House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Michigan Republican Press Secretary Sebelius on the flawed October rollout of healthcare.gov.  

 

Knowing like she knows today you would start the launch on October 1st.

 

I would have probably done a slower launch may be with fewer people and done some additional data testing.

 

Sebelius who ignore Republican demand for her resignation says she wants some accountability.

 

And that the website is working more smoothly, I have determined it is the right time to begin a process of better understanding the structural and managerial policies that led to the flawed launch.

 

She has tasked Health and Human Services Inspector General to carry out that probe. David Welna, NPR News, the Capitol.

 

The pilot of the Asiana Airline’s jet that crashed while landing at San Francisco airport last summer told the investigators he was very stressed about landing the plane. NPR’s Brian Naylor reports the National Transportation Safety Board is holding a daylong hearing on the crash that led three people died.

 

The Korean pilot told NTSB investigators that he fell very stressful, landing the Boeing 777 in San Francisco because the instrument landing system at the airport was not functioning and he was making a visual approach. The plane clipped the seawall at the edge of the runway with its landing gears spun around and burst into flames. Two passengers on board of jet were killed and the third was struck fatally by a rescue vehicle on the ground. The pilot at the controls of the plane was landing for the first time in San Francisco, the co-pilot told him four times the plane was descending too fast but the pilot failed to respond. It was the first fatal commercial plane crash in the US since 2009. Brian Naylor, NPR News, Washington.

 

House Republicans are signaling they will support on narrowly drawn budget deal announced yester by negotiators on Capitol Hill. Deal worked out between Republican representative Paul Ryan and Senate Democrat Patty Murray, replaced 63 billion dollars in what would be automatic federal budget cuts with 85 billion in spending cuts in revenue from new extended fees. Ryan says the agreements went for all signs.

 

By halving a budget agreement, that does not raise taxes. That does not reduce the deficit and produce some certainty that prevent government shutdowns. We think it is a good agreement. 

 

House has said the plan’s vote on the package before it adjourns for the year on Friday. 

 

When it becomes equal opportunity for the men and women in the workplace, most young women believe there are still ways to go. That is according to a survey by the Pew Research Center, 75% of women at age 32 believe despite narrowing the pay gap more needs to be done to bring about equality in the workforce.

 

On Wall Street today, the DOW dropped 129 points to 15,853. The NASDAQ fell 56 points.

 

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US Senator Lamar Alexander says his Chief of Staff has been placed on leave. That is after learning the staffer’s home was being searched as part of law enforcement investigation in the child pornography. In the news release today, the Tennessee Republican is announcing it was informed by the Senate legal counsel’s office of the investigation, the Chief of Staff Ryan Loskarn who works as senator in D.C. office. Alexander says he was stunned and surprised by the news while Ryan Loskarn was arrested this afternoon by US Postal Service investigators who scheduled federal court tomorrow. 

 

A man who says he was tortured by Chicago police in a confessing to a violent crime, he says he did not commit, walk out of Illinois prison as a freeman today. NPR’s David Schaper reports the Chicago judge overturned the man’s conviction after spent more than 30 years behind the bars.

 

59-year-old Stanley Wrice insisted for years that Chicago detectives beat and tortured him in the confessing to a brutal gang rape in 1982 and now after 30 plus years in prison, a Cook County judge agrees and order Wrice released pending a new trial. The judge ruled that police lie about how they treated Wrice that medical evidence confirms he was injured in custody and there is no doubt officers tortured the suspect also a key witness recant his testimony, saying he was tortured into implicating Wrice. This is the latest several cases reverse because police brutality under former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge who was now in prison himself for lying about torture under road. David Schaper, NPR News, Chicago.

 

The Food and Drug Administration gets its way, the beef and other meats on your plate may not contain antibiotics. Government regulator is announcing today they plan to ask pharmaceutical companies voluntarily stop marketing drugs used for treating human infection for use in animal production.