Historic legislation, to deal with the problem of people trafficking. We need to do more to stabilize countries like libya and other countries on the mediterranean from which many of the problems are coming. I only underlined the important work that our Development Edge it does. Order. There is always next week. Arizonas next week. There is always next week. You have been watching prime ministers questions of the british house of commons. Question time is live everyone stay at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2, and reairs at 9 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. You can watch anytime at www. Cspan. Org. The center for strategic and International Studies will hear from former British Defense secretary tomorrow. He will speak about u. S. Relations with the united kingdom, as well as the u. K. s upcoming general election, the transatlantic alliance, and Global Security threats. That is live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Later, a hearing on the Consumer Product safety commissions 2016 budget req
Down mari nostrum and instituting instead something that will only protect europes borders and not search and rescue people. Will he go back and ensure that europe adopts a humanitarian approach of saving these desperate people and supporting these desperate migrants to help them survive thats all survive in libya. The gentleman makes an important point but im afraid the statistics dont back up the case he is making. Marim nostrum was a genuine attempt by the italians but i think more people died during the policy then when it was brought to an and. We need to press ahead with the modern save slavery built which is doing the story legislation to deal with the problem of people trafficking. That only underlies the important work our Budget Department does. Order. There is always next week. There is always next week. You have been watching prime ministers questions at the british house of commons. Question time is live every wednesday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2 and rea airs at 9 00
Budged. Dow futures down by 6 half a points below fair value. The s p 500 closed another record high on friday. Nasdaq down by 9. 5. One Economic Data point of note, the National Association of Home Builders will release its Housing Market index for may. Thats due at 10 00 eastern time this morning. A little bit of news out of chicago, charlie evans, he says the feds should aim to boost inflation by keeping Interest Rates near zero until early next year. Evans is a Voting Member of the fomc and argues inflation has been running too low for too long. We just had him on. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Thats not new, is it . They have got the dual mandate. Right. We knew this was kind of where he was headed with things but people are looking at fed speak very closely right now to try to figure out. Did you see the fed futures in september pushing that of 0, thinking its less lick like dr likely. It could be negative in the first quarter. Could be. 5 for the first half. What happened to 3 . 3 . And
Nice to see you. Melissa attias is making her first visit to newsmakers. Dr. Wall, we can we start our program about the expected consideration of what is called a doc fix. I know your organization does not prefer that term but i am sure many cspan viewers have heard that in washington parlance. Tell us what this issue is. Dr. Wah we are talking about Sustainable Growth rate which has been in place for a long time. It was originally passed in 1997. It was thought to be an effort to control the costs of the Medicare Program. It resulted in about 17 patches over the last 10 or 12 years. Each one of those paid for the one year period, not the committed interest, like a credit card, on past things. By kicking the can down the road each year, congress accumulated interest. Now april 15, if the senate does not act, there will be a 21 cut in physician payments, which is the acute related interest of all these years of kicking the can down the road. I want to talk about the term doc fix. As a
Here again, i think a false choices being offered. Sending soldiers into syria at this point would be counterproductive. At this point, we have a whole lot of allies in that region that are asking us to do that. We are not working effectively with the turkish kurdish rebels jordanians, saudis, kurds. We are not working effectively with any of our allies. To say the only thing that we can do is go off to war is not true. There is a whole set of things that we have been asked to do by people who share our interest and we are not doing them. Announcer Senior Editor for the Weekly Standard on his writing career, the gop president ial candidates, and what voters are looking for in a candidate. They want somebody who looks like hes stood up for them. I am amazed by the degree to which primary voters on both sides are motivated by resentment. The sense of being put upon. Those people really do not understand us. Here is a guy who does not understand us and will stick it to them. That happens