When House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz’s final term ended Jan. 6, he quickly landed a big-time lobbying job and joined a parade across the decades of former speakers and other ex-leaders, who’ve capitalized on their contacts and knowledge of government operations to make lots of money influencing legislative and executive-branch decisions.
0 enroll today, take care of that knee and every other part notice how young everybody was in that ad, too? the cool thing to do trying to get young people to sign up because if young people don t sign up, what s going to happen? and advertise during football, which was a smart move. you want to reach a young audience, run it during football. a lot of children who are up to the age of 26 are already covered under their parent s plan which was the beauty of this affordable care act. but now trying to entice these younger people to enroll, many are saying i don t have to do that. i can sign up with my parents, stay until i m 26. maybe they re trying to appeal to the 26 and older crowd. maybe it was the last football reference the president had. remember when he said he fumbled the rollout of obamacare and was raked over the coals. jay leno said a fumble can happen to anybody. this is when you say you were great at football when you remember actually stinking at football. pres
redwing from service, a navy s.e.a.l. at war, sunday night at 10:00 eastern. three days of book tv, this weekend on c-span2. now a discussion on how americans communicate with their presidents. from washington journal, this is 40 minutes. our guest now is eli saslow, who is a staff writer for the washington post and has written an interesting book. it s titled ten letters: the stories americans tell their presidents. there is the cover there. and i wanted to ask you, mr. saslow, first, how interesting a concept in this era of electronic communication, lots of folks still hand-write letters and send them to the white house. yeah. how many? 20,000 a day. 20,000 a day the white house gets. and they process through this sort of deluge of mail. it actually sort of operates out of a whole building of its own here in downtown d.c., where there is a staff of 50 people whose job it is to sort through this mail and deliver ten letters, an accurate sampling of this mail
republican governors to the president s education policy is. accept up this question for you this morning. who do you trust more on education in this country, the president or the likely gop and challenger, a former massachusetts governor? lots of papers on this question today. republicans, and independents, call on your respective phone lines. and we have a fourth line for parents and teachers. 202-628-0184. and there are several other ways to weigh in this morning. via twitter. there s also facebook. and regular e-mail. we look for to hearing from you. here s one of the stories by paul west of the tribune s washington bureau. it s published in the baltimore sun today. he says targeting an issue popular with women that the candidates made a speech. here s a little bit from mitt romney and education. when the president took office, he faced a jobs crisis. it has barely improved. the face the spending crisis. he has made that worst. and defaced and education crisis. and
congressional republicans to block the payroll tax cut extension. you reminded people in this town what our debates and all of our debates should be about. it s about you, it s about your lives. it s about your families. jessica yellin was right there when the president said aloha and walked out of the briefing room is few hours ago. the president won this fight. the question is, how much of it carries over to the reelection year and the reelection campaign? reporter: it carries over, john. i ll tell you why because first of all this wasn t just a short-term victory over what he likes to call a dysfunctional congress, in this case, house republicans. but this also gave him a chance to act out the role he wants to play during the campaign. and that is champion of working americans. there s not just the sound you played of the president but you also heard him say this is a make-or-break moment for the working class, everyone deserves a fair shake or a fair shot. this figh