well the congress can act in a lot of ways. they have, and if your viewers don t know this, they have jurisdiction over columbia in a lot of ways. the congress well knows how to stop things when they want to stop things. they have done it in the past. they attacked our ability to support women s reproductive health issues. they attacked our clean needle exchange, and medical marijuana. the answer for us is statehood so that americans that live and pay taxes in the district of columbia can have a voting member of congress, our eleanor holmes norton, and we would have two members. we have been anning it niced by andy harris who is the first district in maryland. he could spend his time antagonizing the district, and
change. case closed, argument over. it s cold. there was also this moment nancy pelosi wearing sunglasses at a democratic press conference. she said it was to be in sol darity with it harry reid. but today he was not wearing his sunglasses, he was wearing half glasses. even while nancy pelosi tried to do sunglasses solidarity. i think members of congress are getting a little punchy on capitol hill. we re about 24 hours away from the homeland security department shutting down unless republicans figure out how to get over the fight they re having about it amongst themselves. if you don t believe me about the punchy thing, this was john boehner s response today to a
other way, so how long will it stick and what will determine whether or not it does? i m not foolish enough to predict that but a year and a half ago everyone thought this was impossible. i do know that this is something that our president has taken up as something of a personal cause, and he hasn t had that many political victories. if you think about it i don t imagine he s going to let this one go without a fight. the republicans in congress would have to have a veto proof majority on proposing legislation that would gut this. that s a high hurdle to pass. i do imagine, as many others do that there s going to be legal challenges. there will be lawsuits. but this law, the ruling that came down today, this is like the third round. each round prior was challenged by lawsuits from the cable companies, the trade groups who would profit from having the ability to charge for access lanes.
republicans are in control of congress. there is no republican member of congress from dc, there are a handful of republican congressman specifically to stop dc from implementing their own law with dc residents passed with 70% of the vote. with the relic that allows congress to interfere in the local laws of dc, these republicans in the house were able to block the dc city counsel and the mayor from establishing any rules and regulations regarding the sale of pot in the districts. they will not have pot stores. that is why there has been a run on flower pots and miracle grow, right? even though they blocked ways of selling pot, they do not have appeared to block dc on moving
will be bus trips of people going from dc to utah. i spent some time here. hear in this weird moment right now that temporarily in alaska and permanently in dc you can smoke pot, you can have pot, but you can t get pot. it is like a radical gardening mandate. that is weird enough. but on top of that washington dc s mayor and city council are being told that going ahead with this law in this limited way mean that the mayor and city council ought to go to prison. some republican members of congress are calling for arrests. mayor, how do you react to