with that, the honorable tom graves. rep. graves: welcome to the aei family and community. thanks for tuning in. i was honored to be considered to kick this off. what a great conversation to have about government funding, appropriations and fiscal responsibility. then the old term earmarks slips out. it is important. it is important moving ahead. as kevin mentioned, i was elected just over a decade ago in the tea party, a fiscal conservative. as a state legislature ahead of that for 80 -- 8 years, i had a strong record of fiscal responsibility. i was put on the appropriations committee. our leadership at the time with john boehner and eric cantor and kevin mccarthy and others wanted to see fiscal conservatives move to the appropriations committee to begin shaping how republicans would govern. one of the first rules imposed by the republicans was to remove the earmark component in the house rules. it was an abused process. a a lot of campaigns were lost and won based on that broken promise -- process. over the next decade, we all got to begin analyzing that process. one, was

. >> later today, former republican congressman tom graves participates in a discussion about making changes to legislative earmarks. the american enterprise institute hosts. watch live at 1:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span.org, or full coverage on our new video app. icki, the education workforce and income security director of the government accountability office . here to talk with us this morning about their new report on hate in u.s. schools and violence in u.s. schools. jacqueline nowicki, welcome to "washington journal." guest: thank you for having me. host: first, tell me the overall mission of the government accountability office. guest: gao is a nonpartisan congressional agency. we are tasked with providing objective fact-based analysis for both sides of the aisle. gao analyzes and audits programs and provides information to congress for them to use in their decision-making. we are not policymakers ourselves. host: the way your reports are generated, you get a request from a lawmaker or somebody else within the administration to follow-up on this particular issue? guest: correct.

. >> later today, former republican congressman tom graves participates in a discussion about making changes to legislative earmarks. the american enterprise institute hosts. watch live at 1:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span.org, or full coverage on our new video app. icki, the education workforce and income security director of the government accountability office . here to talk with us this morning about their new report on hate in u.s. schools and violence in u.s. schools. jacqueline nowicki, welcome to "washington journal." guest: thank you for having me. host: first, tell me the overall mission of the government accountability office. gu

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it seems like this is going to hit a wall here perhaps others according to senator tom cotton but the in this in the grave. what it says is that it's going to have 10 years worth of taxes and other money raising undertaking to finance three years of new social spending. nobody in their right mind imagines that that socialist spending will phase out after three years. things like that never happen in washington. in living memory. everybody knows it's going to go on much longer than that therefore, as the cbo said, after it estimated the cost. if the programs were made public -- permanent which they most certainly would be, would be in the neighborhood of 3 trillion added to the deficit. that's where we are. they won't get manchin with that i don't think. they have to cut the spending back and we will see if they are willing to do it. >> bret: jen psaki white house press secretary seemed pretty pretornado with the premise that the cbo would score the house bill even though it's going to be changed. take a listen. >> what we are talking about here is a fake cbo score that ♪ based on the actual bill that anyb

that is spider-man's tom holland making good on a promise he made to a real-life super hero, bridger walker, getting a lift in full costume. last year when he was 6 he was gravely injured by a dog when trying to save his little sister. holland promises to bring him to the spider-man set, and, boy, did he deliver. >> how cool is that? >> congratulations to all of them. all right, cnn's coverage continues right now. >>> a very good christmas eve eve. good morning to you. i'm jim sciutto. despite its fast spread across the u.s., here is the good news this holiday season. new studies, several of them, show that the omicron coronavirus variant may be less likely to send you to the hospital and it may cause less severe illness than previous strains of the virus. right now omicron has been detected in all 50 u.s. states, as expected. it accounts now and very quickly for at least 90% of new covid infections in the u.s. still, americans are keeping their holiday plans and the president and public health officials say that is safe for we should note the vaccinated. today is expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the holiday season. we just learned the tsa scree

that is spider-man's tom holland making good on a promise he made to a real-life super hero, bridger walker, getting a lift in full costume. last year when he was 6 he was gravelyo the spider-man set, and, boy, did he deliver. >> how cool is that? >> congratulations to all of them. all right, cnn's coverage continues right now. >>> a very good christmas eve eve. good morning to you. i'm jim sciutto. despite its fast spread across the u.s., here is the good news this holiday season. new studies, several of them, show that the omicron coronavirus variant ma