Host thanks for the call. Demonstrateankings there are a number of places that are not doing a good job for their employees or the american public. The reason we do these rankings is to make sure the individual you know is not one anecdote, but we are able to collect the data and demonstrate from a data perspective where things are working and where they are not. It sounds like, for your friends, it is not. There are a number of agencies where there are a lot of good actions were agencies are doing a lot of things, listening to their employees, and creating a culture where they recognize that if they empower the employees, the organization will do better. Hope more leaders will Pay Attention to this. We are driving as hard as we can to bang the drum so that the voice of the employee is actually heard. Megan el call from we have a call from macon. Megan. One reason i think there are so many disgruntled federal employees, we have to work under legislation that we cannot affect and we can
A community away to grow back into the economy and succeed. The transition has to look at the transition of the people and the Community Getting back to some kind of help so you dont just pull the plug on them and say, you are on your own. Dodd. Is town or community another twitter question. Should unions get an obamacare exception . Whenever they have built the first automobile, it wasnt a perfect automobile. When we started playing baseball , it wasnt the perfect again. It has evolved. Obamacare is a good start. Good things in it, unintended consequences that do need to be looked at and change. We need to build on it. Some classic mistakes. First, we exempted the pharmaceutical industry and said that medicare couldnt use its buying power to drive down prices. That needs to change. We jettison the public options so there wasnt the competition. E needed to keep prices down we made mistakes with the exchanges. We made mistakes with the system. A lot of mistakes. Quite sure it was. It is
Snowden recently asked brazil for political asylum. Ambassador to. Brazil talks about u. S. Relations with the country. From the Wilson Center, this is two hours. Good morning. Good morning to our good friends in the audience. I am jane harman. I am delighted to welcome you to this before the christmas holiday. The Wilson Center knows a lot about brazil. So does tom shannon. Our Brazil Institute is the premier place in washington for dialogue on u. S. Brazil policy. We were first to honor the president of brazil. We sponsor the brazil economic conference. We host brazilian governors and legislators. We air the good, the bad, and the ugly in our relationship. Tom shannon represents the good. I hope he is relieved to hear that. Ther close to four years as foreign ambassador to brazil, he is back in washington as Senior Advisor to secretary kerry. There are lots of rumors about his future. Brazil is the b in bricks. President rousseff was an alleged target of u. S. Surveillance. These wil
He made headlines all over the world. You can tell he really challenged president putin. Fascinating stuff. Sue is in the house today, and we will take you to petersburg very shortly. But first another big day for stocks. Lets look at the dow as we head into the long weekend. About a third of a period. The nasdaq up a half percent. 21point gain there. S p a third of a at 1899, and the russell reversing some recent losses, up about nine points right now. You know how i love the transports. You are a transport kind of girl. I love the rails the yield is 2. 534 . Our list of stocks that are moving big today starts with hewlettpackard. Pup 6. 75. Gamestop is up. Tripadviser, Discovery Communications and garmin also having significant percentage gains in todays trading day. Garmin up about 2. 3. Sue mentioned the russell and todays big gain there. Dominic chu has more on the debate regarding the small caps. Dom . They are such a hot topic, this idea that the small caps may be leading the ma
Senator shelby is on his way from voting, and the official part of the hearing will begin shortly. I just wanted to go over two things. One, as you all know, today is the hearing on the supplemental request submitted by the administration to cover the unexpected and unanticipated needs of the significant number of unaccompanied children coming to our border. I want those who follow our committee so very closely to know that on tuesday we will be marking up the defense appropriations subcommittee, and we will do a full Committee Markup on the defense bill defense appropriation on thursday. The committee should be alerted that if we can get other things done during the week with appropriate notice following the rules, we will do so. However, we will not do anything until after tuesday afternoon. So we know that monday, tuesday Tuesday Morning will be the subcommittee on defense markup. Well look for also opportunities because there are Unfinished Business at the full committee level, the