[45], Moyers briefly joined NBC News in 1995 as a senior analyst and commentator, and the following year he became the first host of sister cable network MSNBC's Insight program. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., supported that approach. The newly unemployed would have less money to spend, reinforcing the negative spiral. ", We used to rank No. Given the Senate Democratic resistance to the House plan, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader, said the final outcome remained in the hands of Mr. Biden and Mr. McCarthy. Explore the archive. Mara Elena Salinas (born December 30, 1954), is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible. Although policies in the House bill make it untenable for Democrats to support the entire measure, the bills passage still represented a milestone for House Republicans. Explore the archive. He has been married to Judith Davidson Moyers since 18 December 1954. [46], In 1975, Bill Moyers Journal aired Rosedale: The Way It Is,[47] documenting the furor after the first Black family moved into Rosedale, Queens including a rash of fire bombings. Now what? Today would have been the 91st your of Anne Frank, the small who left behind adenine tattered, hidden your, now famous as one gem-like book that's appreciated by many millions. Over the course of a year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used the hammer of its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial restrictions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world. On April 26, the Republican-led House passed a bill that would extend the fast-approaching limit on how much debt the federal government can carry, along with other Republican priorities. Four Republicans ultimately voted against the bill; any more defections would have sunk the effort. During the academic year 19561957, he studied issues of church and state at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Fellow. The House bills passage provides us a good opportunity to recap what the debt limit is, why its important, and whats next for lawmakers and the president. This can postpone a potential default and buy time for negotiations to continue. Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers, June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. Hochul wants quarantine camps and imprisonment if youre suspected of having a disease. It's still on. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Actions of the Tennessee state legislators who protested against gun violence were at least equivalent to the actions of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. When theres a deficit, the government must borrow money to make up the difference. Steven Dennis, a veteran congressional reporter now with Bloomberg News, occasionally highlights that Congress tends to be at an impasse, until it isnt. Episode 2: "The Rapture of Being Alive" by American writer Joseph Campbell from his 1988 televised interview with Bill Moyers . Helping motion designers to build a successful business and career to give them freedom to do the things they love. Bill Moyers said she's one of the most brilliant people he's ever met and that's Arianna. Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is Canada's attempt to update the country's laws around broadcasting for the first time since 1991 . It states: We found evidence that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) former Chairman violated statutory provisions and the Director's Code of Ethics by dealing directly with one of the creators of a new public affairs program during negotiations with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the CPB over creating the show. Global Dumping Ground. Updates? Moyers was asked what the corporate media means for our democracy: "It means that virtually everything the average person sees or hears, outside of her own personal communications, is determined by the interests of private . Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and majority leader, dismissed the House bill as wasted effort and said Mr. Biden and Senate Democrats would refuse to negotiate over spending until Republicans agreed to pass a debt limit increase without conditions. Sept. 7, 2017, PolitiFact, "Hakeem Jeffries said a U.S. debt limit default would be a historical first. But if delayed payments become a real possibility, investors might be spooked and quit buying Treasury securities. McKenna Schueler Even Republicans conceded that their legislation was headed nowhere; Mr. Biden has threatened to veto it, and the measure is dead on arrival in the Democratic-led Senate. This was a bluff, according to Safer. Senator John F. China used to rank No. As journalist Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirerpointed out, Kemp sat at a polished table, with six white men around him, under a painting of the Callaway Plantation on which more than 100 Black people had been enslaved. The New York Times picked up on the story and found the children and others featured in the documentary and produced its own reported feature: " A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. Anyone can read what you share. [11], When Lyndon B. Johnson took office after the Kennedy assassination, Moyers became a special assistant to Johnson, serving from 1963 to 1967. The following is an abridged version of remarks by TV newsman Bill Moyers, as prepared for delivery at the "Covering Climate Now" conference co-sponsored by The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review on April 30. . [2] In 2011, Moyers received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. "Bill Moyers." Newsmakers 1991, Issue Cumulation. Chick-fil-A donates another $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups, backtracking on its promise not to. An essential morning newsletter briefing for leaders in the nation's capital. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters just after the Republican majority in the House narrowly passed a sweeping debt ceiling package as they try to push President Biden into negotiations on federal spending, April 26, 2023. The real Biden was executed for his crimes long ago along with Clinton.". The Peace Corp Act was signed by President Kennedy on September 22, 1961. Now what?"Jan. [77] Moyers did not run. The "X date," as budget wonks call the debt-default deadline day, could hit in early June at the earliest, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said. Its not big enough anyway, so dont tell me what to do with it., "It was unions that fought for reasonable working hours, and it was unions that continue to fight to help close the wealth gap for women and people of color," said Rep. Dianne Hart, D-Tampa. And for the Senate to act, its slim Democratic majority needs to secure support from at least nine Republicans (if all Democrats vote in unison, which is not guaranteed). [25], Journalist Morley Safer in his 1990 book "Flashbacks" wrote that Moyers and President Johnson met with and "harangued" Safer's boss, CBS president Frank Stanton, about Safer's coverage of the Marines torching Cam Ne village in the Vietnam War. Also, the parties today are as polarized ideologically as theyve been in a long time, making cross-party cooperation difficult. He currently teaches English at Gloversville High School in upstate New York. Our veterans sacrificed for us.. In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. "The president and the speaker need to come together and solve the problem," he said after the House vote. "This bill is good for workers, and it will be good for the unions," said Rep. Black, the bill sponsor, prior to the bill's passage on Wednesday. Moyers married Judith Suzanne Davidson (a producer) on December 18, 1954. . Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, sponsor of the Senate version, has said the bill is meant to increase accountability for "union bosses" and to force more conversations between union representatives and workers. "[89] His daughter, Suzanne Moyers, a former teacher and editor, is the author of the historical novel, Til All These Thing Be Done (She Writes Press; September 13, 2022). Joseph Campbell: The power of myth with Bill Moyers. We go off the cliff at some point.. The bill passed, 217-215, with just four GOP defections, which is the least the party can muster given the Houses current partisan lineups. She had a show in Air America. BILLMOYERS.COM is taking a break. Whats stopping Congress from raising the debt limit? Renowed journalist Bill Moyers and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin return for more talk about presidents and politics. The Republican bill, which would raise the debt limit and cut spending, appears to have no chance of approval in the Democratic-led Senate. There has been discussion of prioritizing payments, such as paying off bondholders first, followed by Social Security recipients. Gale Research, 1991. Lawmakers have long dreaded votes to raise the debt limit because of the political cost: It looks as if theyre abetting runaway government spending in a way opponents can leverage in reelection campaign attack ads. Interest rates on Treasury bonds set the benchmark for many other types of private sector debt. Despite being born in southern Oklahoma, he spent his childhood in Marshall, Texas. 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