everything else is on the table. the gets want higher taxes. the gop deeper entitlement cuts. the president is commander in chief and he is very concerned and that is why he has put forward compromise proposals again and again. the president signed it into law. didn t have to sign it into law. he did. and for over a year from august 2011 through the end of last year, the president did nothing to stop it. the sequestration splits the cuts evenly between defense and nondefense programs. it calls for a total $1.2 trillion in cuts over the next eight years. yesterday, president obama called house speaker john boehner and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell to discuss the pending sequestration. mcconnell s office says it is the first he has heard from the president since new year s eve. thank you. the former director of d.c. s homeland security agency has been charged with tax fraud. millicent west is expected in court today to plead guilty to one felony count of atte
A Jordan School District bus driver is being praised for keeping more than a dozen children safe when another driver illegally passed the bus as children were trying to cross the street.