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and a front page top story an apology to justin amash is owed by the national journal. that's the least they can do. and since we are part of the government here in congress, it's important to note when things go well and it's important to note when things don't go well. and when there are problems. so a major story yesterday afternoon, the daily caller reports health and human services official resigns, pens a must-read review of federal bureaucracy. article posted by carolyn may. nd original publication in news.sciencemag.org by jocelyn keyser. this story from daily caller reports the health and human services official resigned after being -- dealing with the frustration of the quote profoundly dysfunctional, unquote, federal bureaucracy which left him, quote, offended as an american taxpayer, unquote. in a resignation letter obtained by science insider, david wright, director of the office o.r.i., integrity, which oversees and monitors possible research misconduct offers a scathing rebuke of the unwieldy and inefishen bureaucracy that he dealt with for the -- ineffic

let me invite to the stage nancy cook was the policy correspondent for the national journal. [applause] thanks so much for sticking around. i feel like these public appearances you make are somewhat rare. the cbo has been under a lot of fire. i think we'll have a lot to talk about. >> i'm glad to be here and to have you here. >> this whole event is about the economy. i wanted to start off with a broad question. five years since the start of the recession, are you surprised they where we are at this point in the economic recovery? >> yes. we have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. the people who were more ripe are the one to look at more carefully the experience of other countries and earlier point of the u.s. experience. crises of housing and the financial system. ofy found that these sorts recoveries are very prolonged. in retrospect we put too much weight on not just the postwar experience. we understand this is a different sort of event. is a rapid monetary policy response. that would be enough to fit the economy fairly not in a v-shaped reco

host: joining us this morning, nancy cook, and economic reporter for "national journal." tell us what this report means. an ok report. it was better than we had seen in the last few months. the average hourly wage has gone up. there were some great jobs added in professional business services. the bottom line is that if you don't have a job, you are still really at a disadvantage. the economic recovery is still really slow. there are 3.8 million people who have been unemployed for six months or more. there are still a really high --mployment rate among teams among teens and african-americans. if you're doing ok, you're still doing ok. there are a lot of people being left behind, but that is what the job support continues to show. there are close to 4 million people who basically have been out of work for six months or more. that means skills deteriorate heard it is a lot harder for people to reenter the workforce after that. it means that economically it has a huge impact as it means is people are not working, they are not paying taxes as high as he normally would. it als

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. >> joining our conversation is brendan sasso who is a technology correspondent for "national journal." >> thanks. congressman, you're mentioning how the fcc's rules were based on section 706 of the telecommunications act. that says the agency has the power to promote broadband. the law was passed in 1996 when you were in congress. >> on the conference committee. >> when congress wrote the provision, did you see it as empowering fcc to adopt internet regulations? >> there was not an internet as we know it today when we passed the telco act in 1996. the big fight was between legacy phone service and what we call the wireless market. there were fights in between the broadcasters and the cable companies. there was not any fight over the internet because in spite of what vice president gore said there was not an internet as we know it today. there was not any debate about the concept of net neutrality or anything like that. we have an internet that is working today. it has provided probably billions of people access to information around the world. not just here in the united states, but

lisa mascaro who covers the tribune newspapers and fawn johnson, a correspondent with "national journal." >> let's start with the minimum wage increase. this is a big deal for the democrats. expected to be a big deal in the campaign. right from the beginning, you have drawn a hard-line, thank you do not want to negotiate the rate that you have proposed over three years, $10.10 per hour. can you tell us why? >> it is not just a big deal for democrats. it is a big deal for millions of people. 80% of the people we are talking about that will get a raise our adults. 54% are parents of kids. over half of them bring at least half the family income.

he will speak with michael hirsch, who is a national correspondent from "the national journal." please welcome them. [applause] >> you have been known for a long time as a master of the numbers. >> i think you just had the master of the numbers here. >> the other part of the capital, the hill part. these people have been getting numbers all day long. i want to start out with a purely political question. wrotee one of those who last september that the republican party was in danger of failing abysmally because of what you call the self-promotional babble of a few in and forcing the government shutdown. we have now been through that and it appears the came toof the party share your view to some extent in terms of resolving those issues, the effort to defund obamacare and hold the government hostage. i would like to get your assessment of where you think party is now as we head into these november elections. restored?alance and >> that's a great question. let me thank the atlantic for this opportunity. here.ice to be your question is very current. to a time ingoing the wilderness.

