Today a 62 to 36 but was passed on the keystone pipeline. How Speaker John Boehner read the statement that we hope president obama will drop his threat to veto this commonsense bill that would strengthen Energy Security and create thousands and thousands of good new paying american jobs. More reaction to the senate votes available on our website at cspan. Org. Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and George Shultz testified to the Senate Armed Services committee hearing. They discussed the Russia Ukraine conflict and the Islamic State. The beginning of the hearing is interrupted by protesters calling Henry Kissinger a war criminal. John mccain chairs this twohour hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] new paragraphs [chanting loudly] nuke aircraft [chanting loudly] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [in
More opportunity for the middle class, class and more flexibility in a complex age with complex demands. That is why we try to pursue common sense jobs ideas including those with bipartisan support. Things like; reforming a broken tax system to make it friendlier and simpler the job creators, opening more markets to create american jobs at home and moving forward with bipartisan Infrastructure Projects like the keystone xl pipeline. Americans are changing this congress and president. And they are challenging this congress and this president to work for them challenging lawmakers in washington to work for jobs for americans not just themselves. It seems simple enough, but we we will have to work hard to meet expectations and we are going to have to Work Together. Step one is Getting Congress working together again, again, and that means fixing the senate. Last session the house sent over countless bills. Many bills. Many of them died without so much as a hearing. Senators were routinely
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We want to start off today with a debate closer to home gas prices. Congress is considering raising the federal gas tax. The money could be used on bridges and infrastructure. We want to get your thoughts and comments on this issue. You can also join in on the conversation, many already have, on our Facebook Page. Or send us a tweet. Good sunday morning to you. Front page of the Washington Post focusing on two big stories. First of all, in france, the Prime Minister saying that the country is at war. Next to that, jeb bush and mitt romney beginning to maneuver on a potential bush romney primary in 2015. I want to share the story with you from cnbc on gas prices. According to the aaa, gas prices have dropped putting over 14 billion in the pockets of consumers. The question of whether or not the congress should increase the tax rate it is argued that consumers can take it. Speaker the house john boehner sharing his thoughts. How we will funded, we will have to work our way through this.
And to visit the plants that have been displaced. The titans that run these global transnational corporations, they are operatives and the wall street giants that finance them could care less about workers anywhere or the community in which they live. And frankly, these new bosses of Global Production dont care about democracy or the rule of law either. They pay whatever they want and they can pay off as they see fit. Ive seen workers in making may tag washing machines in monterey, mexico. They used to be made in newton, iowa. Those workers dont make enough to buy the washing machines they make. The poverty rate in newton has dramatically increased in the town that paul may tag built. The quality of those machines has gone down too. Who can be proud of what is happening . I visited the homes of those workers from monterey lived and other maquilla factory zones and seen firsthand their impofferished living standards. I stood at a surreal location in mexico witnessed the jobs outsourced