-- or the public policy benefits for doing this have not really -- don't really exist. so let me lay out a couple of observations here. one is that, under the obama administration, even though large numbers were deported, there were priorities as to who would be targeted for deportation. they were individuals who really posed a national security risk, or public safety. >> or committed a violent crime. >> committed a violent crime. what we have now with the executive order and the implementation is a policy that all undocumented individuals are equally worthy of deportation. so we're talking about 11 million people, limited resources, and a policy to go after all of them without any discrimination. >> do you think there will be legal challenges on this, and on what grounds? >> i think there will be legal challenges on a number of the policies that are being helded in by this executive order. so let me give one example. one of the changes, we have a procedure in our law called expedited removal. which allows for individuals to be removed from the united states without any

-- or the public policy benefits for doing this have not really -- don't really exist. so let me lay out a couple of observations here. one is that, under the obama administration, even though large numbers were deported, there were priorities as to who would be targeted for deportation. they were individuals who really posed a national security risk, or public safety. >> or committed a violent crime. >> committed a violent crime. what we have now with the executive order and the implementation is a policy that all undocumented individuals are equally worthy of deportation. so we're talking about 11 million people, limited resources, and a policy to go after all of them without any discrimination. >> do you think there will be legal challenges on this, and on what grounds? >> i think there will be legal challenges on a number of the policies that are being helded in by this executive order. so let me give one example. one of the changes, we have a procedure in our law called expedited removal. which allows for individuals to be removed from the united states without any

they think about not just politics but public policy and their role in the world, and i would tell my three daughters and your daughters, or you, that the job for first female president of the united states remains open, so go for it. [laughter] mercedes: fair enough. so there was a big women's march and the democrats claimed all women should be democrats. i think one of the things you have done very effectively is explain how women belong in the conservative movement. conservative feminism. how do you explain that? kellyanne: well, i believe this generation, particularly the younger people, do not really like labels, and we are not necessarily joiners or liking to label ourselves. that is great in its own right. i do not know about calling yourself a feminist. also, for me, it is difficult to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male, and it is very pro-abortion in this context. i am neither anti-male or pro-abortion. [applause] kellyanne: so there is an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices. i look at myself as a pro

they think about, not just politics but public policy and their role in the world. i was on my three daughters and your daughters or you that the job for first female president of the united states remains open, so go for it. so there was this big women's march, democrats all claimed that all women should be democrats. i think one of the things you've done very effectively explain how women belong in the conservative movement that actually there is conservative feminism. how would you explain that. >> i believe this generation, in particular, the individuals don't like labels. that's great in its own right. i don't know about calling yourself a feminist. also for me, it's difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti- male and it certainly is very pro- abortion in this context and i'm neither anti- male or anti- abortion. there is an individual feminism that you make your own choices. i look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances. that's really what feminism is all about. my mother di

they think about not just politics, but public policy. i would tell my three daughters and your daughters are you that the job for first in a president in the united states remains open. so go for it. [applause] 's >> there is a women's march, democrat all claimed should be democrats. one of the things you don is explain how women don't conservative movement, that there are but i would call conservative feminism. how would you explain that? >> this generation, younger people don't really like labels. we are not necessarily joiners. that's great in its own right. >> i also firmly it's difficult to call myself a feminist and a classic sense because it is pro-abortion and mandate their anti-male nor pro-abortion. there is an individual feminist and if you love do you make your own choices. mercedes, i'm mercedes, i look at myself as a product of my choices, not a big demand by circumstances. [applause] best but conservative feminist and if he will is what it's all about. she was left with no alimony at a very young age with the china to rais

heather: i work in law and public policy. before the call, i have been talking about student loans and trade policy. yes, i have been talking about race relations, but as an instrument to talk about public policy. i could tell that gary really wanted simple answers to his questions about how he could integrate his life. off the top of my head, i said, get to know black families, and if you are a religious person, join in interracial church. join in with people of different races in a sense of common purpose. i did tell him to turn off the nightly news because we know there is a warped vision of who commits crimes in this country. that comes in many media markets. i asked him to read about black history. i got a sense of who he was talking about was black people, stereotypes against immigrants, muslims, but with his question, he was asking me, the black woman on his television, to tell him how to overcome prejudice against black people. host: then what? heather: then i kept going with the program. i walked off the set, and i ha

