Agreements. Two days ago i spoke about the portion of this only wit omnibul that funds the department of state and foreign operations. But i also note and i can say this as the most Senior Member of the Appropriations Committee the bill also provides funding for many vital domestic programs that have suffered some very painful cuts in recent years. It provides increased funding for Public Health including mental health. Its going to increase the National Institutes of Health Budget by a billion dollars. In vermont, Rural Health Centers are essential for rural families. This bill includes 700 million more for these Health Centers nationwide. I know how important they are. I remember my first term in the senate helping to start one of our First Community Health Centers in the tiny county of grand isle county. Beautiful archipelago of beauty north of champlain. Some of the hardest hit from sequestration and the bill will help improve these programs by investing nearly a billion dollars. T
Three days. Not only of what is happening in the white house and congress as well. Here is how you can call us host also on social media host some of the headlines reflecting what has been going on here over the past three days. Here is the wall street journal, their headline going to the Washington Post was quot ,d then the Washington Times reaction to last nights meeting , according to boehner, he sums it up this way they will not negotiate. To give us the latest we have and servesroll call as a staff writer. The meeting last night, what was actually accomplished and how did all the sites play out what happened last night . Guest well, good to be with you. Outgeneral sentiment coming of the meeting perhaps best summed up why Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell of who appeared on the cnbc Program Shortly after the meeting. Cordial but unproductive. It went on a fairly long time. But as you just noted in the headlines, a fairly good summary of what seems to have gone on, that the re
Let me play it for you. Had you had any knowledge at that mall it was there before the department of justice giving you that notification . We did not, senator, or mr. Chairman. Despite significant investment in multiple layers of detection that we had within our systems we did not. Melissa congressman that is really startling to me. Is it surprising to you they had no idea until they got a phone call from the Justice Department that all this had happened . Unfortunately that is more common than you think. It is usually Payment Card Companies or secret service or fbi that are doing an investigation that stumble on this now there is a system set in place and theyre supposed to do audits and so one of the questions were going to ask of target tomorrow is, were they doing thooe audits pursuant to this standards for security . Answer is no . Well, i hope the answer is yes but they didnt, you know, see if they just didnt find it. That is one of the questions the Senate Committee didnt ask y
Turning to our top story is the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office today releasing a report that shows the grim effects of obamacare on the economy and on jobs and wages. The report reads the cbo updated estimate of the decrease in work translates to a reduction of oldtime equivalent employment of about 2 million in 2017. Rising to about 2. 5 million and 2024. And previously the agency estimated that if the aca did not affect the average number of hours for each employed person, it would reduce Household Employment in 2021 by about 800,000. By way of comparison for 2021 of about 2. 3 million. The white house scrambled their top economic advisers to the briefing room, preempting jay carney, the cbo report apparently catching the white house by surprise. And here is jason furman struggling to explain the loss of more than 2 million jobs is an act of liberation and the benefit. Not a negative particle and of obamacare. The estimated reduction stems almost entirely from the labor that
A ceasefire and the bargaining positions on both sides. Brown then, two weeks after the vote, a florida congressional race is resolved. We update the postelection changes in the house of representatives. Woodruff would building walls protect cities like new york from flooding after major storms . Hari sreenivasan examines that as part of our coping with Climate Change series. As people continue to clean up from Hurricane Sandy, we look at what it could take to keep this damage from happening again. Brown ray suarez updates the Health Care Reform law, as the Obama Administration issues new rules governing what insurers must cover. Woodruff and we close under the bright lights of High School Football, where a trailblazing coach puts her players studies ahead of practice. You wont be playing football. We like to think we have a lot of life to live so you will too and you need to prepare for that. Football is kind of just icing on the brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major fundi