The veto, only the third of Obama Hospira and see. Janet yellen obamas presidency. The fed chair got the attention of investors when she told the Senate Banking committee that an Interest Rate increase is in the works. The modification should be understood as reflecting the committees judgment the conditions have improved to the point where it will soon be at the case that the change in the target range could be warranted. Betty yellen will faced questions from House Financial Services panel. Greece has more work to do if it wants to keep getting aid. The new reforms from Alexis Tsipras clear the way for a fourmonth extension of the bailout. The imf managing director says the plans may not meet the lenders benchmarks. Christine lagarde says greece must do more. Ukraine talks yesterday between Foreign Ministers broke down to fingerpointing. Russia and ukraine lane each other for violating the ceasefire deal. President Obamas National Security advisor has sharp words for Benjamin Netanya
Morning, your take on day two of the Government Shutdown. 202 7370001, 202 7370002, and independence 202 6280205. 12 can email us at journal cspan. Org. Phone is davidhe hawking, Senior Editor with roll call. What will happen today . What is the latest . I do not think we know too much about what will happen today except almost certainly what happens today, whatever , we think the piecemeal bill we will have today is opening the National Institute of health. There were reports yesterday that some young all in a Clinical Trial at nih for cancer treatment, that the trial had to stop and the kids did not get their treatment. What through social media and capital. Almost certainly that will face the same fate as the bills that moved yesterday, which would have involved allowing the District Of Columbia to locally. Aise money to stay open the National Parks and Veterans Administration to keep going. All of those got republican votes, but that was not enough to pass the bill under the two th
Economy and create jobs and remove all doubt, remove all doubt in the full faith and credit in the United States of america. Every time you come to this floor its a question, why are we here . We are here to do the peoples work. Lets sit down. Get it done. And move forward. Instead of filling the agenda however worthy some of those initiatives may be, instead of not along with passing a middle income tax this is also reminiscent of a year ago. The president proposed, the house and senate, democrats and republicans, voted for the payroll tax holiday. The republicans in the house resisted. Painted themselves into a corner until they had no choice. The issue had been made too hot for them to handle and they finally had to come around to supporting the payroll tax holiday. And here we are again. 100 of the American People will receive a tax cut when we pass the middle income tax cut. The wealthiest people in our country will receive a tax cut up to their income of 250,000. We are asking th
Hospitalizations are also climbing nationwide, as are the percentages of people testing positive. Despite this, the president is describing a rosy state of play that simply doesnt exist. Well beat this virus and well eradicate this pest lens and all of the things that happened to our country, our lives and our planet, our aggressive and early action saved up to 2 million lives. If you look at the original numbers, it was projected to 2. 3 million lives. Were at 210,000. We have reduced the fatality rate 85 since april. Projected 2. 2 million if the country did absolutely nothing. And as President Trump delivers this false picture of the pandemic in america, he along with senior white house officials are embracing the controversial theory of herd immunity, which is essential doing nothing. In short, this is a proposal to let this fatal virus spread naturally across the country until the majority of americans have been ineffected. Its wildly controversial, widely disputed, and deemed, qu
What is being done and perhaps not being done. Here are the numbers. If not by sound, you can send aus a tweet. You can post your comment on facebook and you can send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you. Here is one of the headlines this morning in the Huffington Post theyre talking about congressman Harold Rogers, the republican of kentucky who chairs the Appropriations Committee. Writes about this as well. Russell permanent shares the byline and joins us by phone. Burman shares the by line. Guest pretty interesting day in the house yesterday. They were considering a House Appropriations bill to fund the department of transportation and housing and urban development. This has been a key bill implementing deep cuts offered by congressman paul ryan. They effectively pulled the bill from the floor, saying they did not have enough time in the week left before the august recess to complete it because of amendments. Said they hope to bring it back after the recess. Then we solv