and david john is a research fellow specializing in retirement security with the heritage foundation. he worked previously on capitol hill on proposals to change the program. nancy altman, the fund is still in surplus, collect morning money than it pays out. the trust fund is growing but the date at which they won't be able to pay the guaranteed payout just moved three years closer, so? is it generally in goods shape, generally in danger? >> generally in good shape. social security, the social security system from the beginning has been very closely monitored and has always been very conservatively managed. so efly year it projects out 75 years. now when you project out that far you going to show these fluctiations. recently trustees reports have shown that the exhaas shen date is 2028, others show 2048. so 2033, 2035, 2036 are all within that range. the important point is what you said, social security is projected to have a $60 billion surplus this year. it has a 2.7 trillion dollar accumulated reserve. and it has two decades, 20 years to-- congress has 20 years to figure out, ideal

endorsed by brookings and now with hard work from david john and the heritage foundation, we've developed this proposal. i have kidded david many times. it's n it's not every day that a massachusetts democrat's legislation is endorsed by the heritage foundation. we've done just that. let me tell you who else supports this legislation. the aarp. latino's for secure retirement. the black u.s. chamber of commerce, putnam prudential, netixis, and i must say with some grave disappointment, since phil english left, i can't get one republican to sign on to this legislation. mr. herger, i thought, was headed in the

i'm david john, a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation and also the deputy director of the retirement security project. this is an issue that transcends ideological and partisan differences. for those who have access to a payroll deduction retirement savings account, the current system works fairly well. however, millions of americans still lack that ability. in theory, they could save it in an ira. but as jack and judy have shown, only a maximum of about 5% actually do so on a regular basis. many of these workers who lacked the ability to save through payroll deduction are part-time employees of smaller businesses -- women, members of minority groups, younger workers, or all four. social security, even if it was fully funneleded, only provides about half the income needs of an average income worker. either we can ensure that everyone has the ability to save to provide for themselves in retirement or a congress in the near future will face demands for additional taxpayer paid benefits. those demands will be very hard to resist. ensuring that all americans have the opportuni

david john a senior research fellow in retirement security at the heritage foundation. mr. john published and testified extensively on the improvement of retirement security plans. finally, we welcome randy hardic from a parder in at from davis d hartman llp in washington, d.c. mr. hardic is an arisa and regulatory compliance specialist who maintains a practice focused on advising employers and institutions on retirement and savings issues and he is testifying today on behalf of the american benefits council. thank you all again for your time today. the committee has received each of your written statements and they will be made part of the formal hearing record. each of you will be recognized for five minutes for your oral remarks. we'll begin with you and you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. chairman, ranking member levin, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today on the issues involved in tax reform and tax favored retirement accounts. i am the research director of the employee benefit research institute. this is a

david john, the senior research fellow and retirement security financial institution at the heritage foundation. mr. john is published and testified extensively on the improvement of of retirement security plans. and they we welcome mr. randy hardock a partner at davis and heart numb llp in washington d.c.. mr. hardock is every electric compliance specialist, maintains a practice focused on employers and institutions in retirement and saving issues. mr. hardock is testifying on behalf of the american council. thank you colligan for your time today. the committee has received each of your written statements and they will be made part of a formal hearing record. each of you will be recognized for five minutes for your oral remarks. mr. vanderhei we will begin with you and you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. chairman kim, ranking member levin and members of the many thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today on the issues involved in tax reform and tax requirements accounts. it's a nonpartisan to do that as been conducting original research on retirement health

endorsed by brookings and now with hard work from david john and the heritage foundation, we've developed this proposal. i'd hate to david many times. it's not everyday the massachusetts democrat legislation is endorsed by the heritage foundation. we have done just that. until you will support this legislation. the aarp. between us for a secure retirement. the black u.s. chamber of commerce, part number don't show, texas and i must say with some great disappointment with the still languish like they can't get one republican to sign on to the legislation. mr. hurt her i thought was headed in the right direction. he was headed in the right direction as he began to question and couldn't quite bring himself to say it but came close to the other countries offer without saying i do. now david, why does heritage support proposal? >> heritage supports is for two reasons and we've enjoyed working with you over the years out over some of my colleagues that has been -- i tell some of them i just went to a bar. we've also enjoyed working with your staff, both melissa initially and kerry gets now. con

at least, about george washington that wonderful talk by david hackett fischer, gordon wood talked about his distinctiveness. we heard about john adams. of course later on david mccullough is going to be part of these proceedings and the pre-eminent scholar john adams. i asked a question about adams' son, john quincy. we've heard about thomas jefferson. we've heard from the jefferson chair at the university of virginia which is jefferson's university in the person of peter onuf, the so-called father of the constitution, james madison, jefferson's good friend. we saw a picture of james monroe in that boat right there right beside george washington. again, john quincy adams was mentioned. that's the spine of american history. and i want to suggest, just because i wanted to -- my talk today is going to be about the constitution. that's what i do, that's where i live and move and have my being as intellectually as in the constitution, and i wanted to basically give you one kind of memorable way to to pull together the basic theme of my talk. i want to suggest that our constitution is in its basic structure far more jackson, andrew

