Limit the floor procedure process. And you mentioned bill schuster. Heres a tweet that you sent out. Ive been waiting three years for this so here we go he tells the House Rules Committee. Why did it take so long to get to this . One of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the difficult funding situation and, again, we have a couple timetables in terms of the deadline on the highway bill. First of all, current authorization runs out november 20, so were trying to get a bill passed by thanksgiving. The Highway Trust Fund, which pays for projects and reimburses states for highway and transit projects across the nation has enough money stuff estimate there iss enough money to keep programs going through the end of december. The department of transportation put out an estimate that the money in the Highway Trust Fund could run through the end of the summer. However they note theres a potential shortfall in the trust fund around the end of november
Of your policy making and the effectiveness on your policy may be really regarding some structural changes that may be occurring in the result of the fact the result of the majority has been stagnant. And it seems to be a disconnect from some of the policy or the theory i remember learning years ago in economics that normally when you have increases in productivity, that productivity translates into higher wage levels. We have not seen that in recent years. We have seen productivity has gone up significantly more than wage levels. And if youre looking at formulating Monetary Policy, youre looking at aggregate demand and how you get that demand is income in the economy and wages. You mention that consumers are 80plus percent of it. So the more money consumers have, the stronger the economy is. And yet if it is not growing from wages, then it has to grow from them taking on debt. And yet if we look at the fact that wages have been stagnant, were seeing consumers are starting to deleverag
Independents, 202 7488002. We will get your thoughts in just a minute, good morning everyone. Lets show you more of what the president had to say last night. He outlined the strategy against isis. Our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. Iraq, and syria, airstrikes for taking out isis leaders, heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure. Since the attacks in paris, our closest allies including rants, germany and the u. K. , have ramped up their contributions to our campaign which will help us accelerate our efforts to destroy isis. Will continue to provide training and equipment to tens of thousands of iraqi in. Forces fighting isis on the ground so that we take away their safe havens. In both countries, we are deploying special Operations Forces who can accelerate that offensive. We have set up this effort since that since the attacks in paris and will continue to invest more and approaches that are working on the ground. Third, w
Senator schumer i dont see that they have reporter c. R. s. Senator schumer well, look, the bottom line here is, the n. R. A. Is a powerful opponent. The gun lobby is a powerful all opponent and the best weapon we have on our side is the outrage from the American People. It is growing. If we keep at it. We will win. We dont control the house. We dont control the senate, but we have the people of america on our side and if we continue to have votes and force people to vote, we will win. Let me tell you something today. There are a good number, not all, but a good number of our republican colleagues dreading these two votes. Next. Reporter if you are serious doing something about guns, why are you trying to attach this to a bill that the president has said he is going to veto . Senator schumer our proposals rescind the underlying bill and just have this so the president will sign them should they pass. Reporter will you fight this in the omnibus . Senator schumer in every place where we
202 7488000. Are you opposed . 202 7488001. Republicans with and some democrats that congress should take a pause on the program . 202 7488002. You can also lead us or go to facebook, or email us at journal cspan. Org. We will get to your calls in a minute. Listen to what the speaker had to say yesterday about republican concerns and why they want to halt the program. [video clip] isis showed that they are committing an act of war against the west. What else do you call what they did in paris . What is the congressional response . We have the authority under the existing the way we look at this issue is, number one, in front of us is the fact we have a refugee situation that we think requires more comprehensive assessment on how to guarantee members of isis are not infiltrating the refugee population. Please know that this is not only about refugees. This is about having a comprehensive strategy to deal with isis by defeating isis, that is what we dont have. The bill we are sending som