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Hello. Welcome to todays edition of worldwide exchange. Im ross westgate. And im kelly evans. Here are your headlines from around the world. Spains gdp contracts for a sixth straight quarter, down more than initially expected as its most troubled lender posts the countrys biggest ever loss. And the finance minister raises taxes on top earners rather than cut spending in an election year. And the eu moves to clamp down on big paychecks in the Banking Sector, looking to cap bonuses on a bankers sa...

Next, the 25 minute debate on the senate floor. It is now time for us to vote up or down on the nomination for many reasons. The nomination has been before us now inadequate time to get the information which our colleagues have asked for. There is also the looming fact of sequestration. We need to have a secretary of defense who is not only in office, but whose leadership is not in limbo, but is there. Our troops need it. Their families needed. Our country needs it. We have 66,000 military arsen...

Home the prize for best picture. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org it looks like it will come down to the wire in italy where the latest Election Results appear to be pointing towards political gridlock. This poll is crucial as they are deciding who will lead them to the debt crisis. The votes are still being counted, but it looks like the central left is neckandneck with the central right, led by former leader burlesconi. The outcome could decide whether austerity ...

Host you can join the conversation on twitter, twitter. Com cspanwj. Or join the conversation on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Lets look at some of the headlines. Usa today. The president and republicans jousted again yesterday. Host the headline on the story from the New York Times. republicans are calling the impact overstated and citing spending as a key issue. Here is what americans are saying. The wall street journal has a new poll. You can see the breakdown of numbers on the opinions of w...

I do worry about the work ethic thats kind of developing in this country. Food stamps up from 17 to 47. Social Security Disability 3 to 9. Unlimited unemployment benefits. I dont think that was the work ethic that our Founding Fathers thought about. I hope as we recover a number of things, well reestablish the need and interest in working. For me, as far as this whole sequestration goes, i think we need to differentiate between tax hikes and spending cuts. Last year it was tax heights that plung...

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Set of tools which id be happy to go into, if you like, but which will allow us to normalize policy either by selling assets or by retaining assets and doing other things, like raising the Interest Rate we pay on reserves. Do you think you will grow to a 4 trillion dollars Balance Sheet . Well, we dont have we didnt announce any number. What were doing is were looking were tying our asset purchases to the state of the economy. We want to continue purchases until we see a substantial improvement ...

Support to the economy. He delivered the feds semiannual report to a Senate Committee today. Tomorrow morning he will testify before the House Financial Services committee. Cspan 3 will have live coverage and that will get under way at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Here is part of his testimony earlier today before the Senate Banking committee where he urged the senate to take action to avoid a sequester. Before we proceed with todays hearing, after we have a quorum, the committee will briefly meet in ex...

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Dollars per year. We heard about all the tactics in the tax code. We should get rid of some of those for the purpose of deficit reduction. That is what our plan does in the short term and that is what it would do in the long term. We hope we can have an opportunity to have an up and down vote on the plan that we have put forward. At least two or three times we are going to be asking for a vote in the rules committee for that proposal. I hope we can have an opportunity to have a free flow of deba...