Is the president paying for the flight back from hawaii . Personal travel the first family will appropriately fund in line with past president s. Viafirst lady will travel government aircraft preview are accurate in your description that this was a government aircraft. You are accurate in your discretion that this was her decision to remain in hawaii. Kids, you know that telling your spouse they can spend a week away from home is a big presence. Not that we dont love our kids. Acknowledged her birthday. We will see what we can come up with. I have to run to a meeting. [inaudible] on the disclosures issues . The president will speak about those issues prior to the state of the union. On january 28. Sometime between now and then he will address those issues. Great to see you all. Good luck. [laughter] missed any of our coverage of today possible i tells briefing, it is available on our website. O to www. Cspan. Org live at the brookings institution, a group of analysts a group ofas that
Its something to help people who are in desperate shape. So, mr. President , i repeat, theyre looking for a distraction, a process argument to steal attention away from their unconscionable stand on the issues that matter most to the middle class. You have to give them credit, theyre doing their best to divert attention away from this issue. This is opposition and its coldhearted, to extending unemployment benefits. Its a very tough position to defend, especially when republicans around america support what heller and reed from rhode island are trying to do. Democrats support it, independents, but republicans in congress dont and theyve said so. Republicans complained that the majority never allows the minority to offer amendments is, mr. President , false. Its not true. Its another diversion. During my tenure as majority leader, its there have been volumes of stuff written about the obstruction weve had with my republican colleagues during the last five years with the obama administra
Years because of changes happening in that market. Or is it too small piece of the pie to make much of a difference . Thats another one we wouldnt have indication of right now. Were still not sure of the impact that would have. We have to wait until we see data which would be 2014 data wont be available for two more years. At this time, we dont have the answer to that question. John with npr. It seems to me, people who might want to take some comfort from this decline in the rate of growth and healthcare should not take comfort because it basically whats happen historically after a recession. Price growth stabilizes. Maybe were near record lows because were through a record great recession. Is that the case . Are you saying theres no change in the long term trends here . What were saying in the article is that the relatively low rates of growth that weve seen over the last four years are consistent with the historical tend. We dont characterize those trends. Its consistent with what we
Of ways that it can have an impact, both on the hiring and employee side, as well as on the owner side. On the hiring side, setting standards for hiring contracts with vendors can set a high bar for companies that are receiving the Public Airways to live up to those sorts of standards on the structure that can impact the ownership side. Perverting competition. He surely set off structures that allow for small women and minor minor owned businesses to create compete in the auctions. You may not have all the ideas but we are interested in finding out what other ideas can be brought forward and celebrate the chamber recently reinstating the Advisory Committee on diversity and digital empowerment. Those are the sorts of things we love to see at the fcc where stakeholders can come together and come up with other tactics to promote diversity. Thank you chairman, my time is up. , we hear from senator blackburn. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to thank our witnesses for being here to talk about
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