go ahead and tragic the cato institute spent the cato institute for our entire existence. we've never been the charles koch foundation or institute. charles koch was one of our founders so obviously there is a connection there, he's a member, he was a member of our board is a member of our board but that's not an accurate description of our history. in terms of the issues of dependency on employer, they are not endangered. they can change jobs. about half of all the workers who are starting a new job, and implement in the united states were people who transferred from another h-1b employer. so you can transfer. it is more difficult and that is an issue that i completely agree with. that's why we need to speed up the process for people to get green cards. people don't mind that they are thankful for their employer who sponsored them. they don't want to be stuck with him forever and have their career put on hold indefinitely. so yes, we should speed up the process for them to get green cards and make sure they're on an equal playing field with u.s. workers. >> host: speaking

cato's director of health policy studies. second, travis fisher. i will do all the introductions to get those out of the way. second is travis fisher. cato's director of energy and environmental studies. third eric gomez. research focuses on u.s. military budget enforced posture as well as control and forth will be chris edwards who occupies the family chair in physical studies at cato and is the editor of downsizing government.com. lastly, and lisa lee, in addition to monitoring this panel, i will speak for a few more minutes on some that should be amended and revoked and higher-level reforms to executive orders and executive powers generally. then we will have a conversation on the panel before opening up to questions from the audience and from online. without further ado, michael, please take it away. >> thank you, alex. congress has passed so many laws , regulating some the aspects of our lives that it cannot possibly make all the resulting decisions itself. it relies on executive agencies to make these decisions which means it is advocating th

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but as far as research nonprofits at the cato institute we are exempt from the cap so the cato institutell other research nonprofits can hire through the h-1b program if they have a position that needs qualifications for the h-1b visa. so i personally and competing with anyone who qualifies for an h-1b visa for my job. >> richard is in broken arrow, oklahoma on our line for republicans. good morning richard. >> this may not be perfectly organized but i will try anyway. i'm a longtime engineer also, more of a chemical engineer. and 1976 i was the first of my family to go to college and went and got a degree in chemical engineering and was able to pursue a career in that field. fast forward to today, i am still teaching a two-year program and the process operators and every so often i run into kids who really ought to be an engineer because his math skills are better. my whole point is first year first-time college goers often times it's hard to get scholarships, it's hard to get a lot of things. it's hard to pay for the increased cost of college whereas a lot of these folks from foreign c

but as far as research nonprofits at the cato institute we are exempt from the cap so the cato institutell other research nonprofits can hire through the h-1b program if they have a position that needs qualifications for the h-1b visa. so i personally and competing with anyone who qualifies for an h-1b visa for my job. >> richard is in broken arrow, oklahoma on our line for republicans. good morning richard. >> this may not be perfectly organized but i will try anyway. i'm a longtime engineer also, more of a chemical engineer. and 1976 i was the first of my family to go to college and went and got a degree in chemical engineering and was able to pursue a career in that field. fast forward to today, i am still teaching a two-year program and the process operators and every so often i run into kids who really ought to be an engineer because his math skills are better. my whole point is first year first-time college goers often times it's hard to get scholarships, it's hard to get a lot of things. it's hard to pay for the increased cost of college whereas a lot of these folks from foreign c

jennifer huddleston, senior fellow at the cato institute, thank you.oming up, competition with tesla. that's next. this is "bloomberg technology." ♪ mike: the weynoc.e.o. plans to extend testing of autonomous driving this year. she sat down with bloomberg's ed ludlow last week, where she claimed that competition with tesla is a good thing. that's because safe driving is a big goal that will take more than one company to meet it. take a listen. >> we welcome competition in this space. making the road safer is an important mission and it's too big for one company. that's a great thing. as far as a national framework, that would be great. it's just that that framework should require people to demonstrate their safety record. ed: do you have faith that elon musk if he were to influence that process would do it in a way that is fair to companies pursuing the same goal as his? >> i am not going to talk either about my faith or elon musk in that context. i have a lot of faith, though. i do have a lot of faith as a person, as a human, in humanity. no, i mean i

