This discussion is an hour and a half. The Vice President for Economic Policy here, and thank you all for coming. Its an interesting time for the Housing Market. We could have said that anytime in the last five years but things are changing a bit, after more than five years of decline, markets around the country seem to be doing somewhat better. Home prices are going up. And foreclosures are at a fiveyear low. On the other hand, were still suffering from a serious overhang from the crisis. More than four million households have lost their homes through foreclosure. This is, of course, been very bat for families and communities and bad for state and local budgets. On top of that. Home price declines wiped out roughly 7 trillion in household wealth. And left more than 10 million families underwater on their mortgages. In particularly hearterrity communities lice leaves more than half the home owners are underwater and many by half of their homes value. This is creating significant proble
There are Certain Committee hearings that are very informative to the public. I like the way that cspan covers and in the way that they present themselves. In his commentary, but not edited out. It gives a real sense to the american people. Cspan is created by americas Cable Company in 1979. Yesterday, president obama nominated john brennan had the cia. And a discussion took place with chuck hagel and jane harman. We are with jane harman, who is now with us. She served on the Intelligence Committee from 2006 to 2007. Lets begin with the pick of john brennan. What does this entail . Guest he has been the center of obamas Intelligence Committee for four years now. He has managed the Terrorism Program quite well. And he is the gentleman that obama trust the most. I think it is an extremely good appointment. Host what does the job entail . Guest it is a different job than what it was in 2004. In 2004, four of us in congress but the fight for intelligence reform and we restructured our Inte
Their spouse has passed away, they are, in general, tougher and financial circumstances. It is not that i would not have some sympathy for changing benefits, but i would like to do is lower the most for those who are most capable of withstanding the reduction. What do you say . I think the most important point to make about the change cb i is it saves you very little in the long run. It raises you very little on the tax side. If thats the only thing we are contemplating, i guess we talked about eligibility for medicare but we were not talking about sufficient reforms to fix the problem we face. While historically, the chain cpi may have gone up by two or three points less than the cpi w use, there is no guarantee. Is just a forecast. That is just a forecast. We could save more or less depending on how things work out in terms of real reform, i would much rather look at something of this sort that bob discussed, some sort of progress of indexing approach to the problem. That would lower
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Three more candidates for Lancaster County-based seats in the Pennsylvania House filed petitions to appear on the April 23 primary ballot just ahead of the Tuesday submission deadline.