The senate live here on cspan2. Next, a look at the challenges of caring for Senior Citizens with caregivers testifying on the lack of affordable longterm care for the elderly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] would members and their guests please take their seats . Ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We are here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family in our nation, and that is how to care for our loved ones as they age. It is certainly appropriate that we work to address this matter or in november, which is alzheimers Awareness Month and u. S. National Family Caregivers month. It is a deeply personal issue for many of us in the room, and for those who havent personally struggled to insure an older relative receives the care they need, you most certainly know someone in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system can be not only confusing and emotionally taxing, but also
U. S. Press barack obama has unveiled swing changes to americas immigration policy. He is using executive powers to enact rouse that could spare some 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. Obama says the immigration system is broken, and trying to crack down on those trying to cross the bodder illegally. Reporter there are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in United States. With this announcement, u. S. President barack obama say barae will give a temporary reprieve to less than half. Lifting the threat of deportation for people who have been in the country for more than five years and have children who are american citizencitizens phone shaly impg less than 5 million people. I am talking about a common sense middle ground approach. If you meet the criteria you can come out of the shadows and get right watt law. Reporter but its temporary and the next president could overturn in january of 20 stephen. Leave the government with a list of people that could po poe
Tax returns will help unravel this puzzle, but only b available to some so the last few years, weve seen this tax rate really defined as the tax collection divided by profit has been low. We think there will be some recovery in that for the longer term average because we are making an edgeucated guess thats whats happened in the last few years is because of circumstanceses of the last few years, so there will be rebound over the next few years. The same time, theres a different thing going on which is that companies are trying to find ways to reduce the Corporate Taxes they pay. Some of what theyre doing inviolas them moving business income from the corporate sector to the noncorporate sector. Out of C Corporations and into s corporations. Weve written about that before. Theres been an ongoing downward trend in the share of business income thats taxed at the corporate level. We think that will continue. The second factor we described with a set of efforts by companies to increase the a
On judiciary is has an enormous oversight. We had the first confirmation hearing. It provides oversight function. On your Sweet Potatoes, anything you can boil from the u. K. . You mentioned the nexus between judiciary the debate is moving in a constructive conclusion of ideas and then it unravels. I think we are years back in angry rhetoric on both sides. Is or anything that can bring the debate back together . I think the problem is, at least from afar, when senators or members of congress try to get together on Immigration Reform they let it go beyond a scope that keeps enough people on board. I believe we should focus on border security. If we can come up with a credible way to reduce the growth of the population first establish some credibility with the American People, and i think when we go about doing that it is going to put people out of their comforts own on both sides of the aisle. Comfort zone on both sides of the aisle but we have to be realistic about Immigration Reform t
Many students spent their spring breaks trying their damndest to get away from Easton. We had a different idea. Over the course of 11 days and 4,750 miles in a four-seater Cessna airplane, we visited every single incorporated Easton in the United States – all 13 of them – and a few others to boot. .