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Individual tax reform is something that would be very challen challenging without doing a broader fiscal agreement because its not likely in a generation dumais jor tax reform and come back and address the tax code again. That led the president to the view in july while he wants to pursue comprehensive tax reform and hopes were in an environment we have a fiscal frame that permits us to make progress there, on the business side there is much more of a coming together of views. Theres kind of con...

Until september. Its really the broadest grade on how the economy is doing. If you talk to the president about this, he says its more proof of the recovery. Since it was last 1. 3 . But his challenger is also using 2 in his favor. No surprise. Mitt romney just gave an economic speech in ames, iowa at a small Construction Business that as it turns out received nearly 2 million from obamas stimulus programs. So lets go straight to gloria borgeer who i know is watching the speech. My question numbe...

Investments. There are investments all over the country. That is one of the key instances where investments help businesses and they help grow the economy. This has then that holistic approach. And i appreciate what you said on how the entitle many reforms. He tell me about p the Business Tax Reform and how that will fund the projects. There is one time transition money. That happens in any system. You see it in terms of this one time revenue. We would like t while it encourages growth in the u....

Mr. Murphy mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy if were in a quorum call, i ask that it bees dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy i ask seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objec...

Chairman, sheila bair. A bit later, the alliance for Health Reform host a forum on medicare policy in the future of the program. That gets under way at 12 15 eastern. Were live this afternoon at 1 30 this afternoon with a press conference with bipartisan members of the conference congress. As you might expect, given the breadth of products we have, one of the areas we are investing a lot is the multi screen connectivity, because we have already seen humans will pay tasking. You were on your couc...

Welcome to the program, lessons and instructions about the Global Economy beginning with jay fishman, chairman ceo of travelers. September of 08, so a long time ago Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and there was lots of discussion in Corporate America about uncertainty. And that was what was keeping Corporate Leaders from investing. And i am one. I have 30,000 employees and we manage business that looks to the future. Thats what we worry about in the insurance business, what is the future going to ...

Department of Homeland Security. They have a fund for things like that. I do not want to overstate but that is something you want to think about. The department of Homeland Security did step in and out to keep detroit as safe as it can be for the moment. It could be a lot safer. Were talking about, i wonder we have seen the Auto Industry bailout. The bank bailout. Are we heading into an era of bailouts of cities . Is there a thing as it failed city . Whats more with detropisas codirector. What c...

A conversation with jeffrey immelt. The National Institutes of Health Headquarters is in the district of a crisp and holland. He will be on our guest to talk about the sequestered. You can watch that at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 eastern on cspan and cspan. Org. If somebody paid him to whats 10 columns for 2,000 each. He gets the money and they publish only six. He summons the editor and says, i wrote 10 and he published six. The editor says, we paid you. That is the standard answer. Maybe they were n...

Advantage. Had pat nixon been able to cut through her husbands paranoia, watergate may have been avoided. They were leading virtually separate lives as youll see in my portrayal of this status of all president ial couples. , do not give my husband advice she was quoted as saying. If there are man or woman alive who doesnt need advice from the person who knows him or her best . We continue our conversation on first ladies. At nine eastern on cspan. This discussion computer hacking. This is two ho...

Making it clear just how much is at stake here . Its a great question. Its interesting the person i had a chance to meet with who is here and part of the program told us quite frankly that he never thought he would need government help. He never needed unemployment insurance, he was employed living his life thinking everything was going fine and then discovered a disease in which only the work here would give him a chance to enjoy a future. Hes now a strong advocate for the n. I. H. Im afraid th...