I only said there are certain things he believed do. First, if youre running out of money, people would rob the agencies and accounts so it is not noticeable to the average public. When that runs out they will make cuts within government. They will cut back in late people off. And the last thing they want to do is raise taxes because then somebody has messed up. That is what they believe. So basically what you have to do is look at the wholistic approach. And then you say well, this we can afford in this we cannot. Everybody is afraid to talk about taxes. You look now and we cannot even agree on the definition of revenue. That is hard to believe. You would think we cut the taxes, right . If we got rid of the junk in the box all the give away and the problems that ever lobbiest has been able to get it tax provision put in for the special Interest Groups here it with all that being said, that is a tremendous drawl on the revenue. No one ever says how much is that cost . When you introduc
Senate for pass. And over on the house side republicans to approve a bill to ban most abortions. Lawmakers will vote in the house on legislation allowing congress to review any nuclear deal. The senate has passed the bill and the president said he would sign it if there are no major changes added. In philadelphia investigators are still determining what caused amtrak train 188 to derail. The train had been traveling 106 Miles Per Hour and that part of the track had not been equipped with safety programs to limit train speed. Well begin this morning with a debate in washington on amtrak and whether or not the government should be increasing funding for the rail way. We want to get your thoughts on that this morning. If you live in the eastern part of the country dial in. Mountain pacific area and amtrak riders riders remember you can also join the conversation on twitter cspan wj and also spend an email journal. The phone lines are open so you can start dialling in. Well get your though
Look at the other markets as well. Weve got the nasdaq, the russell, and dow transports for everybody to keep an eye on. The nasdaq having a great session, um 1. 25 . Good enough to puck it back at 5,043 for the level the. The russell, the small caps doing pretty well, up almost 1 or 11 points. The transports are lagging a bit, up half a percent. They have suffered this year, especially, coming back a lit there will. In the midst of all this real action, there was a seemingly phony bid for avon. Halted shares of the cosmetic maker. More on that story later. What a crazy story that was midday at the New York Stock Exchange. Lets get to our closing bell exchange, talk about this rally the Economic Data, and a lot of other things. Heather hughes from sun america funds joins us today. Jacob jordan from hd best Financial Services with us, jason tried from glen meade is out there and so is Rick Santelli. Rick, youve established that you believe the rising yields in the treasuryies is what yo
Colorful pictures bio twitter handles and a district maps a look at congressional committees the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governments. It is 13. 95 plus shipping and handling through the online store. Next, West Virginia senator joe manchin talks about improving government. This is brought to you by the Brookings Institute. It runs 50 minutes. Sglp good afternoon i am a fellow at the center for effective Public Management and managing editor of the fix gov blog. I would like to welcome you to the Brookings Institute and todays event. I would like to thank cspan for being here and invite everyone watching to follow along on social media. It is no secret the American Government is in a problem of dysfunction. Gridlock crippled the Institutions Trust in government plummeted and instead of getting answers, all we are getting is more problems. Too often we adapt to a dysfunctional system rather than work in a way to reform it. That is a serious problem. It results in
Senator manchin and senator bird were on my mind. We have been talking to senator manchins staff for some months now about the interesting and valuable perspective that former governors bring to the United States senate. One of our ad ppvisors is a former governor mayor and senator and when he left the senate we lost the champion for sensible government reform in the senate. I must say i am impressed with the reform agenda he has outlined. From agendas like returning to bipartisan lunches and the governors caucus itself to the groups. We have talked about this in the think tank world. It needs to be something we are grappling with the return of the Office Technology assistance. One of the few valuable small i think the whole thing had 90 people in it. Small pieces of government that was well worth its weight and somehow has got chopped. I would like to open senator by asking a sort of general question. Why is it so hard to get the United States Congress Interested in these common sense