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Our guest bill read path the Izzy former national libertarian national party immediate past treasurer currently the at large representative on the national committee to make it electric bill. He gets but I'm one of five that large reps not the only one but I. A connect so. Again a unit to space and we talked about the old. I'll come off its I got a text here. A bill that says the Libertarian Party is but he plan is basically every man for himself is is that which you guys are saying. No I don't think so it'll I think that. I mean do you do if its people are free do they sit by themselves alone all the time now. That is that is not decay but it is the voluntary system there's definitely going to be charity and voluntary system. I think that that you bite that we would increase the supply of healthcare I'd like to know why people who are up. Shall we say competent and not Smart enough to go to medical school. Why are they going to medical school in other there shouldn't be that we we ought to have more medical school in more training. Because we've got a shortage is my understanding in the future healthcare professionals. And and in the past there have been limits you know basically on the proper medical schools in and the number positions in medical school that ought not to be the case. I happen to note someone. Who scored in the ninth percentile. On the impact exam medical college admission test and is having trouble getting in the medical school now I don't know the full story behind. But but I know of instances where people finding it difficult to get into medical school would truly be regulated. System I think. Pick the anybody who is it is. Potentially competent enough to be a healthcare professional. Shouldn't have an opportunity to it to be trying to as we we certainly need. More positions and other medical personal going forward. So essentially would which are saying it is. All of this would be left up to the insurance companies to decide on pre existing conditions returning the etc. it's that are turning eight. Again I think that they're intact but I said earlier there were insurance development. That were happening in the private sector to proper people. In the future so depicted on insurance that the condition develop it could buy insurance at standard rates. And this sort of Spain was absolutely want. By the passage of the Affordable Care Act. In twenty tent and there are all sorts of development that could occur and I think would occur in a more cried it. Privately oriented medical marketplace that are not going to Kirk. Win again everything is being order from Washington according cup which is. And things of that nature. Millman asking this because some people are asking is well what exactly and and I know you guys are trying to get your message out to for the last election. Woods a Libertarian Party stand for or represent. It's a combination of conservative positions on economic issues and liberal positions on social issues but there is they were being. And that is we want to reduce the use of government co worker in society consequently we want to reduce government spending. Reduce taxation and have a real respect for civil liberties and that's. Big picture that's what we stand for. So that's basically along the lines we do show earlier this week that said. Most people most voters identified themselves as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. So that's kind of along the lines of which are saying I. It yet I would say though it doesn't seem to manifest itself that way ultimately end. Election results but I do you think that there is pretty significant. Percentage of the population Andy growing percentage of the population. That would agree with that. All right sold. Do you seize the Libertarian Party gaining ground now especially is what's happening in Washington with health care isn't that a good thing for you guys that we're having arguments. Well I think that it's. It's not just that I think it's a number of things right now including dissatisfaction with Donald Trump. As president dissatisfaction with Hillary Clinton as the other all party nominee for president. I think it's a number of things right now that the libertarian parties that number of registered voters across the United States people are registered as libertarians. Is growing. While it's absolutely shrieking for the Democrats and Republicans they'll certainly our voting system. Single member plurality voting single member legislative districts Corson with the most votes wins. Sabres two party system I mean that's that's our voting system but essentially propped up the Republican and democratic parties that we are making headway. And more and more people are. Calling themselves libertarians. I used to get a twenty point like yours ago I would beat the question all Ole hole like what's the libertarian. But I think that less and less these days because. The word is getting now as to what libertarians stand pork. And more and more people are are coming to think of themselves as