Coming up tonight, the Senate Rules Committee heres from John Paul Stevens and then senate obama remarks on the minimum wage bill and then we bring you the debate on the minimum wage bill. Wednesday the Senate Rules Committee held its first hearing on Campaign Finance in response to the Supreme Courts ruling strike down limits on individual political contributions. John paul stevens joined current and federal Election Commissioner representatives at this twohour hearing. I am deeply worried about the future of our democracy. For over a hundred years we have struggled with the issue of money and politics always looking for the balance between freedom of political expression and the corrosive influence of unchecked money to Public Officials. We have had scandals and corrections. We have had new laws and new ways to abade those laws. But we have never seen what is happening today. Court poins, clever political up operatives have created a new Political Landscape where candidates are compe
This is real money. This is the most important part of the show. Tweet me ali velshi or on facebook. Com ali velshi. It has been a week of escalating tensions between ukraine and russia, but it took a sunday down grade to break the back of already jittery world markets. A global down turn in stocks crossed the atlantic and hit the dow and s p 500. The nasdaq took a bigger hit, 1. 75 . Investors may have reacted badly to the lowered russian bond rating that is now one notch above junk status. Visas stock fell 5 . Still Standard Poors decision to down grade russias Credit Rating hit like a bolt of lightening. The s p with a record flight out of russia. 51 billion since the beginning of this year. This is just one more blow to russias economy way was already showing signs of stress before it decided to intervene in ukraine. The russian rubel has lost 8 against the dollar and the Russian Central Bank raised its key lending to 7. 5 . President obama is drumming up support among his european
This is real money. This is the most important part of the show. Tweet me ali velshi or on facebook. Com ali velshi. It has been a week of escalating tensions between ukraine and russia, but it took a sunday down grade to break the back of already jittery world markets. A global down turn in stocks crossed the atlantic and hit the dow and s p 500. The nasdaq took a bigger hit, 1. 75 . Investors may have reacted badly to the lowered russian bond rating that is now one notch above junk status. Visas stock fell 5 . Still Standard Poors decision to down grade russias Credit Rating hit like a bolt of lightening. The s p with a record flight out of russia. 51 billion since the beginning of this year. This is just one more blow to russias economy way was already showing signs of stress before it decided to intervene in ukraine. The russian rubel has lost 8 against the dollar and the Russian Central Bank raised its key lending to 7. 5 . President obama is drumming up support among his european
This is real money. This is the most important part of the show. Tweet me ali velshi or on facebook. Com ali velshi. It has been a week of escalating tensions between ukraine and russia, but it took a sunday down grade to break the back of already jittery world markets. A global down turn in stocks crossed the atlantic and hit the dow and s p 500. The nasdaq took a bigger hit, 1. 75 . Investors may have reacted badly to the lowered russian bond rating that is now one notch above junk status. Visas stock fell 5 . Still Standard Poors decision to down grade russias Credit Rating hit like a bolt of lightening. The s p with a record flight out of russia. 51 billion since the beginning of this year. This is just one more blow to russias economy way was already showing signs of stress before it decided to intervene in ukraine. The russian rubel has lost 8 against the dollar and the Russian Central Bank raised its key lending to 7. 5 . President obama is drumming up support among his european
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