Congress Doesnt Pass News Today

This comes as covid funding is running out, if congress doesnt pass a new bill, federal programs that fund testing, treatment and vaccines will start expiring next week. norah. >> odonnell: meg oliver, thank you so much. well, theres shocking new details tonight in the head-on ( crashing sounds ) in texas that killed nine peoplr oach. officials said today behind the wheel of the pickup that swerved into the teens van was a 13-year-old boy, killed along with an adult male passenger in the pickup....

>> senator richard blumenthal, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> president biden hits the road in an effort to jump-start his currently stalled agenda warning the u.s. could lose its edge if congress doesnt pass his infrastructure plan. ill speak with the former presidential candidate andrew yang, there you see him, who just announced hes leaving the democratic party and starting his own. well discuss when we come back. before we talk about tax-smart investing, whats new? -wel...

Deployed here to help those in florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina and into virginia if need be. >> lars, the trump administration is transferring a total of $155 million from the fema relief fund to immigration and customs enforcement along the southern border. do you think thats going to have an effect on our governments ability to respond to this hurricane? >> you know, i dont think its going to have an immediate impact. its not the way we want to do business. i think the danger ...

Big issues like tax reform? >> well, health care was different. health care, there was a real schism in our party over it and that included expanded entitlements, and with tax reform, theres a belief by almost every republican tax reform is needed, and you need to create jobs here rather than ship jobs overseas and we need a new tax law, and theres an interest there, and we are in survival politics where basically if the congress doesnt pass something soon that is substantive, and tax reform is ...

Hes pretty candid about the relief a lot of people feel here but they also understand as much as they want to trust that the russians will be able to work this out with the u.s. and then of course, more broadly at the u.n. theyre not entirely sure this is not going to come right back into their lap. wolf? >> so do they get back to some domestic agenda issues during this pause right now? theyve got to fish the spending bill by the end of this month, a debt ceiling theyve got to raise next month. ...

Created the supercommittee requires that $1.2 trillion in cuts starts in 2013. if the supercommittee doesnt figure it out, if congress doesnt pass something to cut that much, then automatic cuts kick in. automatic cuts in defense and domestic spending are triggered by congress failing. the committees statement announcing they failed to reach a deal today, democratic senator patty murray of washington and republican congressman jeff hencerling of texas said they hope they find some way to move fo...

Cuts starts in 2013. if the supercommittee doesnt figure it out, if congress doesnt pass something to cut that much, then automatic cuts kick in. automatic cuts in defense and domestic spending are triggered by congress failing. the committees statement announcing they failed to reach a deal today, democratic senator patty murray of washington and republican congressman jeff hencerling of texas said they hope they find some way to move forward. republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham ...

After the stock market closed saying, "after months of hard work and intense deliberations, weve come to the conclusion today it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committees deadline." so, hey, bipartisanship in congress still doesnt work to solve big problems right now. not even bipartisanship in small groups given lots of power. not even when you put adjectives like super in front of their names. the real question is what happens to the bi...

As you just for just four seconds, shep. certainly he must know that he is under huge pressure now with members of his own army, officers calling on the people to join them and saying that they will not fire on their own people. he has government ministers resigning. he has diplomats around the world. libyan diplomats deserting him. clearly he is under huge pressure. but i wouldnt be at all surprised, shep, if that is all we hear from him tonight. >> shepard: i wouldnt either. we are monitoring ...

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