stephen ohlemacher of associated press has been covering this issue. wanted to give folks who tune in early a chance to weigh in on the conversation. will joinn ohlemacher us and we will continue the conversation that. -- conversation then. caller: thank you. host: here we go to anthony in new jersey. caller: thank you for taking my call. i feel that you do a very balanced job on the news. caller hasthat the not changed is because of the .roduct mix some of the products have more weight than others. the government may take into account that flat screens dropped 10%. one flatmore than screen per month? in.t: to texas, curv independent line? hello there? one more time. caller: can you hear me? host: yes, we can. go ahead. hoping thet i'm people of the united states are what they're telling m, the republican party, is they will cut social security out. they are doing what they say they will do. i believe, if we get a republican president, the congress, and the house, there will not be no more social security. they are constantly telling people they will d

host: stephen ola marker ohlemacher -- -- stephen ohlemacher, reaction.he 30she is right, is highest years of your wages that it is based on. that could include a lot of lower years were you did not make as much money. they inflate those wages from early in your career to today's dollars, but yes, it does take into account early in your career where you might not have made as much money. host: a couple of comments on twitter. social security, we like to refer to it as a retirement program and i often do. really, what it is is a social insurance policy. if you think about when social instituted, first president roosevelt signed the social security act in 1935 and started paying benefits in 1939. there were a lot of families in which the wife did not work. i should nothing to do not work. they did not have a job, but they worked at home and raised a family and took care of the house and that has value. that was big part of to recognize the fact that just because you were not outside the were earning wages, you still doing something very important and necess

transpacific partnership with former agriculture secretary dan .lickman later, reporter stephen all -- stephen ohlemachercribes how social security recipients might be affected without a cost of living increase in benefits. ♪ host: congress gets back to work this week. back from the columbus day break. president obama in washington at the white house meeting with c ceos talking about climate change. monday, october 19. welcome to "washington journal." we begin with the news that social security beneficiaries would not be getting a cost-of-living increase in 2016 due to the low inflation rate people we hear from your experiences. for

glickman, and associated press reporter stephen ola ohlemacher. washington journal live at 7:00 on c-span. presidential candidate hillary clinton spoke on friday and spoke about a range of issues including energy policy, student debt, lgbt writes and the heroine impacting the state. in her plan to organize an alternative group to the national rifle association. this is about 1.5 hours. [applause] i think we can all go home now. wow. thank you. i know, as you said, this was not easy to do. ank you. i want more people to hear stories like that. so that this is not just some political debate about something happening far way. but people can really begin to think about standing in the shoes of those who have been victims of gun violence. and trying to understand what e can all do together. clay survived that brutal, hateful attack in her own home. 90 people a day don't survive because of guns. 33,000 people a year die, by homicide, by suicide, or by ccidents, using firearms. i think we are better than that, as a nation. i think we can do something bou