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20 , 10 , 5 . 0 . Profitable corporations like General Electric verizon boeing and many others have not only paid nothing for federal income taxes in some recent years, they actually get rebates from the irs. Can we talk about that issue or is the only ways toward a balanced budget to cut programs for the elderly the children the sick and the poor . According to a recent report from the Congressional Research service each and every year profitable corporations are avoiding about 100 billion in t...

The opportunity to show our appreciation to the fcc for its work so thank you chairman and fellow commissioners for all youve accomplished. This has been an eventful and the commission has received more than its fair share of attention and an unprecedented level of civic engagement. Americans called for a Strong Network neutrality rules and 140 members of congress engaged in the process and president expressed his opinion as well which is into something that we should be and in there is to doubt...

Is posed value. He also talks about the history of Silicon Valley the use of personal data by internet sites and what he thinks regular users of the web should now. Cspan where did you get this title, the internet is not the answer . Guest like most of my best ideas they did not come from me. The original title the original title, i cant say the exact word because this is a family show but epic fail. My american publisher did not like that tale because he thought it was too abstract. He had a lo...

And this week on the communicators we talk to members of congress about the legislation they are proposing. First up senator al franken. Senator senator al franken, you hailed a failure of the comcasttime warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest because i firmly believe if comcast were allowed to buy time warner they would have been to go big anticompetitive, led to higher prices for consumers, less choice and if it is even possible they would surface. Host is it because of the size . G...

Well, this hearing will come to order. First of all, let me welcome Justice Breyer and Justice Kennedy. Thank you for being here today. I know both of you have testified before our subcommittee in times past and we appreciate you coming back and being with us here again today. We all look forward to this time to have an exchange. Not often does the legislative branch and Judicial Branch get to talk to each other, so we look forward to that. I think all of us know that a fair and impartial judici...

I dont think if it was, i would have said so. I think as pressure is brought to bear on that group, we will increasingly seek to leave. Our estimates that are half of south africas white middle classes have Foreign Residents rights if they choose to exercise those rights. You say why are we there. Every individual will have to talk for themselves, but certainly i think my colleagues and many others want it to be a success and want to be an influence in allowing it to be successful because while ...

Forgive me for turning this into a lightning round. But general clark we talked , about systemic financial risk. I wish we had five minutes to devote to this. Were basically out of time, but you talked about a book you wrote that discuss this and maybe you can give us the kind of elevator version of it. Gen. Clark dont wait for the next war. We create an awful lot of debt in the Financial System and we havent addresses the systemic issue. Still hundreds of trillions of dollars of derivatives bas...

Other candidate enters the president ial race, former governor mike huckabee. He will announce from arkansas. We will have live coverage in about an hour. Later today, precision medicine. That hearing begins at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. We will have that life for you as well on its east end. Later this afternoon Hillary Clinton in las vegas speaking to students at Rancho High School about immigration policy. Remarkable partnerships, iconic women. If she did save the portrait of washington. It who ever...

That definition . Its easier to say you can have competitive effort. Whatever it comes to the domestic budget we can do this but we have to get back on this. We can do it cheaper by doing things this way. Whenever we try to cut the budget, its not doing it differently and getting the same results. Its always we have to cut something. Why is it always the we have to cut Something Else instead of growing the ceiling. Host is that your concern with just the republican budget . Caller its both. As a...

Health and Human Services released its first land for Tobacco Control. This plan provides a framework to rejuvenate efforts to end the epidemic. Now todays Surgeon Generals report underscores the essential commitment initially outlined in that plan, and include high impact pass media campaigns and increased efforts to prevent kids from being embargoed by images of smoking in the movies, fully funded, comprehensives statewide Tobacco Control programs at cdc recommended levels, higher prices on ci...