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Minutes. Well, well call this hearing to order. Today we are welcoming the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency, mr. Brock long. Here to discuss response of recovery to hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria as well as the wildfires that spread across california. Administrator, thank you very much for being here and for joining us. The magnitude of the disaster activity that were experiencing this year is basically unprecedent unprecedented. I want to thank you and the thousands of dedicated fema personnel who have deployed and who continue to work tirelessly to help communitie...

That that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion , so the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is, it is of concern to me and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn which, well, could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role may well be limited. Sam and then victoria. Sam flemming. A couple of longer term questions. First of all midway through the year you talked about issues of whether inflation targets might need to be raised and a lot mo...

4 news. grant another big story were following. A heated meeting tonight over proposed budget cuts within the Oakland School district. The district was initially facing a shortfall of 15pointone Million Dollars. That number has now dropped to nine Million Dollars. Tonight hundreds of parents packed tonights meeting. Pushing Board Members to keep their school open. Labor unions and Community Groups are trying to get school Board Members to reconsider their calculations. They want access to how the budget is being analyzed, so the community can help come up with proposals for the allocation of f...

They need to make these mid year cuts. Cuts are not something we ever want to see. We dont want to do this, but the reality is we have to make some cuts because if we dont, if we stay in the position we are currently, in all likelihood were going into state receivership. Thats where the state would come in and make cuts without asking any questions or hearing public comment. That could be anything up to and including the closing of a number of schools immediately. Standup those opposing the cuts say highly paid administrators should feel the brunt of it, and the board is saying that is happeni...

Congressmanhio talks about the senate race and the upcoming fiscal headlines. Good morning, everyone. It is thursday, december 14. It appears the republicans have a tax deal. In their effort to make reforms happen before the christmas holiday, they have come together on some final provisions. We want to know your thoughts this morning on republican efforts to tax just to pass the tax reform bill by next week. To pass the tax reform bill by next week. Twitter, as well. Or you can go to facebook. Good morning. We will get to those calls in a minute. Lets begin with politicos headline. Here he is...