But if you were a member of congress, you were supposed to go to work today, then also tomorrow, which is a bummer, but dont worry, you can cut out middle of the day on wednesday. You will not be working thursday or friday. You will not be working all of next week. Also, you do not have to work the monday after that. Youre going to work a 2 1 2day week this week, then youre not back until after veterans day. When you come back after veterans day, its a fourday week followed by another fourday week, and then thats it for the whole month nice deal, right . I mean, no matter what else might motivate you to want to be in congress, that kind of a schedule and a sixfigure salary for doing it, that is a combination that is impossible not to love. And we learned at politico. Com late last night this is amazing that even though congress is already basically not working anymore between now and christmas, theyve got just those few days scheduled on the calendar, internally, Speaker John Boehner a
Work, or at least when they work. But if you were a member of congress, you were supposed to go to work today, then also tomorrow, which is a bummer, but dont worry, you can cut out middle of the day on wednesday. You will not be working thursday or friday. You will not be working all of next week. Also, you do not have to work the monday after that. Youre going to work a 2 1 2day week this week, then youre not back until after veterans day. When you come back after veterans day, its a fourday week followed by another fourday week, and then thats it for the whole month nice deal, right . I mean, no matter what else might motivate you to want to be in congress, that kind of a schedule and a sixfigure salary for doing it, that is a combination that is impossible not to love. And we learned at politico. Com late last night this is amazing that even though congress is already basically not working anymore between now and christmas, theyve got just those few days scheduled on the calendar,
And she wrote to me and said, ive wanted nothing more than to find a new fulltime job and i dedicated every day to that mission. Im asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended Unemployment Benefits to make ends meet. I just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction, shes are not statistics. These are your neighbors, friends, family members. It could at some point be any of us. Thats why we set up a system of Unemployment Insurance. The notion was everybody is making a contribution because you dont know when the Business Cycle or an economic crisis might make any of us vulnerable. And this insurance helps keep food on the table while dad is sending out resumes. It helps mom pay the rent while shes learning new skills to earn that new job. That provides that extra set of security so that losing your job doesnt mean you have to lose your house. Where everybody you worked so hard to build for years. We make this promise to our fellow american
Society but i was also a believer in a tough approach to the soviet union which means i had ready 30 much at home in the Democratic Party at the time. You had pat point hand. You had Henry Jackson a great senator from Washington State and later on that element of the Democratic Party shrunk to nothingness. And as it did i was without a home. I remained generally without a political home. You could obviously fairly call me a neoconservative then. Host s been 18 years since the 1996 telecommute nations act was enacted by congress and signed by president clinton. Today on the communicators we are going to discuss that its goals and whether or not it should be rewritten rewritten. Joining us are two of the authors of the 1996 Telecommunications Act rick boucher who is a democrat from virginia served in congress from 1983 to 2011 and jack sub 3a republican in texas from 1981 to 97. Congressman feels what was your role in the development of the 96 pelka medications act . Guest it was actuall
The will of the people. It never was the will of the people. Its a product of hook and crook and legislative shenanigan, its done against the will of the people. Furthermore, Thomas Jefferson, whom both parties revere, once said large initiatives should not be advanced on slender majorities. Large initiatives need to be bipartisan initiatives not completely 100 partisan initiatives which obamacare is. And the slender majority that Thomas Jefferson was talking about was the slender majority that he previewed or presumed to be a bipartisan majority. If jefferson had been talking about a partisan majority, it would have been clear in my opinion what he would have said. He would have said large initiatives should never be advanced on partisan majorities. Thats what happened with obamacare. The Largest Initiative that has been jammed down the throats of the American People in its entire history is obamacare, advanced on a purely partisan majority by utilization of legislative shenanigan and