Sept. 8, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where term limits for Congress could become all the buzz again. Fred Lucas looks into it. Conservatives steam as the top IRS taxman, fending off impeachment, appeals to House Republicans. Philip Wegmann has the story. Journalists assume risks while Russia and Ukraine clash, Nolan Peterson reports from Kyiv. Plus: James Roberts on the crumbling of socialism in Brazil, and Jim DeMint on unaccountable zombies walking the halls of Congress.
"We have seen the disastrous effects of what happens when politicians stay in Washington for too long," says Sen. David Vitter, who is pushing for a constitutional amendment on term limits.
Legislators who lose their seats in November, but vote on major bills in a lame duck, have little incentive to please their constituents, and a bit more incentive to please Wall Street and K Street.
"You're going to give the most hated official in the Obama administration a free platform, without testifying under oath, to defend himself and his targeting of conservative groups?" says Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan.
Ukraine has spent much of the past quarter century under oligarchic thug rule, in which free and objective journalism was often seen as a nuisance to be controlled and manipulated—and sometimes a threat worth eliminating—by those in power.
"Everything that I have and do is based on that collective bargaining agreement that I have basically been forced to accept if I want to work at Ford Motor Co.," says Terry Bowman, an autoworker in Michigan.
Government spending programs only managed to pull Brazilians out of poverty temporarily, through cash transfers and welfare benefits that ended up nearly bankrupting the country and plunging it into its deepest recession since the 1930s.
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