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. >> host: well, joining our conversation is brendan sasso, technology correspondent for national journal. >> thanks, peter. congressman, you were mentioning how the fcc's rules are based on section 706 of the telecommunications act, and that says the agency has the power to promote broadband. the law was passed in 1996 when you were in congress -- >> guest: subcommittee and full committee and on the conference committee. >> when congress wrote that provision, do did you see it as empowering the fcc to adopt internet regulations? [laughter] >> guest: there really wasn't an internet as we know it today when we passed the telco act in 1996. the big fight was between legacy telephone service and what we now call the wireless market. and we fought over that, and there was, there were fights in between the broadcasters and the cable companies and, but there wasn't any fight over internet because in spite of what vice president gore has said, there was not an internet as we know it today. so, no, there was no, there was not even any debate about the concept of net neutrality or any of that, and

and economic correspondent for national journal.ext up, ohio, where maria is on the line for democrats. say the reasonto why people cannot get jobs is because we have state and whatever, workers, they are their wives and sons, and you have the big , they retire and come back and get another job making more money than what they was making when they retire. that is a problem we are having where people cannot get jobs because they're hiring their and they are hiring and coming back and making more money. i cannot really comment withat on the local level the local community. i am just not familiar with that. an is it -- it is interesting point and the caller expresses a general frustration with the ability for people to actually get ahead in this economy, regardless what those roadblocks are and that is something a lot of americans feel. >> how regard these issues? the issues of the economic recovery and why is stalled and who's been left behind, how you help out working people, how you help out poor people, i think they will be the dom

guest is the political editor at national journal.you like to join our in.ersation you can call the phone lines -- the first call this morning comes from south carolina. otis is on our line for democrats. caller: hello. secretary kerry and president bush does a wonderful job. [indiscernible] i think they did a great job putting the safety on the country. that is what i have to say about it. secretary kerry was meeting with his counterpart in paris. the attempt that russian -- they seek diplomatic agreement but it doesn't seem to come anywhere. the conversation was extremely unproductive. it seems the and -- the administration wants to avoid when you haveion troops on the eastern ukrainian border, there are very real reasons that the situation is going to get worse and it won't be a diplomatic solution that is going to get us out of it. host: he argues if he was president he would take a harder stance against the russian president. talk about his foreign policies. guest: he certainly resents that point of view within the parties. even

nancy cook and economic correspondent for national journal. next up, ohio, where maria is on the line for democrats. caller: i want to say the reason why people cannot get jobs is because we have state and government workers, whatever, they are their wives and sons, cousins, and you have the big dogs, they retire and come back and get another job making more money than what they was making when they retire. that is a problem we are having where people cannot get jobs because they're hiring their family and they are hiring and coming back and making more money. guest: i cannot really comment on that on the local level with the local community. i am just not familiar with that. but is it -- it is an interesting point and the caller expresses a general frustration with the ability for people to actually get ahead in this economy, regardless what those roadblocks are and that is something a lot of americans feel. host: how regard these issues? guest: the issues of the economic recovery and why is stalled and who's been left behind, how you help ou

. >> on the neck's washington journal, national view columnist to talk abouts us the tea party. followed by american federation of teachers president randi weingarten, with a look of -- of of peaches issues teachers issues. we are joined by daniel markey. washington journal as live every morning at 70 and eastern with your calls, tweets, and facebook comments on c-span. both aswe are told students and as a nation in terms of the popular imagination is that there are all kinds of citizens and marches and demonstrations that occur but they are done by these famous iconic people. who was soparks tired that she refused to get up from the bus in alabama and sparked the boycott. a young preacher who even the president referred to during the election as this young preacher from georgia who was dr. martin luther king jr. who leads the masses of african americans from racial oppression. this notion that rosa sat and martin could do this kind of stuff and jesse could run and barack could fly. they sound good but they really simplify a much more complicated history. that can't get it histor

the thrust of that "national journal" piece, lynn, those who support hillary clinton are not doing herrt of pushing the benghazi to the side. how does she confront that? how do her supporters confront it? >> well her supporters confront it by continuing to lay the infrastructure that they are doing if she does make a run in 2016. building mailing lists, stockpiling money, organizing, getting names on databases. a lot of how this benghazi controversy unfolds is whether or not her folks have the money ability to make something more of it. guying -- buying ads, what will hurt her if new facts come out. jon: one of the most memorable campaign ads of the 2008 season, david, when she was still running in the primary, the 3:00 a.m. phone call ad when hillary was best positioned to pick up the phone if some world crisis enveloped the united states at 3:00 a.m. how does she rerun that same kind of ad given what happened in benghazi? >> i don't know that she can. i think one of the challenges for hillary is to develop a sort of updated, fresh rationale for her candidacy. it was competence. it wa

