Up. Well come up with anything wont we . Its outrageous. Im not paying 51. That looks like a little huffington there. Its the other lady. Yeah. She used to go to buffets thing all the time. Oh i know who wrour talking about. Its outrageous. There you go. In the meantime lets tell you about other big stories to watch this morning. The nations auto makers will be reporting january sales. Theyll drive demand for pick ups and suvs in all of this. Also other major companies. And well be hearing this morning and disney and chipotle interactive. One report of note december factory orders will be released at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Here are some of todays stocks to watch. The wall street journal reports staples and office depot are in advanced talks to merge. No word on the proposed terms and activist investor starboard called for a deal last month. Utx, i dont know why we need two of them. Tint we lose the other one already . Office max . Whatever happened to office max . Theyre now part of
America and helps us set it aside in the Pacific Northwest as boeing and microsoft and those of us have graduate medical education and i hope the administration will treat it with the same regard as they do other initiatives that have been proposed, i think 16 billion in terms of the cuts are a bit over the top and i hope that you will have due consideration for the proposal that youre offering and to really set it aside to be the next few minutes to talk about the proposal as i had talked about. Let me talk about the tax credits and the bonds you have talked about, we have agreed very much that they have made a huge difference. And we are honestly considering new market tax credits, which is also a bipartisan administration, so we can do things together in a bipartisan basis to create real opportunity obviously the issues regarding this is always difficult in this includes proposals from past budgets were we have the savings in medicare and as always we look forward to working with co
Committees to come up with a replacement. Lawmakers voters 239186 on a measure to eliminate the complex web of subsidies, insurance reform taxes and regulations that extended Health Care Coverage to millions of americans. The article goes on the whitehouse threatened to veto the bill saying it would take away critical benefits and increase the deficit. Before the vote president obama met with ten people who benefited from the health care law. Here is what the president said why is it this is at the top of their agenda . Making sure folks who dont have health care are not able to get it . It was maybe plausible to be opposed the Affordable Care act before it was implemented but now it is being implemented and it is working. And people are being covered just as anticipated. The premiums on average are less than 100 when you take into account the tax credit. So it is affordable for the people it was designed to help. Health care inflation is at its lowest rate in 50 years. The overall tab
What happened is we rescued the School Systems. That is not an exaggeration. We did it. What ended up happening . Not totally because of that but now we have the highest Graduation Rate of over 80 for the First Time Ever and we have a dropout rate among blacks and hispanics that has dropped over 25 since you guys started running the show. Nobody knows that. It is like a tree falling in the forest. Anybody come up to you and say lately, thank you, you did a great job on the dropout rate . Thank you, you rescued my school . We upgraded our infrastructure. The largest public works project contained within a recovery act in history. Bigger than eisenhowers interstate highway program. 15,000 new projects, 42,000 miles of new roads, and 7700 bridges. 700 Drinking Water systems upgraded. I could go on and on. Providing broadband across america and in the process, we created hundreds of thousands of jobs just doing the project and it created a virtuous cycle. When youre building the bridge in
Here is mitt romney announcing his decision. Good morning. This is mitt. Let me let you know who was on the call. Theres a large number people who signed on to be leaders of our 2016 finance effort. In addition, state political leaders here for several of the primary states on the line. Here in new york city and on the phone are people who have been helping me think through how to build a new team, as well as supporters from the past who have all been kind enough to volunteer their time during the celebration stage. Welcome, and thank you. Your loyalty and friendship, and your desire to see the country with new conservative leadership does in fact warm my heart. After putting considerable thought into making another run for president , ive decided its best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to be our next nominee. Let me give you my thinking. First, im convinced that with the health of the people on this call, we could win the nomination. We would have enough funding to