Of this. Have a great weekend. Hello, thanks for joining us, im Martin Savage at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. Im in for fredricka whitfield. Good to be with you. Fiscal cliff talks, we are at a standstill, 32 hours before we reach the edge of this press cis miss. Senate sfleshts taken the time out to speak after the butting heads on two key issue, one involving tax rates, the other Social Security. Ali velshi is in new york, dana bash is live on capitol hill. We will start with you, dana. What has gotten lawmakers now not seeing eye to eye . Reporter actually, let me answer that by asking one of the members of the Senate Republican leadership, senator john thune, who just came out of the Senate Republican meet egg. Senator, can you tell us where do things stand as far as republicans feel . Well, look, republicans advanced a proposal last night. You heard senator mcconnell talk about that on the floor. We are still awaiting a counteroffer by the democrats. And there was an indicatio
Experiences. Guest the federal government has tried to roll up waste and fraud, but when taxpayer money is involved it is different than a private enterprise. The ability for fraud to creep into Government Programs financed by taxes is much tighter than private enterprises because shareholders have their own money that they invest. There are a certain amount of problems. For instance, medicare, probably in the order of 60 billion per year in a wasteful and fraudulent payments. This is a huge number. It is in part because medicare programs paying a billion claims a year for medical services. The ability to track the claims and figure out which ones are right and wrong is limited at the federal level. I think there is a certain amount of things that go on and government that is difficult to get all the waste out. The caller is absolutely right it to be a top priority. Host alright, kathy, Wesley Chapel florida, republican caller. You will have to make a quick. Caller hi. Ok, first, i thi
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Expecting the u. S. Economy to grow to . The reason i raise this is to go down there and talk to policy makers and business people. We could have more taxes here, more regulation there. A little more cost of labor here. And a fair amount of uncertainty and take on one of the great economic miracles. They understand this thing they have a great economy growing rapidly is fragile and requires government to facilitate rather than later uncertainty. That is almost like a test tube of forcing. We had a time in which we had a huge amount of uncertainty. Comes from some comes from government action. We had an aggressive regulatory agenda. We have not made a certain investments we have made. You add that up and you have a period in which businesses are operating under huge weight. Creates the conditions under which businesses can operate in intellectual freedom. Among the things government can do is create the conditions under which cost [no audio] to allow businesses to innovate. One of the s
Let me start maybe with secretary husted. Photo i. D. To register but only a signator sigget to vote. Is there a signature to vote. Is there a problem with that . There are a dozen of ways, as long as its accepted within your state. If you can get political peace within your state and people can generally agree what the rules are. Thats why i love the title, balance. Its a balance. Every time that you add something that makes it easier to vote, then you have to balance that with something that also makes it secure. That is in the and the more secure you make it you need to make sure youre not denying access. I think its a formula that is that needs to be accepted state to state. There are any number of ways you can do this. I made a proposal on when photo i. D. Was being discussed in ohio and it had the value of being ignored by both Political Parties because its they wanted what they wanted. They didnt want what was a balance, and so there are any number of ways you could do this. Its