Support reform and i believe we have a moral, economic and National Security mandate to act. I now yield as much time as she shall consume to the gentlelady from california, ms. Lee. Ms. Lee thank you very much. I want to thank the gentleman for yielding and for introducing this amendment. Let me remind you, we do have a bipartisan, comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. Weve had that legislation since 2013, it has the broad support of the American People. Yet once again House Republicans have refused to take it up. Just last month they could barely pass a Homeland Security bill to protect our nation thanks to this antiimmigrant, real antiimmigrant sentiment, i would say. Comprehensive Immigration Reform not only is the morally right thing to do, but as the gentleman from kentucky said its the right thing to do for our economy. Last year the Congressional Budget Office found that passing the senates bipartisan immigration bill would reduce the deficit by 900 billion over the next two d
A day else a portion of the sheriff shared lending to small and microbusinesses. Because of that 4 billiondollar investment in 332 institutions across the Country Community banks or cdfi loan funds, we have seen positive returns for taxpayers so this is no cost to the taxpayer and we are also seeing that lending has increased by more than 10 billion so we take that 4 billion investment. As a result the institutions have loaned more than 10 million above and beyond the lending that they were doing beforehand. What that actually turns into is around 41,000 new loans to Small Businesses. It also means that of those loans, i think we are somewhere around 65 or 70 of those loans were below 100,000, so these are actually loans that are going to the smallest of Small Businesses, not midsize businesses that getting the businesses that are going to be the job creators and are the job creators. We also invested through another program called the state smallbusiness Credit Initiative 1. 5 billion
International airport all day long. He in f. Youre trying to leave town for thanksgiving youre going have to navigate boblg the storms, and the crowd. Low clouds and winds impact operations here because in the weather like todays, they have to reverse the tape off and landing patterns. In good weather, planes take off to the west. Today theyre taking off east, that is putting departing aircraft in the air space around oakland airport. They have to stagger the flights. With clouds creating low visibility, delays grew longer in San Francisco international airport. Inside of the terminals, passengers saw patience tested as they waited for tn conditions to improve. Cheryl roberts was monitoring9 v delays for travelo city. 50 of the flights have been affected by the weather. So patience is key. Keep an eye on timing. Sfo is expect 3 growth and passenger volume over last people, waiting around. 4. 7 million californians expected to hit the road sm. Rethinking plans with storms that are appro
Tonight. Rain is coming down. Roads are wet and accidents are causing problems all over the bay area. Good evening. The weather is rough out there tonight. Lets get right to 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian who is tracking the storm on radar for us tonight. Heres live doppler 7 hd and rainfall quite steady up in the north bay throughout the day into the evening hours now shifting south to east through the central part of the bay area and there are wet spots out there which is giving you reason for caution. You can see a line of showers and rainfall. Some light to moderate. Maybe local heavy downpour through novato and sonoma out to vallejo and moving into San Francisco. Lets close in in marin county south to tiburon and down to the marina area of San Francisco. We have got an area of pretty steady rain fall right now and we expect to it expand over the next couple hours and reach other parts of the bay area. This has been the pattern as we loop the radar over the last 3 hours. M
A high rate of satisfaction, and approximately 28 of Medicare Beneficiaries have chosen to participate in Medicare Advantage. The Affordable Care act, aca has noted in a july 4, 2012 Congress Shall Budget Office report cut 716 billion from medicare, including 308 billion from Medicare Advantage of load. In april of 2010, the medicare act projected that these payment cuts would result in an enrollment decrease in the program in as much as 50 . The aca also required cms effective january 1, 2012, to provide quality bonus payments to the plans that achieve four, 4. 5 and five stars on a fivestar quality Rating System developed by cms. Rather than implemented a bonus structure lead out in the law which would have led to these cuts going into effect in 2012. Cms announced in november of 2010 that it would conduct a nationwide demonstration. The m. A. Quality demonstration from 2012 through 2014 to test and alternative method for calculating and a wording bonuses. The general accountability