the congressional research service said after the rule was suspended it surged from 1.9 million to 3.9 million. that s what house republicans are trying to avoid on a largeer scale. about an hour ago we received the results of a rare vote in congress, formal motion to disapprove the recent moves by the obama administration to offer more waivers. this time, in the welfare program. chief washington correspondent jim angle has the latest. reporter: after impassioned debate house voted to disapprove actions by health and human services sewn as waiverring the welfare work requirement. the g.o.p. went in tooted s vote armed with two reports in the government accountability office. when previous h.h.s . secretaries were asked about the possibility of waiving work requirements, h.h.s . responded that, and i quote, the department does not have authority toway any of the provisions. in addition to saying h.h.s. lacks the legal
as you might imagine the g.o.p. plan would cut spending and lower taxes. conservatives have denounced the president s plans for tax hikes on the wealthy. as you might also guess democrats rejected this new proposal. they claim it favors corporations over folks to get medicare and medicaid political observers say there is not a chance in the world it will ever become law. the chief washington correspondent jim angle is in the newsroom. hello. hello, shep. sweeping reform of taxes to medicare as part of his proposed gujt. budget. he became with the favorite repealing the president s health care law and moving into tax cuts. collapsing six tax brackets into two. leaving 10% and 25% rate and reducing the corporate rate to 25% as well. the international average. get rid of the tax shelters and lower everybody s tax rates get faster groh. do it in a revolutionary way
millions of discouraged workers, americans who have been out of work so long they have given up looking for work all together. chief washington correspondent jim angle has the story behind the numbers. reporter: it s clear that no issue is more important in this election than jobs, and even though the official unemployment rate has fallen, those in both parties say the job situation is much worse than it looks. one of the most recent employment reports we saw the unemployment rate decline but we also saw 50,000 people leave the labor force. that can t be a good news story. i don t think we should forget that as bad at unemployment rate has been the actual job situation in the country has been worse than that, because of these ways that they don t get measured. reporter: what doesn t get measured, megyn, is those who have lost hope of finding a job, as you mentioned, and quit looking for one, what are known as discouraged workers. official figures do not count them as unemployed
democratic senator ron widen and republican congressman paul ryan teaming up together for some dramatic new ideas on how to save the program. but the white house is already panning the proposal. chief washington correspondent jim angle has the breaking details live now from washington. jim? reporter: hello, megyn. this plan is a huge and significant political development. paul ryan has joined forces with democratic senator ronwideen to produce a medicare reform plan that will have an impact on the 2012 election as well as entitlement reform because the new proposal will leave traditional medicare in place as a choice for seniors. what this bill does is it embeds for all time a program that progressives have felt very strongly about, and that is traditional medicare will always be part of this program. reporter: which means democrats can no longer accuse ryan of trying to destroy
could lead to irreversible changes to the planet, but chief washington correspondent jim angle tells us conceptics say the science between the theory is suspicious. critics say emails paint a picture of cherry picking research to make client change look worn it is. they showed the world that they ve been conceal and manipulating data, involved in essentially a conspiracy. they seem to be wanting to bend the research toward their desired end and not be unbiased arbiters of the science. in the emails, scientists quibble with one another regarding accuracy, one says there s not rising temperatures in the tropics unless you accept one study and approach and discount a wealth of others. this is downright dangerous. we need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest. another email says, the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it, which for all our sakes might not be too