And judicial nominees ending and ongoing dispute over nominations that had tied up most of the chamber this month. The most highprofile nomination was janet yellen for the federal reserve. The hearing will be held in january and the senate will vote confirmation of the deputy secretary of the department of homeland security, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue service, and a u. S. Allrict judge in florida this morning. Earlier on thursday, senators had been preparing for a rare weekend session as democrats and republicans were at loggerheads on when to help hold votes. Senate democrats were informed during their closed Party Meeting that they would be staying in washington through saturday. Republicans had sketched out a plan ensuring one of their members with stay on the floor to keep their eye on democrats. Six other executive branch nominees were pending, mostly deputy ands for state. That batch of nominees will be sent back to the white house because they were not cleared by t
A look at the cost of health care and the role of Accountable Care organisations. Seized mans he coverage of the kansas governor debate. On wednesday a panel of educational experts will agree that one challenge to the common store in issues to right now is a lack of material available to educators. The panellists analyse the cons of the initiative. This is 90 minutes. Afternoon everybody, thank you, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. As we talk about back water issue that no one is really talking about, today we are about the common core, an issue that has an incredible amount of salience in the media and in politics and we have three outstanding panellists to discuss. Introduce them to you that is a veteran education reporter Education Week, she coauthors the curricular matters and if you want to get up to speed on the common core and how it has been playing out in classrooms the country, catherine and her reporting has some of the best. That would be ricks director of poli
Ukraine 2. 2 billion in loans. All eyes are on secretary of state john kerry as he sits down with his counterparts. The former president of georgia highlighted the importance of the wests reaction to vladimir when he spokes down with Ryan Chilcote. It could signify a fast and for Vladimir Putins adventures. It depends on how the west will react. We certainly do not want them to be messy. For more on the tensions in crimea, Ryan Chilcote joins us. What are we expecting from john . Errys meeting today i think we can expect a Frank Exchange of views and hopefully, both sides are looking to find out what they intend to do next to read remember, next. Remember, the United States has threatened sanctions against russia. I will be something the Russian Foreign minister will want to hear more about. Secretary kerry will want to hear about what the Russian Military intends to do in crimea. This is the first time these two men have come together since the crisis began for facetoface talks. Presi
Legalized, dont expect a scent subsidy and pay every tax imaginable. And in ten years forget about bringing your brothers or sisters because those are gone. Then if that wasnt enough 20,000 more Border Patrol agents. But its worth it what youre doing. What were doing is worth it. I want to extend another hand to the other side of the aisle to say all of those things i dont like them, but im ready to accept them because the alternative is the kind of pain that you hear that young lady. And you have to multiply what they said here millions of times. I want you to think of those millions of tears every day, the pain and devastation that exist in our community. Thank you for the personal testimony and for humanizing this issue for all of us. Thats going to help inform this committee better than any statistics ever can. I thank the gentleman from illinois. The chair recognizes the gentleman from idaho. Thank you mr. Chairman. Mentally greed veem with one thing and that is my mom is the best
Are significantly lower, so this is another way the benefits of low skilled immigration. Low Skilled Services are cheaper in markets where there is a lot of immigration. Ok. There is a variety of other things that immigration does. We talked about the productivity spillover from other types of immigration. There are other impacts. I want to drive home the idea that we benefit from bringing in low skilled workers. There is this potential cost and maybe we are raising inequality, and that is a big concern, so we might want to couple this with transfer policies. It is a lot Like International trade. Maybe you can compensate the losers. In the u. S. You do not see much of this supposedly cost side of the equation. Theres good reason to think it is small. Theres the possibility that immigrants and natives work in different kinds of jobs and that firms are very adaptable in how they react to low skilled immigration. Finally, alex asked me to talk about my thoughts on policy, and all the heat