Majority of nationalities on board. Incredibly interested and have a great stake in the progress of the Search Operations, trying to locate that missing airliner. And i think that even though tony abbott was cautious in what he said he went a little further than any australian official has so far done in terms of describing the progress. Take a listen. We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometers. Our confidence in the approximate position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from almost 4 1 2 kilometers beneath the sea or finally determining all that happened on that flight. But what Angus Houston, the man in charge with overseeing and coordinating the multinational search effort, he down played the Prime Ministers remarks saying essentially theres been no major breakthrough. However, he said that the search area has significantly narrowed down to about 18,000 square miles, which is still a big patch of ocean,
As lawmakers take up her confirmation in a hearing that brings obamacare and the controversy surrounding it back very much into the spotlight. Good morning to you. Im jon scott. A big spotlight. It is still there. Jon they have to focus it somewhere. Jenna it comes in and out. Hi, im jenna lee. Hope you are off to a good day so far. Silvia Matthews Burwell is on cap coal hill. She is the replacement for outgoinghhs secretary kathleen sebelius, support of key democrats will place a key role. They are interested how burwell will assume responsibility for obamacare and implement the Health Care Law further. Well bring you any back and forth anything particularly relevant to the big stories. Jon she has been through the process once at another agency. Well see how this goes. For some background on sylvia Matthews Burwell, the hhs secretary nominee, she is 48 years old. Was born in hinton, west virginia. She is Second Generation greekamerican and a rhodes scholar. She got married in 2007 to
Expecting key lawmakers to go after the obama administrations countless delays and tweaks of the health care law, which have made many here on capitol hill furious. We also expect there will be some questions about some of the recent headlines in terms of failing state health care exchanges. And then one like this one on transparency. Will you be willing to be clear and honest with the American People and the congress and this committee about the implementation of obamacare regardless of what the administrations policy is . Senator, you have my commitment that if im confirmed, the two pieces of principles that would guide me are transparency and accuracy. Sylvia Matthews Burwell was confirms 96 to 0 last year to be the budget director. Expect questions about how shell be different than kathleen sebelius. Interesting. Are democrats taking a new approach, then, on obamacare . You mentioned polling. And there are polls that people think that their Health Care Prices are going up, they hav
Coverup that the white house has been hiding evidence and coaching major players, including former u. N. Ambassador, now National Security adviser susan rice, coaching them really to mislead the american people, even lie about what happened. House Speaker John Boehner has offered democrats five spots on this committee. The republicans will have seven spots, something he says is fair, given what former House Speaker nancy pelosi did when she was in charge. This is a Serious Investigation that we wanted to Work Together to get to the truth. I think the 75 split is eminently fair, frankly, fairer than her Global Warming committee that she set up. Instead of debating the minimum wage, were getting maximum partisanship. Instead of creating a select committee on job creation, were voting to create a select committee on benghazi, shamefully playing politics with a terrible tragedy. Now, there had been talk that the democrats would simply boycott this select committee. Now, however, several pr
Sylvia matthews burwell. The confirmation should be an opportunity to examine the failures of obamacare and how people are hurting because of it. But Republican Opposition to the Health Care Law could mean a tougher time this goaround. It is still going to be painful for the administration to go through every detail of obamais care. The republican Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says we should expect the shortcomings during confirmation hearings. God love her. I dont know why she would want to do that, chris. Is she going to have trouble getting confirmed to this position . These confirmation hearings are going to be a goat roping. You mark that down. Weve marked it down. Goat roping. I dont know what it means. And here was the dramatic packed room beginning to to the burwell hearing. We have convened this hearing to consider the nomination of Sylvia Matthews burwell to be the next secretary of the at the present time of health and Human Services. Can you hear the goats . Can you feel