Communications remained open. Both sides of the fiscal cliff negotiations are much closer than you may think despite what law makes say publicly. Jackie calms of the New York Times picked up on something that lawmaker tim cole said recently. The republicans should just declare victory and taking the 98 of the tax cuts that they agree on and work next year on tax reform and see if they cant get the top rate back down again. Its hard to think that thats not where theyre going to end up so why not make it clean instead of ugly. I think its true that many people are saying privatery what tom cole said publicly on the show. But they believe that the politically right thing to do right now is to cut that you are losses, let tax rates go up for the most wealthy and really try for significant tax reform so that 39. 6 is going to be mute. So the good news is that negotiations do continue, there was a meeting today between president obama and House Speaker john boehner. That happened at the whit
Outside crowds gathered all evening and in the morning and have been gathered four hours to mourn his passing, but to rejoice in a remarkable life. Scenes are incredible, people dancing and singing. They are paying tribute to him. They are doing the same in new york. A famed venue in harlem, and the marr key honours Nelson Mandela. Morgan radford is here in the studio. Talk about the life of Nelson Mandela, and what he means to so many people. Nelson mandela is a symbol of hope, freedom, a time in this world, and in our country and theirs when equality did not s did not reign free and is a symbol for Young Americans growing up understanding him in history books and i had the pleasure of meeting him when i lived in south africa. I understood why he captured the hearts of a generation and world. Theres the picture. Tell us about that picture and what happened. There it is, there i am with reverend jessie jackson. Hes taking the phone so the reverend can put his wife on the phone to give
Welcome. We get some insight into how the credit markets will perform with paulg to start lampert. Me now. With su, investors i know pulling perts fund lamperts fund. Anythingspinoff change for him . Theres a couple of things going on here. We can get to the money being pulled. Redemptions with submitted a year ago. Newshe spinoff very big today and impacts investors going forward. The funds main investment, has started to struggle as lands end remains here. , is the theme the spinoff is subject to approval by the board according to a filing today and would allow investors to not only share in more profit but separate a strong band, analysts say, from sears now struggling image. Of course, sears suffered 27 straight Quarterly Sales declines. Analysts say, again, its a good thing for investors and because end byds end has been weakened association with shares and could do better down the road. That is despite the fact that own struggle. Its its income has dropped some 63 hase 2008 and i
Relief going into the next holiday season. So hopefully well do something on the minimum wage. These are things i think we need to do coming back after the first of the year and i thank the gentleman for yielding me time and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the time of the gentleman has expired. The gentleman from wisconsin. Mr. Ryan first, id like to yield myself 30 seconds just to respond to my friend from south carolina, mr. Cry burn. I want him to know mr. Clyburn. I want him to know that the time spent, that was not time wasted. That was productive time, because the findings from those groups were used in this agreement. The work that they did on all of those policies were work that we borrowed from to put this together. I want him to know that was productive use of his time which helped in turn produce this result. Mr. Clyburn thank you very much. Youre vy kind. Youre very kind. Mr. Ryan i yield three minutes to our distinguished whip, mr. Mccarthy. The speaker pro tempore t
Decided to become an advocate for anyone, anywhere who was facing the kind of fear that comes with standing up for yourself and your fellow men and women. So we honor two great men by being here today, two men with uncomfortable souls. We also have just acknowledged other brave human rights activist who received this prize and who stand before us. Because each of them has also known what its like to come up against governments and powerful forces who are determined to squeeze the hope from your heart to imprison your mind, to break your spirit. Chung stood. To that kind of oppression. Escaped from it as tom escaped from the holocaust and ran towards freedom. Im very proud that the United States is a place he ran toward. That it was our country thanks to people like tom lantos who others who might see in this audience who held high the banner of human rights as not being something given to you but something you are endowed with. Paul, thank you because you stood your ground. You stood i