• Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Ranking Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee

    Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Ranking Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee

    On Newsmakers, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, discussed the President’s jobs plan, environmental regulations, the investigation into solar energy company Solyndra and the deficit-reducing “super committee.”

    Rep. Waxman released a website calling this House of Representative the most anti-environment in history. He said on Newsmakers that the Republicans’ efforts to roll back environmental regulations are “a public health issue” and should not be viewed only through the lens of cost to industry.

    Rep. Waxman said he was disappointed in the President’s decision to roll back ozone regulations, but he said the White House promised to stand firm against Republican efforts to deregulate other environmental regulations, including on toxic air pollutants. More »

    • Q&A; looks at Wounded Soldier Documentary

      Q&A looks at Wounded Soldier Documentary

      This week on Q&A;, our guests are Ivan Kander and Rob Jones. Kander is the director of a 30 minute documentary film about his friend, Rob Jones.  The movie details the events leading up to July 22, 2010 when Marine Corporal Rob Jones was severely wounded in the Helmand province of Afghanistan while on routine patrol.

      Ivan Kander went to middle school and high school with Rob Jones, and decided to document Rob's life as he learned to cope with the loss of his legs and the rehabilitation of his body.  The movie explores three phases in Rob’s journey beginning with the story of his injury, the progression of his recovery, and his ultimate return to every day living back in the United States. Ivan discusses how he went about making the movie, his motivations for doing it, and where and how the documentary may be viewed. Rob describes his wounds and his reasons for participating in the movie, as well as his plans for the future. More »

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      • Deficit & Economy

        Joint Deficit Committee Holds First Meeting

        Greenspan, heads of the IMF & World Bank all appeared on C-SPAN this week

        Joint Deficit Committee Holds First Meeting

        Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf was the deficit reduction committee's first witness as they held their first hearing this week.  He told the twelve-member "super committee" that CBO endorses a plan that would allow for additional deficit spending and tax cuts in the short term: “Credible steps to reduce long term debt would have short term positive effects, government spending now and long term restraint later is ok,"  Elmendorf told lawmakers. 

        Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles held a news conference this week on a letter they wrote to the deficit committee. “We urge you to ‘go big’ and develop a large-scale debt reduction package sufficient to stabilize the debt as a share of the economy,” they wrote.  Simpson and Bowles chaired the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which released a proposal last year to cut $4 trillion from the deficit over the next ten years. More »

      • Road to the White House

        GOP Candidates React to Obama's Jobs Plan

        GOP Candidates React to Obama's Jobs Plan

        As President Obama continues to tout his $447 billion jobs plan, Republican presidential candidates reacted to his proposal and addressed a variety of issues to supporters this past week.

        Texas Governor Rick Perry spoke Wednesday about his personal religious beliefs and said that America should be guided by “Christian values.”  “It is important that [pastors] stand in the pulpit every day and defend those values, those Christian values,” Perry said. “America is going to be guided by some set of values — the question is going go to be — whose values? I believe that … it’s the Christian values that this country was based upon.” More »


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