LIVE365: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee on Debt Committee, 11.22.11

Politic365‘s Jeneba Ghatt spoke with Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) about the recent failure of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction to reach a compromise on $1.2 trillion of federal debt.

“The ‘super committee’ was bogged down by Republican dissension that did not or would not listen to [the majority of] American people that indicated that they were willing to tighten their belts, willing to make the sacrifice, but they wanted to have a mutual burden and benefit,” argues Jackson-Lee.

“The unwillingness to do the job that’s necessary was what torpedoed the super committee. We can [now] move into the next fiscal year and do our job.”

Listen to the complete interview below …

Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt represents small, women, and minority owned business and technology companies at The Ghatt Law Group LLC, the nations’ first communications law firm owned by women and minorities. She's won landmark cases on behalf of her clients which include national civil rights and public interest organizations. In addition to actively authoring several blogs, being a radio show host and sitting on the boards of three non-profits, she is a tech junkie who has been developing online web content since the very early years of the Internet, 1991 to be precise! Follow her on Twitter at @Jenebaspeaks, on her blog, Jenebaspeaks, which covers the intersection of politics and technology or on her Politics of Raising Children blog at The Washington Times Communities section.

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4 Responses to LIVE365: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee on Debt Committee, 11.22.11

1. mgpthoc says:

   8:27pm November 22, 2011 at 8:27 pm

   blame others…what a croc

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2. mgpthoc says:

   8:51pm November 22, 2011 at 8:51 pm

   She kept saying listening to American people? Did she not see her ilk get voted OUT of office? Where is she getting this fictitious 54%? The "occupy wallstreeters" who are preforming criminal acts and getting arrested for destroying public places? Can she tell us WHERE in the US Constitution health care, federal education, etc, etc IS????? Can she show WHERE she has Right to force us to pay/buy federal insurance policy?

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   • Oh REally says:

     11:47pm November 26, 2011 at 11:47 pm

     What the heck are you talking about? Nothing you say in this response even replies to anything she says in the clip. Did you even listen to it or resort to your usual errant rumblings about irrelevant stuff that has nothing to do with the post? Short attention span theater, you are.

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3. Gary says:

   5:31pm November 23, 2011 at 5:31 pm

   Where's Barbara Jordan when we need her most?

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