Economy will be Top Priorities for both parties. What issues will be front and center for the 117th congress . We want to know. And will policy decisionmaking look like in 2021 . Wait to look at these trail blazing members. Be trail blazing. We have to see, kick their tires. Efore we get under way, a few housekeeping notes. Us thehillnew members. If you experience any trouble ith the live stream, please refresh the page. That should be a quick fix. I want to introduce my boss, editor end, in chief of the hill who joins these new welcome members and to grill them. Always good to have you on set. Know people cower. Its fun to welcome the new members. Well do something a little different. I want to tell you one of the embers of congress we have one republican at the end of the show is darrell issa. Old, once and future king, hes the once and future congressman. Hes coming back. Will we talk to him whats on his dash board and priority list but talk, what he advise new dems and republicans
To unite. Take us back to americas most divisive president ial election. Learn . N we parallels. E are arguablyelection is the most divisive in our history because it resulted in secession , of seven states of the deep response to the election of Abraham Lincoln. It was also divisive in conception. It was a fourway president ial contest. There were two parties in the spring of 1860, republicans and democrats. Republicans split. They had a very divisive convention in charleston, South Carolina. They split into southern and northern democrats. The southern democrats were fiercely determined to protect slavery in the western territories. The Republican Party was new. It was only six years old. Was a northern political party. It stood for stopping the expansion of slavery, the central tenant of their platform, stopping the expansion of slavery by law. It was an election where on the ballot many things. A free labor society. Society. Abor people understood in this election, because of all t
Washing our hands, and we have been wearing masks. It is time to turn the tables. And we started doing that last week. We went on the offense. Last week, we kicked off the initial distribution of the fire is the Pfizer Vaccine following eua. Through snowstorms, holiday rush, and with Everything Else going on in the country, we delivered the first 2. 9 million doses across the country to every state, and we saw vaccines going into arms. What a remarkable feat. And we should all be proud of what has happened, but i want to particularly praise the great men and women of pfizer, mckesson, ups, and fedex for a truly outstanding job. Thank you. Last night, the fda granted emergency use authorization to moderna. And, america, we are ready to distribute that vaccine. Just as we did last week with pfizer, we are prepared. So what does the playbook look like . Distribution of Moderna Vaccine has already begun. Moderna has moved vaccine from their manufacturing sites to mckesson, who will serve a
Next by are joined katie keith with georgetown university, the center on Health Insurance reform. She is also an adjunct professor of law at the law school at georgetown. Thank you for joining us. Katie thank you for having me. Host here to talk about the latest Supreme Court and the most significant Supreme Court on the Affordable Care act. Give us the shorthand version of legally, how we arrived at this point. Katie to understand this case, we have to go back in time a little bit to 2012 and then 2017. If folks remember back to 2012, that was the first time the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act. Chief Justice John Roberts held that the individual mandate could not be sustained under the commerce clause, but it could be sustained as a tax. It walks, talks, cracked like attacks. Quacks like a tax. Fastforward to 2017, republicans controlled both chambers of congress. Timespent much of their trying to repeal as much of the Affordable Care act as possible. It led to multiple h
Is 2027488000. Republicans use 2027488001. Independents and others, its 2027488002. Send us a text if youd like, 2027488003. Include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter its cspanwj. And we welcome your comments on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Well show you some of the comments of the majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, and the minority leader shuck schumer. Washington times this morning their lead story is on the attorney generals efforts. Barr improves inquiry into voter fraud. Authorized the Justice Department to probe what he said are substantial allegations of voter fraud as President Trumps legal team detailed new evidence of purported election violations in two battleground states. Mr. Barr issued the memo days after presumptive president elect joseph biden was declared the winner of the 2020 president ial election by several media outlets. The president has launched legal challenges to the results in states where the voting margins are razor thin by giv