newspapers, the headline of the story, definite panel offers painful program for the u.s. what s in the proposal? well, what the co-chairman of the bipartisan fiscal commission has proposed, five basic recommendations. the first is cuts totally $2 million. they also call for a major overhaul of the tax system, reduce rates, simplify the code, and some fixes to farm subsidies. the big issue is going to be proposed cuts and changes to the social security. that s what we are seeing a lot of reaction to today. they also make other specific cuts, such as reducing congressional and white house spending by 15%. can you talk about that? what are some of the other cuts? yeah, they actually make 58. some of them are the white house budgets, cutting the federal work force by 10%. reducing printing cost, slowing foreign aide growth, even things like earmarks and cutting founding to the smithsonian and allowing them to have fees to make up for it. how much do you think will be ena
former heads of the budget office. this is just under three hours. thank you for your presence and thank you for your participation. we ll go forward. we re going to turn it to my good colleague. i can t imagine the thrill that we had when joe biden called in january and said, al, the president and i have a tremendous deal for you. [laughter] i thought why do i answer the phone for joe after 30 years, i do. this is serious business. and the minute we hit it the shriek went up, ah, there they are. we are stalking horses. we are stalks horses for our grandchildren. your the administrator, i do the color. go ahead. i tell you what, you will never have a better column man. chairman bernanke, thank you for joining us this morning. we are delighted to have you, we are honored to have you. few have played such an important role. you certainly had some forward looking statements about the fiscal crisis. we are all expecting if we don t make some pretty dramatic moves. thank y
great play here by willingham as he goes full tilt, outstretched. he just throws the ball down the middle and says hit it as hard as you want to. there s the numbers tonight for hernandez. 7 innings. he walked one, struck out one. he went 7 against the mets. complete game against milwaukee. here you see the pitches. 99 thrown, 62 strikes. he gets the win. the cubs will take a break. ray and i will come back to continue in just a moment to take a look at the nationals offense. not a lot of runs tonight, but hits came through when they needed them. mcdonald s bacon and cheese angus third pounder. as if it wasn t enough to make it with a full third pound. of 100% angus beef, they had the audacity to use a bakery-style bun. and crinkle cut the pickles. there s no denying it, that s a third strip of bacon. have they no shame! angus axiom #39: it s an embarrassment of riches. the astonishing angus third pounders. all angus. all mcdonald s. ba da ba ba ba [ male announcer ] ach
with preserving powers preserving the integrity of our own state . i ask you in february if you could arrange a public meeting with the department and the port of entry. i have heard from many concerned members that they want more information. can you commit to arranging a public meeting with the local community on this issue? a public meeting in or along the border with can get? absolutely. this is one of those things where we are trying to work with the owners to get down to the footprints. i believe it has been addressed from 5 acres to 1.5 acres in in terms of what they had determined they needed to do the kind of improvement there. unless you do it, you might as well not do it at all. we will absolutely have more community meetings. we have been working to try and minimize the amount of acreage. i understand the situation has some pent up concerns. it is not going to be the way it was. i was a youngster and you drive up to canada and back in a day. many of us had f