Meeting of the longterm budget for not able to all of what theres a lot of pieces we can work on and hopefully we can break it into areas of interest for members on the hill to work on and i would say key is bipartisan. Each piece has to be addressed by the republicans and democrats together. I think the maya is right on target. Our history, we have never had a Budget Commission that has exceeded. That tradeoffs are too broad. Weve had pieces, however. As closer commission is probably everyones best example. Members of Congress Want to be bailed out. They wanted to have someone else make those painful decisions. We dont have that with most budget issues. One of the other examples of the property and plant and equipment for federal agencies, a proposal to the commission if it doesnt already exist to close Certain Agency field offices and properties. Thats an example of for our Something Like that might work but i think we tend to resort to much to this notion of a process fix that a con
I wrote a piece of a years ago. Lynn has written papers with a lot of people in this room and i know you agree with me its a wonderful experience. It certainly, it changed my thinking about tax expenditures so thanks to lynn. The second thing i want to do is thank maya and the committee for setting the fiveminute rule. You probably dont know that but today there is a fiveminute rule. Theres a woman standing behind that you cant see, but when she oures the stop sign, microphones go off. I think that is a great idea, especially for discussing of budgeting. Because to have a constrain on the use of valuable resources, in this case time, has a nice way of giving incentives to people to make choices that are efficient. And what do you make of the fact that we all broke the rules . Mr. Phaup i didnt know you did. [laughter] phaup in support of that role, actually gave these brief remarks a title and the title that i thought would be 1 2opriate would be, 4 things to remember about tax expendi
American interests around the world. So, is it beyond the possibility to think that the president did or will reach out to some of these leaders for discussion and or apology . Well, if he does, i dont anticipate that it will be the kind of conve a okay. Lastly, on detroit, this week, its expected to come out the city is expected to come out of bankruptcy. What do you say about that, particularly as they are coming out of bankruptcy and still they have a debt into the billions of dollars . Well, the city of the Obama Administration has worked closely with officials in the state of michigan and the city of detroit, as they have worked through the significant financial problems plaguing that city. We certainly are pleased that they appear to be nearing the end of their this bankruptcy period, but there is significant the administration will continue to work closely with offings in michigan and officials in the state of detroit city of detroit as they continue to recover from the signific
Also, join the conversation on cspan wj is our handle. You can also send us emails. We will get to your thoughts in just one minute. Joining us is candidate delaney. He is here to take your questions about this intelligent report. When you begin with what Dianne Feinstein had to say. She talks about the findings of this report. We have 20 findings and conclusions which fall into four general categories. First, the cias and enhanced interrogation techniques were not an effective way to get a better intelligence information. Second, the cia provided extensive amounts of inaccurate information about the program a end its effectiveness to the white house, the department of justice, congress, the cia inspector general, and the American Public. Third, the cias management of the program was in adequate and deeply flawed. Fourth, the cia program was far more neutral billion people were led to believe. What did we learn from this report . About theknown a lot basics of what was done to al qaeda
Plaza. Good morning. Nice to have you along, Tuesday Morning, 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Still happening out here on the west coast. Look at plymouth, massachusetts. Snow still coming down hard. Even from 3,000 miles away on the west coast you can hear the sigh of relief though from people in the new york city area because we really got lucky with this storm. Though as you say, the same cannot be said for the people to the east of us and to the north. Thats right. We want to get to the latest on the storm. States of emergency declared in eight states from pennsylvania all of the way up to maine. But as the system is moving north now, many of those travel restrictions that were put in place are being lifted. How do you think air travel is doing . Its one of the biggest impacts of this storm. The backlog of canceled flights just keeps growing. More than 5,000 already today. In massachusetts, the National Guard activated 500 members overnight to help clear roadways, operate shelters, a