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>> and their vote counts no more than the most junior member. >> has a look around for the otherwise -- as i look around for the other way for this committee to happen, the parties dont want to lose that much control. there will be that to some degree within the party. we have republicans more or less willing to entertain revenue increases. it has far more control than the delegates. >> i am sorry to go back to this article, but then gave me a lot of jumping off points. not all members...

yes. >> in the testimony i gave today, i mentioned a couple of categories where the numbers are disproportionately higher. i didnt put the numbers in, but wanted to review those. the african-american unemployment rate in this report is report by way of percentage? >> is 15.9%. >> what was it the month before? >> it actually declined .3%, but thats not really statistically significant. i would call it essentially unchanged. but that number alone, the african-american number for most of ...

calls. in the hartford current, losing its aaa recall credit rating. following a tumultuous week on wall street. good morning and welcome to the "washington journal." were going to be talking about standard and poors, its downgrading of u.s. credit from aaa to aa plus, what that means to you and how you want to comment on it. do you think is responsible for it. let me get your calls. if you have a call this the last 30 days, put down the phone, pick up the keyboard and send us a messag...

an important point and we have recommended a couple of different times and we also discussed in other testimony is the importance it is a key player here because they are kind of the orchestrator of the federal property environment and weve recommended that they really need to work within the federal property council to come up with a strategy to take a look at how the entire federal property portfolio is managed, and while they have agreed that that is a good idea and it needs to be d...

202-624-1115 for republicans. 202-624-1111 for democrats. independents, 202-624-0760. you can also send messages by facebook, twitter, and email. we look forward to your discussion on where will a recovery come from. good morning. friday morning. want to show you the full front page of "the washington post" if we can to show you their dramatic picture of what the stock market looked like yesterday with the headline, "markets plummet on global economic fears." neil irwin, whos been at t...

if we do that the test will be what standard and poors says in a few more months. the talk about our outlook but we have to make sure the real test will be the market and what we need more than anything else is economic growth. growth solves a lot of problems. you have to grow an economy, creating jobs, 9.4% like we did last quarter but economic growth thats been good things start to happen and you do the right things and get economic growth that thats how you solve it so we have to ge...

tax reform, some have suggested reforming or repealing the health care of all as part as the super committees agenda. what would you like to see a focus on? that is our question on "the washington journal." you can also send in a tweet at twitter.com/cspanwj. you can continue the conversation on facebook. k.com/cspan.c "new york times" article this morning -- host: that is from "the new york times." now this -- host: this is from the new republic -- host: that is from "the new republi...

again, he sort of did it on his own, without the typical, chordal back-and-forth that happens in congress. >> is transportation secretary ray lahood is asking for people to come back from vacation to deal with the faa. this is 20 minutes. >> array will talk about an unfortunate situation where, because of a refusal of congress to compromise, and do something it has done without any problem 20 times in the past five years, seven years, there are 70,000 americans out of work at a time wh...

>> rose: from new york, some photographs of president kennedy never seen before, and the conversation with richard reeves. >> before world war ii, we were a relatively poor country. after the war, we owned the world. we were rich and we really didnt know how to act or what to do and whatnot, and they came along as our role models and whatever people think of his politics or whatever accomplishments or mistakes he made, i now realize theyre never going away. its 50 years, and its thrill...

photographs of president kennedy never seen before, and the conversation with richard reeves. >> before world war ii, we were a relatively poor country. after the war, we owned the world. we were rich and we really didnt know how to act or what to do and whatnot, and they came along as our role models and whatever people think of his politics or whatever accomplishments or mistakes he made, i now realize theyre never going away. its 50 years, and its thrilling to look at these pictures...