Million by 2026. Thats compared with the number under the current law. The scoring also found that premiums would rise substantially before they fell. And that the legislation would decrease the budget deficit by more than 300 billion, principally via federal medicaid cuts. These numbers will be analyzed and then some by senators ahead of a potential vote on the legislation later this week. Health care stocks were mixed on wall street today as were the major averages as you see there. The Dow Jones Industrial average added 14 to 21,409. Nasdaq off 18 and the s p 500 rose fractionally. And health care, of course, isnt the only thing investors will be watching this week. Bob pisani looks ahead. Reporter it will be a busy week for the markets on Economic News, earnings and fed officials. Fed chair janet yellen speaks tomorrow on london on Global Economic issues. Its been rough for Economic News recently. The news in the Second Quarter has not been much more positive than the first quarter
Secretary of defense leon panetta visits the Walter Reed Medical Center followed by david coombs, Bradley Mannings of turning. The hearing on the republic of mali. The Supreme Court will look at what was passed in 2008 by a majority of 63. Theyre going to say that this president. They decided it was constitutional for them to establish i. D. S they did not say all of those states. Correct. Let me finish. You are misrepresenting what i am saying. When i hear these accusations that black people, voter i. D. Laws a disproportionately affect us. If white people can go through all the laws, what are you telling back people . They are less than . That is what bothers me about rhetoric. We always have to make special there has to be a specialist when we deal with minorities. It there too feeble mind it appeared we need to make concessions. They cannot follow the rules. We treat people like victims, i do not think they want to aspire. Defense secretary leon panetta visited the Walter Reed Medi
Copper Communications Network and significant plans to deploy new fiber infrastructure how will the new Fiber Networks handle natural disasters like hurricanes . We know that the copper continue to operate but what happens now with the new Fiber Networks and you know dealing with that issue . How are you going to deal with them . There is unfortunately no Ip Technology congressman that allows you to power the line. You cannot put power over a fiber connection. Fiber has many other advantages in addition to its internet capacity and one of them i think is relevant in a hurricane or a flood zone or a sandy type situation is that seawater will destroy copper and make it unrepairable. Fiber is very resilient in that type of situation frank desoer our wireless networks. We get them up and running quickly after these storms and i say that knock on wood because we are still in hurricane system. Again i think that we all agree that these community should not lose services they rely on simply b
Oversight in the process. Next, a portion of that meeting with one of the former judges. We will hear from officials who previously served at the Justice Department. This is a little over an hour and 10 minutes. We are pleased to have james baker, who was formerly with the , judgeent of justice. Arr from the district of ohio mark sillinger, a former doj attorney at the computer crime and electrical property section. These make your remarks and then afterwards we will have five minutes for each of the board members. Thank you very much. I would like to thank the board for inviting me back. It is an honor to be here and an honor to be able to discuss these kinds of issues in this type of setting. I appreciate the opportunity. I have just a couple of quick comments. The focus of our discussion is on 702 of the fisa Amendment Act and 215 of the patriot act. While these are very important statutorily authorized and judicial he reviewed surveillance programs involving the collections and com
Some behind the scenes perspective of the correspondent dinner. Ask for joining us on this friday edition of washington journal. Enjoy the rest of your day and a terrific weekend. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] the Labor Department releasing the april jobs numbers this morning showing employers adding 288,000 jobs last month, the most in two years. The unappointed rate also dropped to its lowest level since 2008 26. 3 , down from 6. 7 . John thune tweeting Labor Participation force dropped by nearly as much as south dakotas entire population. The senate and house are out today, returning next week. In the house, they would take up legislation to increase the business R D Research Development tax credit. Voteull chamber will also on whether to hold former irs official lois lerner in contempt of congress for invoking her fifth amendment rights and refusing to testify before congress. The Senate Next Week be