. >>> charlie cook wrote the national journal is hillary clinton too old to run noting at the end of her first term, she would be 73. some people are saying this is sexist. >> big deal. she's a candidate for president, or potentially, if you want to go there. but, you know, it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter. everybody knows what her age is. it should be talked about, as should her record with benghazi as should her time as the first lady as should be her time with white water. right? it's all part of the narrative. >> and no, it's not sexist. as we know, some questions were raised about ronald reagan, about john mccain back in 2008, and dana on this very show about joe biden. clearly, it's equal opportunity when it comes to the age question. >> and don't forget bob dole. >> right. bob dole. and also in the magazine profile of the president, one of his inner circle raises the question of hillary clinton's health. so this is coming from the democratic side of the ledger. >> i disagree, howie, i think you made a rookie mistake and as you get older with more experience you're not goin

the national journal just reported on a story, they found kids with high s.a.t. scores and they did not as well as heme who did not have high test scores. it's reticulous. i got the lowest you could get. >> put down c for everything? >> i went a, b, c, d, then abcd. >> is it unfair to people who might be bad test takers or people who had to go to the bathroom and got panicked. >> i don't know why you have to bring that up here. it may be a requesthoo people away. but forget the test. we talked about this before. the best people to hire are people who can work with people and take orders and respond to orders. talk about the military, negotiating an ied is far more superior than acing an s.a.t. >> negotiate work well with people? >> i'm telling you, i'm just saying, people you meet that you work with who were in the military, that's the best barometer for employment. >> problem solvers. they're put in situations where it looks like there's. no way out and they fix it. let me add another group to that, athletes. same thing. no, no, for real. i hired a lot of people

rachel oswald, national journal. my question kind of follows that. there was a recent congressional report that found that the pentagon's time schedule for achieving certain missile defense capabilities in romania and poland against medium missiles could be too optimistic. what are your thoughts on that conclusion? >> thanks. and the gentleman who originally had the microphone. >> as the united states and the european union are negotiating the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, the so-called economic nato, don't you think that it's essential that we have a transatlantic conversation when it comes to security, to a greater extent that the eu has delivered in december, and then secondly, with the departure of the last u.s. tank in april from europe and the end of the isef mission in afghanistan, don't you think that it's essential that nato re-examines its role in the 21st century? don't you think that the alliance maybe needs to reinvent itself as it did after the end of the cold war? thank you very much. >> thank you. >> yep. interesting

now, let's take on the issue, charlie cook writes in the national journal, is hillary clinton too old to run noting she will be 73 at the end of first term and at the end of the second, 77. >> big deal. she is a potential candidate for candidate. >> potentially. >> it doesn't matter. everyone knows her age. it should be talked about as should her record in benghazi as should her time as the first lady, as should be her time with whitewater. it is all part of the narrative. >> no, it is not sexist. similar questions were raised about ronald reagan and john mccain and joe biden so it irtus to the age question. >> and bob dole. >> also, interestingly in the proceed vile of the vice president one of his inner circle raised the question of hillary clinton's health. this is coming from the democratic side of the ledger. >> i disagree. you made a rookie mistake and you get older you will have to learn from experience and not make that mistake. >> i will try to bring a young person's dedication. >> and that may not be you. >> you mentioned hillary clinton's health. we have if reason to believ

stod guard the national journal's ron and ed o'keefe.., we could have done this last fall and named a couple congressman. this seems to be the democrats' week or two weeks of having some bad news. but senator harry reid, is he in trouble? >> well, i think the way he responded, which was to say i have paid back the money, this is all going to be fine, indicates. >> after he got caught he paid back the money. >> that's right. >> defense lawyer, i think it's notable when they pay it back. before they get caught or after. >> he wants this go away as soon as possible and feels it's embarrassing. it's up to the fec. you don't get to just pay back the money and walk away. if they want to investigate it further, and punish him, that could happen. and they have, i think, up until the end of april to decide. you can tell from the way he reacted that it was an embarrassment and he tried to explain it that she was helping, i guess, the campaign by jewelry gifts for staff. >> ron, you know, help except in the disbursement payments they referred to he

