611 demonstrate we are having more inmates and we are not planning to build any new presence. Netore and more, it is a 600 increase, right . The net is 611. Even with the number youre looking at 1 3 of our prisons. You have to take that 611 and we are put in a situation where we are triple ok. Colleagues,ay to my the decline in federal and state incarceration rates from 1980 when i was an attorney, and the early 1990s, when senator kerry and senator thurmond, leahy, widen, grassley, hatch did the mandatory sentencing, had theng parole mandatory sentencing provisions, and it was a revolution in prisons and in prosecutions. I was taught before and after states begin to follow the mandatory sentences. We have seen a decline in murder rates by 1 2. Had worke 1970s conflict were constantly fearful of being the rubberized, echoes being broken into, and you have seen this substantial improvement. All i would say is there is no doubt in my mind that moving from a revolving war were people woul
Madame secretary, thank you for joining us this morning. Facing with we are the marketplace website are unacceptable, they need to be fixed immediately. I would like to put things in a historical perspective. The ageold plan is facing hurdles. Problems the set show soul security. Medicare is facing trouble. New problems in medicare bug trend it drug benefit. From the headlines early part of this decade. Major programs that have come below in terms of the social safety net in this country and health care security. While this is an excusable, it is a challenge that has been faced time and time when any program has been unveiled. I find it amazing that those ascribe blame have spent every waking hour of the working toears dismantle, destroy, obstruct, and impede the success of the Affordable Care act. Concerned not about its failure, but about its success. What i hope we will focus on is how to succeed. I want to get a sense when those of us on the committee worked to put this together, w
Emergency Unemployment Insurance. And we certainly, mr. Chairman, should not mess around with one that we pay our bills on time. Thank you very much. Dr. Price. Dr. Elmendorf, welcome to the committee once again. Appreciate the good work cbo has done anything my friend from maryland says the report is good news and bad news. And i would agree with that. The problem is that when you compare it to last your support and reports prior to the, theres more bad news issue than it was last year, and less good news this year. Our friend makes a comment about decreasing medicare spending. Spending in medicare has decreased by 700 because of the Affordable Care act but it is forced reductions and as a physician i can say that my former medical colleagues will say that it actually is harming health care for seniors. And so the challenge that we have here is to put in place programs that dont harm seniors. And our friends on the other side seem to be willing to put in place programs that do harm se
Monday, march 10th. Good evening everybody. Im sue herrera filling in for susie gharib. Im tyler mathisen. Welcome. We begin with good news. Stocks closed near the highs today. Now the not so good news. Major averages all lost money today but not much, just a little. Chalk it up to unsettling data from china where experts fell sharp pi and worries about rising tensions in ukraine. The dow was down triple digits at one point today but rallied late. The industrials closed 34 points lower pressured by boeing. The nasdaq down one and the s p down a fraction from fridays record setting close. With the nasdaq sitting near a 14year high it may be believe the bare market bottom was exactly five years ago but a lot changed since then. Its a bull market now, and a lot of Retail Investors have come back into stocks, a bit more cautious and perhaps a bit 77 kn than they were before. Jane wells has more. The country does what it has to to stay afloat. Some people have floated the b word around. Rep
Monday, march 10th. Good evening everybody. Im sue herrera filling in for susie gharib. Im tyler mathisen. Welcome. We begin with good news. Stocks closed near the highs today. Now the not so good news. Major averages all lost money today but not much, just a little. Chalk it up to unsettling data from china where experts fell sharp pi and worries about rising tensions in ukraine. The dow was down triple digits at one point today but rallied late. The industrials closed 34 points lower pressured by boeing. The nasdaq down one and the s p down a fraction from fridays record setting close. With the nasdaq sitting near a 14year high it may be believe the bare market bottom was exactly five years ago but a lot changed since then. Its a bull market now, and a lot of Retail Investors have come back into stocks, a bit more cautious and perhaps a bit 77 kn than they were before. Jane wells has more. The country does what it has to to stay afloat. Some people have floated the b word around. Rep