We did. In portland. I think i used all of my time. I thank the gentle lady. It is good to have mayor castro here from san antonio. San antonio is like my own hometown, corpus christi. You have a pretty good basketball team. I wanted to visit with you a little bit. I really do sympathize. We have a big problem. I think we all agree that our immigration system is broken. We have a lot of cases at our office. My heart is broken by some of the family issues that i see. Also my heart is broken by the fact that many of these people who are in this country without copper documentation are basically an underclass and are not afforded the full protection of the law. Andoure here illegally you see a crime on the street, you are afraid to call the police for fear of you getting involved in it. Youre open to exportation by unscrupulous employers. It is a real problem. It needs to be addressed. I have spoken with a lot of republican colleagues. Some of them democratic colleagues. And a lot of folk
On cspan. President obama announced his plan to avoid automatic spending cuts known as sequestration scheduled to begin march 1. It is including tax changes. The president spoke to reporters for just over five minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. I wanted to say a few words about the looming deadlines and decisions that we face on our budget and on our deficit, and these are decisions that will have real and lasting impacts on the strength and pace of our recovery. Economists and Business Leaders from across the spectrum have said that our economy is poised for progress in 2013. And weve seen signs of this progress over the last several weeks. Home prices continue to climb. Car sales are at a fiveyear high. Manufacturing has been strong. And weve created more than six million jobs in the last 35 months. But weve also seen the effects that political dysfunction can have on our economic progress. The drawnout process for resolving the fiscal cliff hurt consumer confidence. The threat of m
Us. If you want to give us a call you can join us on social media as well. Facebookrespondents on. If you want to send us an email you can do so at journal c span. Org. Its the section of the capitol journal in the wall street journal, the headline the questions for the speech are picked up in the editorial pages of the Washington Times. They say for our first 45 minutes, as president obama is set to ress the nation tonight you can see the address and 9 00 on cspan. We want to ask you for the first 45 minutes what you want to hear from the president and what information you are looking for from him regarding syria. The lines, again starting off the conversation that he new york on the independent line. Becky on new year betty from new york on the independent line. Caller if people remembered there was an open mic when putin addressed the United States. The president said we will take care of it after the election. They have known about syria for a long time. They know it was the protes
President foreign intelligence Advisory Board it said the doe, quote embodied science in the very best and security at the worse. Close quote. Highlighting a string of occurring security problem in the 1990s they describe it as a quote dysfunctional bureaucracy incapable of performing. In tbow, a few years after congress created this in an effort to address the concerns another study by the commission on science and security found the same problem. In 2005, an independent study security conducted by admiral richard again made similar findings, saying that the problem are quote, theyre not new, many continue to exist because of the lack of clear accountability excessive bureaucracy, and organizational. Lack of collaboration and unwielding processing. Those reports from 1999, 2002, and 2005. So where are we today . Anyone paying attention the answer is undenial. Nowhere. The assessment done after the incident show that the exact same problems remain. Regardless of the structure issue. Th
[inaudible conversations] president Abraham Lincoln once said, the best way to predict your future is to create it. In 2009 we didnt like the future we saw for the Healthcare System based on a feeforservice payment model. Doctors and hospitals being paid nor amount of care delivered instead of how well they delivered care to patients. So in the Affordable Care act we created new and better ways to deliver health care. Save taxpayer dollars and improve patient care, medicare and medicaid in partnership with the private sector, are now working to create the road map for future Healthcare Delivery and were here today to make sure theyre on the right track. Theres a clear slowdown in healthcare spending. But we need to do more and do it faster to change the way medicare and medicaid pay for healthcare. How to boost the countrys economy, we learned from economists the number one way to reduce healthcare spending is to end feeforservice. Everyone agree that feeforservice drives volumes, exce