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Constitution was put in place to guarantee that the power would not concentrate in washington. Because our founders knew that when political power concentrates, so this economic power. That is when you get the corruption and greed capitalism and major corporations coming to the politicians to help them compete rather than competing in the marketplace. What has happened over the last several decades in america is that centralized concept has changed and the fact that more and more power and contr...

C. B. O. Projects that we are entering a future in which our debt is so great that our Fastest Growing item in the budget will be Interest Payments. According to c. B. O. Annual interest costs will total 5. 4 trillion. By 2020, seven years from now, interest costs are expected to exceed the cost of National Defense. And i just left the Defense Committee hearing talking about the sequester and how damaging that will be to the Defense Department, because half of the cuts follow 1 6 of the budget a...

And so, i enjoy the present very much because i sincerely believe that i dont know whats going to happen tomorrow. People often live in the future, think of the future. I think of today. Today is the most important day of my life. [ theme ] bill good morning my fellow americans and welcome to the full court press here on current tv this Tuesday Morning february 12. Oh boy. Lot going on today. And we are going to tell you whats happening all around the country, here in our Nations Capital, around...

[cheers and applause] ashley all right. Theyre whooping and hollering. Just finishing up yet another trading day on wall street. Take a look at how stocks are finishing up as we take you into the 4 p. M. Eastern hour. The dow up 80 points, about sixtenths of a percent gain on the day, s p also up about threequarters of percent, the russell 2000 also up. So green arrows across the board. Well call them modest gains. Lori modest gains, but a second day of gains, and were just about at session high...

The European Union is at a crossroads, and the british Prime Minister, David Cameron, says if the blockheads towards the centralized political union, then it is not for him and not for britain. German chancellor Angela Merkel has chosen her words very carefully, responding at the World Economic forum in davos by voicing conditional optimism as far as europes future goes. She says that patience is needed for Structural Reforms to take effect. She has also called for more regulation of the finance...

Open layup. It is thursday, january 24th, and this is now. Joining me today assistant managing editor of Fortune Magazine lee gallagher, and New York Times columnist frank brunhy. This morning senator john kerry spent an hour on the other side of the panel he chairs. The Senate Foreign relations committee. In his confirmation hearing for swuf state, kerry sat in the same room where a day before the committee grilled secretary of state Hillary Clinton about benghazi. Kerry didnt exactly face the ...

Hello. Youre watching todays worldwide exchange. Im ross westgate. And im kelly evans. Japan is facing a 255 million euro loss for philips. Cutting a key Interest Rate by 25 basis point is the bank of india. And the boj is keeping tune rate until theres a significant drop in unloimt. And ahead of todays parliamentary hearing, italys economic mip sister takes grilli takes center stage. All right. Reunited. Back together. So nice. You know that song . I sang that to you the last time. Weve had a c...

Mixed reaction from his constituents. Like many human beings a series of events came together in my life at the same time and they have been difficult to sort through. I am human. I am doing my best. I am trying to sort through them all. Voters in illinois 2nd hearing his voice for the first time in months. During the robo call, Jesse Jackson junior didnt give many specifics about his Ongoing Health problems but he did express optimism. I am starting to heal. The good news is my health is improv...

Country stronger and made the world better. Ive had the privilege to work with chairman hall for nearly four years to ensure america obtained human space flight. The budget of 2010 threatened to stop that, he used all his tools of Public Service to help him win the battle. Here are a couple of those tools he had, neil armstrong, tom stafford, part of a Bipartisan Coalition to put the United States on a path to go into orbit. As a boy who grew up within a mile and a half of the Johnson Space cent...

On food and clothing after paying his utility bills, and after april after the welfare cuts in april, he will just have to pounds a day. If the Prime Minister police were all in it together, with the agreed to review the impact on the very poorest of the welfare cuts so that my constituents sacrifices are in line with his own . I will look very close to what the honorable gentleman says and the circumstances. Let me just make the point, if you compare 2013 with 2010 in terms of the level of key ...