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Fed chair yellen testified at the Senate Budget committee thursday. This is two hours. This hearing will come to order. Thank you to my Ranking Member, senator sessions, and all of our colleagues who are here and many who will be joining us. Today we have the great opportunity to hear there the chair of the Federal Reserve, dr. Janet yellen. Dr. Yellen, i want to start by thanking you for your leadership and encouraging Stronger Economic growth, stability and job creation throughout your tenure ...

Ms. Lerner impeded official investigations. She risked exposing and may actually have exposed confidential taxpayer information in the process. Day after day, action after action ms. Lerner exposed herself as a servant to her political philosophy rather than a servant to the American People. This, mr. Speaker, is why the house has taken the extraordinary action of referring ms. Lerner to the department of justice for criminal prosecution. And why we will request a special council to investigate ...

The joint Economic Committee, consistent of what we saw from the recent fed statement. She says the economy is starting to improve after the First Quarter as bad weather, but also says a high degree of monetary compensation is needed. Changes that the fed has put in place. She also talks about Financial Stability, addressing concerns about possibly bubble starting to form. To me walk you through what she had to say. She said the firstquarter slowdown was mostly due to transitory factors like the...

Constitute massive violations on americans privacy. The review group also concluded this. To information contributes terrorist investigations by section 215 was nonessential. They could have been obtained in , usingy manner conventional section 215 orders. Following pages, it said that section 215 provides relevant information in a small number of cases. Withsa cannot say confidence that the outcome would have been different without the alcock without program. On 215 the privacy implications of ...

Some issues regarding financial stability. Real domestic gross product went up to an average annual rate of and a quarter percent over the second half of last year. A faster pace than in the first half and during the preceding two years. Although real gdp growth is currently estimated to a pause in the First Quarter of this year, i see that it is mostly reflecting transitory factors, including the effects of the unusually cold and snowy winter weather. With the harsh winter behind us, many recen...

Business. Pretty. Ot always been but we should take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished. 7 million residents of our fores have signed up Affordable Health care, millions of people who could not afford Health Insurance and were one accident or illness away from financial ruin, now have Health Insurance. Significant. This is something that we all of. Ld be proud all. Hats not we hear talk about what it thet do, but under aAffordable Care act, Insurance Companies are no longer allowed ...

National security, but including, also, the risk to public trust, risk to privacy, risk to economic values and risk to democratic self governance. So, a major task Going Forward, what our report tries to thread a needle on is to try to ensure a full set of rirkss are taken into account and we arent optimizing only along one dimension. The third point is the importance of accountability which is a unifying theme for our 46 recommendations. Accountability to senior level policy officials, accounta...

Her school district, mrs. Stenglers students showed some of the highest rates of improvements on test scores. We lost a great teacher because of how expensive Postsecondary Education is. And not only that, even with her moms sacrifice joelle, who is only in her second year of college already has 12,000 in Student Loans and she estimates her total debt will be around 30,000 by the time she graduates. Again, that is even with her mom leaving the job she loves the job really as a society we would w...

Different firearms campaign that puts protection out front. Im pretty much armed 24 7. When i carry, my main goal is protecting me. Im not there to protect society. And an unusual approach to alcohol addiction. Why the dutch government pays alcoholics in beer. And good evening, thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. Against hope the desperate search continues north of seattle with more than 100 people still missing four days after a mammoth mudslide crushed the Small Community of oso. The slides s...

It came eight hours after the jet lost contact on march the 8th. It could help investigators figure out what happened. The Supreme Court heard argument in the hobby lobby, challenging the Affordable Care act, that employers must provide Health Coverage for all forms of contraseptions. President obama is in brussels. Tuesday on the side lines of a summit on nuclear security, he warned russia to hold back on further action. He warned moscow would days tougher sanctions if they continued to go into...