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tribune newspapers and fawn johnson, a correspondent with "national journal." >> let's start with the minimum wage increase. this is a big deal for the democrats. expected to be a big deal in the campaign. right from the beginning, you have drawn a hard-line, thank you do not want to negotiate the rate that you have proposed over three years, $10.10 per hour. can you tell us why? >> it is not just a big deal for democrats. it is a big deal for millions of people. 80% of the people we are talking about that will get a raise our adults. 54% are parents of kids. over half of them bring at least half the family income. we are not just talking about teenagers getting new jobs, by the way. we estimate about 20 million people get a raise in america. it is a progrowth bill. the economic benefits will increase the gdp. this is a progrowth bill. he asked about why i say $10.10. we looked historically out what we had done in raising the minimum wage back to 1939. the average of all of the years is about a 41% increase. some are higher and some are lower. the average 41%. our rates would be 39%.

and the national journal notes that his latest tv ad references the tv an its real life inspiration,bscam. pressler was one of many politicians targeted in an fbi sting operation that led to the conviction of six congressmen and one u.s. senator. but when pressler was offered bribes by the undercover agents, he turned down money. here is the ad he ran during last night's academy awards. >> "american hustle" shows the fbi making real-life bribes to washington politicians. i know because as your u.s. senator, i turned them down. >> $50,000 is no problem. >> in any event, it would not be proper for me to promise to do anything in return for a campaign contributions. >> this is the type of honest leadership i will bring to washington, d.c. >> wow. while many say pressler is unlikely to win, it's certainly a smart way to capitalize on the oscar buzz. and we'll have a look at the inspiration behind "american hustle." >>> white men have deserted the party and voted republican. now democrats are trying to reverse that trend and bring back the white male. you're watching "hardball," the place

. >> "the national journal" said he's the tenth-most-conservative senator in the senate -- or in the it relates to guns, if you put guns on one hand and the other nine issues on other hand, it clearly works in our favor. >> on the gun issue, though, how would you tell democrats to deal with it? >> well, the way we deal with it, the same way i dealt with it as mayor, we're a hunter state, we're a state that believes in hunting, a state that believes in the second amendment, we're a state that believes in outdoors and wildlife and fishing. but we also, given the tragedies we've had with columbine and also with aurora shooting, that the legislature and the governor all sense, as does most of the public, there needs to be some regulation of guns in the state. >> do you believe as the suburbs go, so goes colorado? if you win the suburbs, you win the state? >> well, the answer to that is, yes. if you look at the loss of women, the loss of seniors, the loss of gay and lesbians, and the loss of hispanics, and then, also, in this case, the votes against federal aid disaster, which would suppo

joining us is a contributing editor at the atlantic and the national journal. so what do you make?ess crimea according to putin is now part of russia, but is that it? is he going to stop with crimea or continue to try to take other parts of ukraine? >> well, i think the conventional wisdom would be that sending your forces into eastern ukraine would be a bad idea. will be very much harder to control. a much more open area. really would need military resistan resistance. also it's an economic basket case. let's say you do manage to control it. i think that what he's still doing is putting pressure on the government in kiev. i think one of the things that's really significant about that speech is he said this is not a legitimate government, which is to me code for saying i'm going to either try to bring this government down, or try to bring it to its knees and force it to become more russian. i think that might be the next move. >> the u.s. and the european union, they opposed some sanctions, a couple dozen russians and crimeans, if you will, and now the russians presumably are going

she covers those issues for the national journal. ll talk with alex wayne about the obama administration's latest delays under the affordable care act. to the will talk executive director for the national center of learning disabilities about the president's budget, which includes $12 billion for special education. thank you for watching on this sunday. you'll be back tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> today on c-span, "newsmakers" with congressman kevin brady. followed by a look at last week's release of the white house 2015 budget request with remarks by president obama and then minority leader mitch mcconnell from the senate floor. testifyinga burwell on the president's request. mr.newsmakers" > welcomes kevin brady. he is joining us on its own. i want to start this morning. new economic numbers for february have just come out. the number is unemployment at , the economy adding 175,000 jobs here at i would like

