alice rivlin, former omb director, former federal reserve vice chair as well.e staying on the jobs beat. much more on the over 300,000 jobs created in this country. what does the white house have to say about this? labor secretary thomas perez joining me in the next hour. ♪ >> it is our big story this morning -- the u.s. hired more workers than forecast in november, blowing past most economist's estimates. everyone on the program so far when it the word "wow" comes to this report. it has blown past anybody's estimates. the jobless rate has stayed at 5.8%. that is a summary of the jobs numbers, but we will be digging further and further into that throughout the next hour. in the meantime, here is a look at the top tech stories on our "bloomberg west" radar. amazon is going to get into the diaper business, producing its own diapers and baby wipes under the brand name amazon elements. it will be inexpensive and available for members of the prime service. mark zuckerberg is on a mission to connect the world to the internet, using drones and satellites to bring conn

alice rivlin actually created it. i will get to her in a moment. immediately to my rye, bob heal, along with jack my direct boss at cbo. he made up for that part of his career by doing amazing thing thereafter even though he had to supervise me for a while. he was comptroller of air force in 1990s for much of the clinton administration. he was about a year ago comptroller for entire department of defense. in between he did various other jobs including a running the snags comptroller association. i learn ad great deal of defense strategy for bob. this year he is probably glad going into christmas season not being scrooge again. he is the guy had to handle sequestration. made him feel like work load like grins dog trying to pull all the presents to the top of the mountain. got through it remarkably. i think it's a huge credit to bob and many others in the military that dod kept functioning through this incredibly difficult period and a lot of other accomplishments as well. he will put this issue in broader complex reform and department of defense ove

alice rivlin actually created it and i will get to her in just a moment, but sitting to my right is bobale who was along with jack mayer my direct boss at cbo but he made up for that part of this crew by doing amazing things thereafter even though he had to supervise me for for a while. u.s. comptroller of the air force in the 1990s for much of the clinton administration if it wasn't a just about a year, the cultural of entire department of defense. and between other jobs including running the national comptroller association, i learned a great deal about defense strategy from bob as well. remarkably, it is a huge credit to pop and many others many -- many others in the military that dod kept functioning in this incredibly difficult period . he will be putting this current issue and broader context in terms of military compensation reform and the department of defense's overall budget challenge. carla tighe murray is a ph.d economist at university of illinois. she also worked at the pentagon but she is not at the congressional budget office and she has written recent options papers and

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>> so as we put it together, alice rivlin and i teamed up to have an amendment to bowles-simpson to do medicare and medicaid reform because that's the biggest driver of our debt the health care entitlements. alice rivlin is a democrat who was president clinton's budget director, and we put this together as an amendment which had that occurred i would have been very -- i would have thought this is a pretty complete package. it was rejected by the elected democrats on the commission. i was also worried about the deep cuts in defense that was in it. so the way i looked at bowles-simpson was there's a lot of good work hoar. i'm going to take the goose work and i'm going -- good work, and i'm going to introduce the rivlin-ryan and i'm going to pass it through the house. we've actually passed four year in a row a plan to balance the budget and pay down the debt. [applause] >> before you go on -- >> yes. >> before you go on i just want to underscore something that paul just said and that is that the house passes important legislation: the republicans are not the party of no. the house has bee

alice rivlin, senior fellow at the brookings institution, who will be moderating the final session. >> thank you, paul. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay, are we live now? i think we are. now we're going to shift the focus. we have talked about this data release and several other data releases, and we've talked from the point of view of researchers and health plans and the policy community, but what it's all about is patients and consumers. and so now we are going to shift the focus to the patient, the consumer, and talk about what they need to know. and i hope we can be a bit more visionary and expansive in this panel because we are where we are, but where do we want to be? and i hope that these three representatives who have worked very hard on behalf of consumers over quite a long time can help us think about what do consumers really need, what do they need it for and how can that data be generated? to help us with this question we have, first, robert krughoff who is the president for the center for the study of services/consumer checkb

pimco ceo mohamed el-erian, labor secretary thomas perez, mike turner, alice rivlin, and alan kruegerurner will be weighing in on ashton carter. he sits on the house oversight committees. we are left-hand half an hour away from the november labor reports. -- less than a half an hour away november labor reports. if estimates are correct, the economy has added 200,000 jobs.

assistant secretary of defense for health affairs as well as former white house budget director alice rivlin and former undersecretary of defense comptroller robert hale. from the brookings institution this is two hours. >> good morning everyone. welcome to brookings. merry christmas, happy hanukkah. i michael o'hanlon on 21st century security and intelligence. we are privileged to have an all-star cast on the subject of military health care reform. we are going to hear from assistant secretary of defense for health affairs dr. jonathan woodson first. he is responsible for the 50 billion-dollar plus enterprise that takes care of almost 10 million people including dod active-duty personnel and families, retirees. they took care of 50,000 wanted on the battlefield and that is a very large player in her national health care system. for that reason after we heard from dr. woodson and we will assemble a panel of distinguished scholars to range across not only the military domain but also the broader health care and economic domain of her country as well and i will have the privilege of monitoring