Many aspects that someone could look at and judge whether that was a good reform or battery form. People grabbed onto that particular conclusion and try to use it to their best and. We are talking with professor philip here at the university of maryland about his book on the congressional Budget Office. The cbo was used in two ways or in one way it should have been used in two ways. One way is to help a Super Committee to set the parameters. So director elmendorf went and testified on the nature of the problem that was facing the country and what kind of thing was what needed to happen and what would be a reasonable trajectory for trying to get the deficit down for example, and clearly cbo stepped behind the scenes and worked with the committee answering questions. Theres an awful lot of work that they do that isnt visible in the sense that they are providing advice when asked to congressionally staff the committees. Now, what would have happened if the Super Committee had been success
After 5 30 yesterday evening near the Rural Community overland. That is 20 miles west ofkey koa. Alex savidge is joining us from our newsroom with new information about the victims. Alex. Reporter over night we did learn a tenth person died in this crash. Five were students and five were adults. 30 other people do remain hospitalized. And this was the firey scene near orland yesterday afternoon after a fedex truck crashed head on with that charter bus. They were all headed up to Humboldt State for a college tour that was set to happen this weekend. That crash killed again five students, three chaperons, and the driver of both the fedex truck and the charter bus. Flipped a white car that is further in the ditch up there. Sideswiped it. Went head on with the charter bus. Immediate explosion. The head of the l. A. Unified school destruct says some student from the School District was on that trip. But right now officials are scrambling to figure out which students were on the bus that scr
Better gratitude to an american who invested in kids like me. I believe in that. [applause] i understand you spent much of the day talking about populism. I think it is the power of the people to change the country. In 2009 i was fighting hard for Financial Agency that would help level the Playing Field for families. Basically by preventing big banks are pushing people around, tricking them on credit cards and mortgages in payday loans. Of those and many people were involved in that fight. You may remember the biggest Financial Institutions were unenthusiastic about the Consumer Agency. How about dead set opposed and were spending more than 1 million per day for more than a order to Block Financial reforms generally and the Consumer Agency in particular. That was the targeted one. Able to fight back. We were able to fight back. Ecause of people like you people across the country who said i am in this fight, too. And because enough people got involved in the fight, we want. Financialood
I dont know what they are afraid of. They have 55 votes. This is not the way the senate used to operate. My members that the price of being the majority is that you have to get the minority roots votes to get the bill across the floor. We would look longer days work longer days and weeks using the clock is consensus. If a leader brings up the bill on monday and really wants to finish it, the fatigue factor is the best tool you have. Rather than try to shut everyone out and make everyone mad, you just run the clock and you say we are going to finish this thursday night, friday morning, friday night, or saturday morning. Is the hourpens gets later and later on thursday an amendment start disappearing. [laughter] the thought of what they have scheduled friday noon or friday night produces an incredible consensus. [laughter] to try to finish. Testing, you have to mean it. It does not shut anybody out. Amendments geoeye because go away because people get tired and nobody is bitter about it
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