question on each of them . So each of these will be offered separately . No. This is the amendment by mr. Brady of texas. This is a separate amendment. With all of these pieces . Yes. With several provisions in them. Why not take them up separately . And each of us have time to discuss it . Your time has expired. This is a total disgrace. I know this is the moment the out rage is supposed to occur. No. I ask that your remarks be taken down. Oh, for heavens sake. I didnt question yours. I ask that your words be repeated. I ask that mr. Leavens remarks be taken down. I will be glad to.
[inaudible conversations] this has been another very important week for tax reform. Really its an important week for families out across america. The ways and Means Committee has been debating and shaping the tax cuts and job sector politically when the Committee Takes its vote we will be one step closer to cutting taxes for americans at every income level. You know how much i love this stuff. I love helping craft and shape policies does a tax. Its been nearly a lifelong passion of mine but its not just because i think its fascinating. I love doing this stuff because this policy actually really helps improve peoples lives. People are sick of the status quo. People are sick of being left behind by a tax code was special interest are given a leg up by carveouts and loopholes. I love this stuff because we been crafting good legislation. That means bigger paychecks for american families. It means fair taxes, more jobs. Thats what this is all about. 1182. 1182 is how much the typical Americ
And 8 billion read a mistake is just under 5 . Hes pushing for changes at the Company Including a possible sale. Up about 5 as a result of that news. Its crunch time on capitol hill for republican tax writers. Finaluse bill is in its day of mark ups. The ways and Means Committee has been debating and shaping the tax cuts and jobs act. We will be one step closer to cutting taxes for americans at every income level. David after election losses in new jersey and virginia the pressure is on for republicans. Lori davidson joins us. Let me ask you what we expect to see from the senate today. We have seen some headlines. How different are these pieces of legislation . Very different and they continue to be different both on the house and senate side. Trying tore still figure out what this is going to be. On the house side they are going to vote this thing out of committee and they are still putting all the pieces together. Has comeno paper that out yet. On the senate side they are looking at
Of important things from protect heing Affordable Care act, how to fix it and move it forward, to working on immigration and addressing gun violence. And im excited to be back to where we started four years ago. You are a democrat. You lost reelection. Any Lessons Learned . Why do you think you lost . When i was thinking about running again, when, what positions will you change . I said, im not changing my positions. I dont think i lost in 2014 because of my positions. We have to do a better job of getting our message out, having people understand what it is were fighting for. I think this time we did a better job. I lost by 2 . This time i was able to win in a difficult year by more than 5 . Thats a reflection of talking about issues people care about. We have to have an economy working for everybody. Working families believe they can get ahead and give their children a better quality of life. We have to tackle gun violence affecting our communities and cutting down children before th