Say that certainty is needed by states to repair the nations infrastructure. We want to return to you turn to all of you and say what are your infrastructure needs. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country dial in 202 7488000. Mountain specific dial 202 7488001. If you want to join the conversation on twitter or go to facebook. Com. You can also send an email. The phone lines are open and we will begin with the Washington Times. The highway funding bill stuck in limbo as the august recess quickly approaches. Kevin mccarthy shut the bill to a sixmonth bill. Saying even if the other changer gets it done chamber gets it done this week it would be impossible for history is to study a thousand page deal before the house leaves thursday night. The majority leader announced that his side are a past a fivemonth road bill and last night they introduced a threemonth extension. Senate negotiators barreled forward anyway saying that congresss reliance on shortterm patches has passed
If we can understand place where is people think those arent working, we do want to understand that so we can work to improve. The gao shared their methodology with you, and those examples we are waiting for that, correct . We are looking forward to gao coming out with recommendations which is the part that has not yet occurred. Thank you. The president s commitment to Early Childhood education, its reflected in the Budget Proposal 1. 5 billion extra for early headstart and for headstart itself. Briefly, if you can tell us the budget levels and spending caps established by the majority, whats that going to do to the fact that you are trying to build capacity you are trying to stress quality and accountability for providers for these children . And what does that do to capacity . With regard to the levels i think that if you are going the meet those levels and you want to fully fund headstart, what it will mean are dramatic cuts to things like nih or cdc in terms of other places. I thin
Projections and also hear it from the private sector. The belief is, having come from the private sector and actually having come from a company that is known for its negotiating on price, walmart, the idea that we use Market Mechanisms to try and put downward pressure on price is something we think is important. Thats why weve asked for those authorities, so that we can try and work with the pharmaceuticals and negotiate to keep downward pressure on that price. Thats what we hope we can do. We see it as part of the overall issues that we are being asked about how we transform the system for the long term. We believe there are things we need to do and pressure we need to future. What do you see as some of the key problems that you are going to be having as you try and move forward with this . I think with regard to this particular issue its not one you know, it is a elect lative and a statutory issue. It will take a statutory change to grant the authorities to be able to negotiate. Tha
We will see what their calculations are showing for this week. And investing in intellectual property. The founder of round hill music will be with me. He owns the rights to multiple beatles songs. He is paid every time they are played. How he makes decisions on what to buy. 16 billion crossborder deal that has implications for 11 on Hedge Fund Manager. Suntory Holdings Offering 16 billion for americans beam. Pershing square is the largest shareholder for beam. We do not know exactly what the basis is, but filings show 670as probably around Million Dollars. It is a big price for the deal. If you look at a premium, a premium over where the stock was trading. Not only that, if you look at it basis,ltiple and ebitda a comparedimes ebitd to the medium of these kinds of deals, which is 12. A fairly expensive deal. Suntory is an eager buyer. Its home market is mature and it needs to expand outside of it, hopefully taking some very Popular American brands, like makers mark, to other countries
Are signs lawmakers are not done trying to address health care, House Speaker paul ryan and his Leadership Team held their Weekly Conference with g. O. P. Lawmakers earlier this morning and were told healthcare was a major topic. Ryan did not give a lot of details but suggested some g. O. P. Opponents last week have soft end. Some of those who were in the know camp expressed a willingness to work on getting to yes and to making this work. We want to get it right, we are going to keep talking to each other until we get it right. Im not going to put a timeline on it because it is too important to not get right into put on an official timeline. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a Dear Colleague letter writing after the collapse of trumpcare we want to ensure the administration does not sabotage the aca out of spite that we can work to approve and update the Affordable Care act and the Health Security provided to tens of millions of americans. Today, other House Democrats met and s