Time to her book form today on what washington is wrong, the unelected officials who run thet government and their misconceptions about the American People. Many reasons of course its hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks after the election that brought president elect trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed the turnout today for a book form suggest there widespread interest in the content of this book. Sa also i am delighted to have today as speakers, one of the authors, ginsburg and cattle who have all worked in a Political Science senior and Jennifer Bachner, a new frontier. Indeed, donald trump raises the question that has been on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep satisfaction with much of the country out that its about way the beltway. I remember this all sitting around thinking after having lived in washington where some 25 years now, the life out there may really be different and this i
Time to her book form today on what washington is wrong, the unelected officials who run thet government and their misconceptions about the American People. Many reasons of course its hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks after the election that brought president elect trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed the turnout today for a book form suggest there widespread interest in the content of this book. Sa also i am delighted to have today as speakers, one of the authors, ginsburg and cattle who have all worked in a Political Science senior and Jennifer Bachner, a new frontier. Indeed, donald trump raises the question that has been on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep satisfaction with much of the country out that its about way the beltway. I remember this all sitting around thinking after having lived in washington where some 25 years now, the life out there may really be different and this i
Game of governing and politics. Phil, you made a point that tweeting wasnt the same. Some people dont know what the hell it is now but it has changed dramatically since 2008. I put it even further context in, when i was in the white house, a couple of oust would meet up with leon panetta every night and we would look at the three tvs, abc, cbs, whatever the other one was and, see whether our good stories had risen or whether the bad stories had gone down. You could see wolf kind of standing out in the yard there without even an umbrella sometimes. That was a good day if your good story was up. Or down. That was all we dealt with. Now the, the onslaught of information, moving information all sorts of sinister reasons has fundamentally changed governing and strategies. Just three things that kind of pop out to me. And just in phrases. Its, what i hear you guys saying is that that youre underlying fundamental belief that people are coming to washington to get something done. You have look
Us is the authorization of construction of pipeline infrastructure, the keystone xl, a project that in my view and i think the view of certainly all on this side and several others on the other side is important to our energys infrastructure system and how we work to build that out. I dont think its any breaking news here today, but i do believe that our climate is changing. I have said that. I dont agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity. Ive come from a state where we can see the change. Id welcome all of my colleagues one day to join me in alaska on a walking tour of what we call the permafrost tunnel, basically a tunnel bored straight back into the bank of a hill in fairbanks, pretty much in the interior part of the state where it is truly a walk back in time 30,000 years, where through the ice lenses that you see that you can touch, that you can smell in this tunnel, in this cave, you can see what has happened over the course of thousands tens of th
On the off chance that theres an impressionable staffer on the Ways Means Committee here what might the four of you and i would like to get all four of you your opinion on this him or her, the staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say this is what we might accomplish in this congress. We will go lefty right. The first thing is forget what can be accomplished. The first is lesson that only people pay taxes and corporations are fictional entities of the burden falls on people and not corporations pass through. Second the ideal rate and they use the word rate for Corporate Taxation is zero. Thats the ideal rate. Now i think what we can get done is the narrative that we are not competitive and to be competitive we should be at or equal to which means the rate should be no higher than 25 . That is still higher than i would like but at least that gets you to say we are not being competitive with our oecd trading partners but around effort so that seems to be a narrative. Im not s