America should pay for infrastructure, not just gas. That is not right. Everybody benefits from it. Guest this is an interesting question. The federal gas tax was put in place as something of a surrogate for a toll or user fee. It was decided that was going to be the fairest way. All of this available on cspan. Org, washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern every day. We now go to the washington ali Washington Institute for near east policy. Story we would be focusing on would be the story, the story of protests, the mystic unrest domestic unrest , the biggest demonstrations we have seen since 2009. Whatever one expected to be talking about this week and next week was the question of sanctions waivers, a,certification of the gcpo and efforts of congress to annul the legislation. That is all still in play, but now it has been cast in a different light by what is happening inside iran. We have convened a panel of our experts to discuss this issue. The protest the protests in iran and
Welcome and thank you for making the effort to get here. Adam think any of us thought that i dont think any of us thought that the iran story we would be focusing on would be the story, the story of protest, domestic unrest, the biggest demonstrations we have seen since 2009. Whatever one expected to be talking about this week and next week was the question of sanctions waivers, decertification of the gcpoa, and efforts of congress to annul to amend legislation. That is all still in play, but now it has been cast in a different light by what is happening inside iran. We have convened a panel of our experts to discuss this issue. The protests in iran and their implications for the region and u. S. Policy from a lot of different angles. Im going to introduce folks in the order i am going to call on them. We will start with patrick clauson. He is our senior fellow and director of research at the institute. He is going to look at the background of these protests. Where are they coming from
Welcome and thank you for making the effort to get here. I dont think any of us thought that the iran story we would be focusing on would be the story, the story of protest, domestic unrest, the biggest demonstrations we have seen since 2009. Whatever one expected to be talking about this week and next week was the question of sanctions waivers, decertification of the gcpoa, and efforts of congress to amend legislation. That is all still in play, but now it has been cast in a different light by what is happening inside iran. We have convened a panel of our experts to discuss this issue. The protests in iran and their implications for the region and u. S. Policy from a lot of different angles. Im going to introduce folks in the order i am going to call on them. We will start with patrick clauson. He is our senior fellow and director of research at the institute. He is going to look at the background of these protests. Where are they coming from, what are the causes and what has been hap
Many things that are important for the health of the American People. Not only the Community Health centers, which expire in a few weeks, not only the medicare extenders, which includes the therapy caps for seniors in medicare, the Home Visiting program for seniors, the special Diabetes Program, the Teaching Health sent, the National Health centers, the National Health service corps, all of these things. Also the safety net hospitals. As of january 1, the dish or safety net programs for all these hospitals around the country that have to take care of so many poor people, that funding has expired and theyve actually had to cut the funding. So how do you stand up here and say to me and the American People that somehow you care about these things, you want to deal with these things . You are not dealing with these things. What are you doing here again . Once again youre bringing a bill to the floor that has all kinds of repeal of taxes. I dont even want to get into the deal. These are the
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