i think there's such synergy that can be developed through academic research, and public policy thinkers. i got engaged very, very early on with something called the toban project at harvard which brought together academicians. that's where i first met elizabeth warren. we started to talk about, actually, in my living room, because i hold public policy gatherings and maybe you have been to them, she predicted what was going to happen with the housing market. and she talked about the consumer finance protection board. but the point being, i think you look at -- look, there's -- the various think tanks that are out there, you know, from my point of view, cap, roosevelt institute, epi, a whole variety of other agencies, bob greenstein's group for budget priorities, this is all information and data that is important to inform public policy initiatives that i think that we ought to be engaged in. now, we ought to look at both sides. we ought to understand both sides of the issue, but i think it's foolish for us to -- and for some members to eschew research and scientific knowledge, i think we

about the implications of the lessons we have seen from the private sector in the activities of public policy development coming forward. joe will introduce that panel and i will invite them to come up now and take it from here. >> thank you, david. do we understand policy better? well, we have probably been burned more by it than the employers. it's a big challenge. it was a great first panel and now we will attempt to obfuscate and confuse, because of course, we represent the washington outlook, at least many of us do. with that let me make a few comments not standing there. david's comments really were an excellent handoff for this panel, but he didn't mention medicaid. there is a tendency, i think -- i certainly have it, to think first about medicare and then sort of medicaid is kind of tough because the states actually run medicaid and no matter what cms thinks. but i think there's a growing appreciation that certainly the employers that we heard from this morning clearly recognize that if you don't pay attention to the client population, if you don't understand something about the deliv

>> i work in law and public policy. before that call i had been talking about student loans and economic inequality and race relations, but as an instrument to talk about public policy. i could tell gary from north carolina really wanted really simple answers to his questions about how he could integrate his life. at the top of my head, get to know black families and if you are a religious person join an interracial church and joining in with different races with a higher common purpose. i did tell him to turn off the nightly news because there is a warped kind of vision who commits crimes in this country that comes in many media markets and asked him to read about black history and i got a sense of who he was talking about black people, immigrants and muslims but with his questions he was asking me as a black woman to tell him how to overcome his prejudice against black people. >> and then what? >> i kept going with the program and i walked off the set and i had a text message from my colleague gwen and she watched it

this chart to my mind is one of the key elements of this public policy debate. it is the most effective way of doing what we want. one of the things we talked about is very important to empathize. what role can courts have and i would submit to you, doing things that are simple like mutual -- spends more money. they are also good at improving schools, making the better for children, and although we talk about politics, the democratic process. people debate ideas, study them and trial and error, and that is what florida has done, remarkably consistent public policy in their schools in 20 years. this chart, the bottom part of the chart talks about where new york and florida were on tape. 1992-2002-2013. you see it consistent with other charts, in 92 florida was well behind where new york state was on fourth grade reading, well behind. by 2002 they are still well behind but by 2013 new york is behind and florida is ahead because florida improved. florida and new york are similar states in free and reduced lunch students around 55%, and 50%, similar states. in terms

that is what florida has done remarkably consistent public policy in their schools in 20 years. the bottom part of the chart talks about 1992, 2002, 2013 and 50 other charts in 92 florida was behind where new york state was. by 2002 that are still behind but by 2013, new york is now behind in florida i should say is ahead in florida improved. if they are remarkably similar states both around 55% minority composition very similar about 50%, very similar states and dc in terms of dollars for a consistent with the earlier chart is very modest increase in terms of spending. and there's the court case that began to drive billions of additional dollars as a result of the court order. so the premise is that it developed the democratic process and can be and is more effective than the judicially enforced solution because there is no buy-in so how does the money gets spent, teacher salary increases coming to get people the same increase that were in the workforce previously. the thing is i will say one of the people was an expert witness and i would study that carefully because there's a

do everything it can to reverse the responsible management of our public lands, and instead pursue an aggressive energy development policy, without regard to the environmental and public health consequences. a bedrock principle i believe is that polluters should pay, and they should clean up their messes on public land. we all might have a different opinion here about how much public land, but i think everybody should be an agreement that polluters should pay and they should leave our public lands in a pristine nature.tionl so it is equally clear that the new administration will be majorities encouraged in its effort by the majorities in the house and in the senate, by some of the legislation we've already seen, enabling the coal companies to dump their mining waste into streams and impacting safe drinking water, enabling oil use companies to waste the publix natural resources without paying royalties on the gas they wait. that's costing taxpayers money. and reports that the president intends to issue an executive o order to overturn the current moratorium prohibiting new coal leases on federal land. that is an issue abo

