Panel or the second one. But i think that this joint plan of action and the diplomatic effort of the administration give us a historic opportunity we cant afford to put a cross on. The joint plan of action and the interim agreement, with in my view from analyzing it and reading analysis done by many who are smarter than me that slows and reverses aspects with not all aspects but critical aspect of the Iranian Nuclear program, which sanctions alone has not been able to do. And it also provides this country and our partners and all of our allies and the entire world a better Early Warning system about whether iran is cheating. We get more time on the clock and better Early Warning system because of the deal. We have to give diplomacy a chance. We have to. I think aggressive diplomacy has been an underexercised american muscle. In the last 15 years. We have to return to the kind of aggressive diplomacy the nation embraced when Teddy Roosevelt broke end the end of the war, won a nobel peac
Guiding us with your powerful providence and showering us with undeserved mercies. You hear our prayers and speedily supply our needs. Bless today the work of our lawmakers, empowering them with unceasing awareness and openness of heart. Give them wisdom and courage to glorify you through their work. May their thoughts, words and actions be acceptable to you, for you are our rock and our redeemer. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The president pro tempore the democratic leader. Mr. Reid i move to proceed to calendar number 297. The president pro tempore the clerk will report. The clerk motion to proceed to calendar number 297, s. 1950, a bill to improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes. Mr. Reid mr. Pr
Melissa it is day one of the new health care law. From the looks of it, things havent been going so smoothly. The muchhyped government exchanges debuted with major glitches with people trying to sign in and find out how much the new system would really cost them. Here to tell us firsthand how it looks from the insurers point of view, pat garity, the largest insurer of the sunshine state. Pat, do you know how many people signed up with you today . I know we had tremendous of our portals. So i dont have the final numbers but there was a tremendous amount of interest out there. Our phone calls were up. Melissa yeah. We had foilis coming into our Retail Centers at about 30 higher rates than previously. Melissa anecdotally, that is what it seemed like from here. If you look across the wires and other reporting services it showed a lot of people logging on to try to get information but getting bogged down along the way and not getting to sign up. Do you know if anyone was able to sign up . W
Wells trapped this on america tonight, in the worlds richest nation, why is it so hard for so many to make a decent living . We will look at wealth, poverty and why a minimum wage just isnt enough. Gas is up. Hiring is up but our wages arent up. South of the border, the mexican city fighting off drug and Gang Violence to give its young people a brighter future. And beckham and the boys, the story behind manu and the class of 92. Kiesh good evening. Thanks for joining us. I am joie chen. We begin looking at struggles of cities and workers and the future of both. Money, how cities balance their Economic Needs and can protect their citizens. Case in point, a fight for a living wage which has quietly quietly grown from a city by City Movement putting more pressure on lawmakers in washington, d. C. We begin with a look in the call for a higher minimum wage. It was just over a year ago, when fast food employees gathered to protest low wages. The fervor caught off and has spread to about 100
We found out today what can happen when you are a top nuncio who openly bashes the obama administration. It will cost a company. The legal costs in defending itself in a slew of federal inveigations will total at least an astonishing 23 billion could go even higher. This for a bank tha our government thought necessary to raise billions of taxpayer dollars to bailout. The banks chairman and Ceo Jamie Dimon has been one of the few bold enough to criticize the white house econoc policy whichas ma him a target of sorts. With me now, former goldman vicepresident who is now a holar and a liberal think tank. Andeil weinberg, editorinchief of american banker. To start this off of what you to look at omething. We want to make a chart of the different agencies investigating jprg. There are so many we could not fit them all on the same screen. And look at this next screen. Five more. Ten agencies. That does not even mention the fha or the many state investigions. Now the wall street journal edito