this article in the "national journal" this morning.ere's a little bit of video from the house floor yesterday. pursuant to clause eight of rule 20, the unfinished business is a question on suspending the 4302, whichssing hr will be reported by title. >> hr 4302 to extend medicare payments to physicians and other provisions of the medicare and medicaid programs and for other purposes. >> the question is, will the house suspend the rules and suspend bill. of the chair, two thirds being in the affirmative, the rule has passed. emotional -- the motion to --host: what happened yesterday? that seemed like a pretty routine house procedure. but that was was a voice vote in which you clearly heard but in fact was judged from the podium to be medicare doc fix, a one-year extension of the payments to doctors who serve ients that was to expire monday. the house leadership found himself in a situation thursday morning, yesterday, in which the measure would appear to be headed for defeat unless they somehow got around the corner they painted themsel

we welcome ron fortier of the national journal, kimberly strassel and charles lane of "the washington post." karl, i'm going to ask you the same question i asked mike rogers. what do you think putin was up to with that phone call with the president on friday night? do you think he's looking for a way out? do you think he was trying to set the predicate of extremists threatening ethnic russians to set the stage to open the possibility of further military action? >> we don't know. and that's the issue. have things gone on beneath the surface over the last couple of days that have caused putin to believe that it's time to call halt and find an off ramp for his activities or is he laying the predicate for further action? less than a month ago he told the president to his -- flatly out, direct, i have no territorial ambitions for crimea. we'll not be an exing crimea. we looked and been behind strategically the curve all along. the president is not thinking ahead, has not been thinking ahead. we are where we are because of a lack of strategic thinking. the president in the last few weeks ha

journalist ron brownstein writes in the national journal that the big takeaway from the 2012 electionimits of the modern republican electoral coalition. it appears that the limits will be the modern democratic coalition. each side of the dilemma fits neatly into a bookend. republicans can't attract enough minorities to cap their the white house because they can't carry the big states, and democrats can't carry enough votes to carry congress because they can't win enough to carry the cds. eugene robinson with "the washington post" and michelle bernard is founder of the center for women, politics and policy. thank you, both. during the break, i was stunned by this new number that charlie cook came out with, which is for the first time a president was reelected with a popular vote, pretty good popular vote, 52%, but didn't win a popular vote in most of the -- he has done well in berkeley, los angeles, chicago, atlanta, miami. but out in the rural areas and out in the suburbs, the vote is more split apart and thrown around, dispersed. and he doesn't do that well. >> right. he is winning t

without further ado let me invite nancy cook the economic and buster posey correspondent for "national journal" in a conversation with doug elmendorf director of the congressional budget office. [applause] >> hi everyone. thanks so much for sticking around and thank you doug for joining us. i feel like this public appearances you make are somewhat rare and the cbo has been under fire lately so we will have a discussiodiscussio n about that. >> i'm happy to be here and have all of you here to join us. >> i wanted to start off since this whole event is about the economy and one that start off with a broad question. five years since the start of the recession. are you surprised they were radar in the economic recovery? >> yes. we have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. i think the people who were more right for those who had looked more carefully at the experience of other countries and earlier points in the u.s. experienced with debt crises that were on the housing and the financial system and those people like carmen reinhart in ken rogoff and vincent reinhart fou

journalist ron brownstein writes in the national journal that the big takeaway from the 2012 election was the limits of the modern republican electoral coalition. it appears that the limits will be the modern democratic coalition. each side of the dilemma fits neatly into a bookend. republicans can't attract enough minorities to capture the white house and democrats can't get enough votes to carry congress because they can't win enough to carry can cds. eugene robinson with "the washington post" and michelle bernard is founder of the center for women, politics and policy. thank you, both. during the break, i was stunned by this new number that charlie cook came out with, which is for the first time a president was reelected with a popular vote, pretty good popular vote, 52%, but didn't win a popular vote in most of the -- he has done well in berkeley, los angeles, san francisco, chicago, atlanta, miami. but out in the rural areas and out in the suburbs, the vote is more split apart and thrown around, dispersed. and he doesn't do that well. >> right. he is winning tons and tons of vote

