So im hopeful that the Budget Committee conference will revisit or at least come up with a product that has not been discussed which will accomplish the objective of putting this country on a fiscally sustainible path for the long term, coming up, treasury secretary jack lew on implementation of the doddfrank regulations. And president obama at the white house hanukkah reception. Later, the democratic steering expiring hearing on Unemployment Benefits. Span, washington journal looks at the mission and role of the National Institutes of health. Starting live at 7 30 eastern with director Francis Collins on the medical research priorities. Future projects and the impact of sequestration. At 8 00, allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci followed by derek green director of the National Human Genome Research institute gave at 9 00, harold varmus. At nine 30 come i look at the National Institute of Mental Health with director thomas in cell thomas insel. All with your comments
Because ronments thank you but that is a whole other topic. But i also think that we dont in america we are more into john wayne than john dewey. John wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. You take a School District in southern l. A. County, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. Actually, that is how i got to this. Hey solve problems and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. So this has really become baked into their culture. Talked about this story to you guys a lot, and nobody wants to write about it except in orange county. The same in terms of cincinnati, new haven. Places, montgomery county, there are actually places where through thick and real when people have respectful relationships with each other and they start thinking about how they solve problems rather than arguments, you see real collaboration and working through a bunch of issues because teaching children i
Ok. And our guidepost for our kids, the next generation, are they doing better than they are. That has changed. And people are really anxious about that. They want to work hard and they want to do ok. So i think there is when i looked at the elections, in 2013, Chris Christie won in new jersey, that is true, but so did minimum wage expansion. Terry mcauliffe won in virginia, walsh in boston, palacios in new york. Blasio in new york. Toledo, the person who was protested education could you speak up . The person who was pro education won. So there is something going on in the country that is about, yes, working hard. Nobody wants a handout. But lets level the Playing Field so we have great Public Education and we have ways for people to enter or reenter or reenvision the middle class. You may call that populism, but frankly when you hear pope francis Start Talking about that, too, i think we have had a lot, a lot of years of trickle down economics and austerity based economics, and it ha
Nancy pelosi response to squeaker boehners remarks about House Republicans and women candidates. She is joined here by other democrats at this 40 minute briefing. Good afternoon. How are you all . Thank you for coming. Shelling to start telling grandchildren stories. He says greatgrandchildren. We all think our grandchildren are great. To believe. Good afternoon, everyone. Yesterday, as you know, president obama made a call to act regarding income inequality in our nation, increasing the minimum wage, equal pay for women, and in the workplace, earl Early Childhood education and prek have been part of his proposal all along. I was excited to hear what he said echoed. When women succeed, america succeeds, and this is our agenda. Income inequality, as he pointed eroding thely middle class, which is the backbone of our economy. Earlier, a representative from kentucky talked about how it is the right thing to do to improve the health of thousands of his citizens over the next decade. He als
Cutting it back. Rex thank you so much. Thank you to all of you and thank you to the chairman. I went to my times of thank you for allowing me to do so. That concludes our first round of questions. We will go to one followup per side. Dr. Burgess will begin with five minutes of followup. I wanted to followup with talkingff we were about. There is a crisis of confidence. The president has sold the Affordable Care act on a raft of us premises. You can keep your plan, false. You can keep your doctor, false. These are broken promises and easily the opportunity cost that americans are paying for for the a quarter will Affordable Care act. There was a promise made to seniors. Medicarese your dollars as a payee bank and we will improve medicare and allow seniors to keep their doctors if they like. Do you have an opinion as to whether or not this was another row can promise . It is. Fixable . Sical it is the problem. Should be a medicare damage in the ways we described earlier. Their promises.