Dialogue on the current legislative issues. In particular, id really like to thank chairman greg walden for being here today, particularly after the news we all heard this morning. Here at Bloomberg Government our tools, news and analysis are aligned with topics that the house energy and Commerce Committee has been working on. Were looking forward to discussing with him health care, energy, Consumer Protection among other topics. With that id like to introduce my colleague, lauren duggen who leads content at Bloomberg Government and will be chatting with greg walden this morning. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you toerch for joining us today. Obviously were beginning the event under a little bit of a darker circumstance, but i wanted to ask you, chairman walden, what do you know so far and whats the status of your colleagues at the moment . Thank you and good morning. Its not the way we want to start a day any day, and i hope well have a moment of silence and put in our prayers th
Dialogue on the current legislative issues. In particular, id really like to thank chairman greg walden for being here today, particularly after the news we all heard this morning. Here at Bloomberg Government our tools, news and analysis are aligned with topics that the house energy and Commerce Committee has been working on. Were looking forward to discussing with him health care, energy, Consumer Protection among other topics. With that id like to introduce my colleague, lauren duggen who leads content at Bloomberg Government and will be chatting with greg walden this morning. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you toerch for joining us today. Obviously were beginning the event under a little bit of a darker circumstance, but i wanted to ask you, chairman walden, what do you know so far and whats the status of your colleagues at the moment . Thank you and good morning. Its not the way we want to start a day any day, and i hope well have a moment of silence and put in our prayers th
Telecom, technology, all of i would like to start with the biggest issue, which is health care. We know your Senate Colleagues on a bill maybe behind closed doors, circulating language, where do you assess the status of this . Greg in the first few months of the year, when we had this task before us, we got a lot of public suggestions from some of our colleagues across the aisle about what we should or shouldnt do. After we passed the bill and sent it over to the senate thats been kind of radio silence thereafter. They got a tough job. I respect that. I know theyre serious about their work. I know Lamarr Alexander is a terrific legislator. If anyone can help pull this together its him and orrin hatch and the others that are involved. Its hard. Its hard doing major reform of entitlement programs, something involving insurance at any level, especially Health Insurance, its very difficult work. And they have virtually no margin of votes, like we had no margin to work with, theirs is tight
The forgotten founders who fought Big Government he is interviewed by former acting solicitor general neal katyal. Senator, you have written this incredible book written out of history. Tell us a little bit about why wrote this. I generation the one that they had brotherly musical comments came out i was pleased with how popular it became. I was not entirely surprised. When i first two broadway i was thinking this might do well. In particular the American People have a certain longing for the founding generation. A longing for an understanding of, they understand the generation had a few things figured out. It was not a utopian set generation by any means but they work interesting people. People who set in motion a government that will last through the ages and to foster the development of the greatest civilization the world had known. And a lot of the stories from the founding era have been lost. Lost by attrition in some cases, perhaps benign neglect and others. And maybe deliberatel
The forgotten founders who fought Big Government he is interviewed by former acting solicitor general neal katyal. Senator, you have written this incredible book written out of history. Tell us a little bit about why wrote this. I generation the one that they had brotherly musical comments came out i was pleased with how popular it became. I was not entirely surprised. When i first two broadway i was thinking this might do well. In particular the American People have a certain longing for the founding generation. A longing for an understanding of, they understand the generation had a few things figured out. It was not a utopian set generation by any means but they work interesting people. People who set in motion a government that will last through the ages and to foster the development of the greatest civilization the world had known. And a lot of the stories from the founding era have been lost. Lost by attrition in some cases, perhaps benign neglect and others. And maybe deliberatel