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." ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," maya macguineas.resident of the committee for a responsible federal budget. she talks about the federal budget process and what to expect from the new congress and administration. brian: maya macguineas, the president of the committee for a responsible federal budget. maya: i thought you were going to make fun of the name. happens regularly. this is in organization that has been around for decades. i think the most distinctive feature about it, think of it as very bipartisan. our board of directors are people who have been in this town in washington and they have run all of the budget organizations. our cochairs are governor mitch daniels, now the president of purdue, kim penny, leon panetta, democrat, republican, independent. this has been the head of the treasury department, the opposite of management and -- the house of the senate budget committee. recently, it is a fiscal watchdog group with bipartisan leadership that has been involved in these issues. to know what it is like you have to legislate

with maya macguineas. this past week at the british house of commons, prime minister theresa may defended the government's handling of the u.k. health care service, known as nhs.

with maya macguineas. this past week at the british house of commons, prime minister theresa may defended the government's handling of the u.k. health care service, known as nhs. the prime minister also responded to demands for a formal report on how the u.k. plans to exit the european union. this is 40 minutes. order. questions to the prime minister. >> number one, mr. speaker. morning, i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and i shall have further such meetings later today. >> a very happy new year to you mr. speaker, and i would like to extend that everyone in this house. it has been over six months since the european referendum and embarrassingly for the prime minister, this got government is the only administration on these islands have published a plan on what to do next. has the prime minister read it yet? has the prime minister read it yet? when will she be publishing her own plan? i will join the honorable gentleman in wishing everybody a very happy new year. and can i say to him that as i sa

maya macguineas. thank you. >> thank you. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about the program, visit us at q and a.org. they are also available at cspan podcasts. >> we found that public officials, people who really govern this country, that it's not congress, it's not the president. it's bureaucrats. write the bills and regulations that have the force of one and we found out that they don't think much of ordinary americans. >> sunday night on q and a, benjamin ginsburg, professor of political science and chair of studies an johns hopkins university, talks about his book, washington gets wrong. the unelected officials who actually run the government and their misconceptions about the american people. >> what do we learn? we learn we elect a congress that makes the law. the president executes the law. the courts review the laws. that ain't exactly how the system works. much of what we think of as the law consists of rules and regulations written by bureaucratic agencies. by bureaucrats who are not elected by any