This is real money. You are the most important part of the show. Tell me what is on your mind by tweeting me on ali velshi. Iraqi forces loyal to the shia dominated government fought pitch battles today with sunni insurgents throughout northern iraq. The Islamic State in iraq and the levant, isil, has now amassed an estimated 2 billion war chest after seizing territory in both iraq and syria, which is engulfed in its own syria war. Isil started out as an an alqaedainspired terrorist group. Since american troops left in in 2011 isil has morphed into an Insurgent Force that threatens to take baghdad. If they accumulate more money. They accumulate more ammunition, more military capability, larger numbers, that poses great dangerous not just to allies of ours like jordan which is very close by, but it also poses great danger in the United States. This is what we think we know about isils finances. From the territory it captured last year the group brings in money from oil sales, extortion
The major sticking points remain the same, Congressional Democrats want to raise taxes on the highest income earners while keeping the current lower tax rates in place for the middle class. Republicans want to extend tax breaks at all levels. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. We are going to be talking about the fiscal cliff, the statements the House Speaker made about being a stalemate and what the president said during his trip to a toy factory in pennsylvania. Here are the numbers. You can also reach out to us by email and twitter and facebook, all of the social media as. On twitter the addresses cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan. More from the article by jake sherman with the headline fiscal cliff. He writes lets go to the phones. The first call comes from debbie in flint, mich. On the line for democrats. Caller i think they need to pass a law that these guys did not get paid. If i go to work and did not do my job, they will not pay me. They have not done their jobs in the
An investor and a board member of the company. He was repeated or reportedly overheard just last week off the house floor bragging about how he had made people millionaires from a stock tip. Congressman price, in our meeting, you informed me that you made these purchases based on conversations with representative collins. Is that correct . No. What i well, that is what you said to me in my office. Well, what i believe i said to you was that i learned of the company from congressman collins. What i recall our conversation was, that you had a conversation with collins and then decided to purchase the stock. No, thats not correct. Well, that is what i remember you saying in my office. In that conversation, did representative collins tell you anything that could be considered, quote, a stock tip . Yes or no . I dont believe so, no. Well, if youre telling me he gave you information about a company, you were offered shares in the company at prices not available to the public, you bought thos
Absolutely. Its imperative that were constantly looking and determining whether or not were getting the outcomes that we want and the processes are either helping or obstructing those outcomes. And, finally, i want to touch on biomedical research, which is a passion of mine. I founded both the diabetes caucus in 1997, and i also am the founder of the alzheimers task force in the senate, which senator warner is the cochair. Alzheimers has become our nations most expensive disease. It costs us 263 billion a year. 150 billion of that comes from medicare and medicaid. Its going to bankrupt those programs. Its devastating to families and the victims of the disease. Diabetes consumes one out of three medicare dollars. If we invest in biomedical research, we have the possibility of not only improving lives for americans and curing or coming up with effective treatments for devastating diseases, but also actually lowering health care costs. Do you support the increases for nih that we have pas
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