libertarians registering to vote libertarian and getting people with the military and party. Bill read. Path is our guest from the libertarian national party and world go take a good tickle your mark on a cell phones got a question about healthcare it mark thanks for calling WL. Right. Court should era it is. And congress work out here why is that they don't include them fail. And and and health care beat out. If they that they cannot ruler word about it together I'll grow because there are. Bill you wanna take that you want me to answer them. Well. Well that it's not just health care I mean day excluded themselves. From many pieces of legislation. I don't know how many probably thousands of pieces of legislation over the years it has been common. Congress to exempt itself. From that law. And the Republicans have put something into the obamacare bill that would put them all along obamacare and we we talked about this earlier this week too when they got around that. So that's why they're not on there because the president had threatened to put the ball there and it's that's a whole another topic to give him two more but yeah they they basically exempted themselves with it. All right thanks for the call mark Skoda love Matty and Baton Rouge hey Matt thanks for collender VW. And dark our our Western Europe and Panama by the year. Why do we. Incher dropped me feel like it in on though and now they're human or given a money. But no reason. When you add up all the money there and that your market leader eliminate there and they're but it. Have more money on what went money come out torture goes directly or are there any Q curve where I mean we got a lot more popular than higher. There are new out there and Mario are. Well I I think. What has happened slowly but surely is that. Help keep your insurance. Has become less and less. Insurance as it is typically bought I mean if if we had insurance for catastrophic. Occurrences. Then. You concede the point. You know I current account your paying money to health insurance company and then they're turning around and get to the doctor well the thing is that people should be paying. And on trivial amount out of their own pockets I mean the third party payers are huge part of the financial system yet that medical financial system in the United States and in 1960. It was roughly 60%. Of medical care payments to seeing from into the will now that sounds something like 11%. Third party payment is gone from about 50%. To 90%. Over the last fifty to sixty years and I can see your point I think that we ought to get back to a situation. We're people are paying for their small healthcare needs and take on insurance for. Bigger. Payments situations catastrophic. Medical within its and and get back to a more traditional. Meaning the insurance in our medical system. All right locker you don't. All right thank. Thank thank you Matt thanks for intranet WWL 504260187. New York and Texas that 87870. Anderson Tex coming saying ditched the insurance middleman. Locker last caller saying. Here's that's his libertarian is and gave us things like child labored reversal polluted they actually caught on fire no thanks would use say if that bill. No IE that note I certainly libertarians. Forcible think we. Need to have a clean environment bat that he is simply not the case cost benefit analyses need to be applied but I can assure you that libertarians. Do not think that. We should you know abusing and fired at. But and with respect child labor laws libertarians are not proposing to do away with child. Late August so that a city and think man distinction of the past and I I don't know anybody associated to libertarians. Party whose boats back. Another Texas what's your screen classic liberal and libertarians and I think you you probably get that question a lot right. Opting not much tried and I carry lip. Well I mean you can digitally classical music classic between liberal and the retirees 00 okay that the term liberal used to mean libertarian yours ago you know. Our book for two today media classical liberals I'd say the difference between. Modern day liberals and libertarians. Really is in the economic world that libertarians are. Conservative on economic issues between paper free market and light and government spending and regulation. While liberals tend to. One. More regulation and not be so much and paper economic freedom. All right bill read had anything else you wanted to let us know about. Libertarian party's plans for the future. Well we're we got the best ballot access coming out of the Johnson will campaign last year we've now got ballot status and 37 states. Including Louisiana and people can but urged people find out more about the party enjoyed incumbent ball to our web site is guilty dot org. All right. Bill read path former national chairman of libertarian national party immediate past treasurer and currently one of the Allard represented on the national committee. Thanks much for taking time with us here on WW Olin talking about these issues. Todd thank you for having me thank you very much.

