Do they enroll their children in the school where they are now or assume theyll be confirmed by then and look at enrolling them in the country in which theyll be serving . Why are we putting people who are serving their country through that type of uncertainty and anxiety . But we are. We are, by failing to move in a timely way the nominations that have been brought forward to us. Ill just mention one other example. I started with the hearing that i chaired today on behalf of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee dealing with four nominees. One was the ambassador to vietnam. I was just recently in vietnam. I met with our current ambassador, ambassador scher. I mention that because hes been nominated to be assistant secretary of defense for asia so hes leaving vietnam. We had a hearing today on the next ambassador to vietnam, a wellqualified career diplomat. The question is, are we going to have the orderly change of command in vietnam, a country critically important to u. S. Interests
And we also have access to this incredible data, the monthly polls that Kaiser Family foundation does that i know we all found a very viable. I am interested in, as you were looking at all of that, what were the things that most surprised you about the trends in enrollment and the things that you think are most important to the ultimate success as we saw . First of all, the secretary did not always like the polls. [laughter] the most amazing thing about the polls really was that they never changed. From passage until today. That is because randomly distributed almost perfectly along partisan lines. At this point i think we could ask the American People, will be Affordable Care at take customers are solve the Energy Crisis in america were turned the cs for our beloved boston red sox. [laughter] that is because we are not really having a political debate it is not really a debate about the aca. It is because in the political debate the hca has become the poster child for a larger debate
Make it to the house and what the next step is. Coming at 6 40 eastern time, red hat has been red hot. That company reporting Quarterly Results and we have the ceo. At 7 00 a. M. Eastern time, we will welcome our guest host, roger altman and barry knapp. We have Thorsten Heins joining us, as well. Our big story of the morning, it could be a tense days for the markets as the resolution to the physical cliff appears less likely. We can see the futures opening at least 150 off if things keep up the way they are. House Speaker John Boehner failing to mount enough support for his plan b that would raise taxes only on families earning more than 1 million. The president vowing he will press ahead with congress to get a deal done. He wasnt going to do it, anyway. What does he mean it will press ahead . I dont know. Because it wasnt going to go to the senate. But to me, the demonstration that boehner didnt have the support you thought boehner never had the support for this plan . No. Im saying
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