Say he is now free of cancer. Hello and welcome to the program. Tributes are being paid to one of asias most influential statesmen, lee kuan yew, who has died in hospital in singapore. He was 91 years old. Lets take a look at the scene at the president ial palace. Mourners there are laying flowers and tribute boards have been set up for people to pay their respects. Well mr. Lee led singapores transformation from a small port city to one of the nationest nations in the world, although his authoritarian zero tolerance approach to crime attracted some criticism criticism. The Prime Minister says that singapore would not see another man like him. Lets go live to our correspondent, ali moore, she joins us from outside the president ial palace, and of course mourners there are gathering. Reporter they are, indeed kasia. It is the end of the working day here in singapore, and that steady flow of people who have come to pay their respects has really picked up in the last hour or so. Im just o
A senator mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its Business Today it adjourn until 9 30 a. M. Wednesday, march 18. Following the prayer and pledge, the journal be approved the morning business be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings approved to date and the time for the two leaders reserved for their use later in the day. Following leader remarks, the senate be in a period of morning business for one hour with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each with the time equally divided with the democrats controlling the first half and the majority controlling the second half. Finally, following morning business the senate resume consideration of s. 178. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Daines if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that the senate stand adjourned under t
Kimoon called for the extension on monday. And north korea is on high alert. The nations were said to conduct naval exercises in approachin h approaching storms will cancel military exercises. Those are the headlines at this hour. Im tony harris. Inside story is next on al jazeera america. [ music ] hello, washingtons fight over the debt has drawn the ire and eyeballs of capitols across the globe. American politician versus been in the International Press calling to question americ amers economic supremacy as well as its position of global leadership. Perhaps no nation is more concerned that china. Which holds the biggest piece of u. S. Debt, a figure in the trillions of dollars. There are jen sin concerns that the United States could now do what was previously unthinkable, default on its obligations. Because republicans and democrats cannot be reached. I guarantee you well move beyond this, and well move beyond it in strength and determination. Secretary of state john kerry stood in f
Like, senator . R d, were in the process of producing a chart book of federal investments and some of the private sector investments as well. In terms of development, there is often a great deal and growth in private Sector Development but in the more basic forms of research. That is the sort of output for the economy that the private sector will tend not to do enough of. That is really a responsibility for the federal government to support that sort of basic research. Ill run through the list of those of you who know will know. Thank you, mr. Chairman. In listening you to, it really is striking to me we have a short term challenge that is different than long term in some ways. And the good news is weve actually begun to tackle long term and have been put in place the yearly deficit coming down by half. Good news. You talk about growing the economy and being smart not reckless in what were doing. When we look at that, it seems to me a good way of summing up is youre not going to get ou
Very high and is persistent and woringly so in terms of the human cost and the long term cost for our economy. You testified before that not all cuts are the same. And that there are some ways in which we are cutting that are hurting our long term competitiveness. They produce longer term reductions in our capacity and that we should be prioritizing things that will accelerate growth, that we should not be simply trying to get through this difficult fiscal time in a way that focuses on austerity. We should be investing in a way that sustains growth. What types of policies in your view could both help accelerate growth and do so in a way that would deal with long term unemployment . And what are the budget airy implications for long term unemployment . The first part of your question, senator, of all nondefense Discretionary Spending, half represents investment of some sort about 20 of nondefense Discretionary Spending is investment in physical capital such as highways. Another 15 is go