Post nine of the New York Stock Exchange Morgan Brennan has the morning off. Dow session low was about 150. Well start with this rally in tech leading the s p to record closes yesterday these regulatory headlines out of d. C. Not slowing down the momentum out of the valley evaluation partners, early facebook investor, Roger Mcnamee is with us to talk about facebooks print they cant lose. No. What would it take to slow these guys down . To be clear, i think from an investor point of view, theyre delivering exactly what investors want and as long as that goes on, the stock is going to be fine to me, the question is the policy one that all of us as citizens that our government has to ask, which is, should there be some limit on what businesses can do when the actions of that business affect public health, democracy, privacy, and competition. And, you know, were wrestling with that right now and the governments getting its gears moving, but it goes slowly and until i guess its going to nee
Government. Washington journal continues. Host each week in the segment of the washington journal, we take a look at how your money is at work in a different federal program. We are taking a look at the 9 11 Victim Compensation fund. We are talking with Michael Mcauliffe with the new york daily news. How long after 9 11 was it established . What is the criteria to qualify . Guest there was a fund that started right after 9 11 and lasted for a couple of years. That lapsed. It did not take into account people getting sick after 9 11. , 2010, it wasars the last thing that passed congress. That renewed the Victim Compensation fund for a couple of billion dollars. That expired in 2015. They had to come back and do it all over again. A lot of folks saw jon stewart coming down then. It sort of made a popular impression on the country. They ultimately passed it near the end of the year. It seems to linger each time it happens. 7. 4bumped it up to billion. The way the Congressional Budget Offic
You can catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. Very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in on this question of war Power Authority. Here is the basics. The constitution and powering the president to wage wars as commanderinchief. The constitution empowering congress to declare wars and fund wars. President s can order u. S. Troops when the country is attacked or attack appears imminent, but the war powers resolution requires a president terminate combat unless there is congressional passedzation to continue over the veto of richard nixon. The war powers debate has stemmed from how much the war power authorizations have been stretched and some argue stretched too far. In particular, the 2001 authorization of use of military force a week after the september 11 attacks. That said the president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those authorizations or organizations in order to prevent f
It is not an easy thing to come up with the numbers. They have gone through them and to the public program. It is not meant to be a windfall. It is meant just to replace losses. Like, if you have a Life Insurance policy for instance that would be subtracted from any award you get. So its just meant to replace what people lost because of the attack. Were talking about the Victim Compensation fund. Taking your questions and comments those who live in the mountain and pacific time zone and a special line for families of 9 11 victim 20274880024 is the number. Norma is up first from ogden, kansas. Good morning. I am normal, i am 75. I remember 9 11. They were heroes. You know something, for the first time in years i saw our country come together. Everybody was nice to everybody else. Everybody volunteered. People went to church and they prayed. These people, the 9 11, the firefighters, reporter tatian for the slaves youre working on, this leaves have been dead 150 years or more, our firefig
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