Outh in binding the country together for infrastructure projects, through supporting on, he wasr and so deeply suspected by the Southern States who saw that he wanted too much power for the federal government. Life ofkaplan on the our sixth president , john quincy adams. Congressional Budget Office or Douglas Elmendorf said changes are needed to sustain Health Programs such as medicare. His comments came during testimony before the house Budget Committee. This is just over two hours. To make sure that every witness knows that it is against the law to provide false testimony to a committee of congress, we have begun this new committee. We are taking this step only because of a recently Code Guidance were have been given by the department of justice. Please just raise your right hand. Or affirmemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth and nothing but the truth . Yes. Do we have that over with . Welcome to the hearing today. We are going to discuss cbos longterm bu
Cayman islands and virgin islands, the amount of profit they attributed to these countries is in some cases 1600 more than the Gross Domestic Product of these countries. This is outright tax avoidance. Im a Small Business owner. I know many Small Business owners pay their taxes legitimately, but some corporations take advantage of these tax havens and tax laws. Specific lit one that really has gotten a lot of attention lately is this inversion process. The fact we know already pharmaceutical companies and Manufacturing Companies have been looking at this, but most recently some Retail Companies like walgreens is in the process of potentially going down this road, which would be a whole new area we havent seen taking advantage of this practice walgreens, if i understand it right, there is an estimate over five years we could lose 4 billion worth of tax revenue if they were to do this practice, which is something that i think the average person would look at as nothing more than thes not
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. A prorussian separatist leader said today that Critical Evidence has been recovered from the Malaysia Airlines boeing 777 that evidently was shot down thursday near the ukrainian russian border. 298 people died. I can tell you that as of today, we have found some Technical Details of this plane, which we suppose can be those the socalled black boxes. Sreenivasan secretary of state john kerry said today the United States has what he called an enormous amount of evidence that prorussian separatists shot down the plane with a russianmade surfaceto
Barriers are the only ones that can make it through the legislation. So there we are focused on the legislation passing. But we also have government to government sharing. Lets start with an side of inside of the federal government. There they try to get us for Intelligence Matters we need to do a better job of doing the analysis. Thus ctic is doing the the levin is doing the analysis that isnt necessarily sharing the intelligence but being able to do the analysis. So, then you also have the sharing that needs to happen between the centers. Weve done a good job of increasing the sharing among the centers and among the agencies involved. Now its about doing the analysis. So, we have these four different for different kind of sharing that i phrased. Each one is equally important. We are trying to come up with policy solutions to figure out where the barriers are in each of them and get the policy answers that salt is different here years. And i think thats one of the when i was getting p
Number of important Consumer Protections, from new mortgage protections to credit cards to payday lending. An independent source said the credit card bill of rights that was supported by the cfpb saves consumers 20 billion a year. That is a huge step forward for onsumers. And the bureau has been willing to make sensible changes when it needed to. Last year they adopted amendments to the card act that would allow stayathome spouses to take out credit cards in their own names. That was commonsense fix for an unintended problem for stayathome spouses that were credit worthy and they made the decision to make them able to get these credit cards. Thats a huge step forward, i worked with it on worked with mrs. Capito across the aisle. And they continue to develop safeguards in rapidly growing areas, such as prepaid cards and other areas. In short the cfpbs work has made the lives of American Consumers and our constituents better on a daytoday basis. This bill would understood mine these resu