colorful pictures bio twitter handles and a district maps a look at congressional committees the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governments. it is $13.95 plus shipping and handling through the online store. next, west virginia senator joe manchin talks about improving government. this is brought to you by the brookings institute. it runs 50 minutes. sglp good afternoon i am a fellow at the center for effective public management and managing editor of the fix gov blog. i would like to welcome you to the brookings institute and today s event. i would like to thank c-span for being here and invite everyone watching to follow along on social media. it is no secret the american government is in a problem of dysfunction. gridlock crippled the institutions trust in government plummeted and instead of getting answers, all we are getting is more problems. too often we adapt to a dysfunctional system rather than work in a way to reform it. that is a serious problem
senator manchin and senator bird were on my mind. we have been talking to senator manchin s staff for some months now about the interesting and valuable perspective that former governors bring to the united states senate. one of our ad ppvisors is a former governor mayor and senator and when he left the senate we lost the champion for sensible government reform in the senate. i must say i am impressed with the reform agenda he has outlined. from agendas like returning to bipartisan lunches and the governor s caucus itself to the groups. we have talked about this in the think tank world. it needs to be something we are grappling with the return of the office technology assistance. one of the few valuable small i think the whole thing had 90 people in it. small pieces of government that was well worth its weight and somehow has got chopped. i would like to open senator by asking a sort of general question. why is it so hard to get the united states congress interested in thes
i only said there are certain things he believed do. first, if you re running out of money, people would rob the agencies and accounts so it is not noticeable to the average public. when that runs out they will make cuts within government. they will cut back in late people off. and the last thing they want to do is raise taxes because then somebody has messed up. that is what they believe. so basically what you have to do is look at the wholistic approach. and then you say well, this we can afford in this we cannot. everybody is afraid to talk about taxes. you look now and we cannot even agree on the definition of revenue. that is hard to believe. you would think we cut the taxes, right? if we got rid of the junk in the box all the give away and the problems that ever lobbiest has been able to get it tax provision put in for the special interest groups here it with all that being said, that is a tremendous drawl on the revenue. no one ever says how much is that cost? when you
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