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Democrats can call in at 2027488000. 2027488002027488001 indepen, 2027488002. You can catch up with us on social media on twitter, email us. Very happy new year to you. We begin today talking about top domestic policy priorities in 2016. Heres some recent headlines organizations. Large and small from around this country. Immigration emerging as top in 2016 as the headline the leader outo of south dakota an interview senator john thune saying for 2016. S top issue over to the Rocky Mountain outlook, story there in the toal community, housing remain a top issue in 2016. Finally the east oregonian, the headline minimum wage tax spikes, top 2016 salem agenda. Hear about your agenda in 2016. Your stories and your thoughts ahead. Year the top domestic issues is what well start with in that first of todayshalf washington journal. The conversation already taking this on our Facebook Page< ....
The issue of statelessness among syrian refugee children . Ill take that and get back to you on that. I know statelessness is one of the unhcrs key mandates, fighting statelessness. And its something we pay a lot of attention to globally. And i dont know the answer so ill get back to you on that. Thank you. So lets use this opportunity to give a shoutout if weve failed to to private sector efforts to try to help in this refugee situation. I understand ikea is trying to develop a new shelter, i dont know much more about it. They have developed it. Itseally as would you expect. But the Ikea Foundation helps refugee situations in more than other places, but their new shelter is something that can be folded up into a suitcase so that way it can the home can travel with the refugees wherever they are. It was reported recently, lebanon started to allow these ikea refugee Housing Units< ....
Welcome, everyone, to brookings. Im bill, the managing director here. And were delighted that were joined today by senator murkowski. One of my favorite johnny cash songs growing up was called springtime in alaska and if you remember the chore us, he says, when its springtime in alaska its 40 below and by that standard its downright balmy here tpwheasheds. Were delighted that senator murkowski is here today. We wanted to make her feel at home so we deviled up some summer weather for her and im sure shes wondering what the big deal is all about. The senator is the Top Republican on the Senate Energy committee. From the largest state in the nation, nearly as big a territory as the u. S. West of the mississippi, she thinks in large terms about issues like energy and in particular energy. And she has a big track record on this issue. So today were here to discuss the implications ....
Congressional, but generally, you know, voters dont have a ton of familiarity with the people on that ballot. So i think for the voters it was actually a pretty typical election. There and you remind me what the other questions were . So the others were would you expect a similar effect in a higher visibility race, and would you expect the parties really to start weighing in this more often in primaries, primaries and higher level races such as for congress . So they, these endorsements were for congress as well. So we actually have a pretty broad distribution state assembly, state senate and congress. Its just a general mix. And so i would expect them to continue doing that. I think one of the key questions is how much primary competition will there be in the future, how much of what we saw in the 2012 was a function of the redistricting which was also pretty radical in california in the basic sense that it moved the lines a lot. Theres a lot of uncertainty about who with am i represe ....
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