General motors vehicle. This badly designed combination of metal and plastic has ruined so many lives now. The process of putting a dollar value on a human life begins. Today is the first day victims of families can submit applications for payment. Joining me now kenneth feinberg, running the gm Victims Compensation fund. Today is your first day accepting claims. Plaintiffs attorneys expect several claims to be made today. How many claims will you get . You never know, sheer speculation as to how many lawyers and claimants have the time today, the first day that the claim forms are available to fill them out and send them into me. What we do know based on history, 9 11, bp, we get a spike of claims in the first month of the program, and then another spike probably in december. The last month of the program. So well have to wait and see what comes in the door. Gerri certainly, gm itself set aside 400 million for the purpose of compensating victims, thats what they said publicly. What do
This is one of the faulty General Motors vehicle. This badly designed combination of metal and plastic has ruined so many lives now. The process of putting a dollar value on a human life begins. Today is the first day victims of families can submit applications for payment. Joining me now kenneth feinberg, running the gm Victims Compensation fund. Today is your first day accepting claims. Plaintiffs attorneys expect several claims to be made today. How many claims will you get . You never know, sheer speculation as to how many lawyers and claimants have the time today, the first day that the claim forms are available to fill them out and send them into me. What we do know based on history, 9 11, bp, we get a spike of claims in the first month of the program, and then another spike probably in december. The last month of the program. So well have to wait and see what comes in the door. Gerri certainly, gm itself set aside 400 million for the purpose of compensating victims, thats what t
General motors vehicle. This badly designed combination of metal and plastic has ruined so many lives now. The process of putting a dollar value on a human life begins. Today is the first day victims of families can submit applications for payment. Joining me now kenneth feinberg, running the gm Victims Compensation fund. Today is your first day accepting claims. Plaintiffs attorneys expect several claims to be made today. How many claims will you get . You never know, sheer speculation as to how many lawyers and claimants have the time today, the first day that the claim forms are available to fill them out and send them into me. What we do know based on history, 9 11, bp, we get a spike of claims in the first month of the program, and then another spike probably in december. The last month of the program. So well have to wait and see what comes in the door. Gerri certainly, gm itself set aside 400 million for the purpose of compensating victims, thats what they said publicly. What do
Here are the numbers to call you can also find us online. Send us a tweet. Or join the conversation on facebook. You can also email us. The Washington Times has this headline and in the Washington Post we would like to hear what you think about this bill. We will be digging into it more, going over some of the details. If to give us some perspective is pete, a staff writer with the the hill newspaper. Thanks for being with us. Guest hi. Host they talk about the House Republicans balked at first. What was the Sticking Point . Guest you used to just have to keep taxes low. But with the debt creeping up more and more, it is increasingly coming to play in our republicans think. When they first look at the deal yesterday the senate passed, theyre looking at it when the cbo scores came out and the source said this is a bunch of new debt because we are letting people off the hook on texas and a little bit of spending cuts and that is not what they wanted and it is not the balance to deal they
That it will be done and its not done, thats not doing your job. Put it up, vote yes or new york move on. This is like the people we have down the hall with the Senate Democrats who dont want to have up or down votes on Supreme Court justices, prosecutors, all these other people because what they know is they dont have any substantive reason to oppose those people. The same way most of these folks didnt have any substantive way to oppose this. Thats the problem. Nauble [inaudible] absolutely support the leader ship. I dont believe thats what the report said. I mean, i think youve guilded that report up pretty well in the leadup to your question. I dont think thats what the report said. I think these guys made the best decisions they could in the circumstances. Once you see the yard is flooded, you can say, they would have move they shouldve moved the trains. If they had known it was going to flood, they wouldve moved the trains. He made the best decisions he could at the time. Sometime