Cspan. The bill before us does three every democrat and republican should be able to support. First, it ends the shutdown and restores full funding for the federal government through february 8. Second, it extends Health Insurance for 9 million vulnerable children. Third, it will enable congress to resume serious bipartisan talks on the important issues facing our nation. Federalthat, the government is beginning to reopen after a weekend shutdown that moved into a third day. Welcome to washington today on cspan radio. Scully. Ve 17 days until government funding runs down. Todays agreement is a shortterm continuing resolution that expires on february 8. In exchange for ending the stalemate, republicans have promised to take up the daca issue, deferred action for childhood arrivals. Here are your other monday headlines. Steve scalise of louisiana returning to the capital after undergoing another round of surgery, part of his recovery from the shooting that took place last year at a baseb
Your thoughts on the president s Foreign Policy. What is your confidence level . Democrats 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001, an independents, 202 7488002. Join the conversation on twitter cspanwj, or go to facebook. Com cspan. The phone lines are open. We will get your thoughts in a minute, but many foreignpolicy headlines in the papers with running from iran to iraq, afghanistan. We begin with the fight against isis and iraq. Here is the headline in the Washington Times this morning. Take a look at what defense secretary Ashton Carter had to say up on capitol hill when he testified before the senate. [video clip] sec. Carter we have an obligation to support those fighters, and we will have to decide under what conditions in what way we will make that tactical decision when we introduce them, but i think the main thing is that we increase that number from what is now a very small number, and im not surprised that it is running on television, into a much larger number. I think we ca
That for the Graham Cassidy bill . Mike as you know, this is a almostamatic moment that certainly kills the Graham Cassidy bill. The bill could not lose another vote. This means it likely will go down. The amazing thing about this is Republican Leaders again. Themselves out on the slim this limb. I dont how many times they need to put their hands on the stove to know this will not have a happy ending for them. Rand paul, a hard know. Senator Susan Collins likely no. That is enough to kill it. You look at any of the fact thiss about this bill, and was going to be, of all the different versions, this was going to be one of the hardest on end users. It was arguably recording rewarding blue states rewarding red states at the expense of blue states. Since the policy was always problematic and now we see with senator mccain, the politics also problematic. In senator mccains statement saying he did this with no joy, the line that was memorable and will provoke a lot of conversation and the co