Thats where you find us right here on capitol hill. We will tell you whats happening in our nations capitol and give you a chance to get involved in the conversation at 86655press. How about a big news today . South carolinas jim demint announced he is going to resign from the senate to head the Heritage Foundation. That is good news not senate. At a time gets rid of one of the most whacko extremist members of the senate. Bad news for the Heritage Foundation because they are going to be known as just a bunch of rightwing extremists. We will find out about that. First lets check in with Lisa Ferguson with this mornings current news update. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. The president has a pretty light day on his schedule today, just a morning meeting with his advisors and this afternoon, he will sign into law the Child Protection act of 2012. Now, that law protects children against child pornography, sexual abuse and sex trafficking by giving Law Enforcement more power to protec
Youre not telling us whether or not youre proactively determining whether, say, an under 26yearold is actually eligible for the subsidies youre trying to sell them and the problem is once we learn whether or not they were eligible and if they werent, people in good faith will be signing up for subsidies that theyre not eligible for. I think youre asking a different question, which is are we doing 100 Income Verification on everyone. And subsidy eligibility verification. Yes. So part of the question in the application process is are you depending on your parents, on your parents tax plan so that is part of the questioning that goes on and if so we move them in that direction. More importantly, part of what youre asking is the Income Verification, which is done in 100 of the cases. Im not asking about Income Verification. Okay. Im asking if a person signs up, were they offered credible employer insurance, because the mandate has been delayed, you dont have that Verification Tool so you h
Fighting with a fist bump, instead of a handshake. It is Tuesday Morning in the middle east, exactly 6 00 a. M. People in gaza are waking up othis, if theyve been able to sleep at all. Its been a night of flares and explosions over gaza. In the past few hours israel has stepped up its attack on hamas. There are reports a hamas television station was hit by a missile. And earlier, hamas fighters had infiltrated israel. It arrived by a series of tunnels. Israel fighters stopped them. Imminent ceasefire seems highly unlikely and israels latest criticism of secretary of state. John kerry could hurt diplomatic efforts even more. Patty culhane reports. A rare moment of criticism directed towards israel from u. S. State department yesterday. Certainly not way allies treat each other. Reporter not for criticizing what israel is doing in gaza but what secretary of state john kerry is doing, pushing a proposal they had already agreed to. The egyptian proposal accepted by the cabinet did not make
The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Well now recognize the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones mr. Speaker, thank you very much. This past friday was a monumental day in the house of representatives as we final leija debate on the merits of send finally had a debate on the merits of sending combat troops in iraq. I want to thank the leadership and Foreign Affairs leadership for working with representatives mcgovern, lee and myself for bringing h. Con. Resolution 105 to the floor and i thank the 370 members who voted in favor of this resolution. H. Con. Resolution 105 states very simply the President Shall not deploy or maintain United States armed forces in a sustained combat role in iraq without specific statutory authorization for such
The dynamic of this race at its most essential core level, has come into sharp focus. It is a battle between a prodemocracy majority and an antidemocracy minority. This is a fight for majority rule in this country to rest control from the minority that trump has governed with disastrous and corrupt consequence. And that principle is at display in the actions of the two campaigns and the two parties and the two coalitions. Everywhere you look the Democratic Party to the solution of trump and the ongoing crisis in this country and the crisis of american democracy is to have everyone go vote. Make it as easy as possible to vote, expand voting as, for instance, democratic officials have done in harris county, texas, expand the time when people can vote. Work through the courts and through policy to be able to start counting votes before election day. And then count votes that might arrive late through the mail. The basic theory guiding all this is that the more people who participate in am