Charities. Rivate he said his family had used those when his fighting unsuccessfully against cancer. Questioned by n reporters, said they had used he medically needed provision of the medicaid law. Denied ker initially this, said his father was wrong. His father suggested that he was right. But peaker admitted this continued to oppose expansion of medicaid. I suspect that this opposition will continue. A little more muted now than it had been earlier for a political reasons. One, they are now close to one enrolled in the healthcare exchange. Two, some groups have come support the expansion of medicaid like Florida Medical in the ion that had not past. Thirdly, probably most a big ntly, there was election coming up in florida the likely democratic candidate whom some of you may republican e the governor of florida, is now aggressively pushing the care act and the urrent governor is not responding as aggressively as he i suspect because of these other changes. One other change that is co
Attacks. The 9 11 attacks. In light of those concerns, we want to hear what our viewers think this morning. Should the socalled torture reports be released today . Phone lines are open. Host you can also catch up with us on twitter, facebook or email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. The socalled torture report making headlines in papers across the morning. Heres the front page of the ampa times this morning and the lead story of todays u. S. A. Today, torture report raises fears. We want to hear from our viewers this morning what, you think about the release of the socalled torture report this morning. Before we get to your call for my details on what can be expected, i want to turn to Michael Doyle with mcclatchy. He joins us on the phone. First what, can we expect from the report . What are the details that will be in it . Guest the report itself will not be made public. And its going to stay classified. Whats coming out is the executive summary. Its abou
Answer a question about whether the house might vote to pass a clean bill, a bill that doesnt have this healthcare condition attached to it. The last shutdown lasted about three weeks. We will see what happens this time around. For the very latest, go to our website, wbaltv. Com. You can see the 12 real impacts of the shutdown. Just click the link on the top of the homepage. Details on how the shutdown will impact maryland coming up at 6 30. Todayn enrollment starts for anyone who does not already have Health Coverage and for businesses that need to provide employees with coverage. Open enrollment ends march 31st of next year. For more information on the Affordable Care act, you can call this number new set of laws they go into effect for marylanders. Live withey joins us the things you need to avoid doing in your car from now on. Good morning. Good morning. As of today, you can be pulled over just for using a handheld cell phone while driving. Also for not wearing a seatbelt. Passenge
Measure. But as many as 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay. Thats right. We have it all covered this morning, the politics of it and the Economic Impact beginning with nbcs kelly odonnell. She is on capitol hill. Kelly, how did it all go down . Matt, what a night. Congress will be back to work today to try to fix this mess but aids in both parties, sources high up, say right now they think this could go on for days, maybe even weeks. And thats because that prediction is because theyre not dealing with money where they could just meet in the middle. Theyre fighting over differences about the future of the health care law. Reporter gridlock in the middle of the night. Should the public be prepared for this to go on for days . Lets hope not. Reporter no solution in site. John boehner left the capitol unable to strike a deal. The house made its decision known quickly. We believe we should fund the government and there should be basic fairness for all americans under oba
Cost of tax reductions. The alternative minimum tax is 28 . If your tax rate was lowered to 25 . You still have to pay 28 . That is correct. For incomes between to london thousand dollars and 500,000, the effective tax rate is 35 . You hit the 35 rate and incomes fire lower than the income levels at which you would hit the 35 rate and regular tax. Why do they call it a patch . It is a one time year by year patch to stop the broad expansion. You could ask why they call it a cliff. They have discussed this in terms of the patch. It is a year by year increase in the exemptions. The patches nothing but the increase in the a in the exemption to prevent tens of millions of people from being forced to fill up the return you have. The only thing i would add is the package, what makes this so critical in the fiscal cliff discussion, is we are talking about the past for the 2012 taxable year. Unlike the rest of the fiscal cliff which effects rates that will apply next year. The patch applies for