3880, and for2585 3882. Endents, 202585 our twitter handle is cspanwj. You can drop us an email at journal cspan. Org. Here is how the story is playing out. We mentioned a sunday session in the senate today and the front page of the website of politico. Com. Writing about yesterdays action this isrichmond times, courtesy of the museum we are joined on the phone by kaitlin burns, who covers capitol hill for real clear politics. Com. Thank you for being with us. Icaller thank you for having me. Int the senate is coming for a sunday session, why is that necessary . We are getting closer to the october 17 deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Things really fell apart over the weekend with the house negotiations. The house was fairly optimistic heading into the weekend, congressional meeting that congressional leaders having met with the president. Congressional leaders having met with the president. The white house was not supportive of what republicans wanted to do on the debt ceiling and H
Senator Richard Blumenthal of connecticut who has introduced a bill on telephone cramming. Senator blumenthal what is telephone cramming . Guest telephone cramming is the press presses of putting Unauthorized Third Party on telephone bills. In other words charging consumers for supposed services that they never ordered and never received but sometimes dont notice and when they notice they have to pay. It is a practice that is literally costing consumers billions of dollars. There are legitimate thirdparty vendors and thirdparty charges on telephone bills but it is a little bit like having a credit card or using your telephone number as a credit card but the practice of cramming is literally cramming charges as you would on a credit card for unauthorized unordered services. Host can you give an example of who may be placing those charges on a telephone bill or what kind of the charge it might be . Guest the charges can vary from supposed Entertainment Venues to services that may reporte
Shutdown. Your we are interested on thoughts on how to shut them has played out so far and what youre hearing about the debt limit talks that are going. Here is how you can reject and give us your comments. If you want to reached out reject was by phone reach out to us by phone. Media, our twitter page, the way you reach us there is cspanwj. As always you can send this e mail act journal cspan. Org. The boston globe has an interesting take on the current status of the shutdown. The larger headline is when you go to the center it yields with menas susan collins. Deals with menas susan collins. To give us the latest on the debt limit talks, joining us on the phone is susan davis. She is the chief congressional reporter for usa today. Susan davis, thank you for joining us this morning. Why dont you bring us upto date on the latest as far as on the house side we have had this proposal from john boehner looking at some concessions, some offerings as far as the debt limit and the shutdown wh
You cannot always do that. To reach the major markets, you have to invite in people who the white house feels are not favorably inclined to the president. You have to take that on and that is part of the job. For those who do not see the first part of this interview, you are deputy chief of staff of the Bush Administration during which years . Two years. I was the budget director in between. I was in the white house all eight years. Here is tony snow talking about how he was selected. Josh and i work in the bush white house. He would come into my radio show and we talked about getting together. Hes a great guy to work with. Hes is someone i really enjoyed. We finally made this. It was on a friday am a i think it was on a friday, i think. He ended up doing a sales pitch that i could not resist. He said, i know the numbers look bad, the fundamentals are good in the economy and things are going a certain way in iraq. I know you have a great job and you are making a lot of money. I underst
J will be looks at the number of people signed up on the Health Care Exchanges since they opened on october 1. The differences between the state and federally run exchanges. Amtrak president and ceo as of portman talks about ridership. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. The Lou Henry Hoover house here on the campus of stanford university. It is significant because this was the primary residence of the hoovers and it is significant as it relates to hoover because she was the one who designed it. She had such a strong grasp of design and how she wanted the house to look even though she was not an architect. Were lucky to have a lot of the original drawings and documents corresponding to the design and construction. Lou henrys influence came from her travels in the southwest of the United States. Also from her travels in north africa, when she traveled with herbert hoover. It is a great legacy of lou henrys because she designed the house, she created it. It was inspi