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Mr. Speaker, for the past 20 years, as a practicing lawyer and business owner, i have seen firsthand how companies have tried to grow and create more jobs, but they simply cant due to the strangling grip of obamacares employer mandate. Small businesses tell a story of how their current plan was canceled and how they were forced by obamacare into a health plan that covers less with higher copays and higher deductibles, along with unsustainable increases in premiums. Simply stated obamacare is crushing Small Business across this great country. And despite the urgency of the crisis, the president...

The president s executive actions that he took late last year would improve the prospects. What period of time . Over the over the life of the individual . Youre not counting the times that these individuals would be drawing their benefits, mr. Donovan. Youre counting a shortterm window in which they would pay in, creating a shortterm surplus of money or additional flow of money, but youre not counting when they draw out. Its going make the Social Security hold deeper. Its going make it harder for us to save Social Security and medicare and you know it. And youre suggesting to the American Peo...

The mighty start falling . Were talking about apple and the biggest selloff in years. Good morning, everyone. 35 billion wiped off apples value in one day. Two reasons, the iphone slips in china, got it, but investors are taking their profit now because they dont want to pay the president s higher stock profit tax next year, big deal. The president has now drawn two lines in the sand. No to a debt ceiling, he wants a blank check and hes not backing off and yes on tax rate hikes, no compromise from the white house. Wait until you hear the latest from ed asner. He voiced the Teacher Union cartoo...

Good morning. Welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. The n. S. A. Has been under fire for months following Edward Snowdens disclosure of its mass if collection of phone records in the u. S. And around the world. As alan fisher reports a president ial panel is calling for changes in the way the n. S. A. Does its business. A surveillance review report is due to be published but is pushed out by the white house. The highlights the n. S. A. Will no longer keep a phone database, it will be held by the phone companies or a third party. The agency can no longer ask parties to build a backdoo...

Overwhelmingly, and it made it with Social Security actuarially sound for the next half century. That was 1983. So, those folks knew how to get along. Chairman nelson, Ranking Member collins and members of the committee, thank you for holding this hearing. And especially for the opportunity to testify about the future of the longterm policy. The perspective that im about to share comes from my work over the past 20 years of the office of management and budget as a person responsible for the Medicaid Budget. And also the last ten or 15 years consulting to a nursing home providers and assisted l...