Atlantic council decided to give to a single commander, general eisenhower, sufficient authority to organize, equip, and train an integrated nato force for the defense of europe. The task before him was unprecedented. Though each of the nato countries would see to the supply and support of its own National Forces the Supreme Commander would be responsible for the coordination into a Single International force. And at 8 00 the changing of mary l discussion todd lincoln and why some of her critics labeled her crazy. For our complete schedule go to span. Org. Earlier today former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan said extending the visa program may help increase productivity numbers. His comments came as he spoke at the council on Foreign Relations in new york city. This is an hour. Welcome, folks. Thanks. Welcome to you. Yes. A little work to do. Thanks for asking me to be in this great spot here moderating a panel with dr. Greenspan historic decision yesterday. Alan greenspan needs n
To the Market Reaction. The market seemed to rally on this news. Why do you think that was . Well, remember that this particular move was targeted way in advance, and the market had adjusted to it. The only question that was out there was what was going to happen subsequently that, not that you could actually make certain happen but with what the policy was. As it became apparent the fed was going to just raise the rates and then not do a whole series of rates, then basically the markets said uncertainty is gone. Therefore income earning assets go straight up. This is just a classic case. I ran into it many times in the sense that choices that we had were always, do you want the market to know exactly what the plans of the Federal Reserve are or not . It depended on a very, very technically difficult problem. How much risk do you want in the system . If there is too little risk, youre bubble creating. If theres too much risk, youre suppressing growth beyond what it should be. Part of F
I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that commonality is political. I would say that we need to recognize issues of race, class, sex is some are lgbt issues and we have an investment not only in cases like this one, but comprehensive Immigration Reform in access to health care. All of these are lgbt issues because people look like the rest of the country. We shouldnt get so into our silo that we forget that. Theres something about being a mi
And let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400. Or email us at comments cspan. Org. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. The Senate Budget Committee Held a hearing recently on Student Loan Debt which, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is over 1 trillion. Lawmakers examined the impact of Student Loans on borrowers, career choice and the larger economy. Witnesses included the Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus student ombudsman, a recent graduate and economic scholar richard vedder. This is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. I want to thank Senate Johnson senator johnson who is filling in today for my ranking member, senator sessions, welcome to you and all of our colleagues who are joining us today as well as a room full. Welcome to all of you on a really important topic today. We are going to be talking about a challenge that 40 Million People ar
Witnesses today. Theres a lot of attendance today. Obviously a discussion that many people are interested in. We do have a series of four votes beginning in a halfhour so im going to be very strict with the time clock today in allowing five minutes to each senator and well be calling on people in order of arrival. So with that, ms. Jones, i wanted to start with you and thank you for sharing your story and being here today to testify. Your story actually really resonates with me. All of my brothers and sisters and i went to college on pell grants and Student Loans to finance our education and i taught Young Children early on in my career which is actually what got me into politic to pe begin with. But the financial burden of Student Loan Debt is considerably more than when i graduated. So i share your understanding and appreciate your being here. In your testimony you said that you paid over 600 dollars a month to cover your federal Student Loans. How much was your monthly take home pay