dane kennedy, director of the national history center, the sponsor of this briefing.it is part of an ongoing series at the national history center designed to bring historical perspectives to issues that are relevant to congress and the political process in general. center,national history

dane kennedy, director of the national history center, the sponsor of this briefing. it is part of an ongoing series at the national history center designed to bring historical perspectives to issues that are relevant to congress and the political process in general. center,national history let me briefly explain the ational history center, is nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that is affiliated with the american historical association. intendedngs are not to advocate for any particular set of policies but, rather, to provide historical context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with a difficult -- difficult issues. and i want to thank in particular the mellon foundation for funding this series. at the backa perry of the room, the assistant director, who has done all of the leg work organizational efforts to make this possible. flurry of the recent executive orders that have come from our new president, we thought this might be an opportune time to reflect upon the historical background of this phenomena of executive orders that i think ma

. >> dane kennedy. my impression of your talk is that your discussion of this postwar boom and returning to an ordinary economy is focused on the western industrial, postindustrial countries. you mentioned very briefly a couple of outliers, one of them was korea and another was new new zealand, and a real outlier, malta. my question is, what did the examples, first of all, what were known as the asian tigers , and obviously china and india with the extraordinary growth rates they have had in the last decade or so, what does that tell us about the nature of an ordinary economy and perhaps how it is shifting and why? mr. levinson: that is a great question. i think it strengthens the thesis of the book because what the experience of the developing countries have been is that they go through a period of rapid growth and then they come down to earth. so japan had its period of rapid growth in the 1960's, and even into the 1970's, and now it is hardly growing at all. 1% a year when the a great economic growth

kennedy votes aye. mr. car dane as votes aye. mr. ruiz votes aye. mr. peters votes aye. ms. dingell votes aye. chairman walden votes no. >> are there other members wishing to be recorded? the gentlelady from tennessee. is she recorded? >> ms. blackburn votes no. >> the gentleman from pennsylvania. >> no. votes no. >> the gentleman from louisiana. >> mr. sca lease votes no. >> the gentlelady from the great state of washington. anybody else on our side not recorded? turning to this side anybody over here not recorded? we have everybody. so the clerk will report the tally. >> mr. chairman, on that vote there were 23 ayes and 31 nos. >> 23 ayes, 31 no's. the amendment is not agreed to. are there other amendments? are there other members seeking recognition? the chair recognizes the gentlelady from florida for what purpose? >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. >> can you describe that amendment? >> on age rating. >> do you have a number or reference? i think you have a cheat sheet there. >> i might. yes, i do. >> or do you have a copy of it? >> yes, i do. >> just hel

joe kennedy is from mt massachusetts and dane ma milbank from the "washington post."s not just the trump people, trump, himself, are hoping obamacare dies somehow fiscally over the next couple years, they're doing what they can to make sure it does. >> nothing short of sabotage. think about it, right before the deadline for signups, they pauled the ads on tv and online. signed an executive order basically saying we're not going to forenforce that individual mandate, giving people no reason to sign up, constantly talk about repeal, how this thing is going to be done which makes the insurers bail out of the market. that's why the premiums have gone up. they basically created this disaster and said, look, obamacare failed. >> congressman, i don't hear anybody saying how great this republican plan is. i know there's a mixed -- you as a -- i know how congresspeople operate. you've got constituents constantly telling you if something's wrong with obamacare. what kind of condition would you say obamacare is in right now? is it in critical condition? is it in normal condition