an industrial age into an information age a lot of the shortcomings we have in regulation and public policy come because were trying to grasp elements of our industrial age social contract into the information age. i do think think these new industries feels like artificial intelligence you cannot just regulate them in a way that these fields were in the 1980s. i think you need some brand-new thinking about it. that doesn't doesn't fall across the traditional right, left democratic binary. >> it does the book industries of the future is what it's called. alex is the author. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. 1979 c-span was created by a public service by america's public television companies and is brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. >> should not of been surprising to people. they would have that justice glia was six dreamily fond of justice -- who is also on the opposite side in many cases. justice brennan usually enjoyed justice glia's company as i do. he has an extraordinarily ability to make you smile. even laugh. when we are on the d.c. circuit together justice

to be excellent at operations and engineering and finance and trade and we have to have public policies around energy. i will talk about that. future jobs in our case absolutely depend on growth. there is no question of that. growth and the more jobs there are, the more opportunity. projects like this where we break down barriers and simplify, i think my hope is that we have it here. having operations in canada and the united states makes us absolutely more competitive. our centrale you operation in is one of thec. most coveted awards. but people from the united states and people from canada across the border often to work with each other, to share and to excel at the company overall. >> good job. of a job.id a hell no wonder she is successful. chair of the economy council. i am also a board member of large corporations like michelin each of those organizations has a significant business in the u.s. , they help a lot of people in this country. i feel honored and privileged to be part of the council. i would like to thank you for this great opportunity. this will do a lot for our great c

and as regulators and as public policy makers we need to work together to educate and address legitimateublic concerns about safety and privacy. so once again, let me conclude that i look forward to working with all of you. the future is so full of promise. and we've got to use every tool available to modernize our infrastructure so our country's economy will remain competitive, grow, and produce good-paying jobs for america's families. i look forward to our discussion. thank you. [ applause ] >> i'll open it up for questions from the governors. there's bright light everywhere. you know, i have one question, and i think that it certainly has been in colorado and around the country skepticism about autonomous vehicles, cars and trucks. and as you just described, the human error involved in accidents and fatalities, 94%, is astonishing. but still, how can we confront that skepticism? but also when we do have accidents when the technology breaks, how do we make sure -- the skepticism increases even though overall we're going to be saving lives. >> i've tried to address those issues in my op

and as regulators and public policy makers we need to work together to educate and address legitimate public concerns about safety and privacy. so once again let me conclude and look forward to working with all of you. the future is so full of promise and we have got to use every tool available to modernize infrastructure so that our country's economy will remain competitive, grow and produce good paying jobs for america's families. i look forward to our discussion. thank you. [applause] i will open it up for questions from the governor's. bright light everywhere. question, and i in colorado and around the country a lot of skepticism about autonomous vehicles, cars and trucks. the humant described error involved in accidents and fatalities is 94%. that's astonishing. how can we confront that skepticism? and also we have autonomous vehicles in accidents where the technology breaks, how do we make sure that is not -- the skepticism increases although overall we are saving lives? sec. chao: i tried to address those issues by saying technology can do so much to improve the competitiveness

i worked in large public and private bureaucracies. they have lots of policies in place and take longer to make decisions. the advantage of the private sector in this case. when they are able to work with the public sector on trying to come up with new technologies and innovations. you get a public policy that's oriented toward what people want. and you get innovations that are what the market demands. john: los angeles has a long procurement process. >> any organization has a long procurement process. a series of policies have been put in place over the years, most of which were well-intentioned and trying to prevent corruption. but over the years have built up into a very large set of policies that make it difficult to procure things swiftly. john: if your coun wanted to procure pencils, they couldn't just bow to the store and buy them? >> buying anything is more complicated when you have got a public entity. we want to buy pencils we want to make sure we are buying the pencils that provide the taxpayers with the greatest pencil quality at the lowest cost and

we can achieve a public policy result if we worken together about a hidden agenda. this was wrong and structured wrong with attacking industry. i will tell you i have been no there and i have then a regulator. this is is not unique this is above reclamation looks like in north dakota and to suggest somehow we are contaminating this beautiful resources wrong on so many levels. it cost us jobs and is wrong on so many levels. this is a process only to be used very rarely so i stand with my friend to helpit sponsor this continuing resolution we will fight for industry and common sense rica elation to protect this beautiful resources. i yield the floor. been . .

