Isis. We will talk to John Wunderlich about Hillary Clintons use of personal email to conduct official business. Washington journal is live each morning. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend. On cspan2s book tv, saturday night at 10 00 eastern david morris on the history of posttraumatic stress disorder that affects 27 million americans, including himself. Sunday at 8 00, scott taylor argues that the Obama Administration is hurting our national security. On American History tv on cspan3, the commemoration of bloody sunday, when voters rights advocates began to march from selma to montgomery and were met with violence by state and local police. We are live from solyndra with your phone calls followed by the commemorative ceremony with president obama and john lewis. Sunday, our live coverage continues from the brown chapel ame church. Find our complete Television Schedule at cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Call us, email
I had blue cross for years, and i had a really good Premium Payment that i paid every month and i had really good insurance. After this took effect, i lost my insurance and my premium went up to 600 per month. I think it is terrible and i hope that the Supreme Court does decide to go the republicansway. Frank in ohio, an independent caller. My question is, a lot of people are missing the fact that everybody wants the American People to have insurance, but nobody wants our economy to fail. Obamacare is going to take down our economy, and people dont understand that. We want people to have insurance but we want to live in a good economy. We talked about the impact of the courts decision. The administration saying that we dont have an authority for a plan b if the court rules against us. But in the wall street journal yesterday, the republican said they have a backup plan. That is one thing that the challengers say they are for. They say that it is not that they want to take people out of
Week. Its been six years since the minimum wage was raised. Some in congress say now is the time to raise it again. Things are Getting Better. They are only Getting Better for some. We know corporate profits have continued to break records while americans are working harder and getting paid less. Some say raising the minimum wage will cost jobs, citing a nonpartisan study by the congressional budget office. If we mandate a higher minimum wage, we would lose 500,000 to one million jobs immediately. Thats the last thing we want. We dont want to create more unemployment. We want higher employment. More education and better worker training are the key to improving the lives of minimum wage workers. Now its time to meet one of the students on the grand prizewinning team. She is joining us. Where were you when you heard the news you won the grand prize . I was in the principals office. For the first time i didnt have anything to say. Were you surprised that you won . My team and i would joke
U. S. Tax system. The numbers are on the screen. You can also catch up with us on social media on twitter, facebook or email us. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. It is april 14, one day before tax day. We are asking our viewers this morning is the u. S. Tax system fair . Here is something from few Research Center. The Pew Research Center notes 59 saying something is wrong and that congress should change it. 39 are saying only minor changes. Many are bothered by corporations and wealthy americans not paying their fair share, more so than what they pay in their own taxes. 54 say they feel some come got some corporations do not pay their fair share 54 say they feel some corporations do not pay their fair share. Meanwhile, 27 of americans say it bothers them a lot in the amount they pay in their own taxes. As to the view of the agency that collects your taxes, just 45 of americans have a favorable rating of the are, compared to 48 that view is unfavorably. 62 republicans, especially tea
An eye onn is keeping them. If you look at why we are seeing the gains, one of the reasons is we are seeing a rally in Health Insurance stocks. Humana is up 10. 5 , and that is because some cuts were announced to medicare reimbursements, but they were smaller than expected, rally, sog a relief that is one of the bestperforming stocks in the s p 500 today. Others include the oilrelated stocks. One company says it is trying to decide whether to sell or spin off to shareholders it Oilfield Services unit, which has about two point 2 billion in annual sales, and finally, the menswear business, joseph a bank its get another offer from mens wearhouse, higher than the last one, so these are rallying. And it is said that the stock could go higher in joseph a bank drops the eddie bauer offer. Carl icahn is using fighting words in his latest letter, saying the ebay paypal division should be spin spun off. He wrote, we believe in any sane business environment, these directors should resign immedia