The president said im going to veto the legislative appropriations bill and we will let the Voters Decide in november whether we want to pay these legislators, you are effectively stopping an institution from working. If the senate said the justices are coming to us, they want security for the institution, and we are going to decline to in an appropriations bill because we are matt at them, you them, you are preaching a duty thats implicit in the document. To make the other branches function as intended. Finally, theres a certain irony here, any members of a certain part are very upset with president obama for taking executive action on some subjects and not changing the statutory law. There is a statute on the books that says there shall be nine members of the Supreme Court. If you want to change it to eight, passed a law, ok . Pass a law. Thats not what i think anyone wants to do the everyone recognizes there is a duty. The question is i think everyone agrees want of timing and one o
Is governing getting harder because campaigning is getting easier . This morning the the Supreme Court hears argument on another Campaign Finance case. And a decision this time around could be bigger than anything weve seen yet. Meantime, the shutdown standoff enters an eighth day, and just under ten days to go until the deadline to raise the debt limit. While some talk is quietly emerging about a shortterm deal to avoid default and reopen the government, nobody seems to want to take that deal. Education nation. Today a look at the challenges for higher ed from teacher tenure to degree disparities. We have a former party powerbroker turned boilermaker. Former indiana governor and Current University president Mitch Daniels joins me. Good morning from washington. Its tuesday october 8th, 2013. This is the daily rundown. Im chuck todd. Lets get to my first raelds of the morning. Today were trying to get a little closer to the root of the shutdown and the deadlocked congress. Plenty of rea
Conferences, and offering complete gaveltogavel coverage of the u. S. House all as a service of private industry. Cspan, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in h. D. , like us on facebook or follow us on twitter performed by the national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] heres a look at the president s schedule. He will commemorate the signing of the civil rights act. On friday, president obama will be in new york for remarks at the National Action network convention. And secretary of state john kerry will be on capitol hill this week testifying about his departments 2015 budget request which includes 46 billion in spending for the state department, usaid, and overseas contingency operations. Well have that hearing live from the Foreign Relations committee on tuesday at 10 00 in the morning eastern time on cspan 3. And last week the Supreme C
plity and say i want $500,000 donated there. what else do they have to do? they have given them free reign to do it. for roberts to say that leveling the playing field, the exact quote. leveling the playing field is not an acceptable interest for the government. i mean, it s not leveling the playing field in this country where all people are created equal, what is he talking about? and that dude from alabama, that shaun mccutchen, said that he was filing this thing in order to adopt conservative principles. by doing this, it s going to open up the ability to adapt conservative principles. are you done? there s not a limit unions have no limits, but there were limits on individuals. there in lies the problem. kimberly is right. it s all about the first amendment constitutional right to participate in the political process. what is going on is the left has
unions. the unions will donate with no limits. they can go ahead and do it. what the left has done, they have said, you know what? let s set up this apparatus that makes it so difficult to donate the way we re getting our donations, and they set up this intricate apparatus. what happened with mccutchen is he said let s eliminate some of them so more people can get involved. by the way, this doesn t just affect republicans and conservatives. this affects liberal s too. they can now donate. what is wrong with this, bob? in 2013-2014, filing for elections. $95,000 plus contributed, 73% were for republicans. 26% were for democrats. that shows you after you get through the ones you usually come up with union. no, no. you have to look at the unions. if you look at the top 52 givers in this country,