, just like any other public policy issue, and whether you are talking but other environmental issues or you are talking about economic policies, in all of these things, you are going to have experts. in some cases, you will have experts who almost all agree. and we have to make the best policy we can based on what the best experts conclude. so choosing climate change as the area to say, well, let's take the 3% over the 97%, or let's assume there are conspiracy theories going on probably does not lead to good policy. at the same time, there are ways that environmental activists can really see climate change as a special thing that is not like anything else, that we should disproportionately focus our attention on, and that is not right, either. it is important to keep it in context and recognize that among the challenges we face, and we have to cut policies that will equipped us to deal with it. turn i would like to our attention to the news, that scott pruitt is the newly confirmed director of the epa. the front page of the "pruittgton post" -- begins what is likely to be a controver

have to be excellent in operations, engineering, finance and trading and we have to excel in the public policy dialogue that happens around energy and i'll talk about that as part of today as we've done some excellent work with the government. now, future jobs in our states absolutely depend on growth. there's no question of that, and i truly believe for there to be future opportunities for women we have to have growth because the more jobs there are, the more opportunities. and corroborations like this where we break down and simplify and build trust and build confidence. i think businesses invest when there's confidence. my hope is that comes out of here. now, for us, having the operations in canada and the united states makes us absolutely more competitive. our centrally operation in washington state is one of the most competitive plats. twice won most coveted plat around. we work with each other to share and to -- so we can excel as a company overall. it's huge. >> that's good. >> we're going to go around. >> good job. boy, she did a hell of a job. no wonder she's successful. >> monique, t

but that does not give trump the right to intervene in our internal public policies.right to treat inhumanely most people from anywhere of the world. mexico has to correct, yes, the problem of drugs and violence and we are going to legalise drug consumption so that we take away

announcer: sunday night, president of the public policy organization was a guest on washington journal in august of 2016 when a man called. she talks about that interaction and her follow-up. >> part of the reason for that, you have to remember this is august. we have had this racially charged donald trump campaign and black lives matter and police shootings. all in baton rouge and dallas. it was really a time when people that all that were seeing on tv about race was bad news. and here was a white man admitting that he was prejudiced. which for people of color, we kind of were like, finally. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q and a. announcer: president trump announced his choice to replace justice antonin scalia on the supreme court. he chose u.s. court of appeals judge neil gorsuch. here's the 15 minute announcement. [applause] president trump: thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. when justice scalia passed away suddenly last february, i made a promise to the american people. if i were elected president, i would fin

i'm prejudiced. >> sunday night on q&a, heather mcgee, president of the public policy organization demos, was a guest on c-span's "washington journal" in august of 2016 when gary sivatello called. she talks about that interaction and her follow-up with mr. sivatello. >> part of the reason for that is you have to remember this is august. we had this sort of racially charged summer with donald trump's campaign, with black lives matter, and the police shootings. and then the tragic events in baton rouge and dallas. it was really a time when people felt like all they were seeing on

not justk about politics but public policy and their role in the world and i would tell my three daughters and your daughters, or you, that the job for first female president of the united states remains open so go for it. [applause] mark --: a big women's march, and the democrats plant -- claimed all women should be democrats. you have done effectively claiming how women belong in the conservative movement. conservative feminism. how do you explain that? kellyanne: i believe the younger people do not like labels. necessarily liking to label ourselves. that is great in its own right. i do not know about calling yourself a feminist. it is difficult to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it is very pro-abortion in this context. i am neither. [applause] so there is an individual feminism that you make your own choices. as ak as -- at myself product of my choices and not a victim of my circumstances. [applause] kellyanne: definitely what conservative feminism is all about. forother feeling sorry herself. left with no alimony at a young relied u

cory: wheeler is stepping out to pursue public policy projects. company, snap, in new york, the investment tomorrow.ontinuing investors asking questions about growth amid the rivalry with facebook and facebook's instagram. michael wolff knows the media business quite well, the former beau member of yahoo! and president of mtv networks. michael, this is a negative gross margin business use customer growth is slowing dramatically, and yet they are going at an extraordinarily high valuation compared to the s&p 500. it looks like these guys are going out with no profits inside. michael: there are three big questions about snap. first of all, are they going to expand their user base beyond millennials, because it is very much a millennial thing right now. it's second of all, how will they defend against their competitors, specifically facebook, cloning or copying some of their features? third of all, are they going to be able to find revenue that goes beyond advertising on discover? upbeat about what they could do. expanding beyond millennial's, all th

