Stop me with the next mystery guest area and here is carol massar. Thank you. Icahnnd a price, enterprise is planning a Debt Offering of 2. 5 billion. Deal they will sell threeyear notes. Ews, quarterly revenue was 127 . 6 million nations largest chain of drivein restaurants. Canceled 300 flights today. Initially the announced it will be cutting operations to jfk, laguardia, and newark. Flights are expected to resume on january 7. Back to you. Thank you. The u. S. Senate and session today coming back from their recess. They are on capitol hill. One of the first items on the agenda is the nomination of janet yellen to be the head of the Federal Reserve. We expect that vote to begin within the hour. Phil mattingly joins us from the homeon, d c washington from washington, d. C. They change the boat threshold for nominees. There is something cute to watch when they have this vote later on this hour. How many people vote against janet yellen. Record when set a 30 senators voted against him.
But its a mostly positive picture in europe and the roadmap today starts with what else but the markets set to open higher yet again after comments from russian president Vladimir Putin but with the fed meeting kicking off today will stocks go back to trading on news from this country. After a long wait one of microsofts flagship programs is coming to your i pad, well tell you which one in just a moment. And theres a new player joining the used video game market and its the biggest retailer in this country. Find out if used games will boost walmarts stock a little later on this hour. Wow, we got a big day, jim, and most of the news today, the news flow, is coming out of russia. Yes. Putin is responsible for the futures being higher. Well, obviously took a big position at the close. Do you think that do you think facetious and here comes another facetious comment. I saw you said that norway and ireland are down. Dublin and oslo worried about putin coming in there. I love the idea that s
Shovelready project. If there were would would have done it. I if we had invested more in modernizing our infrastructure, it wouldnt some of it might still be spending out but thats fine. Maybe we might have been a little bit could have spent a little more. Could have spent more and im not so sure we were all right that it all had to be timely. This was going to be a long slog, and we did need the longer run investment. I think this debate has gone on for a long time but the fact that so many people placed so much of the emphasis on the recovery, and the single bill actually revealed the flaw. Growth is not a bill. Greg greg is a commitment to the kinds of incentives that get people to invest, to hire people and to want to spend money. Its not a bill. If we look at the economy today, the striking feature has always been that the business sector had the financial wherewithal to spend more and just didnt. Think harder about better incentives, including doing things we need to do, like ge
Isnt being regulated in common carrier starting in the 70s under democrat and republican controlled fcc. They operated different than phone records. And it was under the chairman in the second clinton term where the pass was made to insulate the internet from common carriage. And so those types of communications were never regulated and didnt grow up from title two. They have always been out of title twos reach. That is what helped grow the internet we have today. And wireless broadband has been growing because it hasnt been burdened by the control style regulations. Host last word. Guest i think it is very clear what we are talking about is a telecommunications or transmission service. If we are going to protect in r Internet Users the only viable way is through broadband reclassification and that is what the fcc should move to do. Host craig aaron, do you agree with Robert Mcdowell that it is time to rewrite the Telecommunications Laws in the country . Guest i think we should go back
Tonight on the communicators at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. President obama recently said his proposed 2015 federal budget to congress for review. In light of its release and the debates that followed, booktv presents portions of author talks on the federal budget process. In the next hour use eclipse with philip joyce, author of the Congressional Budget Office. David wessel, author of red ink inside the highstakes politics of the federal budget, and oklahoma senator tom coburn, author of the debt bomb and breach of trust. We begin with philip joyce author of the Congressional Budget Office honest numbers, power, and policymaking. The former cbo analyst and current professor of management, finance and leadership at the university of maryland recounts the formation of the Congressional Budget Office in 1974. Its internal operation and the nonpartisan economic and budget information it provides to congress. When was the cbo form . It was formed in 1974. It was, in fact, a reaction to some