. >> thank you, david corn and john heilemann. >> thank you. >>> and if you listen to him, they are fighting the free world and the ussr and the old lingo out there talking it up. well, do you want to go back to the days of duck and cover? this is "hardball." do you eve r wish you could make some things just disappear? ♪ [ ping! ] [ ping! ping! ] that's why i use new tampax radiant. it helps keep my period invisible, combing tampax's best-ever leak protection with a revolutionary resealable wrapper so all they'll see is me. [ ping! ] ♪ hi. totally new, awesomely-invisible tampax radiant. check out the whole radiant collection. >>> americans know, americans know that we can't go back to the future and see the world through a cold war prism that is totally out of touch with the realities of the 21st century. >> back to "hardball." does mitt romney want to refight the cold war, and the vice president has left no doubt that he believes that mitt romney is out of touch with the foreign policy, but before the biden speech, the romney campaign set up with reporters to set up a prebutal before the b

reports from david martin and john miller. dr. jon lapook on a surprising new study about children and diabetes. and after serving years for crimes they didn't commit mark strassmann finds men helping others just like themselves. >> sometimes when i get up i still pinch myself to see if it's true or not. : captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. just when the obama administration was expecting progress in relations with china there's a new crisis. one of china's leading human rights dissidents escaped from house arrest and is believed to be with american diplomats in beijing. the timing is incredible. tonight the secretary of state and treasury secretary are leading a delegation of 200 americans on a long-planned trip to china to iron out foreign policy and economic issues. china is our second largest trading partner behind canada. now the separation is facing a dilemma: stand up for human rights or make progress on other issues that affect millions. we have reports fr

john avalon is here, contributor david fromm and jamal stevens are in washington. david, let me start with this basic premise. does romney need to walk back on those statements about immigration law or is this being misread? >> it's being misread. there are statements that romney will need to walk back but we have to be very careful about overinferring from organized latino groups say to the voting behavior of actual american latinos who are eligible to vote. for that group of people, the overwhelming issues are economic. american latinos tend to be somewhat poorer than average, they tend to be more likely without health insurance. they have been hit very hard by the collapse of the mortgage and housing industry. so their concerns are going to be about housing. their concerns are going to be about health care and not abandoning the uninsured. it is a big, big mistake and we did this during the bush years to think that you can have no economic agenda that's relevant to latinos and make it up to them by offering those latinos who are not eligible to vote permission t

. >> david and john both point to the kind of facts of the economy and also the campaign. but there is also the personality of mitt romney who we saw earlier today, having problems punching in the numbers on a cell phone. i mean, stop laughing. i'm addressing alex. i accept the fact that a man who has $250 million in assets probably doesn't to have make his own phone calls. but that's the kind of example that i guess resonates with ordinary people who think, this guy is so utterly out of touch. he cannot even make a phone call. >> absolutely, martin. especially when you look at the numbers on like long term unemployment. these are structural problems with the american economy. and i think that there has been, we've looked at the jobless numbers which are improving. the unemployment numbers are improving. when you talk about structural unemployment versus cyclical unemployment. the attention that needs to be paid to what is happening to american workers in this country. you want someone in the oval office who fundamentally understands the working man. and mitt romney seems

fourth, we will hear from david john, a fellow and financial institution adviser at the heritage foundation. he has testified on the improvement of security plans. and we welcome mr. randy hardock. he is a compliance specialist and maintains a practice focused on rising on retirement and savings. he is testifying on behalf of the american benefit council. thank you for your time today. we have received your written statements and they will be made part of the record. each of you will be recognized for your aural remarks. mr. vanderhei, we begin with you. >> members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today on tax accounts. i am a research director of the employee benefit research institute. we have conducted research for the past 34 years. ebri does not take policy positions or lobby. we have extensive research or the last 13 years as well as annual analysis on the behavior of tens of millions of participants from tens of thousands of plans dating back as far as 1996. measuring retirement income is an important and complex topic and ebri started to brightness i

david, john boehner saidpom -- boehner said the president was manufacturing a difference between republicanshis issue. the president has been out there putting a lot of pressure. what's going on? >> last week was student loan week. it's a deal where in 2007, a low heist interest student loan program and it's due to expire on july 1st. so it's kind of like the newp cut. breast rates for student loans will go up. president obama decided to make this a big issue and visited three college campuses last week. whipped up excitement telling people, tell congress to renew this program or your loan raids will go up republicans said they were more than happy to do that but they wanted offsetting budget cuts. it was a discussion about how to pay for the extension of the student loan program. sol boehner is basically saying we agree with him but we are just looking to do it a different way. >> as jay carney pointed out, they had voted for the ryan budget. >> right. >> which raises the interest rates back up to 6.8%. >> there was nothing on this that you could post and pass something. it was a point of d

