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

for more than this, i'm joined by joshua shifting some senior fellow at the cato institute and associate professor at the university of maryland. thank you for joining us. so donald trump supposedly help. thank you. donald trump says he hopes the world be over in the next 6 months, but the question is, what would an acceptable and look like for russia and what would it look like for ukraine? well, we have to distinguish between the ideal and the pragmatic. when we talk about acceptability, i think for russia, the acceptable, the ideal acceptable would be essentially control over ukraine. not necessarily incorporating ukraine into russia, but controller for ukrainian politics of ukrainian geo politics. and certainly no membership in nato for ukraine, where it's for ukraine. obviously, this is a desired, there's a desire to reclaim the last territories and the don bass, as well as the desirability of gaining if that admission into nato. certainly the gold standard, then security guarantees. i think pragmatically, if there's something in the middle that we might see is acceptable. but those

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. ming 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

assistance you as president ronald reagan and as senior fellow at the washington think tank the cato institute. the thanks so much for coming back on to 44 years ago today that your boss 0 boss, reagan was inaugurated. i mean, you were in the beltway on saturday, is going underground. i spoke diploma. congressman, dennis could say that you ran actually a presidential candidate for our of a junior who has been appointed to a trump cabinet position, was going to be in the government. what do you get from? what's your feeling about how trump is going to rain in the appointees that despise him? perhaps, based on what you've seen in the confirmation hearings. and these very is some would say if you, if you're a big mega republican, very strange appointments like marco rubio is national security advisor, welts even is new added to ca radcliffe, always, nobody's quite, certainly assume he learned his lesson from the 1st i administration it when you nominate people if you don't monitor them closely, they go off and do their own agenda. part of this i think, is the fact that he's really not consistent

assistant to you as president ronald reagan and senior fellow at the washington think deck the cato institute. dog, thanks so much for coming back on to 44 years ago today that your boss 0 boss, reagan was inaugurated. i mean, you were in the beltway on saturdays going underground. i spoke to a former congressman, the dentist could say that you ran actually a presidential campaign prior of k junior, who's been appointed to a trump cabinet position. who's going to be in the government? what do you get from? what's your feeling about how trump is going to rain in the appointees that despise him? perhaps, based on what you've seen in the confirmation hearings. and these very is some would say, if you, if you're a big mega republican, very strange appointments like marco rubio is national security advisor, welts and even is new added to ca radcliffe, all these nominees as well. i certainly assume that he learned his lesson from the 1st i administration it when you nominate people, if you don't monitor them closely, they go off and do their own agenda. part of this, i think, is the fact that he's

. >> now by the immigration studies director at the cato institute. welcome to washington journal. ank 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 forei

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 the

i asked romina boccia, who is director of budget and entitlement policy at the cato institute, if sheion coming. this week, we're still in the celebratory phase with a slew of executive orders, but there's already murmurs in congress about what to do with the need to raise the debt ceiling before this summer. and of course, there's also the issue of keeping the us federal government funded past march 14th. there are a lot of republicans that want to see significant deficit reduction, with the us debt already being excessively high at 100% of gdp. trump doesn't seem too keen on that. and so there's now discussions that he may be working with democrats to perhaps pair an increase in the debt ceiling with funding for the california wildfires. yeah, exactly. i mean, that's one example of a recent event that will be hugely costly on so many levels. to what extent will elon musk and his department all about increasing departmental efficiency within federal government impact all of this? well, the latest executive order setting up a doge within the white house provides it with much more narr

here with the former special assistance you as president ronald reagan and senior fellow at the cato institute, doug, find the a doug guy and then to find one, you mentioned a 100 by the laptop i should say, going underground on us election day. some time back, had rudy giuliani on had them air full of air in new york. and i'm afraid to say even we couldn't believe the laptop that he showed on this program. i think we can be forgiven for that because it was such a explosive story, but when it comes to bringing to just as all those who live about to try to make out, it didn't happen that there was no role of dividing. so crime family as regards ukraine and the sense to ship that takes place in your country. do you expect to do you expect trump to really reject your country again so that it abides by the 1st amendment again, and we don't see the kind of censorship that is going on for us now in violation. gross violations on would say of your constitution as well. i think we're certainly going to see action taken to prevent the government agencies from pressuring digital companies to suddenly ce

. >> up next, a discussion on executive orders, hosted by the cato institute. >> thank you for joining us today. president trump will be inaugurated in 11 days. upon taking office he will have enormous powers to impact aspects of american public policy. nowhere is the increase of executive power more apparent than in the use of executive orders, agreements and edicts. article one of the constitution vests congress with the power to legislate from the confines of numerator powers. article two vests the president with executive power which encompasses the duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and the president 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 by as presidents usurped more powers legislated in nature and effect. "stroke of the pen, law of the land, kind of cool." the informal definition is accurate. american law does not define an executive order specifically despite it being the president's m

think tank the cato institute dog, thanks so much for coming back on to 44 years ago today that your boss 0 boss, reagan was inaugurated. i mean, you were in the beltway on saturday, is going underground. i spoke to a former congressman, dennis can say that you ran actually a presidential candidate prior of k junior, who's been appointed to a trump cabinet position, was going to be in the government. what do you get from? what's your feeling about how trump is going to rain in the appointees that despise him? perhaps based on what you've seen and confirmation hearings. and these very is some would say, if you, if you're a big mega republican, very strange appointments like marco rubio is national security advisor, welts and even is new hesitancy a radcliffe for these nominees. well, i certainly assume that he learned his lesson from the 1st uh your administration. it when you nominate people, if you don't monitor them closely, they go off and do the run. the agenda hardy, this i think, is the fact that he's really not consistent in his thinking. he's, you know, he's willing to interve