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The moment was filled with political pomp and pageantry: Thousands of cheering supporters packed into an arena, a sea of poster board signs and a big announcement.

The Democrats walked away from me, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, standing beside President Trump, told his constituents Thursday night. I cant help you any more being a Democrat.

So, Justice said, the time for change had arrived: Hell be joining the Republican Party a statement that brought a wide smile to Trumps face.

The move by Justice, who on Friday officially changed his political affiliation, continued a trend in recent years that has seen Republicans dominate gubernatorial offices and state legislatures across the country. During the Obama administration, Democrats invested millions of dollars in bolstering organizational efforts in field operations and technology. But so far, it hasn't translated into significant victories at the state level.

With Justices flip, Republicans now hold 34 governorships, matching the partys all-time high in 1922. Moreover, Republicans control both the state legislatures and the governors mansions in 26 states, compared with total Democratic control in six states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In the other 18 states, power is divided among Republicans and Democrats.

Having control at the state level is vitally important, said Nathan L. Gonzales, editor of Inside Elections, a nonpartisan group that handicaps congressional and gubernatorial races nationwide. Governors and state legislatures have a strong hand in things like redistricting, which have consequences.

While parties historically lose ground when in control of the White House, Obama, in his two terms, saw losses in gubernatorial and state-level races that outpaced setbacks of his predecessors. In total, Democrats lost 12 governors seats while Obama was in office, compared with nine each for Presidents Bush and Clinton, based on an analysis by the Atlantic. Obama significantly exceeded his predecessors in losing state legislative seats, as Democrats handed over a total of 918 nationwide between 2009 and 2016, the NCSL said.

In a push to make inroads at the state level, former Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., with the support of Obama, helped launch the National Democratic Redistricting Committee in January. The group, which consists of members of the Democratic Governors Assn. and Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, aims to help the party win state-level races and, in turn, have an impact on redistricting battles in 2020.

Presidential elections are obviously important, but we lost sight of the fact that if you want to have a representative in Congress, youve got to make sure that you have state legislatures that are drawing districts that will yield a representative in Congress, Holder said in January during a speech before the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.

Rick Tyler, a longtime Republican political strategist who has worked on several state-level campaigns, said that for Trump whose approval numbers hover near 37% and whose support among Republicans is undergoing a slow decline it will be difficult to help his party maintain its advantages in state legislatures and governors offices.

In 2018, for example, Republicans will have to defend 27 of 38 governors seats, with several of those races in states that have a politically diverse electorate.

Its always difficult for the incumbent party that has the presidency to keep seats in state capitols and governors mansions, Tyler said Friday. Its especially difficult when you have a president who often bashes his own party.

In recent days, Trump has assailed Senate Republicans for failing to pass a measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act a key pillar of Trumps presidential campaign last year. Hes also castigated members of his party for passing a bill that places additional sanctions on Russia (though he ultimately signed it).

When you need to rally the troops, that doesnt help, Tyler said. That creates divisions in the party that wont help next year.

On Thursday night, however, Trump lauded Justices flip and shied away from targeting members of his party.

Having Big Jim as a Republican is such an honor, Trump said to deafening applause from those in attendance.

Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said Justices switch was another blow to the Democrats.

Gov. Justices announcement is just the latest rejection of a party that is leaderless from top to bottom and unable to find a positive, unifying message, she said in a statement.

In West Virginia, Justice, a grain farmer worth nearly $1.6 billion dollars, had been a lifelong Republican. But in 2015, Justice jumped into the gubernatorial race as a Democrat. He bested two primary challengers, then went on to win the general election by 7 percentage points over Republican Bill Cole, a state senator. (He plans to run for reelection this time as a Republican in 2020.)

Last year, the Democratic Governors Assn. doled out $1.5 million to help Justices candidacy. This week, the group was far from pleased.

Jim Justice deceived the voters of West Virginia when he ran as a Democrat eight months ago, Executive Director Elisabeth Pearson said. West Virginians have learned that they simply cant trust Jim Justice.

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With party switch in West Virginia, Republicans now have matched record number of governor's seats. Will it last? - Los Angeles Times

Perhaps most important, Senate Republicans have begun to stiffen their spines against Mr. Trump, who has spent the better part of his presidency alternatively ignoring, undermining or outright denouncing the efforts of Congress to legislate. On Thursday, before leaving on a monthlong recess, the Senate set up a system to prevent the president from appointing senior administration officials to posts that require confirmation in the senators absence.

Among its more notable successes this year, and against Mr. Trumps objections, Congress passed a tough Russia sanctions bill with a veto-proof majority, which the president begrudgingly signed this week. Congress also approved a law to help veterans get health care a bipartisan, bicameral, messy but ultimately successful effort that came together with zero involvement from the administration.

A complicated debt ceiling fight may be averted now that Mr. Trumps budget director, Mick Mulvaney, said on Thursday that Congress could lift the ceiling on the nations debts without having to make spending cuts in exchange.

There is more good happening here than people know about, said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee. He added that he expected further bipartisan agreement on various policy efforts now that the Senate has dropped the health care battle and Republicans are gaining momentum on a tax package that they desperately need to win. As for the role of the president in all that, I havent thought about it, he said.

Indeed, most of the coming efforts in Congress run counter to what the White House has suggested ought to happen.

On the health care front, many lawmakers are already busy figuring out a way to stabilize the individual health insurance market and to fund the cost-sharing subsidies that Mr. Trump has threatened to end.

