Its about 2 30am. Now on bbc news, wednesday in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament. Brexit deal or no deal, mps are told were leaving the week after next. Would you be comfortable with a short technical extension to get it done . No, i think it is important that we leave on the slst of october. Where next for immigration policy . A voice of experience speaks. Its possible that the home office has come up with. The best brains have come up with a very good scheme, but i would simply urge the home secretary and the home office to look very carefully at the lessons that have been learned in the past. And gender wars on the Committee Corridor. The more socialist the country, perhaps the better. Im not going to be lectured by a man on the best place to be a woman. I dont think youve got any equity in this. All that to come and more. But first, the last day at westminster before the key european summit in brussels was dominated by speculation about whether a brex
Of thomas cook might have to wait up to two months to get a refund, say officials. And the funeral of the former french president Jacques Chirac World Leaders gather in paris as france says farewell. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im joanna gosling. The chancellor, sajid javid, has insisted the uk can still leave the eu without a deal despite a law which says the Prime Minister must ask for an extension if no agreement is reached. He said the government would obey the law, but that the policy set out by Boris Johnson of leaving with or without an agreement in october had not changed. He promised a significant Economic Policy response in the event of a no deal brexit. At the conservative Party Conference, mrjavid is promising what he calls an infrastructure revolution with a £25 billion upgrade of englands roads, a National Bus Strategy and £5 billion for ultrafast Broadband Internet in the uk. But its been a stormy week for Boris Johnson, culminating in number ten denyin
That topic and 9 30. Callsays, we take your and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington host the white house plans to go ahead with the change to the Legal Immigration system which could affect potential new immigrants. It would factory and Financial Stability for those looking for green cards. This is the washington journal for august 13. We will learn more about those changes in our first hour. We want to hear from legal u. S. Immigrants only about your experience in coming to the u. S. How you are doing now that you are here and perhaps give comments on these changes. If you are a legal immigrant and have been in the country for less than 10 years, give us a call at 2027488000. If you have been in the u. S. For more than 10 years, 2027488001 is the number to call. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Changes are written about in the changes of pages of the litter, pages of politico. Deny green cards to le
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Oversight Committee Gavels back in. While we wait for the return, part of todays washington journal. At the table now representative butter field, democrat of North Carolina. Member of the Energy Commerce committee. Represents North Carolinas first district. Good morning to you. Thank you. Good morning. We asked you to come on and talk about the poverty line in the u. S. Weve been reading about proposed changes by the trump administration. And we want to get your reaction to them. Can you explain for us what exactly is the poverty line . And what does it mean . Sure. The Census Bureau defines what is poverty in the country and it bases it generally on a family of four. For a familyy of four the povery line in 2019 is 25,750. For single individual its 12 ,490. Many Government Programs are based on the poverty line. Free and reduced lunches for children at scol, for example. Childrens health insurance, another example. So many of our federal programs are based on the poverty line. And if