The pig book has been around since 1991. We have identified 11,014 earmarks, and so when people say its just a few million the year, or a few thousand there, it adds up over time. The earmarks are correcting, costly, inequitable, and we should talk more about them. One of the many publications we put out each year, and certainly something we have been working on for a long time. Host since we will be talking about money, our viewers will always have this question. How was citizens against government waste funded . Guest by individuals and associations and foundations. The vast majority of our money comes from individual taxpayers, and always has. Host and also we will be talking about federal earmarks, lets set the stage. What is an earmark . Guest if its one of our seven criteria developed back in 1991 with the congressional park west ors coalition. To be not specifically authorized, not subject to hearings, serves only a local or special interest, it exceeds the budget or last years
Teachers, your line is 7028000. We want to hear from School Administrators at 2027 028001. Parents, we want to hear from you at 2027028002. If you dont fit into any of those categories, we still want to hear what you think. You can always reach us on social media come on twitter, and on facebook. Lets set up the question for you. Of teachertopic pay has been a hot one in the democratic president ial race for the democratic nomination. One of the first candidates to jump off was Kamala Harris, who came out in april with her proposal for raising teacher pay in new hampshire. Here is what she had to say. Lets be clear, there are two groups of people raising our children, parents, often with the assistance of grandparents, and our teachers. We are not paying them their value when we know teachers in our country make 10 less than similarly College Educated individuals. Which is why as president i will implement what will be the first time in our nation a federal investment in closing that t
Of jerusalems story. 70 years ago, the state of israel was formed, but not accepted by all of its arab neighbors. In september of 2000, ariel sharon made a visit to the temple mount that inflamed the palestinians. It was called the second intifada. Now, some believe, President Trumps decision to move the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem might trigger the third. Is that the biggest fear . Tzipi livni there is no excuse for terror, there is no excuse for violence. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] sharyl welcome to full measure. Im sharyl attkisson. This week, democrats demanded President Trump be investigated for alleged sexual misconduct. Republicans demanded the special counsel on conflicts of interest. Meantime, new Sexual Harassment probes started up in congress in the past few weeks against congressmen Blake Farenthold and trent franks and senator al franken before he announced his res
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