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Good afternoon, everyone, thank you for being here. As you know, today we have the presentation of the president s budget. For todays briefing, as part of the presentation, i have the director of the office of budget, Sylvia Burwell and jason furman, and Cecilia Munoz, the director of the policy and gene sperling, the director of the economic council. Each guest has an Opening Statement and we will take questions related to budget matters. I will try to direct traffic in that question and answer section. I will have time for a few questions at the end on other subjects, ukraine obviously inclu...

We were able to cut down readmission rate dramatically and our emergency room rate dramatically. The only thing that went up in our database was primary care visits. Once again, not necessarily perfection but i think as a Clinical Study it was shown to be effective. And once again the reimbursement and the savings bears out that case. We also initiated some relatively interesting demonstration projects. We identified our congestive Heart Failure patients who were having problems with frequent readmissions. We did something very simple. We put scales in their house that automatically sent their...

The cspan buss big ten fall tour kick off this week with washington journal interviewing University President s on policy issues that Impact Higher education, including costs, admission policies and curriculum and academic standards. Coming up, university of arizona president eric caleb. And here on washington journal this morning, we kick off the first of our Big Ten College tour with visits to Big Ten College campuses and talking to president s of the Big Ten Colleges and universities. The colleges that educate some half Million People each year and allocate some 10 billion a year to researc...

Safety reasons, then say no. But dont let no be the final answer. The American People have an expectation that their tax dollars are going to be used to move america forward. Not to put on the brakes, kill jobs, ruin families and make america less competitive in future generations. I believe if we had that kind of energy vision, we would once again see americas innovative wheels begin to turn. We would see young people lining up to get into technical programs and College Programs to prepare them for careers in energy development, Domestic Energy development. We would see millions of jobs creat...

Why we have not anticipated the relatively slow growth. Its important to recognize that what Monetary Policy affects is not the potential rate of growth, long run. Rather, the cyclical part, the deviation of output and employment from its normal level. In predicting the amount of slack in the economy, so to speak, we have done a little better. Our predictions of unemployment, for example, have been better than our predictions of growth and, in particular, one thing has been quite striking is that unemployment we were too pessimistic on unemployment for this year. Unemployment has fallen faster...