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Republican senators Mitch Mcconnell and Lamar Alexander offer their assessment of the president s inaugural speech. Later we will reair the hearing on Sexual Misconduct at an air force base in texas. Several lighter than sicilia about the tomorrow morning. Republican senators a member of the Appropriations Committee speaks to the council on Foreign Relations on how Foreign Policy is affected by the budget and debt. That is at 830 eastern. And Janet Napolitano will focus on cybersecurity and immi...

Instead of seeing you went to the emergency room. This is not a typical example in this room, but i personally can think of many times when i wanted to see my primary care physician and there was inadequate and available for weeks. Your only option is the emergency room. What would it run in your case . Did she make the case, the system set up wrong case for her . We were available. Broken seven days a week. The weekend of christmas was my weekend to work. We saw 95 patients that weekend. Work s...

The committee will come back to order. I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, and i think we will move into the questions and answer period. Im going to reserve my question time and i will go to mr. Brady. You all recognized for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And a thank you for all of those who are here. Your testimony is very helpful. One, clearly america will pay its debt. That is made clear by republicans and democrats in congress. We always have, and i hope that those w...

Structure. Things that were mentioned as opposed to those things on structure. I think the more we improve outcomes, the less important the decisions we make and the easier it would be to make decisions about the underlig adequacy things so we can avoid the most agree jous cases of where they are problems. In summary, we will not get this perfectly correct. There will be complaints for a variety of reasons. Many are likely to be justifiable, but we have to avoid the temptation to move to a syste...

I think you pretty much took my entire speech when he mentioned the word cbo. Unfortunately, i think it is, i think this is something both sides of the aisle, this is something bipartisan we kind of struggled with right now is we are kind of living in an arrow cliff. It is one cliff after the other after the other. The debt ceiling or the sequester or the sgr cliff. Does congressional staffers, im sure debbie can attest to, we are constantly living in his temporary environment because we have to...

Again, assuming change like the cbo option, they are the retirees immediately feel the impact of that premium increase. So what would they do . If i were one of them and i had an alternative option to pursue, alternative coverage option, i would do that, adding adverse selections to what is already a highcost option because adverse selection has been going on. So you could predict access only plans would be unraveling as these changes come about. And then finally i mentioned a minute ago just in...

Employers can do. Its critical whatever ideas come out need to be extremely appropriate for Small Businesses. Because for hispanics, were we are more likely to work for smawses Small Businesses that have less than 100 employees. They are less likely to offer a retirement plan. Thats because the industry has not offered products that are relevant to small employers who have lowincome workers. So we need new why why the ideas. Its important make sure that businesses not be burdened financially or ...

Next comes from hall from arkansas. Caller good morning. This is term limits just smoke and mirrors. We need to get rid of the lobbyist and big money. Thats the core of the problem. As long as we got lobbyist, suitcases full of money, this is what youre going to get. Host kermit is on the line for independents. Caller hello. Host youre on washington journal this morning. Caller im against term limits. The permanent stance and lobbyist will end up forming the country. You can have term limits but...

Rose welcome to the program. Tonight a conversation about campaigns, politics and the future of the Obama Administration with David Axelrod, the man most responsible for the election of the president in two successive political campaigns. In fact, when we were going over the jokes there was one joke about tim pawlenty, it was poor tim pawlenty, he has such promise except for that unfortunate middle dame bin laden. He said that is so hackneyed, he said in retrospect that is so yesterday. Lets tak...

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