Are i should say some of the many reforms that are included in this legislation. What he talked about is critically important. If america is going to be competitive in the global marketplace, we have to change our tax code, because it is completely outdated, completely antiquated relative to any of the countries with whom we compete. So as the senator from pennsylvania pointed out, the reforms that we make in this bill allow American Companies to compete and win against those other countries around the world. The chinas of the worked the russias of the world, those countries that america has to compete with on a daily basis have a huge advantage over American Companies today simply because we have a tax code that doesnt recognize and reflect whats happening in the global economy. And thats why modernizing and updating our tax code was such a critical part of our tax reform efforts. Mr. President , this is, i would say, contrary to i was listening to my colleague from vermont. I think t
Talk about the swamp. All the folks out there that voted in this election do not have a swamp in washington, d. C. , are watching this happen right in front of their eyes tonight. We have a bunch of amendments that were dropped in by lobbyists here last night. We havent seen except we got a list from them, and we have got ill legible amendments now at the desk that the american even if we could read them, we wouldnt be able to. It just doesnt make any sense. I tell you Something Else that doesnt make any sense. It doesnt make any sense that in our economy, 90 of our folks, the bottom 90 earn the same amount of income as the top 10 . The top 10 earn 50 of the income in this country. The bottom 90 earn the other 50 . And you can see the directions that these lines have headed over a number of years. Thats the issue that we confront in our economy. Thats what we all should be working on in a bipartisan way to try to address. Unfortunately, instead of improving the circumstances for people
Friday night and you hand out the work product for all the members of the senate to take a look at before they vote on changes in the tax code that will affect the people they represent. This is what happens. 479 pages were handed to us. They tell us some of this has been around for a while. Some of its new. They dont tell us which part is new and which part is old. But, lucky for us, on k street, and there is nothing wrong with lobbyists, but on k street where the federal lobbyists live, they are following this really closely and they have given us basically a cheat sheet. A score card. So we can figure out at least generally speaking how many changes have been made in the 479 pages since the last time we aw this proposed bill. Now, i defy any member of the senate to stand here and take an oath that they have read this and understand what in the world it means to businesses and families and individuals. If they want to take that oath, and maybe some will, then i refer them to, ladies
Thomas west talks about his book, the political theory of the american founding. This is just under two hours. Well, tom, i would like to welcome you to georgetown law and the seminar recent books on the constitution to discuss your wonderful new book. For the benefit of those who are watching outside the room, you e the ball ermnan potter endowed professor at hills dale college in michigan. The name of the book we will be talking about is the the political theory of the american founding, natural rights, public passly and the moral conditions of freedom. Thanks for being here and the recent book seminar. Before we summarize what the book is about, let me ask you what the origin of this the pack was and how it fits within your larger academic agenda . Right. This is a topic, the political theory of the founding that i have been thinking about since about 19 3, so name the date, when i was invited up to a conference to write on a topic of that is correct the relationship between the fou
Book on american foreignpolicy. This interview is about 15 minutes. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2018] Mitchell Lerner is a historian who was in demand these days. Korean studies is on a lot of peoples minds. You have written a book about a particular incident in history, therea pueblo incident, which is marking its 50th anniversary. By asking you to give the story of the pueblo. Lerner it is amazing to the extent which it has been forgotten by the american people. The uss pablo was an an old world war ii Cargo Carrier that had been retired. It was old and dilapidated. It was meant to be carried out for electronic intelligence interception. Andmechanically communicatively, it was a disaster. A good firstded mission for it would be to send it off to north korea in january of 1968. Of weeks of operation but the pretty well, public was operating peacefully in international waters. Pueblo was operating peacefully in international waters. Harrassment happened, or so th