Frustration into action. This is live coverage on cspan2. We appreciate you coming out and we will endeavor to do our part on the panel to make it worth your while. Our goal for this panel r panel is to provide best practices for our laboring congress. We have three amazing organizers here to lead excellent organizations we focus on congress and two champions in the congressional caucus who committed their careers to insideoutside organizing and are the best people to tell you what works, what doesnt and how we basically take this moment of incredible trump energy and turn it into effective longterm progressive organizing that creates tangible wins and victories on capitol hill. So Everybody Knows how its going to work. Im going to do a brief introduction and each of our panelists are going to provide a brief interinstruction and int int introduction. Were in an uncredible moment of energy and activism. Americans in political stripes are speaking out and looking for ways to resist the
Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in california. Joshua, a polling firm that works a lot with aggressive democrats. And next to me is the Vice President for research and policy. It helps a lot of us in the progressive caucus, Democratic Party, and candidates come up with great policy ideas. We will do this in the last panel. Start here. Down the row and then open up the conversations. Amy is the president of democracy and color. Amy good a
Schakowsky who share their insights pick this discussion is on our. Good good morning. Its great to see so many Smiling Faces here so early at 9 00 a. M. We appreciate you coming out and the will make it worth your while an article for this panel is to provide some best practices for lobbying congress. We have three amazing organizers here who lead excellent organizations to focus on lobbying congress and we have two champions in the progressive caucus who have committed to their careers to inside outside organizing and are the best people possible to tell you what works, what doesnt and how we basically take this moment of incredible trump energy and turn it into effective longterm progressive organizing that creates tangible wins and victories on capitol hill. Verybo so everyone knows how this will work. I will do a brief introduction and then each of our paneliststs will provide a brief introduction and introductorynd comments about how they see this moment of trump organizing andil
Oil is heading for the first gain ahead of the Global Production cut to reduce the glut. They are also seeing the biggest fullyear rise since 2009 despite stockpiled at the highest level in three decades. Producers have agreed to cut output sunday. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Lets get a check of the markets now. It is a mixed day, but hong kong, china doing better than the morning session. Asian stocks are fluctuating. Singapore, tokyo, mumbai. Back in half an hour. Time now for the best of Bloomberg Markets middle east. Yousef it is the end of the year that saw the end of opec. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets middle east as we wrap up 2016 with this special Holiday Edition. Im yousef gamal eldin in dubai. Lows,barrel, 13 year record stockpiles, supply outweighing demand and i ran back online. Something has to give, and it did. Opec agreed to the first Production Cut in eight years. We have m
Others,. Ll we will read some of your Facebook Comments if you want to send us a tweet as well. Youll get to some of those. We have wrapped up this hearing, obviously. One of several we have been covering today. We aim to take you live to the white house in 15 minutes or so, president obama is holding his arel News Conference and we expected to start live. First, we hear from michelle on the independent line. Whole i found that the questioning was kind of disturbing. Sorry. An the other the other different ones. The hearing yesterday at the education hearing . Caller that was scary. Aboutday, the question his investing in stock. It was ruled on in a different way i hope im making sense here. Not good. He was asked about investments in various Health Care Companies by a number of senators. How do you think he answered those questions . Goter i dont feel like i an answer. He seemed sly and not very forthcoming. Granted, the Democratic Senators who questioned him were fierce. They opened