>>host: talking to david snead chair of the department and author of "john f. kennedy: the new frontier president" nova publishers to come >> i was blackmailed changing test scores, harassed, that i turned in my instructor and day out did me. i was removed from my job to access computers working at the chaplain's office. secretary gates came out that third-party outings were not allowed that stopped against me. but i was so frustrated with "don't ask, don't tell" i helped to build the network where we could network together then collectively voice our concerns to the military and public. a lot of people were out serve members we just connected social media around the world we have 4700 members that are connected, and no longer a loan you can post but the two big reasons i agree is it is important to give the courage there are gay people in the military. i hope by putting out the stories of their people realize there are so many out there that are gay. it is okay. also i gave this book to someone on my base against "don't ask, don't tell." he was crying. i reall

. >> john: the ideas of this book took shape over the last 20 years. one person that helped was david bose of cato institute. how is my book? >> it's a great book, john. there are stories in there that people are fairly well read if they haven't been watching all your shows will find new. the chart that you have on osha and how workplace accidents were falling before we had the osha law and you can't tell any difference. >> look, osha saved all these workers. then a researcher looks a line before osha, slope of the line is about the same. >> so there is a lot of interesting facts and pieces of analysis in there like that. also your theme as sarah palin was just talking about intuition. our intuition leads us a as stray about thinking about economics and politics. >> john: big one is planning. it's intuitive that life is a plan. president obama is so smart all the people in d.c. seem to be so smart. they should plan for us. >> that is right there. is a general sense in our own lives we need to plan. you can't put together a tv show without a lot of planning. you can't put together the

we begin with the angry money, john heilemann and david cornish are here with both, both are msnbc political analysts. i was struck this morning by a small item, gentlemen, in the "washington examiner" which i try to read every day. it's a shopper with lots of interesting news. americans with prosperity, it's funded by david and charles koch. so let's watch what they're up to. these ads. >> $1.2 billion to a solar company that's building a plan the in mexico. $500 million to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in finland. and tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in china. president obama wasted $34 billion on risky investments. the result? failure. american taxpayers are paying to send their own jobs to foreign countries. tell president obama, american tax dollars should help american taxpayers. >> think progress. a progressive organization disputes the facts in this ad. among other complaints, it says two of the ads claims about jobs in mexico and finland are based on false stories by conservative bloggers. the koch brothers don't like any green industry, pe

reports from david martin and john miller. dr.out children and diabetes. and after serving years for crimes they didn't commit mark strassmann finds men helping others just like themselves. >> sometimes when i get up i still pinch myself to see if it's true or not. : captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. just when the obama administration was expecting progress in relations with china there's a new crisis. one of china's leading human rights dissidents escaped from house arrest and isbe

john f. kennedy: the new frontier president" is the name of the book. it's published by nova publishers, and professor david see, jafa history department at lynchburg university is the author. doctor steve, let's talk about the series of the books. >> this is a series that nova publishers started to about six years ago. i did contract before the. the idea was to get a series on the president's that the general reader, students at college or even advance high school students could turn to get basic information on the president of the united states. >> why are you writing about john kennedy? >> it started with my dissertation, which became a book. i focus on the eisenhower presidency, but crossed over to the kennedy years. so i got a taste of kennedy, the late 1990s, and so that's that might interest to find a little bit more about him. when this series came out and they need office, and asked me if i wanted to do the kennedy book, and i said sure. i do know a lot about him at this stage other than what i've read, but it would be any challenge, a good follow-up to what i done on ice now. and put more challeng

david eisenhower is the grandson of president dwight eisenhower, and his father john eisenhower is a prominent military historian. david is the author of the "new york times" best-seller "i "eisenhower at war" which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in history in 1986. he currently serves as the director of the institute for public service at the annenberg public policy center at the university of pennsylvania and he's the senior research fellow at the annenberg school for communication. david eisenhower has served on numerous not-for-profit boards and committees, including the advisory committee on presidential libraries. a graduate of amherst college, david eisenhower earned his law degree from the george washington university law school in 1976. our other special guest is david eisenhower's co-author, julie nixon eisenhower, who just happens to be david eisenhower's wife. she's also the second daughter of president richard nixon. julie is also a best selling author, editor and a recognized public speaker on such subjects as the presidency, women in politics and life in the whit

