Mr. Murphy mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy if were in a quorum call, i ask that it bees dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy i ask seven unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Murphy thank you, madam president. Last week, the house of representatives voted for the 53rd time to repeal or undermine all or aspects of the Affordable Care act. This is beginning to be a broken record. I was in the house of representatives for a period of time, so i got the privilege on voting on 30 or 40 of those different pieces of legislation. Republicans, of course, shut down the government a year ago because of their pique over the Health Care Law. There are those that still h
We will look at what the nasa mission has achieved. Welcome to al jazeera. A passenger jet has crash landed at San Francisco airport. Luckily most of the people on board survived. Seoul. Arriving from more than 180 people were taken to the hospital, some with serious injuries. Rob reynolds is in San Francisco and sent us this report. Out of the Clear Blue Sky and with no sign of mechanical madrid 14light to slammed tailfirst on to the runway at San Francisco international airport. Vehicles are responding. In addition to the dead, 182 were injured. Most of the two of seven passengers and crew were able to get out of the boeing 77 before it caught fire. Eyewitnesses describe a terrifying scene. It was way too low details of the airplane caught before it got to the runway. Then it pancaked on the runway. 10 of the injured were in critical condition. Two our children. Washe mayor said, it incredible so many survived. This could have been much worse. The National Transportation safety board
A users guide to health care last week and cover the secret committee of doctors pay in america put out by the American Medical Association and is up the signs codes for every imaginable procedure imaginable purview have seen them and they set the price you and your Insurance Company have to pay but unlike every other part this code has not kept up with the times and that means it allows them to putted for a 50 hour day that stretches the imagination and here is the best part the federal government and i read the prices the services pay are up to 50 . You say this may be part of the reason . It is a total racket. The ama conducts surveys and they never err on the side to say it is too little but it is so challenging we have to be reimbursed more. Gerri when we talked about this last week that makes no sense of all. Give us the example. With the intensity of the work required and the time that it takes is the overhead costs so basically that is the incentive for higher reimbursement for
Clear. Were going to see more of the same. We are going to continue to see a scaling back of these quantitative purchases. I think that was clear. She didnt back away from any of that even though weve seen some weaker data but she did absolutely reinforce the economy needs to be doing better. Unemployment still need to come down and thats why they continue think were going to see or continue to signal were going to see lower rates for a long time. Melissa what would you put on her list as number one of things to do . What would you like to see her do. Her number one priority is Unemployment Rate to get down, even though they have a dual mandate but i think that is priority. I personally would like to see the fed get out of the markets way which theyre doing as they scale back on the quantitative purchases but eventually i would like to see more focus extricating themself from all this accommodation. I think it is very worrisome were talking about Interest Rates staying so low for so lo
Power just enough that the Syrian Rebels will be able to finish the mission and actually drive him from power. And in order to do that, the leader of the Free Syrian Army told us in conjunction with a western military action that the rebels will launch their own offensive. They have already begun to stockpile ammunition, some new ammunition has been arriving. They have confirmed to us the question now is what will that leave the United States and what will it leave syria, if Bashar Al Assad is toppled. There are many different rebel factions who are operating in syria, only a few of them are friendly to the United States. Richard engel, nbc news, in southern turkey. U. N. Inspectors left their hotel today, headed to an unknown destination. We should note the u. S. Stocks sold off big time yesterday. You see what happened there. Dow was off over 1 . In asia overnight, take a look at what happened on this news. We have red arrows across the board, the hang seng off 1. 5 . And the nikkei