From abc news, this week with George Stephanopoulos begins now. And we begin with that emotional homecoming overnight for the last two americans held prisoner in north korea. Kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller touched down in Washington State on an air force jet. Their release secured when americas spy chief James Clapper hand delivered a secret letter from the president to north koreas leader kim jongun. After hugs from his family, bae reflected on two years in captivity. I learned a lot. I grew a lot. I lost a lot of weight, in a good way, but i am standing strong because of you. All of this happening as president obama heads to asia this week leaving behind a capital shaken up by that Midterm Election earthquake. The gop now in solid control of congress. The president s team scrambling to salvage its final two years and were going to analyze all the fallout this morning beginning with jon karl at the white house. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. The president depar
George stephanopoulos begins now. And we begin with that emotional homecoming overnight for the last two americans held prisoner in north korea. Kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller touched down in Washington State on an air force jet. Their release secured when americas spy chief James Clapper hand delivered a secret letter from the president to north koreas leader kim jongun. After hugs from his family, bae reflected on two years in captivity. I learned a lot. I grew a lot. I lost a lot of weight, in a good way, but i am standing strong because of you. All of this happening as president obama heads to asia this week leaving behind a capital shaken up by that Midterm Election earthquake. The gop now in solid control of congress. The president s team scrambling to salvage its final two years and were going to analyze all the fallout this morning beginning with jon karl at the white house. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. The president departed overnight and will spend t
Now. And we begin with that emotional homecoming overnight for the last two americans held prisoner in north korea. Kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller touched down in Washington State on an air force jet. Their release secured when americas spy chief James Clapper hand delivered a secret letter from the president to north koreas leader kim jongun. After hugs from his family, bae reflected on two years in captivity. I learned a lot. I grew a lot. I lost a lot of weight, in a good way, but i am standing strong because of you. All of this happening as president obama heads to asia this week leaving behind a capital shaken up by that Midterm Election earthquake. The gop now in solid control of congress. The president s team scrambling to salvage its final two years and were going to analyze all the fallout this morning beginning with jon karl at the white house. Good morning, jon. Reporter good morning, george. The president departed overnight and will spend the next week on the other sid
Intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell now, the president i ask unanimous consent when the senate completes its Business Today it adjourn until 9 30 a. M. Friday march 6 for a pro forma session with no business being conducted. Further, that when sentence adjourn on friday, march 6 it next convene at 2 00 p. M. Monday march 9. Following the prayer and pledge the morning Business Academy could expired the journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the time for the two leaders reserved for their use later in the day. Following leader remarks, the senate be in a period of morning business until 5 00 p. M. And that senators be permitted speak therein up to 10 minutes each with the time equally divided in the usual form. Finally, at 5 00 p. M. The senate proceed to executive session under the previous order. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell so, mr. President , senators should expect a roll call vote on the marti nomina
Of course, we are ready to provide information that Congress Needs to evaluate the feds Decision Making in Monetary Policy and elsewhere. With respect to Monetary Policy rules, they can be useful and i find them useful and long have as a kind of benchmark for thinking about what might be the appropriate stance of policy. But to chain a central bank to follow a simple mathematical rule that fails to take account of many things that are very important in making Monetary Policy, for example i was earlier asked about being against the euro lower bound which is an important special consideration, that would be a very foolish thing to do, and i oppose it. With respect to proposals having to do with voting and the structure of the fed that you mentioned, a lot of ideas have been mentioned. I would say for my part i think the Federal Reserve works well. The system we have was put into place by congress decades ago. I dont think its a system thats broken. Of course, congress can revisit decisio