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featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: hey, my friends! you're very kind, you lovely people. nice to see you all. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. if you watch regularly, then you know that here at "the late show," we have a self-imposed ill-conceived mandate to every night talk about what people are talking about. the thing is, that was before trump won reelection. after he won reelection what people are talking about is that they don't want to talk about what everybody's talking about. in fact, and this is true, a new poll says that two-thirds of u.s. adults are tuning out political news, which is just more proof that our politics is... something. i don't know what. i've been tuning it out. democrats are particularly tuned out, which could be why after election night, primetime viewership of msnbc is down 54%. listen up, msnbc, you gotta do whatever it takes to get th

featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, you know wh what? thank you, my friends. please, please have a seat. welcome. welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. it's nice to hear, it's good to be back. i missed everybody. today's january 6th which of course is the feast of the epiphany when the three wise men, say it with me, balthazar, gaspar, and melchior, followed a star to bethlehem, then stormed the manger and stole mary's podium. what else? what else? oh, yeah, today, donald trump's electoral victory was certified by congress. [booing] yes, i used to feel things too. and the striking thing about this time was how normal it was again. there was no riot. no one broke a window with their beard. [laughter] in fact, the whole process took only 30 minutes. yeah, democracy shouldn't take longer than it takes rachel ray to make a meal. peaceful transfer of power? yummo. now, if you had c

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. >> now by the immigration studies director at the cato institute. welcome to washington journal.hank you so much for joining us. before we get into our conversation, a caller was asking about the social security fairness act and i wanted to follow-up we had said that would be assigned tomorrow. it actually looks like the act will be signed later today at about 4:00 eastern. we will be covering that live on c-span. so just following up from previous points in the previous hour. the are here with you to talk about immigration and in particular h-1b visas. would you been in the news quite a bit because some dispute in the republican party. what is an h-1b visa. guest: it is a guestworker visa, a temporary allowing skilled will former -- skilled workers in the united states temporarily. it's initially valid for three years, to be renewed once but if you're sponsored for a green card or permanent residence status in the united states you can extend it indefinitely until you are able to obtain a green card through the green card process. that is really the main gateway for skilled fore

and we use this to illustrate the moment a neuberg where he talks officers down and the scene from catoilarly ending a mutiny and his own roman troops and we wanted to do this in front of an audience of descendants of revolutionary officers, so this was the perfect place. it's also the perfect place tonight because john trumbel was a member of the society of the connecticut chapter. he wanted to be a painter since he was a child. he grew up in lebanon, connecticut, northwest connecticut. he was the youngest of six children, four boys, two girls. his sisters were sent to an instructoress of young ladies in boston and there they were taught to paint and to embroider. if you read jane austin you know that emma woodhouse paints and lady catherine scandalized that elizabeth bennett does not paint, but the trumbel sisters learned to paint and border and their works were huck over the mantle of the parlor of the family house. john remembered as a boy, lying on the floor and drawing, copying them on the floor, the nicely sanded floor. what his mother thought of this, i don't know. she probably

we are joined by david, the director at the cato institute. thank you for joining us. i to follow up, the social security fairness act about 4:00 eastern but we are seeing live on c-span but we are here with you to talk about. >> a guestworker visa, temporary status that allows skilled workers in the united states and we have once united states you can extend definitely until you're able to obtain a green card and that is the main gateway for skilled workers opened the door in the u.s. labor market and start their career. >> how does somebody qualify and how long does the process take? >> the qualifications and specialty field you have to be a for your occupation and level and the employer has to pay 50000 in legal fees to the government or the application on your half. if you look at it, 85000 visas made00 available, for-profit companies and they have to enter a lottery exceeding the 85000 number n so much so 40% of the applicantspl received visa throh the lottery. >> and they were qualified in the process. what kind of industries rely on this programun? >> look at th

and we did a scene washington's favorite play cato and. we use this to illustrate the moment at newburgh. when he talks his officers from a mutiny on. the scene in the play shows cato similarly ending a mutiny and his own roman troops. and we wanted to do this in front of an audience of descendants of revolution officers. so this was the place. it's also the perfect place tonight. john trumbull was a member of the society from the connecticut chapter. he wanted to be a painter since he was a child. he grew up in lebanon, connecticut, north connecticut. he was the of six children, four boys, two girls. his sisters were sent to an instructor of young ladies in boston and. there they were taught to paint and embroider. and if you read jane austen, you know that emma woodhouse paints and lady de timberg is scandalized. elizabeth bennet does not paint, but the trumbull sisters learned to paint and embroider and. their works were hung over the mantel in the parlor of the family house. and john remembered as a boy lying on the floor and drawing,

