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And at times like this, washington goes into its favourite pursuit the blame game. At the white house this morning, the president s budget director was taking aim at the democrats. The president is actively working right now to try to prevent a shutdown. I will contend to you that its dramatically different to what president obama was doing in 2013, so there is no way you can lay this at the feet of the president of the United States. He is actively working to working to try to get a deal. But i...

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Back to you guys for that story. We will get back to those breaking stories for you, two this morning in san jose just within the past couple hours. A shooting near downtown. Were also following a double deadly shooting at a dennys. Thats where today in the bays roz plater is this morning. Busy night for san jose law enforcement. Reporter it has indeed. Police were here at this location of a double homicide until just about five or six minutes ago. I will step out so you can see now, there is a ...

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Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats...

With the backlog forhose of drawing applyingor benefits. The challenges faces, since i have been chairman we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future social secuty benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or...

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I know why we are all here. Thea great predator great pleasure of introducing them. He has served our nation and he is doing a great job in the senate right now. Lets keep him in that seat, please give an allout welcome to senator big Luther Strange. Thank you huntsville so much for being here. [applause] are you ready to support our president tonight . Thank you so much for being here. This is an exciting night. For thee biggest rally senator. Youre making it possible. Thank you so much. [appla...

Among those involved that a twitter fight will end up derailing the massive complicated issue of tax reform. Those people i speak we think that the senator will be able to kind of rise above this in essence. When push comes to shove, when there is a vote, they will eventually have bob corker on their side. Keep in mind, corker sits on the Senate Budget committee. So he has influential say in all of this. The Senate Budget committee already voted on a budget blueprint. Corker has given at least o...