Director keith hall testified before the House Budget Committee tuesday about his agencys history, organizational structure, and responsibilities. He also answered questions from republicans about their attempts to repeal the Affordable Care act last year. It is 10 00. Good morning, everyone. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to the committee on the butts hearing on oversight of the Congressional Budget Office. This hearing will focus on cboest organizational and operational structure. It is the first of five hearings that the Committee Plans to hold regarding oversight of the congressional budget. The goal of todays hearing is to learn more about cbo, which was created as part of the congressional budget and impoundment act of 1974. For decades, this agencys primary duty and function has to assist congress in the federal budget making process by providing cost estimates, economic analysis, working pain ersz and other in sight you will publications. Members of the house and senat
Right . In terms of crimes, were seeing a decrease every month. Reporter the fatal shooting, the possible drug overdoses, plus incidents like this is where the residents are drawing the line. The person who lives at this intersection by the park tells us this is the second time a fight like this has happened in a matter of weeks before 3 00 p. M. On a sunday. Some people at the meeting said it has gotten to the point where they are scared to leave their homes. It is a group of 14 kids, many of whom are transients with pitbulls and i cant get through the street. I feel frightened and intimidated as does my daughter. I turn a blind eye all over this naked, so it is not just getting the cops out there, it is opening your eyes. Is there anything beyond more services, more police . That is basically what has been prepped for years. Reporter but the answer to that is complicated. So what we find to do in this case is a combination of law enforcement, when appropriate, and getting those peopl
Vote on its third Bailout Program with a number of members expected to reject the package. This as Alexis Tsipras concedes European Partners got the better of him. Sales in hong kong slump but the Fashion Group says its still pursuing growth opportunities. Coming up on todays show mickey goes to shanghai. The exclusive from the companys ceo. Twitter spares spike on a fake report of a takeover bid but has this happened one time too many . And donald comes up trump. The extravagant real estate mogul leading the gop field despite weeks of controversy. All the details later in todays show. Lets kick off with china. Retail sales, industrial output and fixed Asset Investment all beating forecast. Data came in at 7 . Thats higher than analysts were expecting. The worlds second largest economy is now on track to hit the 2015 growth target. Fancy that. Interestingly they were quick to jump to the defense of the data saying the figures were not inflated and the improvement was hard one. Its real