It is in my blood. Im a thirdgeneration fireman. Reporter the chief took a few questions but did not answer any questions about the medic, would not tell captain kelly his location, keeping kelly from making an informed decision about whether to wait. The medic never responded and told him the location. Is that not against policy . Reporter captain kelly said hes happy to be back on the job but he feels targeted and worries about the future of volunteer firefighters and stafford. He said it feels like the county is trying to push out the volunteer firefighters. Live in stafford county, peggy fox, wusa9. The fire chief said the two firefighters were not disciplined or suspended, just put on leave. That accented put the volunteer fire station out of service, temporarily. Subway system is in much worse shape than he thought. In his first public address about 90 days after taking over, the new gym told the press club about plans to boost the safety and reliability and put the financial hou
Wed love to hear your thoughts on the tier review. Are you hoping your area is moved down a tier . What effect would moving up a tier have on you . Should the government be reviewing the tiers at all . Do get in touch with me on twitter Annita Mcveigh and use bbcyourquestions, and ill try to read out some of your comments. The french president Emmanuel Macron tests positive for covid 19 after showing symptoms and will isolate for seven days. The World Health Organisation is given the green light to visit wuhan in china to investigate the origins of the virus. 32 years after the lockerbie bombing, authorities in the us are understood to be preparing fresh charges. And toy shops in britain face stock shortages beause of delays at uk ports. Some orders will now miss christmas, costing businesses thousands of pounds in sales. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Coronavirus appear
That is the opinion of eugene robinson. Alabama on theom democrats line. Caller i heard a congresswoman yesterday who said there was only to the blaze through the problem. He said one was raising taxes. The other, i cannot remember. I think the other was cutting programs. I feel like the only way they are going to fix it is by cutting programs or taxing businesses. I have looked at statistics. It said some corporations like exxon and walmart have more income. I do not understand how they do not owe more. We spend every day on these people. They are making millions and millions. It is amazing that they should not sit in on anything except to help the regulate everything. It is amazing to me. Host we are asking the question on our Facebook Page. Will this congress be different . We welcome your comments. 78 are saying no. 17 are saying yes, it will be different. Roman joins us on the line for republicans. Caller as far as will congress be different, i would like to say it will, but i hav
From a french company. They get 30 they dont even pay tax on. We have to run a country. I think simpsonbowles is the right direction, but i dont think simpsonbowles goes far enough. At one time i thought steve forbes idea was great, but he wants to keep a certain piece of money that is an entitlement. Guest and makes a very good point that we have got to have the kind of progrowth tax reform that simplifies the system, broadens the base, lower rates, but that stimulates Economic Growth and economic development. That means not only getting people back to work but it is the growing economy that creates more revenue, not higher taxes. The growth and the revenues from growth is what we really need to address the deposition and debt. Often we dont focus on that enough in the scoring, like the cbo, Congressional Budget Office scoring you see all the time, the revenue from growth is not factored in. In anything we put together a, like we just made the lower tax rates permanent for 99 of all t
Come to their poorer constituents. This really there would be no way to get a farm build on at all if you could not get those from densely Populated Areas to vote for food stamps. Farm policy is not arcane. Washington discussions that we all eat. Thank you for being here this week to ask questions of the incoming chairman of the Senate Agricultural committee. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] today, a look at last weeks agreement to avert the fiscal cliff. First, president obama calling on congress to avert middle class tax cuts followed by republicans responding later the same day. Then from new years day, debate over the fiscal cliff and house of representatives. Later, the president talking about the fiscal cliff agreement from the White House Briefing room. Now, president obama on new years eve, and on congress to avert the socalled fiscal cliff and middleclass tax hikes. [applause] happy new year to you