Ban and a bill to replace obamacare. Interest rate increase next annd almost certainty almost a certainty. The big australian lenders back in the spotlight as lawmakers get tough on banking comebacks. Breaking news has come out of manila. It is the Consumer Price index, inflation 3. 3 . That is an annualized rate, economists expecting an increase of just slightly less. Still giving a little bit of wiggle room for the central bank there in the philippines straight thats where we go at the moment. Thats right for a potentially the fed does not have ahead of next weeks meeting. Market very richly pricing in, that the high could come at a margin. Of a direction, a muted session in asia. Tracking those losses we had in the u. S. Action, we are 30 minutes away from that market open in china and hong kong in the meantime thomas r, thailand, malaysia 23. Lets get the latest from Sophie Kamaruddin on the markets. Are seeing caution prevailing today, korean stocks leading gainers in age despite
Levin talks about trade policy. The National Governors association closed out its annual winter meeting today with a discussion that included senators mark warner, Lamar Alexander and joe mansion, all former governors. They talked about the relationship between states and the federal government. This is an hour 20 minutes. Governors, i think were ready to begin. Welcome, one and all. Its good to see you here this morning. We had a great opportunity to gather at the white house last night and be hosted by the president and the Vice President and the first and second ladies. It was great to see you all. I think we all enjoyed ourselves and had a good chance to just kind of be in a casual environment. Although, we were in black tie. And associate one with another. Good to see you this morning. We enjoyed last evening. As i call the meeting to order, we welcome you all. One thing that we need to make note of is the passing of governor enos who passed away december 29th of this past year. S
Participation today. We have a Wonderful Group from Georgetown University medical center, medstar, as well as from the university at large. So we are really delighted to have the opportunity to welcome each and every one of you and particularly pleased to welcome dr. Patrick conway. I thought before professor introducing dr. Conway i wanted to publicly thank the generosity of the mcculley family who has underwritten the schools to offer this kind of extraordinary gift of leaders and health care to address your university and schools community. Some of our past lectures mike from human services, academy dr. Diana mason, American College of healthcare executives and now dr. Patrick conway is added to the list. So we are really just delighted to have you with us. Those of us who are involved in prepareing Health Professionals to the future, Health Leaders are particularly interested in your topic around Health System transformation and medstar as well are equally interested in perspective
Meaning. While trying to enhance competition in the settop box market, the item shoots miles beyond that narrow frame on its very first page redefining statutory terms referencing to hardware such as navigation device, interactive communication equipment and other equipment to mean hardware or Software Including apps. I dont know how much clearer the terms device or equipment could be in their intent to reference tangible, physical hardware. If those words dont work to restrict the commission, are there any that could . I dont think that anyone here believes for a second that stellar could have made it out of a single congressal committee if the members knew it would be interpreted to allow the fcc to force them to stream all of their content for free to any app developer willing to jump through a few hoops. Getting back to the original question, why this proposal . The rational stated is to achieve parity among competing interfaces and first glance anyone can see that the opposite wou
On this deal. We get your views. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a tweet, if you would like, cspanwj, or join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Your thoughtst here in just a minute about your views on Social Security and medicare. In this twoyear budget deal that was announced on monday, there were changes to Social Security and medicare. Joining us on the phone is jonathan nicholson, a reporter with bloomberg bna. Lets begin with Social Security, the disability program. What changes did they propose in this deal . Guest the thing to remember is Social Security has not just one trust fund, it is actually two. The problem is that the Disability Insurance trust fund , not beed to run low able to pay full benefits with the amount of money coming in starting in 2016, so basically to forestall that, the proposal is kind of a twostep kind of thing. One is to reallocate some of th