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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 12182017 20171218

Well take your calls and you can join the conversation on twitter. Nd is next. N journal [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] it is monday december 18, 2017. One week until christmas, and the selfimposed deadline for congress to pass tax reform. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend the first part of the program asking you about the anticipated action on capitol hill this week and passage of the republican tax reform plan. Your message to congress as that. Et set to do heres how weve divided the phone lines for the conversations for the first part of the program. 50,000 a under that. Year. Year the numbers are on your screen. As always we welcome your comments on facebook, cspan and send us a tweet. Well get to your calls momentarily. The headline this morning. A look at the front page of the
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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal Sarah Westwood And Anna Edgerton 20171218

There are a lot of other materials on the table, as well. As your impressions the year began, did either of you expect that the week before christmas, there would be so much to get done . Sarah westwood . Guest certainly not. This years started with a lot of hope about what they would be able to get done. There was hope for an infrastructure package, Health Care Reform, tax, and we see they are just barely going to get one of those things over the finish the end of the year. So i do not think republicans have correctly assessed how challenging it would be. The nd or adjutant in Anna Edgerton, were you expecting to be reporting from the capital in the last week before christmas . Guest i think because they were not able to get some of those other things done, passing tax reform goes all the more important. They have to have something to show for their first year of united g ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal Sarah Westwood And Anna Edgerton 20171219

Congressional reporter from bloomberg. They are here to talk about the week ahead. What a week it will be. We talked with our listeners and viewers about the tax reform bill. A lot of other materials are on the table. First of all, your impressions. As the year began, did either of you expect that the week before christmas there would be so much to get done in the last five days . Sara certainly not. Republicans control all three branches of government. There were talks of trying to get an infrastructure package, health reform, tax, all done by the end of the year. And we see they are barely able to get one of them over the finish line by the end of the year. I do not republicans correctly assessed how challenging this would be. This big ball of things rolling towards the end of the year . Did you expect to be reporting from the capital in the last week of the year . Because they were not able to get other things down, passing tax reform becomes more important so they can have somethin ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal Sarah Westwood And Anna Edgerton 20171219

Announcer the tax reform package is headed to the four of the house and senate as early as tuesday. Next, we get an update on what to expect this week in congress. From washington journal, this is a one hour. Westwood is White House Reporter for the Washington Examiner. Anna edgerton, congressional reporter for bloomberg. They are here to talk about the week ahead. There is a lot to get done. We talked about the tax reform bill in the first hour, but there are a lot of other materials on the table, as well. As your impressions the year began, did either of you expect that the week before christmas, there would be so much to get done . Sarah westwood . Guest certainly not. This years started with a lot of hope about what they would be able to get done. There was hope for an infrastructure package, Health Care R ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171219

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