Between the u. S. And iran fail over nuclear weapons. Overall, a busy week over earnings and yellens confirmation hearings later in the week. The markets potentially taking a breather after the dow hit a new high friday, both it and the s p closed down a fifth consecutive week of gains. Volatile after Irans Nuclear program stumbled. Amazon strikes deal with the u. S. Postal service to deliver some packages on sunday, while the chinese rival ali baba wraps up 3 billion in one day. Transocean has a proxy battle. Well talk about that. We begin with the dow coming off another record high t. Blue chips up 4. 5 , marking five consecutive weengs of gains. Following one of the papers today, the front of the journal arguing the Retail Investor is somehow back. Stocks regain broad appeal, mom and pop, are they finding the markets again . My favorite subhead on that is, if you go on the web, you will see, its bad. I love it. It says, they used cause for concern in the newspaper version, but in th
Crappy Health Care Plans because the gop made the loss of said crappy Health Care Plans a National Emergency doesnt exactly fit the description of longterm strategy. But these days all bets are off. The Washington Post reports this morning that the white house is increasing its reliance on insurers by accepting their technical help in efforts to repair the problem. The problem online insurance marketplace and prioritizing consumers ability to buy plans directly from the carriers. The administrations broader cooperation with insurers is a tacit acknowledgement that the federal Insurance Exchange might not be working smoothly by the target date of november 30th. Might not be working smoothly by the target date of november 30th would seem to be as terrifying a phrase for democrats as the phrase sarah palin has returned is for republicans. Speaking in iowa on saturday, Sarah Barracuda fired a warning shot to anyone seeking to challenge the tea partys power and the Republican Party. Some of
In how we can reduce the prison population without increasing the risk to our communities and also thoughts on how we can look out for the safety of our prison guard population. Where they themselves dont feel that they are captive by the prisoners. You bring up a compassionate situation. We welcome your insights. I think evidence shows that if you committed murder you are not likely to commit murder after 65 but if youre a sexual predator you could be out on that playground once again. We welcome your insights on how we can work constructively evidencebased conceptual thinking and your own experience because you bring the experience of a longitude from enforcement to sentencing and inspector general. We really appreciate your service but im going to ask the staff on both sides of the aisle because this has been raised by other members so this is not a party thing. This is a committee thing, to meet with our staff on how we can implement working with the attorney general of prison refo
Thank you, mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, almost two weeks ago, the administration announced gentleman another delay in approving the keystone x. L. Pipeline. I think they have it all wrong. Further delays in constructing this pipeline will mean well miss out on tens of thousands of jobs and continue to import oil from hostile countries. The pipeline will bring in thousands of barrels of oil a day from our neighbor, canada, that could replace the 900,000 we have to get every day from venezuela, a country we cannot count on. The pipeline will have no net negative environmental impacts. You can see why theres broad bipartisan support for the pipeline. The oil will be extracted, refined and used by someone, the only question is who will be who will get the jobs and who will be first in line t
Holding hearings on fixing a broken tax code and building a new system that works in todays Global Digital economy. On tuesday we are going to have a hearing on how to protect taxpayers from incompetent and fraudulent repairs. Now there are other issues like Identity Theft and taxpayers rights that we will have to examine. Senators nelson and harden have put a lot of time and effort into solving these challenges in this committee will need to take a hard look at the issues surrounding multiemployer Pension Plans in order to protect americans hardearned benefits. This bill takes a first step and i intend to work with my colleagues to do more. Today we have got to belmont shortterm needs with longterm goals in the bill before us today does that. Senator hatch and i agreed to start trimming, to start reconfiguring the overgrown extenders. After president reagan signed the 1986 Tax Reform Act into law there were only 14 provisions they carried expiration states so we have got a lot of heav