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Waist. Our top story tonight, the big digout in new england following last nights deadly blizzard. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im laura evans. Im maureen umeh. As much as three feet of snow fell over parts of new england. The storm is to blame for five deaths, including an 11year old boy who died in boston after he was overcome by Carbon Monoxide as he sat in a running car to keep warm while his father shoveled snow. Power companies are reporting more than 650,000 Power Outages across new eng...

Proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage. Now, this despite the white house doing an aboutface on its plan changes to the medicare partd Prescription Drug program. It is sticking by its looming cuts to the popular program. Joining me now, ovik roy, of the manhattan institute. Always great to see you. Before we get to the medicare, two medicare stories actually i want to talk about some news that broke this afternoon coming from Kathleen Sebelius at health and human services. They released february to...

Principled in their pursuit of this objective and we can move on that issue also. And with that, madam president , i would yield the floor. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Toomey thank you, madam president. I rise to address the amendment that i have. I will formally ask to call it up in a few moments, but i want to say a few words about it. And id like to start by a little bit of background and reminder of where how we got here and the circum...

I am deeply honored to serve you and to serve president obama in your noble endeavor to achieve israeliPalestinian Peace. The fact that later today, israeli and palestinian negotiators will sit down in this building to resume final status negotiations after a threeyear hiatus is testament to your extraordinary tireless efforts backed by president obama to try to resolve this intractable conflict. President obama made the case so eloquently in his historic speech in jerusalem in march of this yea...

They signed if it gets them closer to a deal with the white house. What is your reaction . Here are the numbers to call. You can also find us online. Send us a tweet or join us on facebook. You can also email us. Heres usa today looking at what happened on the sunday talk shows. It says the South Carolina senator became the second republican senator in recent days to back away from a no tax pledge devised in the decades ago. The willingness to break ranks could prove crucial as gop leaders and d...

Connell 3. 24 a gallon. These are the best prices we have seen all year for gasoline. A very, difficult day and weekend for many around the country. Dagen it will be a difficult week, month and many years to come as we try to deal with these shootings in newtown, connecticut. We will bring you uptodate about any news as we get it. Youll hear about it in the fox news minute coming up in just a short while. Connell the Business News of the day. We will begin with Nicole Petallides at the new york ...

Manufacturing jobs. And Infrastructure Bank. With me on the podium is the chairman of the policy committee. Who Will Champion the infrastructure which the president mentioned a few minutes ago. We need to facilitate the efficient, private Sector Investment and infrastructure. We need to compete from broadband systems. With an Infrastructure Bank, we will be able to outbuild a partnership between the Public Sector and private sector. Clean energy. Clearly, that is the future. That is the vision w...

Changed the subject to talk about younger workers or home prices. What will you do to address our concerns and will you commit today to attend a town hall meeting of retired seniors later this year to hear from folks i can ask it any better. Well, that was very well expressed. And, of course, they are very valid concerns, and i would like to see retirees that are more on their safe investments. I believe that if we get the economy back on track after all, interest comes from returns on investmen...

Host and that was the new g. O. P. Conference secretary voicing her thoughts on the fiscal cliff negotiations yesterday. And we want you to address the issue of what the g. O. P. Is raising, which is address the spending problem. 202 is the area code for our numbers. Thats our question this morning in this first segment of the washington journal. You can also contact us via social media and email. You can make a comment on our facebook page, and finally send us a tweet. Here is the hill newspape...

Give you thanks for giving us another day. Help us this day to kragh closer to you so that with your spirit and your presence among us we all must face the tasks of this day. Bless the members of the peoples house. Help them to think clearly, speak confidently and act courageously in the belief that all Noble Service is based upon patience, truth and love. You know well the pressing issues facing our nation. Grant our leaders, especially, the wisdom to do what is best and may we all join in the ...