bill. bill: anyway. >> why do you keep brking it up to file the same process here. bill: anyway, thed did news is that looks like this is going to pass. >> no. the good news is -- the bad news is going to pass. the good news is anyone making less than $1 million they see money in february. >> making 0,000. leave it there. >> i mean, all right. >> commuting in and out of manhattan is a difficult chore at best. well, he is about to get a whole lot worse. looks like the l train is going to be shut down for 15 months. the mta has a plan sort of bannings about and cars from 14th street but it ising to be a long haul to get your commute back on track. allison gormly has the full story. allison, what do you got for us. reporter: the l tape closure starting in april 2019 has many new yorks concerned as to how they are going to get were a. the l train operates underneath the east river and runs between brooklyn and manhattan. the closure for 15 months and affect manhattan l train stops and we support with new york city department of transportation commissioner about the volume of

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the overall bill is so awful that doing these little things whether democrats are for or against them won't make the bill better. >> which bill are you talking about? >> this bill. the bill that passed the house, passed the senate and wherever they seem to be headed in the compromise bill. >> again, that's a negotiation. if the republicans in the house try to jam something through and slash programs for the middle class, you saw 44 democrats said we wouldn't vote for it. they ought to give that up right now. paul ryan is going to have to courage to tell the hard right they can't run the government. >> don't you think it was also a referendum on roy moore's conduct and the allegations against him? >> no one is saying -- there's seeds of each in the election. but it was not simply roy moore's conduct for a majority of republican voters sided with roy moore on that issue. there's a great disen content about the way donald trump has conducted his presidency and discontent about the policies the republicans are pursuing. and that was not just shown in alabama. the same thing was shown in virginia. virginia and alabama were similar

the overall bill is so awful that doing these things, whether democrats are for or against them will not make the bill better. this bill, the bill that has the house, senate and wherever they seem to be headed in the compromise bill. [inaudible] >> not the negotiation. the republicans in the house try to jam something through and slash programs for the middle class. you saw 44 democrats wouldn't vote. they had to give that up right now. brian has had the courage to sell the hard right. they cannot win the government. >> you framed it as a referendum did you think it is also a referendum -- [inaudible] >> look, there seeds of each in the election, but it was not simply where moore's conduct were the republican voters sided with roy moore on the issue. there is a great discontent about the way donald trump has conducted his presidency and there is a great deal of discontent about the policies the republicans are pursuing. and that was not shown in alabama. the same thing was shown in virginia. virginia and alabama were similar. but in each case, the democratic elect to read base, millennialist, suburbs came out in much h

bill. i expect the senate to move to conference with the house this week. i'm confident that the final bill will be an even better bill than the bill passed by either the house or senate, but i'm more -- more importantly, i'm confident that it will get us on track for real tax relief for working families and we'll have this bill on the president's desk by the end of this year. last week when the bill passed, i said it wasn't just about changing the trajectory of our economy. it's about changing the future we hand to our kids and our grandkids. i really think, mr. president, that's what this bill will do. lots of talk in washington about things that, frankly, will never turn out to be the facts that we're hearing. maybe they're the alternative facts. but one thing i think will happen is working families will see in one of their first paychecks next year that this tax bill, these tax cuts really affect them. whatever your paycheck is that reflects what you start getting paid on january 1 in virtually every case working families are going to have more take-home pay and those numbers are pretty big. a few weeks ago i was

bill. it was a bipartisan bill. and what the majority leader did not mention is the 1986 bill did not add a single cent o the deficit. it was it was paid for. mr. speaker, this bill is a much lesser product than it could have been. we on this side of the aisle, mr. speaker, think we need tax reform. we're prepared to support tax reform. we believe we need to bring down the corporate rate. we believe we need to make sure that small businesses can grow and prosper and grow into large businesses. what we don't believe in, mr. speaker, is simply having a bill that advantages the best off in our country and says that the advantages we give to the middle class will be phased out in a little bit, about five years. so, mr. speaker, we will, according to the majority leader, consider this bill next week. it will not be bipartisan. and that's a shame. it will not be positive for the country because it will put us even more deeply into debt. and the people will pay that bill -- who pay that bill ultimately will be our children. on both sides of the aisle, we don't have a lot of members on the floor, but i say to every member o

