No, it did not. I mean, were always were always assessing our posture and where we can put our assets. Not something we normally get into much detail on but we always want to make sure weve got our assets positioned properly. As we see where, you know, the focus of our strikes are based on the fluidity of our battlefield maybe we need to reposition our assets to make sure where were spending more time in the air weve got an asset closer to respond if needed. Hi, colonel. As a followup to this question, given the different tactical capabilities of the f16s and a10s is this deployment indicating tactical change in the mission as well or will they do exactly the same thing that f16 did . And the secondly, you mentioned about syrian iraq coalition. What is your understanding about the Syrian Forces . Patrick asked this question last weekend and he said he would look at it. What is your understanding about this new form and is this indicating the same thing or Different Group or can i get y
Bloomberg predicted that and that is what we got. But see what is happening market was. Batch market wise. Today the keywords in asia greece. A call for start on tuesday office start cautious start on tuesday after collapse. We do not have leads from wall street, it was closed on a Public Holiday so analysts are saying that europe is the focus. Asian stocks retreat because of concerns over retreating as of concerns over greece, it has fallen the most last week. South korea came out with bb ok decision to keep rates unchanged at a record low of 2 . They have been trying to portrait prices and you can frustrate at a record push up prices. Singapore down. 3 , opening down although fourthquarter gdp numbers beat analyst estimates but still lower than the Third Quarter so maybe that is taking a toll. Japan nikkei down from a sevenyear high because japan exited recession yesterday. We heard that the gdp grew at an annualized 2. 2 in the three months in december ending in december. Lets look
Erik. He is on assignment in athens. Stephanie i would love to say that our erik was at the oscars last night, at the vanity fair party, but no committee is working in athens. We have had to take you to the breaking news on the Housing Market. Scarlet fu is in the newsroom with the headlines. Scarlet disappointing read steph. Economists had ratcheted down their expectations over the last three days because the expectation is down 1. 6 as recently as friday. On an annualized basis the rate is 4. 80 2 million, dropped from the prior month. This is not a government report. It is from the Industry Group the National Association of realtors. What it measures is the purchases of previously owned homes. It makes up 90 of the Residential Housing market. Some might argue a more important indicator than new home sales. In terms of the effect on financial markets, u. S. Stocks were lower before the report. No real change there. The dollar takes a little bit of a leg lower even though it is firmer
The cbo. It is very clear that repealing the Affordable Care act will actually increase the deficit and it is acknowledged in here by accepting a point of order on anything that increases the deficit as a result of the Affordable Care act. We need honesty and budgeting. If this budget repeals the Affordable Care act all the services for 16. 4 million men and women children who receive health care for the first time maybe other and we know that repealing miss will increase the deficit and we need to be honest about it. This would strike the exception and continue a point of order as we do for every other part of the budget. I think this will prohibit getting even some efficient use. I would ask or a no vote. I assume a roll call vote is desired. Clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] mr. Chairman, the yeas are 10 the nays are 12. Humanities fail. Thank you mr. Chairman. Since 2010, 47 municipalities have declared bankruptcy. Estimates of un
Sitting around, and we were writing regulations for i dont remember if it was the Fair Housing Act or the housing part of the americans with disabilities act, but anyway we were there and we were deciding you know what the rule should be for employers when it came to ramps and door knobs and sunken living rooms and all kinds of stuff like that. And it was appalling. You know, none of us knows at that table knew anything about the business of how to build an apartment complex. Why were we sitting around, you know making up all these rules . It was just very scary. Hes another part did i hear you say earlier in your testimony that you didnt have to have a familiarity with something in order to do the job . Well, no, i didnt say that. I said that you didnt think you had to be to put it bluntly, i dont think that you have to be a black person in order to be able to sell pepsis to a black person. And this notion that only members of a particular group can effectively market to members of th