On this deal. We get your views. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a tweet, if you would like, cspanwj, or join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Your thoughtst here in just a minute about your views on Social Security and medicare. In this twoyear budget deal that was announced on monday, there were changes to Social Security and medicare. Joining us on the phone is jonathan nicholson, a reporter with bloomberg bna. Lets begin with Social Security, the disability program. What changes did they propose in this deal . Guest the thing to remember is Social Security has not just one trust fund, it is actually two. The problem is that the Disability Insurance trust fund , not beed to run low able to pay full benefits with the amount of money coming in starting in 2016, so basically to forestall that, the proposal is kind of a twostep kind of thing. One is to reallocate some of th
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Today. We will hear more about the budget from bernie sanders. He will be at the Brookings Institution outlining his economic agenda addressing things like wage growth, climate change, and text policy. Tax policy. The Political Landscape has changed with the 114th congress. Not only are there 43 new republicans and 50 new democrats in the house and 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate, there is also 108 women and commerce, including the first africanamerican republican in the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of the members of congress using congressional conical on www. Cspan. Org. The congressional chronicle page has lots of information coming putting Voting Results and statistics for each session of congress. New congress, best access, on cspan, cspan 2, cspan radio and www. Cspan. Org. Cyber security breaches, cases where personal information were compromised, how the government can respond in the Technology Available for making breaches l
Addition to what ive already said, is that we would stabilize the debt as a share of the economy, not just over the tenyear window, but over the 25year window, as well. And as i think we all recognize, what we are facing in this country is a real demographic challenge with the aging of the baby boom. The key thing that we need to do, to ensure that we long run fiscal sustainability is focus on Health Care Costs. Weve seen the lowest growth in Health Care Costs in 50 years. Over the last few years, we have many, many measures, including over 400 billion in savings for medicare and medicaid proposed in the budget, that increase over time. And, we need to recognize that we need to grow our workforce, and our economy, and Immigration Reform is perhaps the single most important thing we can do there. And that will add to the sustainability of Social Security over time. And so, we think were attacking through this budget the key drivers of longterm deficit and debt. My time is almost expired
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the ayes are 98 and the nays are zero, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider be inquired made and laid upon the table, and the President Shall be immediately notified of the senates action. Under the previous order, there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a cloture vote on the kadzik nomination. Without objection, all time has been yielded back. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of peter joseph kadzik of new york to be assistant attorney general, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senat
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