Also send us your tweet if you go to twitter. Com we will begin with the sunday review section of the the New York Times yesterday. We want to get your take on this. It does religion influence your politics . With more people saying they are unaffiliated. We want to get your take. Here are some comments from facebook this morning. What are your thoughts on this december 24, 2012. It does religion influence your politics . Let me show you this from the New York Times this morning. A new poll out worldwide religion shows up that one out of six follows no religion. That is worldwide. All religions outside the United States as well. The upi story. Religious identity affect voter choice. And then on the 2012 election, here is the pew forum on religion and Public Policy dorothy and baltimore, maryland. Independent caller. What do you think . Does religion influence your politics . Caller it does influence me somewhat but not so much now this time with obama. The reason why i say it does a li
House will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The secretary the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. December 24, 2012. I hereby appoint the honorable Mac Thornberry to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the brare will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy god of light, we give you thanks for giving us another day, as this chamber lies silent, we pray for joy, hope, and love within the homes of the members of the peoples house. Send us your spirit so that there might be peace on earth, good will among all men and women. All that is done this day be for your great honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The share will lead the house in the pledge of alleg
Week with the esquire polled began with what they called the new American Center. The study indicates that there is a middle ground among the electorate. In order to facilitate the conversation we will be dividing the lines regionally. Where would you put yourself in your political ideology . Where would you do find it . For those of you in the eastern 212 tral time zones, 585 3880. Two 02tain and pacific, 585 3881. Send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj, or an email, journal cspan. Org. Any email this morning, the theington post and this headline this morning from the jpmorgan post, chase has reached a tentative agreement with the Justice Department to pay a record 13 billion. Morning,t story this there is a similar headline on the front of the Washington Times here go something they talked about online, where would you place your own political ideology echo here is the breakdown. Those that describe themselves as bleeding hearts, 10 , the gospel left, 11 , the minivan , the mba m
Their budget. 31,000 employees. In the meantime, we want to go through the newspapers and look at some of the news stories, including ukraine and the violence of there. The president budget is being previewed and the gop tax plan is being unveiled next week. Have a Public Policy discussion item that you would like to add to the table, we are going to put the numbers up on the screen. You can dial in. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Go to social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle. In our participate conversation on the nih on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan. Here are some headlines on the ukraine. Ukraines bloodiest day. This picture is taking a most of the front page. Bodies of some of the protesters that were killed. Here is the front page of the pittsburgh postgazette. Their headline is ukraines president open to early elections. M politico, John Mccain White house on ukraine stunning. Sanctions on the ukraine and slammed the administratio
You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. He very good sunday morning to you. I want to start with a few headlines from papers from around the country on this idea of the American Dream. Some recent columns in the wall street journal and a few others on the subject. Robert reich the former labor secretary of the United States, his column from december 26. We will be talking about this issue of the American Dream for the first 45 minutes. That subject has also been in discussion already in 500 or so posts on our Facebook Pages morning. I will read you just a few of those. I want to read you little bit from that piece. That is a bloomberg poll. We also have a poll on our Facebook Page. Is the American Dream still attainable . Right now the results seem to be tracking the same as that bloomberg poll heard about 240 seven people saying yes it is still attainable and 404 people saying no, it is not. Be talking about this subject, taking your calls and comments.