we can achieve a public policy result if we work together. and if we don't have hidden agendas like leave it in the ground. this rule was wrong, structured wrong, it attacks an industry that does this. and i have been out there. i have worked in this industry and i have been a regulator of this industry. this is not unique. this is what reclamation looks like in north dakota. and to suggest that we have not been good stewards, to suggest we are contaminating this beautiful resource by what we are doing is wrong on so many levels. it is costly to continue. this is process that should be used rarely but i think is being used appropriately in this situation with the stream roll. so i stand with my friend joe mansion in helping sponsor this cra. we will continue to fight for our industry, good paying jobs and fight for commonsense regulation that achieves protecting this beautiful resource we have in north dakota. thank you, president, i yield to the floor. >> the senate returns tomorrow for rotes on the measure to advance trump's education secre

not as public policy or their ideology about no role of government, but what it means to you and your family and in terms of all of this. go into provisions of the affordable care act, not only the 20 million people and growing who didn't have access before, but over 150 million people who get their health insurance from their workplace who have no pre-existing conditions being a barrier to insurance, no lifetime limits or annual limits on their care, being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition and kids could stay on the policy until 26 years old. insurance companies are required to spend 80% of the money they receive on health care and meeting the needs of their policy holders and not advertising c.e.o. pay and the rest of that. so there is a lot of merit in the affordable care act. it is being wedded to medicare and medicaid in the legislation. the states, there are like, 111 republican members who are in states that had expanded medicaid. and they are going to see something snatched away from their constituents and need to know about that. some of their governments are argu

but the public has to understand what this means to them, not as public policy or their ideology about no role of government but what it means to you and to your family and -- in terms of all of this. now, i won't go into all of the provisions of the affordable care act. not only the 20 million people and growing who will now have access who didn't have access before but the over 150 million people who get their health insurance from their -- in the workplace who now have pre-existing conditions being a barrier to insurance, no lifetime limits or annual limits on their care. being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. kids can stay on the policy until 26 years old. insurance companies are required to spend 80% of the money they receive on health care and meeting the needs of their policyholders. not advertising, c.e.o. pay and the rest of that. there's a lot of merit in the affordable care act of itself. it's being wedded to medicare and medicaid in the legislation. now, the states, there are like 1,100 republican members who are in states and have expanded medicaid and they a

about this time in american history is there's a fair amount of experimentation with regard to public policy. has a three-pronged solution to addressing drug concerns. one is on the demand side. thinking about law enforcement, influence,hat whether through aggressive police action or other incentives to keep people away from drugs. the second is really supply control. think about a number of treaties tie foreign countries, to for in a specifically, so if you will keep supplying americans with drugs, we are not going to provide you with federal assistance. that's the second group. in the third is really a run treatment and rehabilitation, we're going to support people who are using drugs, you want to provide them with services, whether it's health or medical services. this was a particular concern because soldiers were returning from vietnam, there was a significant concern that they would be addicted to heroin. there is a federal interest in making sure they did not flood the streets, whether homeless or whatever. nixon a particular concern because soldiers were returning from vietnam, there

so finally the new tree science is really moving public policy.and people often ask me since my book came out i've done a lot of talks and people ask me where is the city that really got it right and nobody would ever expected to be new york but i think it is really a template of how you use this new tree science and how you move forward with really restraining urban forests. as far as i know they are unique in having actually planted and million trees now honestly many of those trees are dead but the ones in the park because as you see and i think many of them were watered. even if third of them survived and grow out in the park in the woods that is really monumental in the scale of how much they have to ramp up they had been planting about 10,000 trees per year. very impressive. very impressive. the other thing that they did was that they started by targeting poor neighborhoods and i should say vanessa mentioned that i started the tree trust and i was so impressed by the i know experience of any of this at all. the woman who started there. actua

