Defund the health care bill. Among our newsmakers on the topic this morning, we have former oh bam in omb director peter or zaszag. Then coming up at 8 30 eastern, we have former vice chair alice rivlin. And aei senior fellow Kevin Hassette. And in other washington news, the federal Housing Administration will likely soon take a cash infusion from the treasury. The agency needs help to cover losses from souring loans. Jcpenney looking to raise as much as 750,000 to 1 billion to build up its cash reserves. The retailer is leaning towards issuing new shares. But other methods of raising capital are erroredly on the table. Goldman sachs says it expects the retailers to move more slowly. Anyway, another hard hit stock this year, blackberry, we talked bit almost every morning. Fairfax financial says it is confident it can find the money to fund its 4. 7 billion for the smartphonemaker. But shares did fall yesterday on doubts about that bid. Meantime, tmobile, i dont know, becky, announcing
I believe i firmly believe that each one of us in this chamber much opposed this session with a courtcutting principle. Until every person in our state who wants a job can find one, we have more work to do. [applause] we cannot stick our heads in the sand or simply hope for the best, not one other states are actively recruiting jobs from every corner of the globe. Jobs that can and should come to connecticut. We must compete for every single job. With that mind set, we began to tackle the challenges of Economic Development in an holistic way in our state. Our first five programs, along with the addition of jackson laboratories, has leveraged a 180 million commitment public funding to drive more than 2 billion in private investment. That same program it possible for connecticut to bring two fortune 500 companies to our state. The last time we talked about two fortune 51 companies was in 2006, and that was because they were leaving. In main streets across connecticut, the Small Business
Mr. President , mr. Speaker, senator mckinney, representative cafero, lt. Governor wyman and my fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly, honored members of the judiciary, members of the clergy, and all the citizens of our great state who are watching or listening today thank you for the honor of inviting me into the peoples house to address you. Id like to offer my sincere congratulations to the newly elected leadership of the democratic and republican caucuses in each chamber, and especially to speaker sharkey and majority leader aresimowicz as they take on their new roles. Congratulations as well to the new members of the General Assembly who were sworn in earlier today. I look forward to working with you in the months and years ahead. As we gather in this historic chamber, let us always keep in our thoughts the brave men and women of the great state of connecticut serving in our armed forces around the globe. We thank them and our veterans for their serv
Ii with randy roberts. Tonight at 8 00 and 10 00 eastern on cspan3. Next, andrew cuomo in his annual state of the state address. He spoke from albany for about an hour and 15 minutes. And thank you. Thank you very much. Happy new year, new york. First, let me acknowledge and thank the greatest part or a governor could ever have, lt. Governor bob duffy partner a governor could ever have, lt. Governor bob duffy. The question about, can one person make a difference, he has made a tremendous difference all across the state. Lets give him another round of applause. [applause] to the elected and legislative to have been introducede before [applause] attorney general eric schneiderman, thank you for being here. Senators, pleasure to be with you. I want to thank them for their leadership. The legislative accomplishments to really turn this state around. They were difficult and challenging because it went to the real heart of the issues. At this time i would ask the assembly and senate to stand
And debit card. The senate before the Senate Judiciary committee is two hours. Good morning, this hearing will come to order. American consumers today are rightly worried about inflation and rising prices for the goods they buy. Today we are going to talk about a hidden fee that fuels the fires of inflation across america every day. What they may not know is this wifi is contributing to the problem of inflation. When swipe fees on credit and debit card to go up, as they just recently did, it increases inflation. Consumers ultimately pay the price. Ironically, this journey for me started in this very room 16 years ago. Arland specter was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. He called a key meeting on swipe fees and interchange fees. I intended because i was not familiar with those terms. I heard for the first time wettest life we was. The fact that i use my debit card and credit card a swipe fee was being charged to the retailer that i was ultimately paying. And then i learne