And surcharging Medicare Coverage for smokers and the obese. You can watch this and other q a interviews all this week at 7 p. M. Eastern here on cing span 3. Cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your its provider by your television provider. Host and this week on the communicators, gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters, our guest reporter is paul kirby of telecommunications report. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How have the issues changed in those four years . Guest well, it seems like the issues just keep on coming, and they tend to be very major issues affecting both radio and television. But clearly on the radio side, the whole issue of performance rights, performance tax, whatever you want to tribe it as, is an ongoing challenge. Hopefully, the day will arrive when both the digital and the terrestrial platform can come up with a model that actually gr
Terrorism, iraq is in blocking is embarking on building its democratic future in building bridges within our society and with our neighbors. As iraqis, as we rebuild our country, the United States will benefit by building a longterm partnership together. We can and must develop what president obama has described and i quote as a normal relationship between sovereign nations and equal Partnership Based on mutual interests and mutual respect. Th our diplomatic progress, political and economic progressiraq is taking its ,space of a partner for the United States, for our neighbors, and for the family of nations. On the political front, we are building a multiethnic, multiparty democracy with respect to the rule of law. Our democratic process is moving forward at a strong and steady pace. Our local elections took place in april of this year. There will be Regional Elections in september of this year, and our legislative and general elections will take place next spring, 2014. Which will det
The country as it relates to states sovereignty. These are the reactions by states to federal law and what the states are trying to do about it in some cases. Our guests this morning at the table are ilya shapiro of the cato institute. Hes a senior fellow for constitutional studies, good morning. Good morning. We are also joined by Ian Millhiser senior constitution policy analyst, appreciate your time. Let me try to set this up by reading the beginning part of a politico piece published recently. And the piece says that infuriated by what they see as the long arm of washington reaching into their business, states are increasingly telling the feds keep out. Bills that would negate a variety of federal laws have popped up this year in the vast yorte of states with the amount of antifederal legislation sharply oun the rise during the obama sharply on the rise during the Obama Administration. Mr. Millhiser, get us started what kind of laws . Guest you have to go back to the early terrorist
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Thats a different inflation. That is helping them a lot. We have our own price index today. Cpi is expected to rise today but only to 1. 3 . We also get the association of homebuilders index. The highs are expected to rise. Twoday one of the fed meeting. Tomorrow we get the Rate Decision and the bank of england governor is testifying to the Parliament Economic affairs committee. Is his first testimony. German chancellor Angela Merkel is sworn in for her third term today. Lets take a data check. It is quiet and you would expect that as we begin this to date that meeting. The market is flat. Crude oil has gone nowhere the last couple of days. Screeno on to the next a little bit of foreign exchange. Quiet big deal of isle december usdidr the indonesian currency. Everything else is stable and indonesia goes weaker. The bank of japan is helping. That. Can see that bears watching into the beginning of the year. Lets look at a chairman y yellen chart. This is 22 , zero percent, how much angst