The socalled direct Carrier Billing method of payment could benefit unbanked customers. And other people looking for an alternative way to shop or make a charity contribution. But the reality of thirdparty charges on telephone bills is a different story. A profoundly different tale and it hasnt lived up to its potential. As soon as the phone Company Opened up outside scammers found a way to scam the system. They have added charges to peoples bill and are relentless in doing so. Many dont understand, including colleag colleagues, that their phone bill have charges for things they never bought. And they are paying for things they never bought. And it is an unwelcome surprise to them especially when they discover that they have trouble they turned their attention to the market was purchasing through the text message service. The Commerce Committee staff and i really want to thank them for their work has prepared a new report documenting how crammers exploited the weakness in the premium m
Mr. Barrasso mr. President , today the Obama Administration released its new plan intended to shut down American Power plants. Instead of celebrating his policies in the rose ga garden, president obama relegated the bad news to the Environmental Protection agency. Make no mistake about it, what they are announcing today is another step in the president s plan to make electricity rates quote necessarily skyrocket. Unquote. Remember, mr. President , thats what the president promised americans when he was running for president the first time, 2008. Now, of course, when he was elected, Congress Said no. No to his radical plan. Even when the democrats controlled the house of representatives, nancy pelosi was speaker of the house, the democrats had 60 members of the senate, even with a complete democratic domination in both houses of congress, Congress Still said, no, mr. President , this is a bad idea. So the president decided that he knew better than the American People, the elected repres
Good tuesday morning. Im chuck todd of nbc news. Welcome to msnbcs special coverage of the Supreme Court nomination hearings for judge amy coney barrett. Lindsey graham will gavel in for whats going to be a marathon 11hour day of testimony. The 22 senators on the committee will each get 30 minutes to directly question judge barrett. Theyll do tall today. All but two democratic senators, Kamala Harris and patrick leahy, are expected to appear in the hearing room in person, including thom tillis who was diagnosed with the coronavirus just 11 days ago. Well have an Incredible Team here to cover every angle of this. Garrett haake is inside the hearing room. Senior White House Reporter shannon pettypiece, also joining the conversation, former missouri senator, Claire Mccaskill and melissa murray, law professor at nyu. And a former law clerk to
justice sonia sotomayor. Sit back, and lets watch. You look good. So the game plan for today is to do our first round of 30minute questioning. Each s
A Jewish couple can continue their legal battle against Tennessee after a Christian foster agency rejected them over religious differences, an appeals court panel has ruled.