contributor in sunny austin, texas, good day to you. >> good day to you. >> bill: you have studied this bill to death. is it a good billperfect but i think it's a good bill in most respects a distinct improvement upon our current tax system particularly for people who will find it much easier to file their taxes and because of the doubling of the standard deduction and the nearly doubling of the child tax credit they will find that their circumstances are much better off. >> bill: very interesting. i think the ultimate arbiter is what the economy does will determine whether it's a good bill or not. have you given much thought. the blue states, new york, new jersey, connecticut, illinois, california will be paying more, a lot of people in those states will be paying more. have you considered the possibility of these local governments in these cities and states actually changing their tax policy when they start to see the pressure on behalf of those that live there? do you think that's real or imagined? >> i think it's real. look, for a long time people in these high-tax states, particularly wealthy people, were being su

bill. >> the bill that passed out of the house is most likely not going to be the bill that is put in frontthe president. >> so the president kept saying this is a great bill and it's a good bill but it's incomplete is what you're saying? >> no, i'm saying that the senate is part of the government. this is a bill that passed down to the house. you and i are about the same age, we remember "school house rock" when we were kids, i'm just a bill, yes, i'm only a bill, we're going to go through that process. >> stephen: yes, it's just like "school house rock." ( laughter ) so, here to comment live from the capitol steps, please welcome bill, the republican health care bill, everybody. ( cheers and applause ) bill, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me, stephen. >> stephen: now, bill let me just ask you something-- >> ♪ i'm just a bill, yes i'm only a bill. ♪ and i'm sitting here on capitol hill ♪ >> stephen: i understand. but-- >> that's my song. >> i know it's your song, bill. it's how you're known. but do you agree with mick mulvaney that you are not yet in your final form? >> tha

bill. that will continue over the next bill or two. dark,ou do a bill in the it gives a good opportunity for lobbyists to do their handiwork. the corporate loopholes are worse than ever and are in this bill. it is more complicated today than it was before they started. it is more aggressive today than when they started. it is more unfair today than when they started. rep. pelosi: by the way, these are tax expenditures. extending the taxpayer's money. and of course, they are not paid for. >> one of the consequences of the bill, they talked about the provisions here. that's something they want to do right away. i have not spoken to you about it. the government will open if they put that in there. sen. schumer: they have not shown as any plan as to how they would get it done. let's wait until they have a plan and come to us. let's wait until they come to us and see what their plan is for getting it done. >> do you think mcdonnell and collins -- sen. schumer: it is unclear what they said to one another, but one thing is clear. that leader mcconnell and all

bill. is that going to be a central part of the democrats' message? senator schumer: the president does very well under this bill. most of his cabinet does very well under this bill. large percentage of his contributors do very well under this bill. yes. the president is part of the top 1%. and the bill is aimed to help the top 1%. so the president's part and parcel to the problem. ms. pelosi: our focus in the campaign will be what this means to people and their individual lives. financial insecurity, financial instability is a major concern. apprehension for the american people. and we have to show them there is a better way. we have a better deal, better job, better way, better -- better pay, better future, and that's part of the debate that we will have. yes, they get all of that at the exploitation of the workers. and -- and on top of it all, which is really kind of very sad, is they try to represent that it's about the middle class. let me go back to mnuchin. i just think his statement is just so -- mnuchin, what we are talking about billionaires here. senator schumer: mnuchin seems to make it up as he goes along. ms. pelosi: g.o.p. won't cut taxes for the r

every morning, worried about paying the bills, making the mortgage payment, the tuition payment, the health care bill, they're not getting help they need in this bill. instead it is going to the wealthiest, biggest corporations on theory of trickle down which almost everyone except right-wing economists agrees has never made sense. any moral tax bill would focus on giving a leg up to middle-class americans, to working class americans. instead, this bill directs lion's share of its benefits to those at very top, already wealthy, the already powerful. it makes health care less affordable andaf less accessibl. it will deprive the government of resources needed to support the military, scientific research, education and infrastructure. the hole it blows in the deficit, will, make no mistake, endanger,, social security, medicare, medicaid. republicans including president trump openly admitted they will seek changes in this program after the tax bill. senator sanders has outlined eloquently how dangerous this bill is to the future of social security and medicare. and i know our republican colleagues came down to argue against t him, were all on defensive

