Nov. 22, 2016
Good morning from Washington, D.C., where memories appear to be foggy about a vote a decade ago where Democrats supported a wall on the border. Think lawmakers should hold off from enacting any major legislation until Donald Trump and the other newly elected lawmakers are in office? Beverly Hallberg coaches you on how to be persuasive on the issue. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on the history of presidential salaries and Josh Siegel on what Trump could do to roll back Obama's environmental actions.
Rep. Keith Ellison has said he wants the Democratic Party to come out against the Second Amendment, compared the 9/11 attacks to the Nazi Reichstag fire, and was affiliated with the controversial Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
Trump has indicated he will pursue a dramatically different direction than Obama, one that relies on industry and market forces to continue the U.S.' progress toward a cleaner energy future, and removes the government from much of that role.
In an interview Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer declared, "We're not going to help [Trump] build his wall." Schumer was one of the Democrats to support construction of a wall in 2006.
"The people making these allegations don't know Jeff Sessions," says William Smith, the first Republican African-American chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It's up to all of us to make sure that Capitol Hill knows Americans think legislation should be dealt with when voters have a say.
George Washington initially refused compensation when he was elected president of the United States.
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