Of send her back, directed toward ilhan omar. It was hosted by the Christian Science monitor. This runs a little more than an hour. Linda its a little after 9 00. Were going to start and im good to talk a little bit and let the congressman eat quickly. Im Linda Feldman from the Christian Science monitor Washington Bureau chief for our guest is congressman tom emmer of minnesota the chairman of he National Republican ampaign committee. This is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome. Now we will give you bennett queue ground. He was born in south bend indiana and grew up in the dina minnesota attended First Boston College and the university of alaska fairbanks and played hockey for both. Then he got his law degree at William Mitchell college in st. Paul. 10 years later, he got into politics verses a city councilman and then a state legislator and after not quite reaching the minnesota governors office, he won a seat in congress. That was in 2014, Michele Bachmanns old sea
What are the processes for holding a president accountable . Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. Today, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee talked about the 2020 campaign and the chance for President Trumps recent rally in North Carolina tournd her back, directed toward ill on omar. It was discussed at it was hosted by the question signs monitor. It is an hour. Linda its a little after 9 00. Were going to start and im good to talk a little bit and let the congressman eat quickly. Im Linda Feldman from the Christian Science monitor Washington Bureau chief for our guest is congressman tom emmer of minnesota the chairman of the National Republican campaign committee. This is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome. Now we will give you bennett queue ground. He was born in south bend indiana and grew up in the dina minnesota attended First Boston College and the university of alaska fairbanks and played hockey for both. Then he got his law degree
A monitor breakfast so welcome. A bit of background he was born in south bend indiana and grew , up in the dina minnesota attended First Boston College and the university of alaska fairbanks and played hockey for both. Then he got his law degree at William Mitchell college in st. Paul. 10 years later, he got into politics, first as a city councilman and then a state legislator and after not quite reaching the minnesota governors office, he won a seat in congress. That was in 2014, Michele Bachmanns old seat in the sixth district. Since arriving on the hill, congressman emmer has helped run the congressional hockey challenge where the longtime hockey enthusiast and coach has a reputation, im told, for talking trash. Mr. Emmer i would say being honest. Linda yeah . Ok. I will also add that the congressman has seven children, so i have to ask, are they all rep. Emmer there are six boys and one girl and shes the best athlete out of the whole group. And by the way, shes a sports broadcaster
On the fiscal cliff talks, now down to the wire. Here are our phone numbers you can join the conversation online. Host here are some of the friday morning headlines. A rare back to work for congress. Cliff talks down to the wi re is the headline in the wall street journal. Host that story from inside usa today. This is from the New York Times. Host there is this from roll call. Pessimistic asstima ever. The president summoning congressional leaders. We expect there will be a stakeout afterward. We may hear from the president and we will be following all of that as the day unfolds. Its begin with David Lightman. He covers capitol hill and the white house. The best sense of what you think the dynamics will be inside the room at the 3 00 p. M. Meeting. Guest for all this talk of pessimism and optimism, the only people that know are the five principles in that room and i think that is important. They are all seasoned negotiators. They went to the debt ceiling stuff a year and a half ago. I
Most heavily populated states, means you are seeing newcomers are not welcome, existing renters can not buy houses, our children cannot buy houses. That is not the american dream, to stand in the way of our future. Host the book is entitled american nightmare how government undermines the dream of homeownership. This is from drake cinders what land use restrictions would you approve of . Guest a buy support local homeowners imposing their own i would support local homeowners imposing their own restrictions. This is how it works in houston, which has no zoning. Half of the residential neighborhoods have restrictions. If you live in a neighborhood without restrictions, you are allowed to petition neighbors, and if 75 agree, you can write covenants and restrictions for your neighborhood. If the developer says we think your neighborhood would be more valuable if we changed it, and we will pay you to change, you can vote to do that. That happens all the time. You get an evolutionary system