bill. i hope that will be corrected in conference and the third and there's no dispute about this, the house bill or senate bill will add anywhere between one to make true-- $2 trillion to the deficit of this country and we should not be deficit financing a tax reform bill. let me first talk briefly about process. let's not repeat this mistakes we made. it was outrageous that late friday night we got a 500 page plus amendment t to the bill and tried to read it and could not even read the handwritten changes put in the margins and then we were asked to vote later that evening. that's process is not fitting the u.s. senate's and is not sitting a democratic process in which we have an opportunity to read, understand and the public has opportunity for inputs before we attempt to modified it and change dramatically the tax code of this country, so i hope the conference committee has a " process that there will be opportunitiess for input and tht we all understand what's being done. secondly, it's critically important that this bill be corrected so that it really does help middle income families. of this bill doesn't

bill: historic tax cuts are coming your way. that is right. the bill headed to president trump's desk. local politicians; however, are reacting especially injection m real estate taxes are threw the roof. we are being assaulted by washington by this tax bill. bill: we'll have the full story and the local reaxe, that and a long island teenager killed when a log he and other members of the high school football team were caring hit him in the head. >> osh where stop. no lob en football. bill: the parents are suing the school for $15 million. and charges against four teenagers in hoboken after surveillance video catches them pushing a young girl ina bathroom. story is one you don't want to miss. i am bill spadea. this is "chasing news." historic tax cuts are coming your way. the house and the senate in washington passed a tax reform bill that finally changes the tax code after more than 30 years. it is headed to president trump's desk, now how many politician in our area, not happy and they are scrambling to help constituents decide how they are going to handle the changes in the tax law. some are saying, please pay the 2016 real estate taxes. others are saying is time for new jersey to finally allow people to deduct all of the real estate ta

bill: that hurts in the sense of decision making. >> tom: just changed it. it's his fourth personal foul. now brunson to the free-throw line. >> bill: 74%. in >> tom: 27 points for brunson. >> bill: wow. >> bill: you've got to think clock a little bit. >> tom: if you're butler the same think clock. realize that you can chew it up a little bit. >> bill: great shot. great open look. he flashed and presented himself. kelan martin. he and baldwin have put this team on their shoulders. >> tom: 22 points for martin. foil called as brunson goes up on wideman. -- foul called as brunson goes up on wideman. >> bill: addition to the talent of jalen brunson. >> tom: now brunbe son will go back to the free-throw line and these are huge shots. it will be a two-shot foul. >> bill: he's been on the floor a lot tonight. >> tom: all those years playing, it's still anguish when you watch your child play and he misses the first one. >> bill: i think it's attributable to fatigue to be ho w rest him as best they could. be fresh, knock this one down get your defense set. >> tom: second one is good. used his legs a little more in that second one. >> bill: straight-up man. this worked before. a little t

bill like this. the bank bill passes the house. the bank bill passes the senate. the bank bill arrives on the president's desk. veto. jackson stuns the world. and vetoes the bill. unleashing a veto message in which he rails against that bank of the united states. reprinted in newspapers all across the country. now we have an election. just a few months away from the election and again this question of the bank is on everybody's mind. it's the number one issue everyone is talking about it. here's another cartoon. look at that. got to love that cartoon. pro-jackson cartoon. remember the hydra, that hydra of corruption, jackson going up against that financial beast. and well jackson, it's a hard campaign for jackson. nicolas biddle flexes his muscle. nicolas biddle, on behalf of the bank, gives henry clay a $50,000 campaign donation. quite a lot of money for those days. not only that, but the bank, for years already, has been funding and loaning money to newspapers all across the country. and that press, that press, all of a sudden in a couple months before the electi

