Manufacturing, access to capital for Small Businesses, making investments in infrastructure, utilizing Domestic Energy resources, Stem Education and implementing smarter regulations. I believe, mr. Speaker, that this remains the best recipe for getting our country back to work. Beyond our job creation efforts, im proud of our leadership on confronting the nations debt crisis. Though not always popular, i refuse to accept the status quo of no budgeting, skyrocketing debt and ignoring the problem which only makes it worse. With over 40 cents now borrowed on every dollar spent by the federal government, this is both a Current Crisis and a future one as well. Last year alone, we spent more paying the interest on the debt than we spent on domestic priorities of education, transportation and Natural Resource protection combined. This is unsustainable. This is why i have dedicated much of my time and effort of reining in spending and in washington. Im proud of our efforts to introduce the fir
These organizations move to pay people for quality instead of quantity. The Obama Administration will give a hospital a set amount of money for caring for the patients. Then the doctor has to strategize so they dont have to go into the red. They are hoping the model will drive down costs and get rid of the incentive or just that were at the start of that program. Host brian from massachusetts with sarah kliff. Caller a caller talked about marriage practitioners and there is a lot of them. They pretty much have a lot of schools are graduating many Nurse Practitioners and physicians assistants. There is a cap on the amount of doctors they can create. Nurse practitioners have two years of crammed education. I think they are good providers. We cannot assume that a Nurse Practitioner or physicians assistant are going to be as good as medical doctors. Guest that is a criticism that a lot of people raise. Are these people going to be as good as doctors . In certain spaces, they provide justic
We want to hear from teachers and people who work in the classrooms, principals and vice principals, people connected with education to find your thoughts on what happened yesterday. The actions of the teachers. How safe are in americas schools and americas schoolchildren. This is how the story is being played this morning on the front page of the new york daily news. This is the way it is being reported this morning in the wall street journal. The president talked about the shootings at the Elementary School calling it a hate crime and vowing to press for meaningful actions to prevent more incidents. Our first call for the morning comes from new york on the line for independence. A teacher. Good morning. Caller good morning. Yes, i was a substitute teacher actually up an east strasbourg it. I can tell you that the respect and all of that that was a round what i was going to school is completely gone. I could not believe some of the things i got to see, and i was in middle school. Thes
Ohio, he was a guy who would give you great advice and would work to get you an answer for the problem. So whether it was the Appropriations Committee or quite frankly the Transportation Committee where he served much of his career, was an area where he knew more about transportation and transportation issues, quite frankly than anybody in this town. He was a walking book on transportation issues. Pretty hard for a buckeye to talk about a university of michigan graduate this way, mr. Speaker, but its going to be a big void for this house for not just all five, but especially Steve Latourette who has really given his heart and his soul for 18 years try to make this body and our nation a better place for our kids and our our grandkids. It really didnt matter who you were or what you were about or if you had an r or a d by your name with respect to steve. If he believed in your cause, he was your partner, and he was going to do everything within his power to make sure that cause, that iss
Her decision. Later today, she will have a face to face meeting with the president. The focus has turned to john kerry. The hill will be relatively quiet today. The house and senate not in session. John boehner is back in his ohio congressional district. They did meet last night for about 50 minutes. It is friday, december 14. We are going to begin with your calls and our focus on ambassador susan rice. Her decision to take her name out of consideration. What does this tell you about washington politics . Take a look at some of the headlines this friday morning beginning with the l. A. Times. From the chicago tribune. Lets dig into the details of what is behind the decision in an editorial this morning in the the Washington Post. Here is more from the interview that aired last night. [video clip] there was one piece of what i said that turned out to be wrong. There was not a demonstration. What i said was, there were extremists who came to our facility with heavy weapons. I indicated w