The comment made earlier about how to that people come i you let every two vet people, you let everybody run command you take the top two vote getters. You can watch the remainder of this event online at www. Cspan. Org. Breaking news out of boston, a jury has reached a verdict in the federal Death Penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. The verdict is an mad is expected to be announced momentarily. Lawyers are gathering in court. We expect to hear comments from the lawyers later on and we will hear comments from you, your reaction to the verdict in just a bit on cspan. Meanwhile, we will take you over to the Brookings Institution in washington. It is one week until tax deadline day. There in your screen is John Koskinen. He will be talking about how his agency is dealing with budget cuts. They are just getting started. Commissioner koskinen half of the book is dedicated to tax codes. There is a quotation from the book that we pulled. It says, the power to tax is the
The men of the uss yorktown were on the front lines. They knew better than anyone in washington the sacrifice necessary to protect liberty. They did not talk about strength and courage. They lived it. They did not seek war but with a they were there when called to fight. I believe that the men and women protecting our liberty deserve leaders who are accountable to the american people. The crew of the uss yorktown understood that our freedom and prosperity must be defended against those who would attack us. They learned the terrible lesson that war is not a game and should not be used for political advantage. Too many lawmakers in washington have not learned that lesson. In 1964, Ronald Reagan warned of the dangers, the dangers of seating our freedom to a little intellectual elite and a far distant capital who think they can plan our lives for us better than we can for ourselves. Freedom nurtured our country from a Rebellious Group of colonies into the worlds , greatest nation. When tie
On Wednesday, April 12, the Brookings Institution Center on Regulation and Markets and the Niskanen Center will jointly host a conversation on proposed updates to OMB Circulars A-4 and A-94, which guide government benefit-cost analysis.
The future of health care in America looks grim but it does not have to be. Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) has proposed “A Roadmap for America’s Future” the only comprehensive plan in Washington that deals with the looming fiscal and economic crisis, driven by ever-increasing government spending on health care. Ryan’s Roadmap would reduce the deficit, allow Medicare to become truly sustainable, establish equity and efficiency in the federal tax treatment of health insurance, and improve access to health care for middle-class and low-income families. Congressman Ryan’s critics have accused him of trying to destroy the Medicare system and claim that the Roadmap will increase the deficit. While they may have honed the harshness of their rhetoric, they have not offered a comparable alternative. Heritage Foundation health policy experts explain how the Ryan Roadmap would really work, and how it would benefit Americans.