and senate bills would be 73,000 under the house bill and 59,000 under the senate bill, 73,000 under the house and 59,000 under the senate bill? >> um. i'm told you're correct. >> gentleman's time is expired. >> it gives lie -- >> your time is expired. >> thank you. mr. barthold when you attended the markup of hr 1 in the house before the ways and means committee, did you recall whether the minority offered any amendments that you would characterize as comprehensive? in other words, big, bold, overwhelming comprehensive approach? were you asked to opine on anything of that magnitude? >> mr. rosscam, i shouldn't characterize member amendments >> let me ask it this way, do you recall -- this is fun. it's like deposition days. you recall being there that day, don't you, mr. barthold? [laughter] >> i think that there were a number of amendments that were offered by our friends on the side of the aisle. the overwhelming majority of those, i'm not sure if everyone was but if there were a dozen, let's say, the lion's share of them were a restoration of what, the status quo? it

, most people have not had a chance to readxd the bill and i'm talking about lawmakers.xd >> you have two bills. there's a house billsenate bill. these have been in the works for, fjpt(r', more than five years.4jsñ-the camp bill which these ideas come out of us put forward in thexd house and went through the committee procezc!a couple years ago, this is another it 2@;rjz of that. the idea this is rushed through or secret is people that don't choose to look at it -- >> a lot ofxd bills have parts other bils, it doesn't make it the same bill. let's just be honest pcuú this bill is a new bille1 from both e congress and the senate and from this administration. just as this is a new administration. this isn't a bill that came from this ó01administration.q you're talking about the camp bill. that's from a timexdc gone e1by. >> okay. that's -- camp is two years ago, okay, three years now. this was the republican congress. thee1 republicans had the congrs and the senate for quite some t.u and they've been working on these issues. and i work with them on it, so it's not a surprise to me because i pay attention to what the

bill repeals it. the senate bill expands it. and the house bill makes the individual tax cuts permanent. bill would allow the tax cuts to expire in seven years. >> why not make it so you can say everybody in the middle class will get a tax cut that's permanent? >> it's impossible to do that. you can't craft any bill that would gaurn guarantee no one was in a special category that might get a tax increase. >> reporter: graduate students marching this week over the house bill's provision to repeal deductions for student loan interest rates. >> it will make graduate accessibility inaccessibility to those other than in the upper class. >> reporter: how much will it cost? many republicans are arguing it will pay for itself by promoting economic growth. but some say the senate bill would add $1 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. stephanie ramos, abc news, capitol hill. >>> president trump makes a quick trip to utah today. he's expected to sign an executive order shrinking two national monuments. it's a move requested by state lead he is -- leaders, recommended by the interior secret

bill. the bill was approved in october in our committee with a strong bipartisan vote. i would point out that a majority of the democrats on our committee voted in favor of the bill hr-3312 was introduced by mr. lukemeyer. the bill reforms what many now agree was a flawed and arbitrary framework, used by regulators in the dodd/frank act to designate systemically important financial institutions, known by their acronyms. it's important to remember that designation anoint the institutions as too big to fail. the current designation subjects any bank with 50 billion or more in assets to the same costly and cumbersome standards as trillion dollar globally systemically important institutions. mr. lukemeyer's bipartisan bill again supported by a majority of democrats in our committee, replaces this inflexible $50 billion threshold, with a series of well established standards that more accurately measure systemic importance. more specifically, this legislation requires the federal reserve to review a financial institutions size. it's interconnectedness, and it's complexity, before determining wraej that insti tusz should be subject to heightened sify regulated -- regulatory sta

bill: that hurts in the sense of decision making. >> tom: just changed it. it's his fourth personal foul. now brunson to the free-throw line. >> bill: 74%. in >> tom: 27 points for brunson. >> bill: wow. >> bill: you've got to think clock a little bit. >> tom: if you're butler the same thing. think clock. realize that you can chew it up a little bit. >> bill: great shot. great open look. he flashed and presented himself. kelan martin. he and baldwin have put this team on their shoulders. >> tom: 22 points for martin. foil called as brunson goes up on wideman. -- foul called as brunson goes up on wideman. >> bill: addition to the talent of jalen brunson. >> tom: now brunbe son will go back to the free-throw line and these are huge shots. it will be a two-shot foul. >> bill: he's been on the floor a lot tonight. >> tom: all those years playing, it's still anguish when you watch your child play and he misses the first one. >> bill: i think it's attributable to fatigue to be honest with you, they tried to rest him as best they could. be fresh, knock this one down get your defense set. >> tom: second one is good. used his legs a little more in that second one. >> bill: straight-up ma