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and what they failed to disclose was that their chairman at the time of writing that critique in catoolders in bytedance, which is tiktok's parent company. >> that's interesting. thank you very much for joining us. i know it's you know, we've got a few days left. january 19th is the last day that tiktok is allowed to operate under the current control. they have to sell it by january 19th. the supreme court should rule any moment, and i will just tell our viewers quickly, the fbi director, christopher wray, said on 60 minutes this weekend that you should be really concerned about china's how deep china has gone into our infrastructure. they can get control of our of our water, our power, not to mention all of the ways that they've been able to surveil us on our phone lines. so you take that, you take the power grid issues, the systems issues, and then you take tiktok. and, you know, you have to understand why congress might see this as a security threat. that's going to do it for me today. deadline. white for me today. deadline. white house sta hi. i use febreze fade defy plug. and i u

they certainly don't have a heritage and a cato and a goldwater and an all these, you know, just badger institute buckeye institute. i can about ten of them and they're all the same group really. we have voters and voters really have rejected these things and time again. and that's where i think i would start with answer to that question about what's next. i'm glad you brought up voting. have something really big coming up in arizona here on fifth here, we're like the number one battleground in the entire country. can i just get a hands up of who's knock doors or called voters this cycle. yeah so we're with the right people to talk about this. i'm glad you talked about primaries and elections and the money that's flowing in because efc first started that here. they bought the legislature they needed in 2016 in order to pass universal the first time right. and who collected signatures in 2017 in order to put vouchers the ballot in 2018. a lot of us were here we were right out in front of the store collecting signatures. thanks, bob. thanks gail and you know, a few years later, they came

your colleagues are eyeing cuts of the federal food program staff that would save $22 billion the catoreforming staff can save up to 190 billion over the next ten years the new york democrat tom suozzi told fox he's open to working with republicans on the trump agenda. watch this. >> in my district president trump on by 19000 votes. i won by 11000 which means 20000 people had devoted for donald trump and tom suozzi together, they want us to work i don't think it was a mandate for one-party rule but it's a mandate to address the border and adjust the economy and address inflation. this could be a big fight in the republican party over the tax bill, the only thing were to get something done my way or the highway in the get it done or we work together across party lines find common ground. maria: you want to feel like you're working together then you hear what were hearing from chuck schumer he wanted to trade the confirmation hearing this morning in the coming weeks into a circus. >> is falling on deaf ears the idea that republicans dominated in the last election cycle. i get it we have

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and we'll hear from a senior fellow from the cato institute, center for constitutional studies and writes widely on constitutional law and constitutional culture and always nice to welcome my friend walter back to aei where he was professional a researchers and editor. and the aforementioned james phillips who naomi will hold responsible for the success or failure today, he's an aassociate professor for byu and the wheatley center constitutional government initiative and professional practiced constitutional law with the beckett fund. so, again, thanks to all of you for joining us and elizabeth, why don't you go first. >> all right. thank you to naomi for the invitation and to abby and all the staff of the aei for their hospitality and hosting us here and online. so, naomi sort of deftly lays out of thought provoking angle of with the strange bed fellows, together relying to resist governmental intrusion into the family. in my brief remarks i just want to make two points briefly. first, that the legal landscape of parental rights and the counter intuitive ideological perspectives brought

the cato institute on the visa program, foreign workers and their impact on the economy. join the conversation sunday morning. >> president carter will lie in state at the u.s. capitol throughout wednesday. 9:30 a.m. eastern thursday, president carter will be taken to washington national cathedral for funeral services. later in the day, the former president will travel south to be buried at the carter family home in georgia. we will show these on the c-span networks, www.c-span.org and c-span now. >> c-span, your unfiltered view of government, funded by these tv companies and more, including comcast. >> you think this is just a community center? it is way more than that. >> comcast is creating wi-fi enabled community centers so students can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. >> comcast supports c-span as a public service, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> the total number of votes cast is 434 of which the honorable mike johnson of louisiana received 218. host: this is washington journal for saturday, january 4. on the house for yesterday represen

it is hosted by the cato institute. president trump will be inaugurated in just 11 days. upon taking office he will have enormous powers inherited from his predecessors to impact various aspects of american public policy. nowhere is the increase in power more apparent than in the proliferation of executive orders and proclamations and memoranda and executive agreements and edicts with the force of law. article one of the constitution vests congress with the power to legislate within the confines of its enumerated powers. article two vests the president with executive power which encompasses the duty to take care the laws be faithfully executed and the president's status as the commander in chief of the armed forces which are more general powers than those granted to congress. however, successive congresses have gradually delegated much of their power to the president or stood idly by as presidents have usurped more power that is legislative in nature and effect. former president bill clinton's advisor summed up the power of modern executive orders best when he said "strok