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washington journal and scheduling information for c-span tv networks and c-span radio, as well as podcast. c-span now is available at the apple, store, google play and downloaded for free today. your front row seat to washington. anytime. anywhere. pro life advocates pro-life advocates are questioning whether the justice department is doing enough to prosecute those who have threatened activists and attacked organizations and crisis pregnancy centers. since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. the heritage foundation hosted this conversation. it runs an hour. welcome to is the department of justice abusing the face act to silence pro-life advocates? please welcome john malcolm, vice president of the heritage foundation institute for constitutional government. good morning, and welcome to the heritage foundation. for a timely discussion on the topic of, is the department of justice abusing the face act to silence pro life advocates? the face act, which is an acr ....
Blitzing for Family Medicine The Academy’s fight for family medicine is nothing if not a long game. Sometimes, though, the playbook calls for the old ghost blitz. That was the maneuver last week when the AAFP’s president, Board chair and Board members conducted a high-powered, minutely scheduled day of lobbying pandemic-style virtually. How’d it go? “Great day, great day,” Academy President Ada Stewart, M.D., of Columbia, S.C., said on the video call that participants shared afterward to debrief. It was a full day, certainly. Stewart’s agenda had included sit-downs with staff from her state’s senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, and Rep. Joe Wilson, also R-S.C.; additionally, she joined AAFP colleagues for meetings with staff for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. ....
Healthcare benefits. so the reality for a lot of the republicans is how do you make this connection between the minimum wage and a healthcare bill? i think it s going to be a harder connection to make. because people see them as separate issues. to jump in on that, sure. i live in this world. i think about healthcare and minimum wages and economy and their interaction. i could not understand what erik kanter was just saying. and if i can t follow him i m not sure others not as deeply steeped in these things would be anyone to. i think what he was doing right there was a bit of a trial balloon saying, hmm, the minimum wage helps democrats. discussions of the obamacare maybe will hurt them. let me try to put them together in some kind of coherent way. it wasn t that coherent to my ears anyway. a 2.7 average increase in employment. compared to those who kept ....
minimum wage you have more money to spend. this only gets people out of poverty. they re saying you should be paid a poverty wanl. either you succeed in the min wage or you succeed in making republicans look bad. nobody at this time should be raising their family in poverty. i m luke broussard in for the great alex wagner. president obama is now on the road, departingmi ining any min an evening in his hometown. first a speech about minimum wage. the president invoked one of the titans of industry. it was here in michigan a hundred years ago that henry ford announced he was doubling worker s wages. he understood it was going to be good for business. not only boost productive and increase turnover and make workers more loyal to the company. but it meant that the workers could afford to buy the cars they were building. and not just henry ford. in michigan the president has a state that is already higher that be the federal minimum. michigan also has a statewi ....