. >>> and john berman and david hunt, president of hunt auctions that is holding the ted williams auctioncredibly special, john. >> absolutely. david, that silver bat on the table here, how much is that worth? >> from $100,000 to $200,000. .388 he batted. when he was 39 years old in 1957. >> not just baseball items. i see some military logbooks here. >> you think of ted williams, great baseball player. great american, really. but served in two world wars. world war ii and the korean war. and these are the actual flight logs he kept, during the crash in the korean war. great pieces of history. >> and this auction, april 28th, at fenway park, the most important place on planet earth. robin? >> john berman is the biggest red sox fan, in case you hadn't noticed. i like the jersey behind you, too. all the best with this. >> thank you. it should be fun. >> how much is the bat again? >> it's probably $100,000 to $200,000. that probably won't be the best thing in the sale. >> robin is bidding on it. >> wow. >> john is betting on it. >> i'm always thinking about you, john. >>> coming up, don't tru

."" >> 31-year-old david johns from minneapolis, minnesota lost 201 pounds. arted using food to repress my emotions. living as a super obese teenager and young adult i was nearly a bystander to my own life. i never considered nutritional values. i would binge to the point of pain and then pass out from exhaustion. in 2009 at 420 pounds i could no longer breathe on my own while i slept and was outfitted with a sleep apnea machine. i suffered from high blood pressure, acid reflux and limited mobility. chairs, couches and toilet seats broke regularly under my weight. i scheduled myself for gastric bypass surgery but canceled just two days before. i realized i would gain the weight backfy didn't resolve my emotional issues. a friend introduced me to the take shape for life program and i made a commitment to follow the program for 30 days. at the beginning i needed a big goal so i decided sky diving would be my reward for losing enough weight to qualify. now, i have a completely fulfilling career as a health coach giving people the tools to be successful and i am f

state level, massachusetts actually adopts a constitution democratically in 1780 and david mccullough wants you to know john adams was the draftsperson there and new hampshire follows in 1784. but now on a continental scale and my claim is the world is never the same. it almost failed. the civil war, lincoln comes along and you heard about that. now, just so we're clear, hatch the world is democratic. very few democracies for the previous millennium in recorded history, we do this thing up and down the continent and we manage to actually survive an effort by one group to set aside by force of arms a proper election, the civil war. you can't have government by and for the people if the people lose a fair election fair and square, actually try to undo it by force of arms and try to shut down free speech which they tried to do. it is a crime to be anti-slavery in the deep south in the 1850s. it's a crime, a capital offense, to criticize slavery in the 1850s. abraham lincoln's name doesn't get put on the ballot south of virginia and he gets zero popular votes. not electoral but popular votes out of virginia. so

introduce, david gerleman, an adjunct professor of history at george mason university where he teaches courses on 19th century and military history. he earned his ph.d. under the direction of john weiss simon. his dissertation was on the care, treatment, and use of civil war cavalry horses. i would like to tell you a little bit about the work that david does with the papers of abraham lincoln. david and his fellow editors are doing an incredibly labor intensive but extraordinarily important job with the papers of abraham lincoln. . there are many editors working at the national archives going through millions of documents. every piece of paper that was generated by the federal government or sent to the federal government from the civil war years that is held at the national archives will be looked at by one of the editors of the papers of abraham lincoln. they are daily finding new insights about our nation's 16th president. this work is extraordinarily important and shedding new light on someone we thought we knew a lot about and we did and we are learning more about every day. david is a part of that project. that project has been a wonderful boon to historians like myself. t

. >> up next on liberty university, history professor david snead who would a biography of president john f. kennedy. this interview is just under 10 minutes.

you can tune in to "meet the press," and dick durbin of illinois and john casic joins david, and we have sound from david talking about job growth or the lack of job growth and how it will affect the economy. >> it's the defining issue. i think that as long as there is an uncertainty, which is contributing to why we are not seeing as many jobs created, it will be something the candidates seize on, both of them. and the president described it as the ups and downs in the economy, and what he is riding is the confidence game. >>> coming up on "meet the press," democratic dick durbin and john kasich of ohio will be talking about job reports and the upcoming primary. >>> financial decisions can be tough especially in the economy, and often kids are not aware of the costs associated with living day-to-day, and that's unless you are an eighth grader in fairfax county. >> when we get money, it's what can i buy next as far as clothes or video games or whatever. >> a typical eighth grader. get money, spend it. but what if you had a mortgage and car payment and family to feed? welcome to finance pa

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