Will be testifying at that anding, casey burgat neck tomboulides. They will be with us in this final hour of the washington journal as we talk about term limits and take your calls. If you support term limits, you can start calling in now if you moments, 202 7488001. Start us off. What are u. S. Term limits . Limits is aterm Nonprofit Organization that fights for term limits for all members of government. We are basically focusing on this issue because the American People are frustrated. They are fed up with a congress that falls short of what a great country like ours deserves. Ask americans, 60 of them say they would fire every Single Member of congress if they could. Congress has a 14 Approval Rating and a 98 reelection rate. That is the sign of a broken system. When people run for office in this city, they call it the swamp. When they get here, it becomes like a hot tub. They start to enjoy the power in the prestige. They never want to go home. They never want to go back and talk t
Year, the phone number is 2027488002. You can catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good tuesday morning. You can start calling now on this question as we show you some stats on poverty. In 2019, the Poverty Level for a household of 4 with an annual 25,750 or below, the 2018 the latest year where there are federal stats for this range, 500 53,000 americans were considered homeless. In 2017, the poverty rate was 12. 3 . Americans did of not have Health Insurance. We are having this conversation on poverty in america in the wake of a forum in which 9 president ial candidates spoke. It was the Poor Peoples Campaign form and one of them was Bernie Sanders. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] the point is for us to begin to think about what freedom means and in the richest country in the history of the world, half of the people in our country should not be forced to live paycheck to paycheck. 500,000 americans should n
[cheers and applause] thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you all very much. [applause] thank you all very much. Thank you, mr. Speaker for those kinds words. I appreciate the recognition, its hon inhour to be here. Lieutenant governor jones, speaker burns. President prokem kennedy, members of the General Assembly, constitutional officers, members of the Public Service commission, mayor dickens, members of the judiciary, members of the counselor core and my fellow georgians. Later this year the people fulfill civic duty. They will chose who occupy the seats of service and they will determine what course america takes in the years to come. As they have in years past, when they go to the ballot box, theyll see a stark difference between georgia and our nations capitol. Theyll see what weve achieved together at the state level to make georgia an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. And theyll see the hardshipships washington, d. C. Has brought in every home and placed in Kitchen
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, very much. Thank you , thank you, mr. Speaker for those kind words. I appreciate the recognition. Its an honor to be here. Members of the General Assembly, constitutional officers, members of the judiciary, members of the concert core, and my fellow georgians. Later this year the people of the state once again fulfill their civic duty and choose who occupies these seeds of service and will determine what course america takes in the years to come. As they have in years past, when they go to the ballot box, they will see a stark difference between georgia and our nations capital. They will see what we have achieved together at the state level to make georgia a greater place to live, work, and raise a family. They will see the hardships washington, d. C. Has brought into every home and placed on every Kitchen Table across our state. Congress has become synonymous with runaway spending, bloated budgets, job killing regulations, gridlock and partisanship, an
Thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you all very much. [applause] thank you all very much. Thank you, mr. Speaker for those kinds words. I appreciate the recognition, its hon inhour to be here. Lieutenant governor jones, speaker burns. President prokem kennedy, members of the General Assembly, constitutional officers, members of the Public Service commission, mayor dickens, members of the judiciary, members of the counselor core and my fellow georgians. Later this year the people fulfill civic duty. They will chose who occupy the seats of service and they will determine what course america takes in the years to come. As they have in years past, when they go to the ballot box, theyll see a stark difference between georgia and our nations capitol. Theyll see what weve achieved together at the state level to make georgia an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. And theyll see the hardshipships washington, d. C. Has brought in every home and placed in Kitchen Table across the stat