nbc's andrea mitchell, national journal's ron fournier, ralph reed founder of the faith and freedom coalition and karen bass, democratic congresswoman from my native california. i want to go to the latest on this horrible crash on then malaysian air flight. tom costello is with us with the latest on the investigation on the malaysian airliner. what have you learned? what can you tell us this morning? >> night has now fallen in malaysia. authorities there have suspended the air search. the malaysian military says its radar indicates the plane may have attempted to turn back early saturday but there was never a distress call. authorities are also consulting with the fbi looking closely at the entire passenger manifest to see who was on this plane and what were their true identities. yesterday, we learned two europeans, austrian and italian, were listed as passengers on that plane but, in fact, when were safe and sound on the ground. both reported their passports stole in thailand over the past two years or so. this morning we learned there may be and i underscore two more passengers who were tr

rachel oswald, national journal. my question kind of follows that. there was a recent congressional re

already, alex from national journal qualified for a spot in next saturday's first ever, "up against the be decided right here, today in just a few seconds. will it be elahe, krystal or brian? the rules for tournament play remain the same. three rounds of play, they are 100 seconds each. the questions will get harder as we go along. contestants, you can ring in anytime. you will be penalized for a wrong answer. there are bonuses throughout the game. audience, please remain silent. no outbursts, please. with that, contestants are you ready? >> yes. >> sort of. >> good enough for me. 100 seconds on the clock. the first round is allegedly accepting a bribe for $12,500 frr an fbi agent and dmangd it be used for -- >> the mayor of charlotte resigned on wednesday, correct. >> the move plans for a superpac for the elimination of all superpacs were announced by the son of what prominent -- >> krystal. >> thursday, the obama administration said this many americans enrolled in -- >> 6 million. >> 6 million americans enrolled in health insurance exchanges, correct. former president, george h.w. bus

, national journal correspondent nancy cook will talk about the jobs, and anti-poverty programs. alex lane looks at the health care law delay on older health care plans. they discuss government funding to help states with the education of students with special needs. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. that is live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> we do not have a criminal investigation issue, we have a vast enforcement role. we enforce the federal security laws to make sure that they .bide by those we do not have the criminal authority. we have the power to bring, with the approval of our commission, civil action, civil fraud action, and negligence action against those who violate the federal securities laws. we cannot send them my to jeff, but we can't -- right to jail, but we can assess the level of penalty. it is not as high as we would like you to be, so there is some legislation in congress to require those to commit disgorged their ill-gotten gains. we have the power to bar somebody from t

he was interviewed by nancy cook of national journal.this was at the economic forum hosted by the atlantic in washington. >> i have confirmed that it is true that those of you have the temerity to hang out all day for this discussion, we are serving at our festive reception the lehman dropped and the festive martini. let me invite to the stage nancy cook. in a conversation with doug elmendorf, director of the congressional budget office. [applause] >> hi, everyone. thank you for joining us. the cbo has been under fire a bit lately, so i'm glad you're able to join us. >> i'm happy to be here. >> i just want to start off with a sort of broad question, since this is all about the economy. surprised where we are in the economic recovery? >> yes, we have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. i think the people who were more right or those who had looked more carefully at the experience of other countries and earlier point of the u.s. experience had that were onses housing and the financial system. , like carmen rei

he is a country being at editor to the "national journal" and the atlantic and a recipient of the 2005 national magazine awars equivalent to the pulitzer prize. without further ado i would like to invite mark kleiman up to start us off. >> thank you so much paul and thank you for setting this up and to all of you for coming out. it's an honor to be part of this group. i am violating my religious tenets by having a powerpoint but i promise you there is only one slide. when we talk about drug policy in general but cannabis policy both sides of the debate casts positions in moralistic terms leading to a higher ratio of heat to light -- so i want to suggest that when we think about cannabis legalization we think in terms of advantages and disadvantages. it seems to me the beginning of wisdom in this business is to acknowledge that both good and bad things will happen as a result of cannabis legalization. 40,000 people will not be behind bars. lawbreakers will not earn $40 billion a year for league -- illegal activity. state and local and the federal government will add a couple million dol

he is a contributing editor of national journal and the atlantic and is recipient of the 2005 nationalagazine award. the magazine industry equivalent of the pulitzer prize. i would like to invite mark kleiman up to start us off. >> thanks very much for that, for setting this up and to all of you for coming out. it is an honor to be part of this group. i am violating my religious tenets by having a power point but i promise there's only one slide. when we talk about drug policy and cannabis policy, both sides of the debate tend to cast their positions in moralistic terms leading to a very high ratio of heat to light in the debate. i want to suggest when you look at legalization you think of advantages and disadvantages. it seems the beginning of wisdom is bad things happen with legalization. 60,000 people year will not be arrested. 40,000 people will not be behind bars. lawbreakers will not earn $40 billion a year for illegal activity. state and local governments will not spend a couple billion dollars a year in enforcement. and substantial revenue to the state on the order of $20 billi