I had Democrats bombard me right after the health care bill went down on that Friday morning, said Senator James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma, speaking of the dramatic 49-to-51 vote in the early hours of July 28. He said he was already knee-deep in work across the aisle on health care: There was almost a quiet sense of hope.

Mr. Trumps budget requests have largely been ignored or rebuffed by the Senate, as were his administrations notions on how to manage a bill to fund the Food and Drug Administration, which passed the Senate on Thursday.

While efforts to change the tax code have been hampered by the failure to repeal the health law, the motivation by congressional Republicans to work together and move beyond internal party disagreements has been, for now, bolstered by a deep desire to succeed.

On the next big thing, we cant fail, said Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the third-ranking Senate Republican. We have to double down on tax reform.

There is no question the lift ahead is heavy. Congress has yet to pass a budget, something that should have been done this spring. Without measures to fund the government, a shutdown threat, which has become a feature as endemic to Washington as the annual cherry blossom run, will loom. Democrats in the House and Senate may make their own mischief with the debt ceiling, tying it to the Republicans tax bill.

Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California and the House minority leader, has expressed support for a clean debt ceiling hike. But her spokesman, Drew Hammill, said Ms. Pelosi has also echoed the concerns that many House Democrats have about supporting such a move while Republicans simultaneously blow a multitrillion-dollar hole in the deficit with tax reform for the rich.

We are awaiting a plan from the Republican majority on how they plan to accomplish lifting the debt ceiling, Mr. Hammill said.

It is not entirely clear that Republican leaders can deliver the votes on their own. What is more, Congress this fall must also tackle the reauthorization of the Childrens Health Insurance Program, which may well get entangled in other budget and tax issues.

As Republicans head to their respective states and congressional districts for recess, their lack of accomplishments hangs around their collective necks. Many small bills passed by the House were never considered by the Senate; that chamber pushed through a number of small measures on Thursday to give lawmakers something to brag about back home.

But some Republicans say legislative achievements will remain elusive without unity on a host of public policy issues that the party could not tackle during the eight years of the Obama administration. Within, and between, the two political parties remain massive gulfs.

Its not Congresss job to see how many bills we can pass, said Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina. Otherwise there would not be working groups and task forces designed to study overcriminalization and overregulation. You cant have it both ways, cant pat yourself on the back for passing a law and four years later pat yourself on the back for repealing it.

Our first challenge is to define those principles upon which our party is based, and then pursue legislation consistent with those principles, Mr. Gowdy said. I think we are still stuck on the first prong.

A version of this article appears in print on August 5, 2017, on Page A12 of the New York edition with the headline: After Failing to Succeed, Giving Compromise a Try.

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With Few Wins in Congress, Republicans Agree on Need to Agree - New York Times

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Hours after news broke that special counsel Robert Mueller had impaneled a grand jury in the Justice Departments investigation into Russian election interference, Donald Trump took the stage at a campaign-style rally in West Virginia to dismiss the scandal. The Russian story is a total fabrication, it is just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of American politics, the president said, surrounded by a sea of red and white Make America Great Again hats. Thats all it is.

But while Trumps jokes about Russian infiltration (Are there any Russians here?) drew boisterous cheers from Thursday nights crowd, few on Capitol Hill are laughing. Earlier this week, Trump was effectively forced to sign a veto-proof bill leveling new sanctions against Russia and limiting his ability to lift thema stunning rebuke of the White House and its Republican president. Meanwhile, a growing bipartisan group of senators are moving to protect Muellers investigation from Trump, who has signaled that he might fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions in order to curtail the F.B.I. probe.

Last week, Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that he would not schedule hearings to confirm a replacement for Sessions if Trump were to dismiss the former Alabama senator from his post at the Justice Department. Now, amid concerns that Trump would try to make a recess appointment later this month, circumventing the Senate confirmation process, leaders in both parties have put their foot down. We have some tools in our toolbox to stymie such action. Were ready to use every single one of them, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said. On Thursday, the Senate confirmed that it will hold a series of pro-forma sessionsbrief meetings that will occur every three daysthat will prevent the president from making any appointments during the August recess.

As Muellers investigation accelerates and expands, probing Trumps personal finances and business tieswhat the president has described as a red line for his familysenators have introduced two bipartisan bills that would prevent the president from ordering the firing of Mueller arbitrarily and without cause. One proposalfrom Republican Thom Tillis and Democrat Chris Coonswould allow any fired special counsel to contest their dismissal in court, after which point a three-judge panel would have two weeks to determine whether it was warranted. The other proposalco-authored by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Corey Bookerwould delay any firing until after a three-judge panel determined whether there was cause.

