Destruction. Truck drivers will not haul freight. Best of all, i dont pay property tax strike in solidarity with the truck drivers. Be sure and tell em large marge send ya. You cant tie a trucker down. You certainly cant. What a day in the news it has been. Today is tuesday. I cant wait until thursday, because thats when the truckers come to town. The first level of scheduled disruption in america, because of whats happening in washington. Today has been a war of words, back and forth. The president came out, held a press conference or a briefing, whatever you want to call it. I think he was pleading more than doing anything else. Making sure that this doesnt spiral out of control and the American People understand exactly what the heck is going on. And then we find out later today that this guy, john boehner, who can take care of it all by just calling for one simple vote, but he wont do it. Hes got a new set of talking points, moments ago, boehner addressed the media. So the presiden
At aspen street. If youre headed out on 95 we have cleared up that vehicle fire on 95 southbound near mountain road. Speeds on the beltway still looking great. Theres a look at the west side of the beltway there at i70. Now wjz has the stories people are talking about. Heres don. As we enter day eight of the Government Shutdown congress is no closer to a solution this morning. While the stalemate continues global fears over the looming debt ceiling crisis are rising. Susan has the story for wjz. Reporter House Republicans will meet behind closed doors this morning to strategize about how they will handle the Government Shutdown and the looming debt ceiling crisis. Over the last 10 days weve been through quite a bit. Reporter House Speaker john boehner says the president has the power to end the stalemate. The president s refusal to negotiate is hurting our economy and putting our country at risk. Reporter but the president says only congress can approve funding bills and hes calling on
We will get your thoughts. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Join us on social media. Twitter, our handle is cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan. You can also email us, journal cspan. Org. Joining us on the set is lisa rosenberg. Give us a little bit more information about the Supreme Court cost decision. Lets begin with the history of the finance laws. What did the court which lauded the court consider and what is its history . These laws have been in place since the watergate era. Watergate was a campaignfinance scandal and congress thought that three pullers were necessary to address corruption. Those pillars were spending limits, contribution limits, and disclosure. Spending limits have been chipped away at since the earliest days of the Campaign Finance reform laws since the 1970s and the final nail in the on spending limits happened when the Supreme Court decided a case a few years ago. That leaves us with contribution laws and disclosure. Yest
Individual of 123,000 all the way up to about 3. 5 million if you look at the amounts an individual can contribute to and party,didates committees, combined. A major influx of big money into the political process. Our organization has estimated about 1 billion to political spending in the next election. And is that a good thing, a bad thing, a neutral thing . Think its i think its disaster for our democracy. Why . We already had a system in which the wealthiest few are able to exert so much more elected systemr and our elected representatives than the rest of us and a like this just makes a bad situation worse. Donald mcgahn, do you agree opinion . No, i dont. Why . Upon a fewed assumption that i dont think are necessarily true. First, the idea that theres going to automatically be 1 billion of new money in elections is frankly, with all respect, ridiculous. People in this country can spend on their owney independent of candidates already. This has been the case for years going back to
Had reached that limit after contributing to 16 different congressional candidates. Mccutcheon wanted to contribute to more congressional candidates, but the laws limit prohibited him from doing so. Until now. That limit, 48,600, was struck down this week by the high court declaring it to be unconstitutional. In the words of chief justice, john g. Roberts, jr. , there is no right in our democracy more basic than the right to participate in electing our political leaders, unquote. The law does nothing, however, to eliminate the 2,600 per candidate maximum for federal campaigns. Individuals are Still Limited to 2,600 maximum each for the primary campaign and general campaign of any given candidate. It is the agrigate that has been removed. Meaning wealthy donors, like the libertarian leaning coch brothers or billionaire and environmental activist, thomas stair, could contribute the individual maximum in every house and senate race in a given election year. That sum would equal approximat