On january 19th, 2010, massachusetts elected a new senator to represent them here in washington. The result was just as shocking to democrats as last nights result was to republicans. It also came when we were in the middle of another historically important policy debate here in washington, health care. A lot of people thought that democrats should ram through the final version of their bill in congress before brown could be seated. Now, i could stand here and review quote after quote after quote from republicans who now control the t senate, talking about how unfair that would be. How core result that would be. And how antidemocratic that would be. I could go on and on how todays Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said this would be gamesmanship but i want to talk about what democrats actually did. Democrats rejected the idea of rammingra through the bill befoe brown could take his seat in the senate. Almost immediately jim webb, a democratic senator from virginia, called for a su
All right, brad. Route 1 crystal city, overturned box truck. Take a look here. A little bit hard to see because its so dark so early this morning. Getting by on the right side of the roadway. We do have the two lanes blocked. Inner loop and outer loop of the beltway actually behaving this morning. Single tracking on the orange line between New Carrollton and cheverly. The late track work still happening around. Sheena . The good news, mostly dry conditions. I say mostly dry this morning. Because part of the area is dealing with snow showers from a clipper. Its kind of falling apart now. As we zoom in here, Frederick County starting to see signs of flakes falling there. Temperatures here are cold enough for anything falling tore sticking as well. Moving out of West Virginia. Lovettsville may be seeing flakes too. Maybe even flurries in the Shenandoah Valley and much of virginia. Waking up to flurries this morning. Spotty in nature, though. Shouldnt be a bigde temperatures are at or belo
Step in removing some policy accommodation. The time of this meeting, the committee was going with a lot of weak data, weak gdp data from quarter one and weak inflation data from march, and they made references to that data being transitory. There was a clear debate around the idea of inflation and where inflation was heading. Some in the committee are more wordy ofried about the prospect overshooting inflation as unemployment continues to fall below the levels they think are the lowest sustainable levels for unemployment, while others on the committee are worried that some of the most recent data on inflation signals that there may be a pause and price rises there, so perhaps the committee should be cautious about raising. One caveat to these minutes, they are a bit dated. The data since then is split. The april payrolls was quite strong, which supports those in the committee that wanted to see a hike in june. But april inflation cpi data was extremely weak, so that will run the other
Step in removing some policy accommodation. The time of this meeting, the committee was going with a lot of weak data, weak gdp data from quarter one and weak inflation data from march, and they made references to that data being transitory. There was a clear debate around the idea of inflation and where inflation was heading. Some in the committee are more wordy ofried about the prospect overshooting inflation as unemployment continues to fall below the levels they think are the lowest sustainable levels for unemployment, while others on the committee are worried that some of the most recent data on inflation signals that there may be a pause and price rises there, so perhaps the committee should be cautious about raising. One caveat to these minutes, they are a bit dated. The data since then is split. The april payrolls was quite strong, which supports those in the committee that wanted to see a hike in june. But april inflation cpi data was extremely weak, so that will run the other
Step in removing some policy accommodation. The time of this meeting, the committee was going with a lot of weak data, weak gdp data from quarter one and weak inflation data from march, and they made references to that data being transitory. There was a clear debate around the idea of inflation and where inflation was heading. Some in the committee are more wordy ofried about the prospect overshooting inflation as unemployment continues to fall below the levels they think are the lowest sustainable levels for unemployment, while others on the committee are worried that some of the most recent data on inflation signals that there may be a pause and price rises there, so perhaps the committee should be cautious about raising. One caveat to these minutes, they are a bit dated. The data since then is split. The april payrolls was quite strong, which supports those in the committee that wanted to see a hike in june. But april inflation cpi data was extremely weak, so that will run the other