ta marvin here on the news you need to know that's we could be just hours away
from filibuster reform in the senate
aside senate majority leader harry reid said he's getting republicans
twenty-four to thirty-six powers to come to the table
angry and some sort of filibustered form bought he said
republicans don't do it
and proceedings are
democrats will fight to change the rules of the senate and curb some of the
obstructionism we've seen over the last four years the aperture amber
breed must choose between two options for filibuster reform
vision and vicious reform plan promoted by senators jeff maclean tom udall
would put in place eight talking filibuster requiring the minority to
stand on the floor of the senate and actually talked the entire time they
wish to filibuster legislation
and there's a more moderate reform plan which preserves the minorities solid
filibuster
but cuts down how many times they could filibuster a particular piece of
legislation
almost progressive organizations have endorsed the markley udall talking
filibustering form
it's unlikely sender really has the votes among democrats to pass such a
plan
and he will likely settle on a more moderate approach
but if democrats want to sweep the midterm elections in two years
and retake the house representatives and they have to pass legislation out of the
senate show the american people their agenda
differs from the agenda of house republicans
strong filibuster reforms may be the only way to accomplish this call your
senators today
and tell them to support the markley udall talking filibuster reform
in screwed news labor strikes are now a thing of the past as matt burning has
discovered working people are going on strike nearly as much as they used forty
years ago
despite the fact that they've suffered through thirty years of flat in wages
and watching their jobs be shipped overseas
forty years ago there was an average of nearly three hundred work stoppages
involving more than a thousand workers every single year
in two thousand nine that number dropped all the way down to five
his five major work stoppages here
on the flip side blackouts are on the rise
blackouts occur when management watch workers out of the job may now represent
a record percentage of work stoppages around the nation
this is the result of west of my purse in the workplace
stemming from conservatism fast enough union since the time of reagan
when unions decline so too does the middle class a share national income
the billionaire classes absolutely neutered organized labor
that's why it's so important to support and nurture those few labor strikes
we've seen recently
for the wall our workers to the festive mood food workers in new york city
the chicago teachers union
working people get organizing it active progressive change file
in the best of the rest of the news as much as republicans want to call the
president's inaugural address
far left
the reality is the president is just agreeing with the majority the american
people
president's speech featured
off or marches to gay civil rights
to a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
and to action on climate change
where the american people stand on these issues
uh... u_s_a_ today poll showed that fifty three percent of americans approve
of marriage equality a_b_c_ washington post poll showed that fifty seven
percent of americans approve a pathway to citizenship for immigrants and eight
p poll found that eighty percent of americans believe climate change israel
it's happening
and it's a serious problem
america has been a bluff leaning nation all along
it's just been led astray by thirty two years of reaganism
now the nation's finally finding itself again under the leadership of block
obama
america is is liberal nation that has been since its founding public ans me to
come to terms with that where their party will goats stinks like the weeks
did
on tuesday u_s_ court of appeals ruled in favor of the drug enforcement agency
in decline to change the official drug classification of marijuana
currently the d_e_a_ classifies marijuana schedule one drug
which is reserved for the most dangerous types of drugs that have absolutely no
medicinal benefit
bad drugs like cocaine opium and morphine are listed as schedule two
drugs between that they are safer and have more medicinal value the marijuana
the players in the case presented more than two hundred peer-reviewed studies
showed the benefits of medicinal marijuana
governor lincoln chafee in rhode island
governor christy good waar
in washington
both called for marijuana to be rescheduled
at the core wasn't swayed ultimately ruling that they are obligated to do for
should be agencies interpretation of controlled substances
it's clear that the battle for sensible drug reform will not be one on a federal
level
it will be one in the states
and has already been one washington state column
and finally the n_r_a_ is so full of itself that it decided to deliver f
facial response last night
president obama's inaugural address
the organization's foaming at the mall c_e_o_ wayne lapierre
defended his organization's absolute ism
and called it they virtue
elsa spread more lies about the gun control plans coming out of the white
house saying
balita reasons for that federalist adarsh to tax from or take them
first neither is true
out once as president obama called for guns to be taxed or confiscated
and the real reason for tracking firearms is for law enforcement v more
able better able keep track of stolen guns
and a trace guns used in crimes back to their owners
more wayne lapierre in the n_r_a_'s speak up
the more we see just how how does such they are with the mainstream of america
the best tv ad for gun control
split wayne lapierre speeches over
and that's the way it is today wednesday january twenty third
twenty thirty
i'm john hartman