Through the cracks and never in my wildest dreams, senator durbin, did i h believe that whe we have done is to pay people more, not to work but to work this bill the 600dollar payment on top of safe benefits actually allows people to have their income almost doubled in someha circumstances. I want to help people and make sure that if you lose your jobil that we cover your wages but under this bill you get 23. 15 an hour based on a 40 hour workweek, not to work. If you are trying to hire somebody in South Carolina in the next four months you got to compete with that wage. If you are working in a restaurant and probably not now but if youre working anywhere for 15 an hour sometimes making 23 an hour and you are working. It is just not fair. It will hurt the Rubio Collins construct, restaurants that are out of business. We want them to be able to to pay the payroll to keep people connected to their employer. Now what do you do when you make 23 an hour being on unemployment . How do you ke
Support of protesters in the. Ceiling. Or reels from violent clashes over cuts to fuel subsidies that are. Caught in the midst of the protests. Every year tuning in from right around the globe this hour welcome to moscow and to r. T. International my names you know neal good to have your company our top story iran is now warning turkey against a military operation in North Eastern syria calling for encouraged to respect syrias sovereignty. To run joins a chorus of concerned voices which also includes european officials turkey reportedly already conducted artillery strikes in northeastern syria according to local media it comes hours after washington and state was pulling its troops out of the area im chris also been deploying military hardware along its border with syria on monday video emerged that partly showing American Military vehicles leaving 2 of its i post on till recently washington around 115 military personnel stationed there kurds in the region long time American Allies are
Tonight on q and then. A. Following last weekends National Governors Association Winter meeting here in washington, republican governors met with President Trump at the white house on monday. After that meeting some of the governors spoke with the news media about the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. This is 25 minutes. Just let us know when you a number of us governors joined with a number of our colleagues. We should acknowledge you always hear. Rick snyder from michigan, doug ducey from arizona, Asia Hutchinson from arkansas, met devon from kentucky, mary fairman from oklahoma, bill haslam from tennessee. We will be joining a number of our colleagues as well at the capital to join a number of governors from both parties who will be meeting with congressional leaders as well to finish off the day. They wanted to comment on the meeting. Specifically on obamacare. I should just say in a minute youll hear from a couple of other governors that we really appreciate th
Rules for todays debate and also serve as moderator. Thank you very much. Thank you especially to the candidates for joining us today. Please allow me to briefly review the format and rules. You have up to three minutes for your Opening Statement. The order was determined by a drawing prior to the event. After the Opening Statement well have questions. Youll be allowed 90 seconds for your answers to answertors questions to all of you. There will be a 90 second answer from that candidate and 30second rebuttal from the others. Youll be signaled when you have 15 seconds left and when your time is up. The first half of the program is for questions from the moderator, myself, and the second half for questions from our audience in the room. There are many partsans in the room i know and we ask that you reframe from excessive cheering as that kind of gets in the way of what were trying to accomplish here, not to dampen your enthusiasm. Thank you all for being here. The order was determined by
Put him on the national map. We want to begin this morning on washington journal by hearing from you on the late mario cuomo , his influence on the democratic party, when you remember about him, etc. Host you can also make a comment via social media. Host mario cuomo 19322015 the opening topic this morning on washington journal. Todd purdom writes in politico that he was the poet laureate of american literalism liberals and, the democratic partys most passionate defender of the underdog and its most articulate critic of the trickledown gospel of reaganomics. A fiercely proud son of immigrants, he believed, as he once put it, that if he could rise to the highest seat in greatest date of the nation, anything was possible. Mario cuomo like to say that politicians campaigned in poetry but governed in prose, and is own accomplishments in 12 years in albany never quite lived up to his highflown rhetoric. Instinctively cautious, he effectively waged a Holding Action against federal retrenchme