A negative ebola test result means a patient doesnt have ebola but just this week a physician died after being flown to nebraska for emergency treatment after initial tests showed a negative test. His colleagues are in quarantine causing greater anxiety in a medical profession lost more than 500 to ebola. Hospitals and Healthcare Workers were to have proper guidance on personal protective kwichlt. Cdc guideline do not require a threeweek selfisolation period for healthcare officials. They can return to work immediately. But the hospitals i talked to did not agree. I asked an er doctor from my district about whether any of his colleagues volunteering in west africa could come back to work immediately. He had a simple response. I quote him. He said, they should stay away. The administration continues to pose travel restrictions and quarantines yet respected institutions have policies to ensure Public Health is protected. Its impossible for the American People to understand why the govern
That is the goal of Melinda Gates and the foundation she runs with her husband bill. Erik lets begin this hour with the top business stories of the morning. U. S. Stocks have given back their gains for the year. The major indices are about 1 in the 30 minutes of trading. They are unchanged right now but they were still up in the nasdaq, you can thank apple for that. The fed is moving ever closer to a rate hike. The shares of the credit sq suisse are rising. One of the few ceos of a global bank to survive the financial crisis and its aftermath. Barnes noble missed quarterly profit estimates last quarter and its shares are falling. The company saw sales rise over the holidays, revenue was almost 200 in samestore sales, about 2 . College student bookstores back in 2008 barack obama campaigned on hope and change. Now americans want even more change than they did back then. They say they were prefer a candidate that will seek even greater change. They say Hillary Clinton returns to the poli
Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. Both the house and senate are not in session today but lawmakers will return next week. Senators plan to continue work on a measure that requires the Obama Administration to submit any Nuclear Agreement with iran to congress and will attempt to override the veto disapproving the National Labor regulation Board Regulations issued last year live on cspan2. House members will meet with senators for a joint meeting of congress to here marchand japanese Prime Minister for would say before returning to work on 2016 federal spending for military construction, Veterans Affairs command energy work development. Next, health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Burwell testifies other departments 2016 budget request this totals 84 billion. She spoke for about two hours. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, Human Services and education related agencies will come to order. Pleased to have the secretary with us today. Thank you for taking your tim
Voted to fasttrack and the vote failed and he did not get the vote. In 2001 under president bush 21 democrats voted for fast track. That didnt prevail with the republican votes. There was a tie it was 215 to 214. The republicans were equally divided. We said you can consider these bills in the congress on a fasttrack if you abide by the maids have an agreement which we work with the administration on that honored the ilo principles and list of standards that had to be met as well as issues that relate to endangered species montreal protocol and other Environmental Issues that were contained in that. I want just to say that weve always had the lively debate on the subject regardless of who was president of the United States. Its not a question of well democrats stuck with president clinton but didnt stick with president obama. That is just not the case. We need to ask what this does to the paycheck of American Workers. This is the debate were having. What is being put forth is that bett
Important. And i think you know the statutory requirements with regard for meeting success are very high. So it will take time and measurement to get there and prove that. So we want to get there and hit those measures because thats when we can scale those. We have to be able to show you asked us to show quality and cost. So we have to get there and do that. The other place in terms of the authorities we currently have have to do with the aco work were doing. Pioneer acos and others. We actually just recently, Accountable Care organizations, we just recently put out a version 2. 0 and telamadison was increased in that. With regard to the statutory issues, there are some places and i think we need to have the places about are those places that we can talk about where there might be changes that would free us to do more telehealth, and that is on the medicare payment side. Right. Okay. So lets do two things. First of all, lets work together, and i know senator wicker as the chairman of t