For all that each of you continues to do. [ applause ] the House Rules Committee is coming together tonight to meet to consider two bills. One to restrict the Environmental Protection agency from attempting to define which waters that regulate under the clean water act, and the second bill would condemn president obama for not giving congress advance notice of the prisoner swap to release Bowe Bergdahl back in may. Pete sessions is the chair of this committee. Youre watching live coverage here on the cspan3. Wu8lyc the rules committee coming together tonight, 5 00 eastern time, to work on rules for debate for two bills. The house back today after a fiveweek summer recess. Theyre working on a number of suspension bills earlier, debating those earlier, including one dealing with higher penalties for i. D. Theft and a memorial vote for slaves and freed blacks who fought in the revolutionary war, as well as a bill for tsunami detection programs. Votes over in the house are scheduled to be
It is always the most innate conversations. Most people leave really uninteresting lives. Connell may be texting, some kind of compromise. Dagen we have another triple digit loss on our hands against economic numbers pushing the numbers lower. The callower. Nicole petallides at the Dow Jones Industrial pit nicole s p 5001779, losing two tenths of a percent. The nasdaq almost 4010. That hasnt up arrow. Tech heavy nasdaq looking better today. The stocks seemed mixed. Transports are higher. Oil services are looking good, the drug stocks are pulling back, so seems like a mixed bag today. Still pressure on this market. The fed Economic News today was mixed. Jobless claims and retail sales showing some strength. Lets take a look at facebook, facebook going into the s p 500 closing trading on december 20. We will see some names coming out including paradigm on the 500 on the 100, the williams company. Back to you. Dagen thank you so much. Connell a new poll suggesting americas interest in con
Well find out if thats likely to change anything. And the future of motoring arrives in a driverless car, making it a practical alternative sooner than you think. That and much more on cbs this morning saturday, october 5th, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We also have some great guests for you this morning, including the godfather of southern cooking, frank stit who shows us why his name is synonymous with the food we love. And in the morning cuff cafe two sisters who sing like angels lillian and madelyn in their debut. A new cbs news poll shows 73 of americans Want Congress to get government running again. So how do things stand this morning . Jeff pegues has the latest from capitol hill. Jeff, good morning. Reporter good morning, anthony. House, Senate Leaders have not budged from their positions and theres no sign theres going to be any sort of significant progress today. With the senate unable to function democrats and republicans lashed out at each othe
I think the big story of the night is going to be marco rubios response. I thought that was the best response to a state of the Union Address that id ever seen. It was a confident and assertive speech and today the president has taken his second term agenda out on the road and to the people. His visit to an auto manufacturing plant in North Carolina is part of a larger strategy to get out of washington and go directly to the voters with a clear message. We cant just cut our way to prosperity. I believe we reward effort and determination with wages that allow working families to raise their kids and get ahead. This followed a reelected and reinvigorated president last night. Pressing home his strong belief that we can fix this. Raise the federal minimum wage to 9 an hour. To make highquality preschool available to every single child in america. Im announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs. A new College Score card that parents and students can use. I propose we use
Thank you. It is great to see all of you. Many of you are old friends. It is nice to come back. It feels like the homecoming. We have a great panel and a huge subject. How to know where to begin . This is about the first ladies as influence makers. That is the term that is itself subject to perhaps misunderstanding on multiple definitions. You have written among other about the book explicitly first ladies of the 20th century, which presume there is someone Something Different about them. Influence . Ou define it is a vault. It has evolved. We saw the influence begin as one that was ceremonial and focus, and since the beginning of the 20th century, and since 1960, we have seen the president ial spouse assuming more influence. It goes way beyond hello talk. Lady bird used to say that the first lady was the only one who could tell the president to shut up. And then, not be fired. That influence has taken various forms. Sometimes, the concerns of the first lady become the concerns of the