New survey on credit card use and consumer debt. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host the house and the senate come back into session today after a 5 week after a 6week break. This is the washington journal for september 9. Several state attorneys general will announce they will investigate google over antitrust concerns. This as another group of attorneys general plan to investigate facebook over its practices and congress expressed concerns over these two companies and discussing more regulation of these companies. What do you think about this new round of investigations . Do you think larger tech firms need more regulation. If you say more regulation of these companies needed, 2027488000. If you say no new regulation needed, call at 2027488001. If you say less regulation is needed, 2027488002. You can post on our twitter feed at cspanwj an facebook, you can post there, too, at facebook.
Done legislatively will be done in september. All of that ball is up in the draftedls are being with some markups, but the wildcard is what is Mitch Mcconnell going to bring to the floor . He made it clear he is not going to bring anything up to a vote without President Trump support. Trump has been all over the board. You go back to decades and two weeks, he seems to contradict himself on what he supports. He used to support assault weapons bans and background checks and all of these things, and sometimes he says he does not support those things anymore and seems to be adopting an ra points, claiming Mental Health and violent video games and all of these things. The white house is putting together a package on all of these things. We will have to see what will be in there. Democrats will say that is insufficient and of course nancy pelosi and House Democrats have passed a background check bill and they are trying to keep the pressure to bring it up for a vote. If it does come up for a
good morning. it is a fairly cloudy start for money. some drizzle in the west, some heavier rain in scotland. that will push north eastwards through the day, with brighter skies in central and eastern areas. details later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday, 2nd february. british gas is facing an investigation after using debt collectors to break into the homes of vulnerable people and forcibly fit pre payment energy meters. the tactic which results in someone s heating being cut off if they don t have the cash to top up their meter is only supposed to be used in homes where there are no young children, pensioners or other vulnerable people. but an undercover reporter from the times newspaper found the meters were being fitted in homes which should be protected. aru na iyengar reports. hello? british gas, your gas supplier. we re here with a court warrant. can you please open the door? otherwise we will have to open it for you. this is the exciting bit. i love t
it s five weeks since nurses first went on strike this winter. yet there s no resolution in sight. in fact, the dispute is only intensifying. nurses are taking industrial action at even more nhs trusts today than they did before christmas. we want to make nursing a safe and sustainable profession for all. we want our colleagues and the patients we care for to receive the care they deserve. nurses at 55 trusts in england are on strike today and tomorrow. next month, the industrial action will be more widespread, covering 73 trusts. 12 health boards and organisations in wales will also go on strike. a decision on further strikes in northern ireland will be taken in the coming weeks, while in scotland industrial action remains paused as negotiations continue. the advice for people who have medical appointments on strike days is to assume they re going ahead if the hospital hasn t been in touch. nhs leaders are warning that the strikes couldn t come at a more difficult time for t