Cspan. Ok. Com first, jeremy herb with the hill was quoted joining us on the phone. What did they get out of this . What did the two sides agree to . Some 63 billion dollars in sequester savings over the next two years. Have for defense and half for discretionary. The numbers right in between where the house and the senate each wanted. They picked a number right between the two. When it comes to sequester, the automatic spending cuts that were agreed to under the budget control act of 2011, how do they deal with it . 63 billion is restored. What does that mean . There are still some sequestration that happens. How much and when . Back somey will give of the sequester cuts, but still not all the way there. The pentagon, for instance, they will reduce sequester by 22 billion next year. That would have meant that the budget level that they are at this year would have been cut by an additional 22 billion. Is still 30 billion lower than the budget proposed by the pentagon and by the house a
I want passionate im grateful now that we can replicate these good news stories. We have a long way to go. On his Small Business question, we are all a little disappointed that the shop, the Small Business website is not going to be up and running as early as we wouldve liked. But this that effective tax credits that are available for Small Business owners, the tax credits that encourage Small Businesses to provide Health Insurance or to help make it more affordable for their employees to . No, congresswoman. It will not impact event. As you know, we had earlier suggested that at the federal level, and this is different in some of the states but at the federal level, year one we would not be able to aggregate premiums that give employees of businesses under 50 a choice. That will happen in 2014. The tax credits are very much in place. We have, again, a process where we are working with agents and brokers which is the way that Small Business owners have gotten coverage traditionally com
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