Page 2 - Oversight Question News Today

$3,000 in the united states remains an obstacle for many women." is this something, sue, thats covered by insurance and other ways for women to find out if they have this gene? >> so thats really excellent question and many insurances do pay, as dr. dam check noted that there are certain red flags or things that you look for in a parents personal history and family history that indicate that they may benefit from genetic counsel egg and testing. in most cases, insurance will cover it, but its a ...

>> dr. dam check, quickly, talk to me about how or maybe even why breast cancer and ovarian cancer are so closely connected. >> well, its a great question and i really wish that i had a good answer for you. every cell in a persons body has one of these gene mutation and one normal copy of the gene. and its only in the cells were the second copy is lost where you now have two bad copies that turn into cancer. and why this is preferentialally breast and ovarian cancer we dont really know. we know ...

There was almost a ten-minute stretch where there was actually not a question asked. there seems to be a lot of speechism fyiment ng, a lot of grandstanding. how productive was the exercise itself? >> let me tell you, melvin where this is going. they are going to try to tie this stuff in the internal revenue service to the implementation of the affordable care act. the real target for the republicans is stopping the implementation of the presidents obama care and use it because the irs is the on...

Philosophies as the basis for government actions, which is certainly what is suspected by many as having taken place in the irs scandal that is unfolding before us now. >> steve miller is going to be testifying before congress again next week. this time, before the house oversight question, which you sit on. what would you lake to hear there that you did not hear yesterday? >> im interested in finding more about -- we know what happened now and now we are beginning to appreciate that steve mille...

Unknowns, there is, of course, the question of how do they make this stick in how do they shift the conversation? we saw president obama try do that in his weekly address. americans are quite frustrated by. this the president has a limited amount of time to enact his second term agenda. to so it is not clear they will be successful at shifting the conversation hand republicans really digging in their heels. they have vowed to broaden the scope of the irs investigation. >> elise, white gop is dig...

Hearings that target sort of implies a degree of mall lass, where it could have just been really stupid bone-headed idea that these guys thought, hey, we will just bunch these together and this is a more efficient way to do our work. at this point, we dont know the answer to that question and i do -- i think it certainly plays into a lot of our worst fear about the irs. we have seen the irs do this before, not just with republican conservative groups but groups like the naacp, we know this happe...

Thing, at bowie state university giving commencement speech there. tis the season k we listen in just for a few seconds? no? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone whos lived well into their 90s. and thats a great thing. but even though were living longer, one thing that hasnt changed much is the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ ♪ oh, what a lucky man ...

Was any partisanship or there was any legal wrongdoing or anything like that it simply was that the job the irs those do that is if somebody asks for a tax exemption, its their job to decide whether or not they are entitled to it. >> what about the fact it got roughly 70,000 of these apparently to sift through? >> well, thats what well gummed up the works. ordinarily, they get a quarter of what they got this year, but after the citizens united lawsuit in 2010, a large number of corporation and g...

>> the president in the second term has already seen some push back from progressive supporters, you know, he was criticized for agreeing to cut social security benefiteds, also has seen some criticism over the state departments refusal so far to sort of take a position on the controversial keystone pipeline. is the white house at all, ed, starting to feel pounded on by those that it once counted on for support? >> not yet because, for example, youre mentioning the changes to social security, ch...

Latest updates on this topic.