Look at expectations for the first 100 days of the trump presidency. Later, republican members of congress discuss how they plan to work with a Trump Administration to address Environmental Issues and policy. Host joining us is representative john yarmuth who will serve as the Ranking Member of the Budget Committee in congress. Welcome. Guest good to be with you. Host joining me, a congressional reporter and senior budget report appeared to both of you, welcome. Bill Congress Next year will be controlled in the senate by republicans and in the house by republicans. Committee, what are the mechanisms you can use to be relevant . N we do not have a lot of tools readily deployed deployable. A divided republican party. To pass many things pass, they want to will need to find 218 votes. They have had trouble doing that. A conservative element of the Party Sometimes votes in what they wantt to do. The dynamic is something they want to exploit we want to display when we feel it is necessary.
Look at expectations for the first 100 days of the trump presidency. Later, republican members of congress discuss how they plan to work with a Trump Administration to address Environmental Issues and policy. Host joining us is representative john yarmuth who will serve as the Ranking Member of the Budget Committee in congress. Welcome. Guest good to be with you. Host joining me, a congressional reporter and senior budget report appeared to both of you, welcome. Bill Congress Next year will be controlled in the senate by republicans and in the house by republicans. Committee, what are the mechanisms you can use to be relevant . N we do not have a lot of tools readily deployed deployable. A divided republican party. To pass many things pass, they want to will need to find 218 votes. They have had trouble doing that. A conservative element of the Party Sometimes votes in what they wantt to do. The dynamic is something they want to exploit we want to display when we feel it is necessary.
Quorum call mrs. Shaheen madam president . The presiding officer the senator from New Hampshire. Mrs. Shaheen madam president , is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mrs. Shaheen i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Shaheen thank you. Madam president , more than 50 years ago, president kennedy signed the equal pay act making equal pay for equal work the law of the land. And yet today, wage discrimination still persists. Today women i continue to be pad just over threequarters of what their male counterparts receive for performing the same work. More women than he have before are graduating from college, but over the course of their careers, they will each make an average of 1. 2 million less than a man with the same level of education. Unfortunately, thats not unique. Across a wide array of industries and within all different occupations, wellqualified women continue to earn an average of 77 cents for each dollar th
Against isis taking over the bajee refinery. Thats a critical moment in history if theyre successful in doing that. What can be done, what neis needed. One of the first place they were deployed was around the fire. So that is one example. And as we continue to assess the situation in iraq, we have identified specific Strategic Site were concerned about, and we want to make sure iraqi has whatever capability they need to defend them. The kurds are sitting on a reserve of 45 billion a barely. Without coordinating those experts in the central authorities in baghdad. And baghdad seems to unhe have. How can we help the Iraqi Government to better improve its resources and make a system for all iraqis . How can we play a bigger role . Well, this is something where we can play a direct role, and its one reason we had to get through the election and try to get new government reform so we can get traffic on this issue. The their own experts right now, they approach a little less than half of tha
Host a good wednesday morning to you. This story on new Major Economic sanctions leading the headlines. Eu imposed tough new sanctions on russia. Over to the New York Times, the headline sanctions pile up, russian alarm grows over putin tactics. From the Financial Times this morning, the headline u. S. Turns screws on russia. That story notes russian powers presented a united front when the eu and u. S. Agreed to the toughest sanctions against russia since the end of the cold war. The eu announcement intended to cripple the russian economy and convince the kremlin to abandon its actions. Finally, there is the front page of usa today sanctions hit russia, where it hurts. That story noting while previous sanctions were focused on specific businesses and individuals, the new set is designed to hit major pillars of the russian economy, including oil and bass and arms sales. The story notes that earlier sanctions were more symbolic and were short of the bare minimum the eu had to do, accord