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do sit hearing in 2017. i am going to bet you that the house is more republican and the senate is more republican as a result of the mid-term elections right now. the senate could be. lou: we have a bet? and we ll set the terms of that bet. would you like him in on this action? ed: no, i just want to watch. lou: you are such a careful man. ed: he s a journalist he has to wait for the facts before he writes them. michael: i spent my life in daily newspapers. lou: this president i think has the wind at his back. i think the republican party does, and the national left-wing media are just about to discover how strong a wind that is. we ll continue here in just a moment, and what do we want to do here because we are waiting on developments because first of course for the senate later tonight to pass the thanks reform legislation. house has passed as i said the first major overhaul of the tax system since 1986. and i keep hearing producer who are so faint that i had no ide ....
stephen mansfield on his washington in one hour, author stephen mansfield on his washington times op-ed about president trump s support our go talk show host bill press. he discusses the year in politics and what to expect in 2018. members are advised that these of the last votes expected in the house for the day, the week, the month, and the year. the house republican leader in congress as they wrap up business for the year. lawmakers quickly leave the u.s. capitol and head home for the holidays. we welcome you to washington journal. congress did pass a short-term spending plan that keeps the government running for a few more weeks, only to face the same issues when they return in early january. we want to get to your calls and comments. how would you rate the performance of the house and senate and your own representative? (202) 748-8001, that s our line for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. for independents, (202) 748-8002 . yesterday, congress wrapped ....
democrats basically, the senate when along with it. that means we will have a whole bunch of unfinished business early next year with a lot of state. will the issues most contentious yesterday to my we heard the issue of dr.. into.anted to tie that obviously, they are not going to wait until january. does that increase the chance of a shutdown in january? i think it increases the chance. i think there s a lot of interest on all sides to come up with a deal that gets a lot of these things off. there s a lot of interest. immigrations dr., package. whether it will be called the border wall or not is to be determined. that is what the president wants. there will be a package in there for health care. susan collins wants reinsurance and other things that would shore up the affordable care market. also children s health insurance, sass to relief. disaster relief. the opening bid in the senate is $81 billion, which the house pouseassed. top $100d easily billion. then you ....
till january 19 and also turned off what would have been big custom medicare and a bunch of other entitlement programs. xxx but would have been triggered by the tax cut bill because it would have increased the deficit so much. so that was a big win for susan collins who had secured that agreement from republican leaders as part of her vote for the tax bill. and the democrats basically went along with it in the senate, went along with turning it off, kicking the can down the road, and that means we ll have a whole bunch of unfinished business early next year with a lot of money at stake. host: what are the issues most contentious yet today? we heard from the house democratic leader nancy pelosi on the issue of d.a.c.a., so-called dreamers, estimated 700,000 here in the u.s. they wanted to tie that into this c.r. obviously they re not going to wait until january. does that increase the chance potentially of a shutdown with the next deadline being january 19? guest: i don ....
[gavel banging] welcome, everybody, and thank you for your attendance, particularly those who have to testify and answer questions for us because i know you put in a lot of extra work to be ready for it. this hearing is on the oversight of a bill that has a long name called insuring patient access and effective drug enforcement act. now somebody is going to have us pronunciation for the acronym. i m not going to. i m going to refer to as the law and the bill. some would like to see this law repealed. others insist that it should remain in place. i haven t made my mind up on that issue. so i am interestedn hearing both sides of the argumt. this discussion is particularly important giving the continuing opioid epidemic that has ravaged this country through the past several years. i do have concerns with how we got to where we are today and the discussions that we re having today. when congress took this bill up in 2015, and 2016, there was little, to no fanfare about th ....