In troy michigan in houston texas. Syrian honorary consulates are no longer permit to perform consular functions and those who are not u. S. Citizens or lawful permanent residents must depart United States. I guess i wonder why didnt this happen nine months ago . Following the announcement of the Syrian Embassy in the Consular Services and in consideration of the atrocities perpetrated by the assad regime this step was taken. I think the suspension of Consular Services was the nearterm precipitating event. Ambassador mcfaul said today in response to putins speech that there should be, the president should enact more sanctions today and a new response should take place today. I think i said. There is a hint that more is coming. Morris coming and i dont have timing for you but work is being done to make further designations and obviously. Will continue to be on the individual . Im not going to itemize whats under consideration are what the decisions will be. The authorities of the execut
Ohio, he was a guy who would give you great advice and would work to get you an answer for the problem. So whether it was the Appropriations Committee or quite frankly the Transportation Committee where he served much of his career, was an area where he knew more about transportation and transportation issues, quite frankly than anybody in this town. He was a walking book on transportation issues. Pretty hard for a buckeye to talk about a university of michigan graduate this way, mr. Speaker, but its going to be a big void for this house for not just all five, but especially Steve Latourette who has really given his heart and his soul for 18 years try to make this body and our nation a better place for our kids and our our grandkids. It really didnt matter who you were or what you were about or if you had an r or a d by your name with respect to steve. If he believed in your cause, he was your partner, and he was going to do everything within his power to make sure that cause, that iss
Of our country. We have known that for years. When are we ever going to make those kind of decisions . We will have another opportunity later, when the debt ceiling issue arrives. When are we going to make this decision . That is our question. This whole discussion and admittedly, the president has some advantages, being one messenger. You would think this whole discussion was about nothing other than raising the top two has tax rates. Two tax rates. That has literally nothing to do with solving the problem. I have been waiting for the president to become serious about solving the problem. I do not know when he is going to become serious. It sounds to me like we are running out of time. We will take our cues from the speaker as to when they are able, if they are able, to reach some kind of agreement. The democrats have 50 or more votes. A great step in itself. What are the indications for republicans to approach for the debt to not be raised while spending is cut . , i can speak for ev
Saved kur consumers a lot of money. The other thing when we go to save rules or law in financial area to protect consumers were met with criticism its going to dry up access to credit. Nobody will lend if they have to protect consumers, like its a horrible, unmentionable, impossible to understand objective. In this case, what we were able to determine was that the access to credit issues were limited. To the extent there was constriction in access to credit parcelled out in the crisis which caused restrictions on access to credit, they were in terms of product lines utilized by consumers, theres still plenty of unused product line. It was cut back in that regard. Some intended by the act. There were a lot of concerns about College Students going off to college, leaving home, having credit cards actively marketed to them and getting into credit where they had no apparent income to repay. I remember when i was treasurer in ohio hearing a lot of heartburn about that. That was intended eff
The power ball but i never play it, you usually do. Dagen put it in the calendar. Connell lets go to Nicole Petallides at Stock Exchange to get started on markets now. Nicole good morning. We are watching the markets as you noted ahead of the fed and we are up 66 points at the moment, 1 2 mixed bag of winners and losers. The s and p is higher just like the dow down 1 4 and the nasdaq pulling back, coming off of two story weeks of gains for the dow but traders think the momentum remains to the upside and continues to note the fact we stomachs some tough Economic News like jobless claims and others that havent been so great and the market still managed to rise higher so there is good news that could propel us to the upside. That being said we had a couple pieces of news from abroad including u. K. Unemployment rate, and expected the edged higher and we have a big merger deal today in the jewelry business. A lot of pieces of news on wall street today. Connell Congressional Budget Office o