bill. it is a historic bill. it is a bill that everybody in this chamber will benefit from regardless of whether you vote for it or vote against it. so when the time comes this afternoon to vote yes or no, i'm voting yes for america. i'm voting yes for america's future. i'm voting yes for every working american who's paying taxes today. let's put more money back in their pockets. let's double the rate of growth for the economy. let's put more americans at work. let's show some faith in the american people. vote yes. with that i'd yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for two minutes. mr. speaker, the biggest economic challenge of our time is that too many people are in jobs that do not pay the ms. slaughter: i yield two enough to live on. wages are not keeping up with rising costs. too many families struggle today to make ends meet. some have t

bill. it was a bipartisan bill. and what the majority leader did not mention is the 1986 bill did not add a single cent o the deficit. it was it was paid for. mr. speaker, this bill is a much lesser product than it could have been. we on this side of the aisle, mr. speaker, think we need tax reform. we're prepared to support tax reform. we believe we need to bring down the corporate rate. we believe we need to make sure that small businesses can grow and prosper and grow into large businesses. what we don't believe in, mr. speaker, is simply having a bill that advantages the best off in our country and says that the advantages we give to the middle class will be phased out in a little bit, about five years. so, mr. speaker, we will, according to the majority leader, consider this bill next week. it will not be bipartisan. and that's a shame. it will not be positive for the country because it will put us even more deeply into debt. and the people will pay that bill -- who pay that bill ultimately will be our children. on both sides of the aisle, we don't have a lot of members on the floor, but i say to every member o

bill: we showed you the calendar last hour, right? >> sandra: you're watching that closely, bill. >> bill: not much time left. >> sandra: nine days. >> : another big event we're watching now a joint news conference by the justice department and homeland security as the suspect in the attempted terror attack in new york city has been charged two hours ago. we'll talk to new york congressman peter king about where that goes next. >> as we crush the caliphate and defeat isis in iraq and syria, it reminds us, though, that they have ballooned elsewhere. we have to get a handle on who is coming into this country so we don't have threats like what happened this morning in new york. i love you, basement guest bathroom. your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. i love you, but sometimes you stink. febreze air effects doesn't just mask, it cleans away odors. because the things you love the most can stink. and try febreze small spaces to clean away odors for up to 30 days. breathe happy with febreze. >> bill: waiting on a couple things now. fox news alert awaiting the news conference with attorney general jeff sessions and the bra

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bill. i just got the tax bill 25 minutes ago. this is the tax bill. see how thick it is? here's the modifications that are in it. i can read one word. it's called add this language. can you tell me what that word is? if you can, you have better eyes than me. >> do you know the answer to that? senator, do you know who wrote that addition to the bill? >> look, the democrat -- if the democrats were going to disqualify senators from voting on a bill that had some minor insertions, none of them would have been able to vote on the bill. this is fairly often the case. there's no hide the ball here. this san open process. the vast majority of the bill is online for two weeks. there are always in big bills like this some last-minute adjustments. some of them done by hand. >> there were no hearings on the bill. >> there were tons of hearings. over and over and over. the democrats went to them. they had the ability to offer amendments. in committee. an opportunity to offer amendments on the floor. for example, they were complaining about our repealing the individual mandate in obamac

after the senate passes this bill, the senate bill and house bill that are different will have to be into yet, a third bill that both houses -- both the house and senate will then have to pass in identical form. every word has to be the same in those two bills, what would be the real final bpassage before t can be signed into law. as usual. when legislating, the senators who are actually voting for the bill do not know what they are voting for. >> page 257 out of the 479. why did i pick this page? they didn't have time to type it. they wrote it out in long hand. i defy anybody to read it because the problem is when they copied it, they chopped offli s off lines. there aren't full sentences. these are parts of words. this is the united states senate at work. this is what happens when you push through a bill late at night desperate to pass it without really stopping to ask yourself will this make us a stronger nation? >> joining us now a congre congressional scholar one nation after trump. no one watched more of this legislation than you have and when i was writing tax legislation at t

