Because they are not able to have the Home Construction and home sales taking place so clearly right away we are seeing in the past few weeks a drop in their draw requests, demand and housing. Jeanne shaheen. I wanted to make the point for all of you who are involved with government contracting, the department of defense, that this is not the first hit the folks of gone. This comes on top of sequestration, those automatic cuts which already had a huge impact in the state of New Hampshire. The defense spending accounts for 17,000 employees, 1 billion in payroll. Economic activity. It is a huge impact and this is a double wendy. Excellent point. I will end with two questions very briefly. The first to barun singh and if anyone wants to john in i think lot of people besides thinking this is a pinprick, not really hurting anyone, it will go away shortly and will be back on the road which you spelled out in your comments very well. A lot of people are also saying shutting down the governmen
Fiscal cliff. This morning we will be taking your calls and comments. We will sort through what happens next. The phone lines are open. Send us an email, a facebook comment, or a tweet. Lets look at the headlines from the New York Times. A similar headline this morning from the Washington Post. Maynard dropped the effort to avert the fiscal cliff. The john boehner drops the effort to avert the fiscal cliff. This from the washington the wall street journal. The deadline looms with the fiscal cliff, that story available on line. Joining us live, meredith who has been following this since it started. What happened to the caucus last night . Caller there is the surface answer, what happened when they were leaving the room. I think the most telling detail and what you have seen and the most outlets is that apparently when the speaker calls one of these meetings, it is so he can gen of the final votes and try to get enough votes to pass an initiative. That was not even the purpose of this pa
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Flee a city. This is unsafe on the american highways for all of us. A renewed focus on how tired truckers are while driving on the nations roads. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. It is one of the most stunning election upsets in congressional history and could have ramifications for the republican leadership. It is huge. Stephanie. House majority leader icon tore was defeated by david brat in the virginia primary. The loss is more surprising when you consider cantor outspent his opponent by five to one. Brat an economics professor took 56 of the vote to cantors 44 . The loss is significant, because cantor was the number two republican in the house and the likely successor to Speaker John Boehner. For more on the political upset, Mike Viqueira joins us from washington. I it was a bolt from the blu. Not only was eric cantor expected to become the next speaker of the house, perhaps as early at next year, but this was a year that the tea party was in retreat, a series of stinging defeats thi
The same people as the federal exchange. We have the same problem. What the government did, see it coming, understand after a period of time where you couldnt fix it, were going to paper and telephone lines. Thats what should happen. I dont think back off any of this. Make a solution available. If they have to throw the web cover over the side, we did Social Security on telephone lines. They shoould not back off. The bill is a joke, which gets i rid of insurance reforms which help ordinary americans. You think he could have with stood senate democrats, diane feinstein, mary landrieu. The guy has a pen worth twothirds of the vote in the senate and house. If you want to make it work, be tough and hardnosed about it. Hes not going to run for reelection. If its me, my popularity goes down to 10 , what do i care. It worked in massachusetts. 98. 5 of all massachusetts citizens have health care. He bought this, its his. He ought to make it work. It can work but not with this website. The one