can pick the brains now of romina boccia who is director of budget and entitlement policy at the cato instituted taking the various executive orders and announcements of what's to come?— orders and announcements of what's to come? this way, we are in a celebratory _ what's to come? this way, we are in a celebratory phase - what's to come? this way, we | are in a celebratory phase with the slew of executive orders but there is already a congress about what to do with the need to raise the debt ceiling before the summer and is also theissue before the summer and is also the issue of keeping the us federal government funded, passed march ia. a lot of republicans that want to see significant deficit reduction with the us debt already being excessively high at hundred % of gdp, trump doesn't seem too keen on that and so there is now discussions that he may be working with democrats to perhaps an increase in the debt ceiling with funding for the california wildfires. exactly. that's one _ california wildfires. exactly. that's one example - california wildfires. exactly. that's one example of- califor

you might have seen the cato institute give recommendations to doge. what they suggested our cuts to social security and medicare. that's not the kind of thing that we think regular people want so we are really worried. all people who are looking at the possible cuts should be as well. host: you mentioned a conflict of interest previously, did you have a similar set up for the biden and obama administration, previous administrations? guest: absolutely. we look very closely a topic of interest across the board, filing complaints with the office of government ethics, sending them into congress, the office of congressional ethics. we are not partisan in our attention to ethical concerns. but i will say that the folks were coming in now give us far greater pause for the reasons we talked about at the top. we have never seen an administration with this level of concentrated wealth, former corporate ties and the ability to benefit personally from what they do. for choices they make. if you look at trump himself, on sunday just before his inauguration he launc

bier directive immigration studies at the cato institute. as a ba in political science from grove city college in pennsylvania. finally we have ms. vaughan director of policy studies were the center on immigration studies. her area of expertise is immigration policy and operations covering topics such as unaccompanied alien children, visa programs, immigration benefits and immigration enforcement. ms. vaughan is a master's degree from georgetown university bachelor's degree from washington college in maryland. i want to welcome our witnesses but thanked them for appearing to again by swearing you in would you please rise and raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury the testimony about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge information and belief selby god? but the record reflect that refr in the affirmative. please a written testimony enters the record in its entirety. will begin with mr. fabbricatore. turn on your microphone. >> good morning chairman mcclintock and members of the subcommittee.

your colleagues are eyeing cuts of the federal food program staff that would save $22 billion the cato institutestaff 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 a small ma

the only institution to critique some of our research on tiktok. 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

would not be interesting to the incoming administration at all on trade, but since this is the cato institute and we stand on principles i'm going to go through some of those very quickly. 10779. these are proclamations issued by both the trump and biden administration that is put into effect tariffs on aluminum, tariffs on steel and tariffs on certain solar panels imports into the united states, tariffs issued by the trump administration first time outright, strengthened by the biden administration or put in effect by the biden administration. so i do not expect the incoming trump administration to revoke any of the proclamations that they put into effect. another series of executive orders that have in effect on trade, of course, the buy and hire american requirements. these should, of course, be revoked and basically raise the prices and cost of for americans seeking construction domestically and also most especially for federal contractors and the federal government to build. so i'm of two minds about this in some ways. of course, i don't want any trade restrictions and i don't want the f

buyer, to be clear, you are with the cato institute my republican colleagues generally love they always quote you and talk about you when we talk about budget or fiscal affairs and so on. they don't like what you say about immigration and they don't like your message i think they were completely stymied and flabbergasted when you said that things had improved marginally under bribe but gone way south under donald trump. explain why immigration policy was such a nightmare in the first trump administration. mr. bier: we basically didn't have an immigration system by the end of the trump administration. he basically banned all immigration from -- legal immigration from abroad, refugees down the 2%. immigrant visas down 78%. nonimmigrant visas down 80%. we didn't have an immigration system available to people at the end of the trump administration. if you look at what happened with convicted criminals crossing the border, the lack of focus on prioritization of convicted criminals in the interior, yes. the immigration system under the trump administration led to a disaster. ultimately it too

and we'll hear from a senior fellow from the cato institute, center for constitutional studies and writesidely 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 to

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

you might have seen the cato institute give recommendations to doge. what they suggested our cuts to social security and medicare. that's not the kind of thing that we think regular people want so we are really worried. all people who are looking at the possible cuts should be as well. host: you mentioned a conflict of interest previously, did you have a similar set up for the biden and obama administration, previous administrations? guest: absolutely. we look very closely a topic of interest across the board, filing complaints with the office of government ethics, sending them into congress, the office of congressional ethics. we are not partisan in our attention to ethical concerns. but i will say that the folks were coming in now give us far greater pause for the reasons we talked about at the top. we have never seen an administration with this level of concentrated wealth, former corporate ties and the ability to benefit personally from what they do. for choices they make. if you look at trump himself, on sunday just before his inauguration he launc

you might have seen the cato institute give recommendations to doge. they suggested our cuts to social security and medicare. that's not the kind of thing that we think regular people want so we are really worried. all people who are looking at the possible cuts should be as well. host: you mentioned a conflict of interest previously, did you have a similar set up for the biden and obama administration, previous administrations? guest: absolutely. we look very closely a topic of interest across the board, filing complaints with the office of government ethics, sending them into congress, the office of congressional ethics. we are not partisan in our attention to ethical concerns. but i will say that the folks were coming in now give us far greater pause for the reasons we talked about at the top. we have never seen an administration with this level of concentrated wealth, former corporate ties and the ability to benefit personally from what they do. for choices they make. if you look at trump himself, on sunday just before his inauguration he launched

wow the sort of anti voucher movement does not a heritage type group and they have a cato 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 back and t

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 "stroke