The Mueller situation really gave rise to our thinking about how we can address this, address the current situation, Tillis told The Washington Post, adding that his bill would provide a great opportunity, in perpetuity, for us to be able to communicate to the American people that actions were appropriateor if not, then not. And while it is assumed that Trump would push back on any legislation that would curtail his authority to fire the special counsel, Coons told the Post that there is a broader bipartisan concern that the president may take inappropriate action to interfere with the ongoing, important work of Bob Mueller, and said, if the president were to fire the special counsel, the Senate might promptly take action to reappoint him.

The emerging bipartisan effort represents a remarkable vote of no confidence in Trumps ability to weather the F.B.I. investigation without attempting to obstruct justice. And it suggests that Republicans, who long defended the indefensible on Trumps behalf, may have found their own red line. Perhaps most important, the shifting tone on Capitol Hill comes as the presidents popularity has continued to sag, threatening the partys hold on Congress. Six months into his term, Trump has no substantive legislative accomplishments to speak of and his approval rating is as low as 36 percent. And while Trump has retained the support of his Fox News base, the G.O.P.s various health-care bills were all widely unpopular. Another recent poll found that 64 percent of voters believe Mueller will conduct a fair investigation into whether Trumps campaign colluded with the Russian government.

Republicans used to be afraid of Trump. Now, theyre mostly ignoring him. The administrations ham-handed attempts to coerce Senators Dean Heller and Lisa Murkowski to vote yes on Obamacare repeal were met with sharp criticism from Republican lawmakers. And Trumps threats in the aftermath of the failed health-care vote last week fell on deaf ears. If thats what he wants to do, he ought to just do it, Senator Bob Corker said of Trumps call to stop insurance payments to members of Congress. [As] probably hes learned over the last couple of weeks, threats dont really go over particularly well. My advice would be to either do it or dont do it.

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As Mueller Closes In, Republicans Turn Away from Trump - Vanity Fair

Congress sank to a 10% approval rating in a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday, with roughly five in six Americans saying they disapprove of the country's legislative body. This compares to an 18% approval rating in March.

And if you're searching for the main reason behind the drop, look no further than Republican voters.

Back in January and March, more than one in three Republicans said they had positive views of Congress, which is controlled by the GOP in both chambers.

But now, that's plummeted to just 14% of Republican voters who give Congress a thumbs up.

The new numbers come after a high-profile effort to repeal and replace Obamacare barely squeaked through the House and failed in a dramatic late-night vote in the Senate.

Congress's overall 10% approval is the lowest for Congress in Quinnipiac's history of data back to 2003. Using Gallup data beyond that, it's the lowest for Congress in data back to 1974.

(Congress did reach a 9% approval rating in Gallup polling in November 2013 in the wake of a two-week government shutdown.)

And to make matters worse, Republicans were Congress's most supportive group. The low numbers stretch across every demographic division -- only 12% of nonwhites, 12% of people under 35 years old, 11% of men, 10% of people over 65 years old, 9% of women and 9% of whites approve.

Support for Congress among independents has also bottomed out, falling from 18% in January to just 8% now. Democrats have remained essentially stable in the single digits.

The poll does point to some reasons why: Four in five voters say they disapprove of the way the congressional GOP is handling health care -- including three in five Republican voters and three in four whites without a college degree.

Indeed, a whopping 92 percent of Republicans say the GOP should repeal some or all of Obamacare, but the latest attempt to do so went down in flames.

Quinnipiac's poll showed Trump's approval falling to its lowest level yet at 33% - still more than double the number who approve of Congress -- and bolstered by 76% of Republican voters.

Historical trends show that, even though broad majorities disapprove of Congress, more people do tend to support their own individual member of Congress. So the low disapproval numbers do not necessarily translate to any particular outcome at the ballot box. (The most recent Gallup numbers from 2014 show 54% of Americans approved of their own representative in Congress, even though Congress overall had just a 14% approval rating.)

The Quinnipiac University poll of 1,125 registered voters was conducted from July 27 to August 1. It has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points among all voters and 7.1 points among Republican voters.

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