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Month. talk about some big spending, lawmakers revealing a huge 1 trillion dollars spending bill. more than 1500 page bill covers the entire federal discretionary budget for this fiscal year. it restores some of the $6 billion that was cut from military pensions to help disabled veterans and the families of deceased service members. if this bill passes, congress ensures the government will stay open until october 1. does this song make you want to drive so much better? listen. ♪ hold on to...

Shack reference, please? we will have a clip later in the show. lets get to it. leaders from both parties believe they have the votes to pass a new spending bill to avoid another bipartisan showdown. at least for now. last night lawmakers revealed nearly 1600 page document laying out a $1.1 trillion plan to fund the government for the 2014 fiscal year. the bill will reverse cuts to military pensions and provide the pentagon with $92 billion in more funding. head start will see its budget increas...

Million over three year. if we can stop the fraud simply by having people provide a social security number, stop that fraud, save that money, pay for the pensions and pay for the unemployment insurance. >> they have to have not the social security number but a tax identification number. so whats the pushback that ayotte is getting in. >> well, democrats have rejected these proposals in the past. there have been stand alone proposals to require social security numbers in the past that werent rela...

About pensions. whats pensions today? so i think -- theres a lot of historical references in the book that i think will help people. >> losing a job is one thing and how you cope with losing a job is obviously a difficult environment. losing your self-confidence as a result of losing the job is something entirely different. how long did it take or did you lose any self-confidence and how long did it take for you to get back on a firm self-confident footing? >> look, for me what i realized when i...

What do we do with them? invest them in a portfolio. >> one of the risks is, like, how you promise -- how do you promise budget projections basically based on stock market investments? things like that. i mean, this has been a huge problem for pensions. >> right. >> i think theres a big risk in taking this in a more global story. >> the downside here would be, okay, we think our fund is going to perform at 6% year over year and budget out our costs at that. >> its very hard to find low-risk inve...

An interview became something much more as dennis rodman went off from north korea. a rant echoing all the way from "new day" to late night. were going to unpack it with the former nba star and a u.s. ambassador. plus accused of faking injuries related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks who had their pensions. details ahead. im beth... and im michelle. and we own the paper cottage. its a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage y...

Sitting in the blankank account. what do we do with them? invest them in a portfolio. >> one of the risks is, like, how you promise -- how do you promise budget projections basically based on stock market investments? things like that. i mean, this has been a huge problem for pensions. >> right. >> i think theres a big risk in taking this in a more global story. >> the downside here would be, okay, we think our fund is going to perform at 6% year over year and budget out our costs at that. >> it...

Major labor union and an american employer. members of boeings machine union narrowly approved a plan that does away with pensions. boeing gained ground after fielding more than 50 bids from 22 states outside washington and threatening to go to a less union friendly state. in the end, boeing will build its 777 aircraft in the seattle area and thousands of those union workers can keep their jobs. with some changes. former first lady barbara bush is back home tonight. she says she feels great af...

One-two punch. officials say at least 16 people are dead, thousands without power, all the way from minnesota to maine. most of our country is dealing with record-breaking life-threatening cold temperatures all weekend long and parts of the midwest could see an additional foot of snow. be careful out there. overseas, secretary of state john kerry is reporting progress on a mid east peace deal his announcement after mahmoud abbas. hes set to meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu lat...

And there are a just a few honest politicians willing to say that, bill. >> i wouldnt eliminate all pensions or disturb the ones that have been earned but i agree with the other panelists here, that we need more transparency. so lets freeze the old style hidden cost pension and put in place a new 401(k) style pension where you see the dollars going in, let those dollars which may be very large for a teacher or firefighter, let those dollars be very visible to the workers earning them and let the...