started here on the news you need to know this mitch mcconnell blanked
yesterday senate republicans drop their filibuster and allowed in opera dot vote
extending the bush tax cuts for ninety eight percent of americans
airboat of fifty one a forty eight with no republican supporting the measure
democrats extended the bush tax cuts for all americans making less than two
hundred fifty thousand dollars a year
uh... bill proposed by republicans to extend the bush tax cuts for the
wealthiest two percent of americans
was defeated
does the burden ships two house republicans
who plan to vote the coming weeks on legislation to extend the bush tax cuts
for the rich is two percent of americans as well
a move the senate has just rejected and move the president obama has promised
to veto
so now the only viable option of rent tax hikes on all americans at the end of
the year
is the senate's bill which calls on the rodney super rich in america to pay
their fair share in taxes again
and call your member of congress at the republican
and tell him or her did not hold
middle-class tax cuts
in screwed me rs five hundred days it now passed since the fukushima nuclear
crisis a jerk
and began
and one thing's clear
it's still an extremely dangerous situation
japanese newspapers reporting the plant operators still face a number of hurdles
before they can decommissioned the plant
officially close the book on the crisis
and it could take decades
those hurdles include trying to determine why eight million bacarella
serb radioactive cesium
still continue to pour out of reactor number two every single our
also half of all the critical thermometers on-site
are malfunctioning because they've been damaged by high temperatures and high
humidity within the plant
there are numerous cooling water leaks
plus water contaminated with the radiation is accumulating in the
basement of the reactor building
and plant operators still have no clue how they're gonna remove massive pools
of highly radioactive spent fuel from the ropes of the reactors
at the newspaper reports quote
now will that work be unprecedented but the work will also have to be done in an
environment of high radiation levels unquote
pollen and it's a situation of reactor four which could collapse at any moment
triggering it worldwide nuclear disaster worse than chernobyl
let's hope nuclear regulators in america are paying attention
in the best of the reston he is president obama spoke tough words on gun
control wednesday night
in a speech at the bourbon lady new orleans
one week after colorado massacre the president purged common-sense gun
controls like
all criminal background checks
for gun purchasers
and new measures to ensure the monthly bill can't buy guns
president also hinted that he'd support a ban on assault rifles sane
a_k_ forty-sevens belonging as a soldiers not lanza criminals input
president obama sounded more like senator obama
but a much tougher stance on gun control
supporting a ban on all semiautomatic weapons as a state senator
as a u_s_ senator voting down legislation to protect gun manufacturers
and sellers from lawsuits
when someone is killed using their products
despite the conspiracy theories coming from the n_r_a_ and other gunner
interest groups
and rights in america have actually expanded and the president obama
let's hope members of congress grow a spine
say no to the n_r_a_'s blood money enact some much-needed gun controls to curb
this epidemic of gun violence in america
chicago is now the latest city to approve a resolution to amend the
constitution to overturn the citizens united
court decision
the resolution approved unanimously by the city council states we the mayor and
the members of the chicago city council of the city of chicago call upon the
united states congress
to propose a consent to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment
to overturn citizens united the federal election commission
chicago now joins two hundred eighty cities and twelfth in six states that
have to prove similar resolutions to amend the constitution
your city involved to go to move to amend
new numbers out
showed just how damaging pennsylvania's new voter suppression heidi law will be
to our democracy
according to the philadelphia city paper twenty percent of legal voters in that
state
do not
at the kind of photo i_d_ required to vote under the new law
and in the city of philadelphia loan a whopping forty three percent of owning
population will be ineligible to vote as a result of law
first the jori those will be barred from voting are minorities
seniors students
and low-income americans people who generally vote
for democrats
which of course is why republican state speaker the house mike to reside
so that new voter suppression ideologue helped deliver the election and around
it
it was a joke
it's time to fight for a federal right to vote in america
and putting end to this partisan attack on democratic voters difficult brothers
alec organization is pushing
nationwide
when it comes to auto sales the united states is leading the rest of the world
automakers in china india and europe are struggling falling sales
at the united states is surging
the first half of this year auto sales in china rose a mere two point nine
percent
but in the u_s_ auto sales are up fifteen percent
party yes with the u_s_ is on track to sell fourteen and a half million cars
this year
most in five years
wasn't too long ago in detroit was on the verge of collapse
president obama stepped in and took bold action to rescue american auto
manufacturers all republicans like that ronnie criticized his efforts
now we know the right course of action
that's the way it is today thursday
july twenty sixth
twenty twelve
i'm tom hartman