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Sentence. Good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Thailand a weekend of violent protests as street fights broke out over the fate of the Prime Minister. Demonstrators want her out, thinking she is a puppet of her brother. Four are dead, 50 injured as protesters try to take over government buildings. A distinct shift in the antigovernment protests on sunday. For the first time in seven days police in bangkok are fighting back. Heavy use of tear gas as they faced off with protesters at the metropolitan police headquarters. Several thousand protesters...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] coming up on cspan2, the Homeland Security Committee Examines the use of Virtual Currencies. Then, a look at the process that granting security clearances for federal workers and contractors. And live at noon eastern, a Heritage Foundation panel on the deal struck in geneva, switzerland, on Irans Nuclear program. Today the Heritage Foundation examines the deal reached this its weekend in geneva, switzerland, on Irans Nuclear weapons program. Watch the event live starting at noon eastern here...

Im talking about the maintenance of the entire infrastructure system that made this country great in the last century. Beauty rating and aging infrastructure impacts our on families, communities, the entire country. As was noted, for example, more than 40 of our urban highways are congested. That means americans waste almost two billions gallons of gas a year and a folks spent more than 7 billion on gas idling while in traffic. The point is that indirectly we are spending this money and were not getting anything for it. Highway trust fund is essential for maintaining and improving our infrastr...

Let me just say on the issue of trafficking i welcome your comments on that score. I have proposed a resolution, bipartisan resolution with my colleague rob portman who is not a member of this committee basically saying that there should be more vigorous enforcement of these laws particularly around the time of the super bowl because the trafficking on web sites like back page. Com and tends to increase during this time so i welcome your comments. And let me just add briefly, to take senator leahys comments, i want to thank you and the department of justice for really over these past years vie...

Quite an important factor. So thats the second point. The third point id make is c. B. O. Themselves says theres a tremendous amount of uncertainty. A lot of the report stems from, as tax credits phase out, what does that do to peoples incentives . Theres a literature on the earned income tax credit that has generally found that the phaseout of the earned income tax credit doesnt affect labor supply. C. B. O. Is assuming that in this context, people will have a much better understanding of these phaseouts and alter their behavior in response to it in a much greater degree than weve seen with t...