Luther strange, backed by Senate Republican leadership and by President Trump. Let us know what it all means. Phone lines are open. Host we want to show you a couple of headlines this morning. The headline, the former chief justice finishes a dominating , winning almost 10 Percentage Points last night. More momentum is the headline there. From the state of kentucky this morning abandon and one other front page to show you this morning from alabama. This is the messenger inquirer out of them out of alabama. The front pages of kentucky papers on the day Mitch Mcconnell will certainly remember and probably not fondly after losing the effort to push through a repeal and replace legislation. Abouts up first to talk it from alabama, birmingham. Independent. Who did you vote for . Or did you vote . I can tell you why he won. He has integrity. The minute the campaign started attacking his integrity, it was over. What do you think happens in the general election . Democrats perhaps thinking mor
And the books, from democracy to freedom. Watch the coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. Host congressman jerry conley, gerry connolly. The collapse of the Senate Republican Leadership Health care bill yesterday, and the loss of the Senate Republican leadership backed candidate and the chump backed candidate. The definition of insanity is you keep on repeating something that does not work. Repeal theto Affordable Care act has gotten tobad that they managed persuade the public so now we are pulling a majority of republicans favoring the program and a very small minority favoring the repeal. Thatyou see numbers like and you see the reaction back home in terms of the prospective loss, find some other line of work. To persist in that effort really was mad at us and does great and to the republican brand to the seriousness of their endeavor. I am glad a collapsed and i hope they will finally work with democrats to fix that which is broken
Good afternoon. This is a historic day. This is the day that is a long time in coming. In fact, it was on this day under this dome in 1986 that Congress Took the final vote on the last overhaul of our tax code. That long. After that vote, president reagan said americans would finally have a tax code that they can be proud of. It was true then, but things look very, very different today, dont they . Instead of a source of pride, our tax code has become a constant source of frustration. Its too big. Its too complicated. Its too expensive. Today, we are taking the next step to liberate americans from our broken tax code. This unified framework delivers a new tax code that is simple, that is fair, that is progrowth and profamily. Cutting taxes on hard working americans so that you can keep more of your own hard earned paycheck. Simplifying the tax code so that you can file your taxes on a form the size of a postcard. Reforming our tax system so that businesses, particularly small businesse
Transportation Infrastructure Committee included this provision, it is a longstanding , removingontroversial the air Traffic Control organizations from the faa and create a new nonprofit to oversee that. Idea. Of opposition to the that and working hard to whip the vote but does not quite have the vote, is kind of a last everyone voting in the house. It got a majority of votes but did not clear that two thirds threshold. It takes a bit longer. They had the votes to pass the bill. Tax relief are some included for the victims of the hurricanes. Wire those included in this faa bill and what would they offer . Guest it was added into the bill, this was seen as a must pass google, it has to get out of congress this week terry at faa authorization expires on saturday. This is an emergency measure and they have to get it out. Host with the impact on puerto rico and the virgin islands, will portions of those bills apply . Guest in the first version they did not. Their pelican from south florida
Preemptive military strikes. The discussion is an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Welcome to the center of National Interests and our session on north korean crisis. You may have noticed the large camera and good looking, and were live on cspan 1, im told. This should be a good session. Im honored to be accompanied by two good friends who have some experience with north. To my right, ambassador joe, fluent in mandarin, a u. S. Representative to the Korean Economic Development agency. Necessary manages Mission Manager for north korea, and hes able to talk well about this. To my left, greg, executive director for the committee of human rights in north korea. He comes to his knowledge of communist governments honestly, raised in romania during the regime. I would like to start off with greg and go to the group. Thank you. Youre about to shed an eye 28 years after the collapse of communism and soviet union. The kim jongun regime has developed, terrifying weapons and