The work opportunity tax credit expired. Why not extend that, not only to those groups who qualify now but also to people who have been unemployed for a long time, to encourage employers to take a advance on them, to bring them into the back into the work force where they want to be. We could also include other provisions. For example, i have a bipartisan bill with senator donnelly and senator manchin and members on my side of the aisle that would fix the definition of fulltime work under obamacare so that it would be 40 hours a week and not 30 hours a week. We would go back to the standard definition of 40 hours a week. There are tax incentives having to do with bonus depreciation and Small Business expensing that would encourage Small Businesses to make the investments so that they can hire more employees. Madam president , we ought to have a full debate on all of these options, not just stop with one vote on whether or not to proceed to one bill to raise the minimum wage to 10. 10 w
The United States. Three lines to chime in. If you support it, tell us why 53880. If you oppose it, 2025853881. If you are not sure. 2025853882. cspanwj. R is you can reach out to us on facebook. Our email is journal cspan. Org. The New York Times writes about the statements made yesterday at the white house. President obama is asking for the review of the Death Penalty. The story goes on to read your thoughts on the death as a result of this call for a view by president obama. Three lines for you to choose this morning. President obama made these comments yesterday during that joint appearance with angela merkel, the german chancellor prieto here are hits german chancellor. Are his thoughts. [video clip] the individual that was subject to the Death Penalty committed heinous crimes. I said in the past there are certain circumstances in which a that theso terrible application of the Death Penalty may be appropriate. Mass killings, the killing of but i have also said that in the applicat
Attorney would waive lien privilege, which is something that corporations had ahind often, and a judge in scathing ruling said that the prosecutors had violated the constitution, violated the Constitutional Rights of these defendants, and that also led to this rolling back of these prosecutorial powers and techniques, which has led them to really be rendered unable to to investigate people at the higher echelon of corporate america. Host this is peter on our republican line. Caller mr. Eisinger, no comment, this was a failure of government basically. I would like to give context to the situation. In the late 1970s during the carter administration, they develop the Community Reinvestment act, which made fannie and freddie about three percent of their purchases of the prime mortgages. In 1995, there was a lot of pressure on the Clinton Administration to increase the amount of mortgages that were given to poor and minority people, so clinton developed these publicwrite it harder ships, wh
Commuters, but the earnings may be tough this morning. Futures as you can see are mixed as have the averages been over the past several days. The tenyear note a touch higher than it was at this time yesterday. And as for europe some mild weakness in the uk and in spain. Our roadmap this morning goes, well start with coach. Shares of the luxury goods maker down big in the premarket after samestore sales in north america plunges 13 year on year. And ibm is not looking too good. Down on earnings. The tech giant reporting revenue below estimates for the Fourth Quarter in a row and due to weakening demand in part in emerging markets. A lot of people facing a nasty commute after a massive winter storm dumped over a foot of snow across the northeast. Left temperatures hovering near zero. Well go live on the ground to see just how bad things are in a moment. But first up, coach reporting weakerthanexpected fiscal Third Quarter results and comps down 13. 6, and it said its been hurt by substant
Fiveday losing streak yesterday. A lot more fed speak on the way today. Europe got some strong confidence numbers in both the u. K. And in italy, although that italian 10year ticking up yet again this morning. Our road map begins with jcpenney. A potential payout to top execs coming in much bigger than expected. 80 million should a sale to a buyout group be completed. And nike share higher premarket after its Quarterly Results outpace expectations. And on this day in 1993, david faber first clicked on his mick cr microphone on cnbc and the rest is history. I wondered if that was coming. Did you know it was coming . I thought maybe because they sent me a little pin. Did you know that was what happened at ten 20. Oh, 20 thats a fifth of a century. Thanks for reminding me. Jcpenney is offering 84 million shares at 9. 65 apiece. Of course this offering itself someone unexpected given what been a believe that it did not need to raise equity or need to raise any liquidity. Ceo mike ullman co