in this instance, it was not the public policy of the united states that was in question. the fact is, there was a covert activity that was going absolutely contrary to the public policy of the united states that was set by the president himself. >> the others? >> the other should be permitted. >> the key to the system is it ought to be able to adapt to the management style of different presidents. we have had some, as john had some, as john said, a laid-back style. what happened in this case is the system did not compensate for the management style of the president. , ask enoughperhaps questions. it was incumbent upon the other participants in the system to ensure that the president was absolutely clear about what was going on. there should have been bells ringing, lights flashing, and so on, so that there was no question, not to try to steer him, but no question what the consequences of him pursuing this policy was. >> let me put it this way. the policy was a wrong policy. and it was the president's policy. aboutere's no question what he felt deeply about that policy and

also learning about workout the triangle center as the director and associate professor fromthank public policy schools banks for your time. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on. . >> why was he the most important lawyer of of twentieth century? . . >> black voting in mississippi went from 5.3% to 6.7 percent, that's it. that's what they what they got for two years of beatings and arrests. >> sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m., and real america. the 1982 pbs two pbs documentary, the regulators focusing on pollution regulation >> congressman paul rogers a member of the 1970 clean clean air act was now revising that law. although a great deal have been accomplished the anderson slides were alarming evidence that the parks were still unprotected. >> at 630 the movement in groups that were part of the counter culture that was part of it in the 60s and 70s. people that produce, a more the kind of people that you think we should be interested in a scholars. only want to talk but but is not so much the counterculture is spectacle, like a series of iconic events or six rates liberty figures, but as

i want to understand the public's policy and the right issues here. >> you go to the men or the women's room, what does this have to do with any decision of this back and forth of obama to trump. which room are you supposed to come into? >> these anti-trans bathroom bills are not about bathrooms, they're about whether or not we want and believe that transgenders people exist in the states. >> it is about us existing in public space and folks who opposed us having access to facilities know that all the things they claim don't actually happen. it is really about us existing and erasing trans people. if we look at states like california and the bill that was signed into law by jerry brown in 2013 and implementing three years ago january 1st, it basically allowed trans students in the state of california that's consistent to how we identify and nothing horrible has happened. what has indeed happened is that trans students feel supported by their schools and administration and gives them space to thrive. that's what we should want for all of our youths spaces to thrive. >> you are a great re

really thought seriously about marijuana decriminalization as a political strategy and appropriate public policy. in the second chapter when i went to washington dc, that is kind of how i was funneled into marijuana specifically. i thought i was going to write this broad drug history that would probably end up taking me 50 years to get my phd but decided to narrow it to marijuana. >> are there any students or doctors in this field? >> for sure. i definitely think -- as we think about the significance of mass incarceration and criminal justice policy, there's a new generation of scholars who are really interested in exploring these issues, and that's one of the reasons i came to the subject matter as well. i am definitely interested in looking to the next generation of scholarships. >> beyond this research in marijuana and your doctoral research, what other areas of history would you like to focus on? >> wow, that's a great question.

something that most of us will not admit , i am prejudiced -- >> sunday night, the president of the public policy organization -- was a guest on washington journal in august 2016 wayne gary called. she talks about that interaction and her follow-up. >> partner reason is that you can remember this is august. we have had this sort of racially charged summer with donald's campaign, black lives matter, police shootings, tragic events in baton rouge, dollars. it was really a time when people felt like all they were seeing on television was bad news and here was first a white man admitting that he was prejudiced which for people of color was, we just said, finally. >> sunday night on q&a. night, radio talkshow host hugh hewitt talks about his latest book, the fourth way: the conservative playbook. he is interviewed by a new daily news columnist paired >> what did the gop do to avoid this sort of spitting on their power and not make the most of this opportunity which could be over in two years? >> the democrats had a long time. did did the stimulus, they obamacare and dodd frank and all of

the director is of the san ford school of public policy. thank you for your time. mr. wyden: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: madam president, the

it's an early mistake in terms of the execution and the public policy is right and they hopefully learned from it. certainly the execution of the supreme court nominee announcement was flawless and kept it secret so they have come a long way in the first ten days or so. >> congressman you're the chairman for the committee on oversight and government reform. you do all sorts of investigations, 43 items have been listed in a proposed agenda for what you want to look into. will you be looking into any of donald trump's possible conflicts of interest? >> well, the items that we listed are broad strokes. this is the trump administration so by definition all of those 43 items are going to be about what's going on in the trump administration. now we're obviously going to have to look back if you're going to look at what the government has been doing that will be on the obama administration. i will deal with the situations one at a time. i am not going to personally target the president. i didn't do that with barrack obama. but as issues come up we'll deal with them one at a time. >> well, democr