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questions from the audience. the parties have made policy pledges and the conservatives have said they will raise child benefit tax threshold to £120,000 and charge it to households rather than individuals. labour have said if it wins power, it would make permanent a skin that ensures low deposit mortgages are available for first—time buyers —— a scheme. the lib dems have offered a bad month of paid leave for new fathers and a doubling of statutory maternity pay —— dad month...

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The economy does are being slowed down as a result of this gamesmanship and brinksmanship in washington. i just came from nancy pelosis press conference and it doesnt seem theres any progress to report at all in washington. youre asking the right question is when do markets absolutely lose their minds. as of right now it seems they kind of feel this is typical washington boilerplate and were going to get a deal. they are very confident a deal is coming here. if they are disappointed to the downs...

Attack. so instead, we changed that process for contracting, no longer does it have to be lowest bid its going to be on best value, not lowest price. >> reporter: congressman ed royce says the house foreign affairs committee just passed legislation that would beef up embassy security. harris? >> wendell, thank you very much. a story thats been shaping up all day. well bring you more news as it warrants. again, when we talk about protecting our diplomatic facilities in the middle east and north a...

James, paul says bad. you say good? >> well, in terms of the environment and human health, definitely good. because of nuclear power, we do not have many of the alleged environmental harms that have been asserted by paul. for example, not only in the u.s. but around the world, there have been nuclear power plants in operation for decades. the only significant nuclear event was in chernobyl. thats comparing apples to oranges because the system there is entirely different than western systems. wha...

Going to cut off one-fifth of the energy overnight. what i said was that there are some plants -- we have 23 of these fukushima designs here in the united states, a number of them on the new madrid fault. its crazy to keep moving forward with old decrepit plant thats are then set on these fault lines o. thats insane. it has to be revisited by an independent evaluation. >> james, is there some middle ground here? i mean, can we -- should we be building nuclear plants with far more redundancy for ...

Team. joining me, paul gunter, the president of reactor oversight and james taylor, a senior fellow at the hartland institute. paul, nuclear plants, good or bad for this country? >> bad. i mean, cliearly whats been noe straighted the fume chkushima i nuclear power is more of a disaster. when you need the power the most, this system will fail you, as has happened. you know, i think what we should remember is is that nuclear power plants, whether theyre pressurized water reactors like he showed th...

Week. this effort to count americas population is a massive undertaking only happens every 10 years. so, just how many counters will it take, how much does it cost and what does all this information really rused for? check in with james rosen in washington to break it all down for us. james in. >> reporter: good afternoon. kudos to our top producer, maria donovan, laying down very groovy 1974 jefferson starship, count on me, teasing out to the bump right now. the great recession has been a boon ...