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Supporter of igs. When they raise an issue like that, we deal with it. And well visit with the ig about that. During a hearing last month senator grassey asked you about the tax pons and whether it would allow individuals to claim billons of dollars in tax benefits for unaut rised work. Your follow up lotter to him last week that individuals may claim up to three years of refunds on income even if they were working off the books or never paid tax Social Security truly startling. Why are you allo...

Three years. You have to pay taxes on what you earned to be eligible in fact, for any kind of an earned income tax payment. So the statement that individuals may claim up to three years on income even if they were working off the books or never paid taxes is not true . No they basically have to if they want to file an amended return, they have the file for the income they earned. As i noted, there are 700,000 immigrants filing every year. The senator from maryland. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And t...

This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. A major ruling on the legality of the nsas bulk collection of phone data. A federal Appeals Court says the program is illegal, was never authorized by congress and exceeds the authority under the patriot act. But they did not issue an injunction against the practice. The judges wrote that they would let Congress Sort that out. The judges sent the case back to a lower court. The same court that had originally thrown the case out. The aclu sued t...

Them. Brendan Benjamin Netanyahu says it will lead to a Nuclear Armed middle east. Investors are bracing for a market to drop at the open after fridays jobs report. Employers added 126,000 workers in march less than the most pessimistic free throws in Bloomberg Survey of economists. An outside review is slamming Rolling Stones story about a gang rape at the university of virginia. It is calling the story a failure that failed to follow basic journalistic practice. It unraveled and Rolling Stone ...

Sure that there was outside contractors or not. We developed it all in house. Thats helpful. Justice breyer, i noted and was intrigue of your comments discussing her design and really the courts desire to get the work of the court court out to dinner can people and to engage them in this. Is there a designated effort, a continued effort . To the extent youre familiar with come and by the way, i thought it would be some of your staff would actually go i see they are here with us but you see the t...

The cost of college combined with advancements in technology will lead to a fundamental transformation of our Higher Education system in the near future. Well, thanks and let me 2nd youre welcome to this great audience and our speaker and panel. The 1st thing i should say about kevin carey, probably the most important thing is that he is a graduate of the university of new york no doubt is at the root of much or all of his success. You can read about some of that success in your program, so i we...

Cspan sarah brady, can you remember when you decided to write a book . Guest it was just a little bit over a year ago, right around christmas time. Cspan why did you do it . Guest actually, i swore id never do a book unless it was a great mystery novel. And some members of my board suggested it to me, and i thought about it, and i had been reflecting on for the last nine months i had been diagnosed with cancer, and all of a sudden had a chance to reflect on my life. And for the first time, i gue...

Higher education and many other publications. He now has a regular gig at the new york times. He makes his professional home at the new America Foundation and he directing directs the Education Policy Program there. And, of course hes the author of end of college, which well be talking about today. But i thought id also tell you a few things you might not know about kevin, because he contains multitudes. As a blogger, he has established a reputation over the years for finding excuse and i really...

Because for many people,especially in the district i represent, one of the poorest the North Carolina, one that has high unemployment rates, that this is a godsend for a lot of people who thousands of people as a matter that who have never had coverage, who never had opportunity to go to a doctor. And i think Preventive Care is going to be the key to oppose do the things that we need to do for our population. So im looking forward to this discussion into the dialogue tonight because this is some...

And, indeed, today i hope and believe that we will get this done and then we can turn to that nomination. But there are others on the perhaps too many to name senator warner, senator heitkamp and others on the democratic side, there are those on the republican side, senator collins comes to mind, and others whove worked so hard and so relentlessly and with such determination to get us where we are today. So we need to get this over the finish line so we can move on to other business. Mr. Preside...