he's the chief politics reporter, jennifer page, and alex, the political correspondent for the national journalt attacks did you have? >> none. i finished that off with a large mountain dew. >> so jennifer, we were going through the two-year battle. the sort of establishment forces winning. but the bigger threat here that we're talking about is the relevance to have iowa caucasus. it's something that matters a lot to terry branstad. we looked at the evolution of the state to the point where like you could have that straw poll in 201 and michele bachmann would win it. are republicans concerned that they are not going to be as taken as seriously in 2016 as they have been in the past? they won't be quite as formidable in picking the nominee. >> i think they're beginning to heal the wounds. a party cannot fly in the face of a governor and not expect to be a backlash. theory branstad had has too much at stake to allow a bunch of renegades to be guarding the castle. it's not like they were in constant conflict. there were moments of cooperation but there was enough tension and enough, you know, under

the stage nancy cook, whose the domestic and reporter for "the national journal." [applause] >> hello everyone. thank you so much for sticking around. thank you so much for joining us. i feel like the public appearances you make are somewhat rare. the cbo has been under fire recently so i think we will have a lot to talk about. >> glad to have all you here to join us. issince this whole event about the economy, i wanted to start off with a broad question. five years since the start of the recession are you surprised by where we are at this point in economic recovery? we have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. i think the people who are more right are those that look more carefully at the experience of other countries. -- of other countries and have looked at crises on the housing and financial system. those people found those sorts of recoveries from those events are very prolonged relative to the post war experience. i think in retrospect we put too much weight on not just the postwar experience but on the rapid monetary policy respo

host: here's the article in the national journal. house just did something sneaky to pass the doc fix. number ofioned a members being surprised at that forced a vote. one of those is the governor of texas who expressed concern on a speech later on the house floor. we have that for you on c-span.org. the other issue the house debated yesterday was a bill providing aid to ukraine and sanctions on russians involving annexation on crimea. similarsed but not identical bills. we will have that on c-span. here is what the house debate looked like from yesterday. president vladimir putin's decision to forcibly annex crimea was based on his calculation that the price would be bearable. now, in fact, russia is susceptible to pressure. 70% of all the exports of russia are from oil and gas. 52% of the budget that goes to the power behind mr. putin's military and his government comes from that monopoly pricing on natural gas. that supplies the budget for russia. that is what gives him the power to manipulate the situation, the monopoly over gas t

. >> on the next washington journal, national review --umnist talks about us joins us to talk about the tea party. followed by brandywine garden -- eingarten. in thejoined with daniel council of foreign relations. washington journal is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. what we're told, both as students and as a nation, is there are all kinds of siddons and marches and demonstrations and occur. -- sit in's marches and demonstrations that occur. barks --it was rosa basically, it was rosa parks and the young preacher who the president referred to as a young preacher from georgia. who leads the masses of african americans from racial oppression. the notion that rosa sat and andin could do this stuff then barack fly. they sound good. they really simplify a much more public hated history. that can't located history -- simplify a much more complicated history. that complicated history involves a lot of people who dismantled segregation. rosa parks was an activist. she didn't give up her seat by accident. tough university -- tufts university professor specializes in what he calls black power studies.

journal." now with "the national review." three cups of tea is your headline.rite that the tea party still holds the high ground this year for it third national election. this is the start of the tea party movement. john boehner was asked about that. [video clip] that ive made it clear have great respect for the tea party and the energy they have brought to the electoral process. my gripe is not with the tea party. my gripe is with some washington organizations and feel like they have to go raise money by .eating up on me and others >> some members have pushed you to places you do not want to be. five years in -- leader. as the i do not think it has changed at all. my job is to listen to my colleagues, to work with my calling about and to fight with the common ground is so we can move forward. i don't believe things have changed at all. paste observation this week was an event that would cover here in washington. his assessment is that john boehner will likely set -- stepped down as speaker at the end of this year. agree or disagree? >> i think we have to wait