bill versus the house bill. our viewers want to understand better how the final bill might look different from what you guys just passed in the senate. talk to us about the differences and how you see this bill looking differently once it gets to the president's desk? >> senator: well you know, to some degree maria, we passed that rubicon and in many ways over the last week the senate bill began to move toward the house bill which is a good thing in fact some people were saying maybe the house could go ahead and vote on the senate bill. we're not asking for that yet but it got so close that i think that's a possibility. look this committee, this group going to get together and rationalize whatever minor differences are there will do very quick work this week so i don't anticipate many changes. we moved in the salt area the state and local tax that we gave relief to some of the high cost states but also, i believe that we have taken out a lot of the differences so i think will move very quickly. >> maria: is there room to lower rates for some taxpayers here if you make a difference on salt, the state and local ta

bills. look, again, typically the financial services committee did not hold a hearing on either of these bills. it's a closed bill. h.r. 2396, the privacy notification technical , sharing on act information with third parties and, look, we're all for reducing unnecessary regulations. when i get to the next bill, the republicans are actually trying to add paperwork and regulations, but this one does. but it picks a very to get rid of one. it gets rid of privacy notices from financial institutions that tell consumers that they can share or sell your personal information. of all the places to cut paperwork, why would you want to cut the one piece that consumers and retailers actually care about? back in september, 143 million americans had their personal and sensitive information shared widely as a result of a data breach at equifax. congress should be looking at ways to better secure our sensitive information, a cybersecurity bill, better information sharing. instead, of actually making it easier for our personal information to be shared more widely and giving you as a consumer less ability to find out where it's b

we could go back through history and talk about this bill begets that bill and that bill bebegets this. but this bill is new bill from both the congress and the senate and from this administration. just as this is new administration. this isn't a bill that came from this administration. you're talking about the camp bill, that's from a time gone by. >> okay, camp, it's two years ago, okay? and now, this is the republican congress. republicans had the congress and the senate for quite some time, and they've been working on these issues, and i worked with them on it. so it's not a surprise to me because i pay attention to what they've been focused on. the idea we have a 35% business corporate tax and the europeans are down in the 20s, socialist china is at 25, we're at 35, even obama thought this was a problem and talked about promising to bring that rate from 35 on down. he docked about 28%. he didn't think that was a give away to anybody. it strikes me as an odd understanding of who owns your life. when you walk down a street and mugger passes you by, he didn't give you your wallet. >>

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bill. bill, welcome. thanks. >> i got to ask you. were you sentenced to ten day last year for protesting the bear hunt. you are going to report to jail later in january. this year. to serve a 15-day sentence. what did you get charged with. >> i stepped over the line in the area. >> let me ask you this. >> let me ask you this. why are you opposed to it? >> we had the student that was killed a couple of years ago. you got bears that rummage through the trash, that they threatened pets, et cetera, why opposed to the bears? >> well, a student that was killed in the circumstances that was the only fatal bear attack in recorded history in nothing. bear attacks are extremely rare in the last 17 years. don't you think that is as far as they harvest hundreds of bears daring the hunt. maybe this whole bear population is working. >> well, well since the early 1900's. the numbers have been small. we killed hundreds of thousands of bears. they have families. they have individual personalities. they are nurturing. they want to live like we want to live. bill: let me ask you, professor, if they serve you bear chili, would you go on hunger strike? >> that is a good idea. bill: all right. professor, thank you. appreciate your time. good luck. hopefully, you will get time off for good behavior this year as well. >> thanks very much. >> all right. for good behavior this year as well. >> thanks very much. >> all right. let's bring back the a plus panel. top culture expert and former prosecutor. let's start with you. >> you know, obviously, you know, saying he is crossing over this line. what do you think? >> well, all right, listen. there's lawyers that have to be enforced to put this elderly gentlemen in jail for 15 days because he crossed over a line and didn't create any hazards to anyone and didn't do anything, i think it is too much punishment. so while i agree with the cops that made the arrests because you have to maintain o foer. it is a question of how you are to go about punishing the gentlemen. >> you are a professor. what do you thi

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