Ukraine are unacceptable and will not be tolerated. At a minimum, i would suggest Congress Must refuse to recognize russian sovereignty over crimea by passing my legislation. I have imposed a number of sanctions which were added to other measures that i have introduced, and hopefully we will encourage this administration and our european allies to take a much tougher stance and providing much more of a penalty to russia over the actions that it has taken. I urge my colleagues to join me in this effort. And with that, i yield the floor noticing the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call quorum call a senator president madam president . The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Blunt can we suspend the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blunt i want to talk a little bit about the letters ive received and the emails and the calls about the Health Care Plan. The numbers signed up or whether the web
Search for flight 370. And crews continue the search after washingtons deadly mudslide. New jerseys governor Chris Christie is in full damage control again. After the report of the bridgeclosing scandal he held his first News Conference in two months. We were about an hour or so go, john, what did the governor have to say. Reporter it was a very different tone. He has not given a news christians like this since that twohour one when he went on and on and tried to clear up all the answers journalists were throwing at him. Later he was quite down. He was not the spirited governor he normally is. Today the spirit has returned. He was defiant and more bullying, i probably shouldnt use that word, but hes more like the christie that is his reputation. He said, i didnt know anything about this. He went on the review that is produced by his own allies, and he said that he particularly recommends and accepts the time has come to reform the Port Authority of new york and new jersey, and he accep
Alltime high. The number to watch, 1879. The dow p as much as 124 points earlier in the session, United Technology is helping drive those gains thanks to an upgrade from Goldman Sachs to buy from neutral. Goldman says the company is well positioned in what they call a strengthening commercial aerospace after market, and meanwhile downgrading boeing from neutral to buy saying that even small, positive surprises on new orders or new productions do seem unlikely. Adam new Company Debuts flooding the market. We want to head to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and check in with nicole petallides. Global force group withdrew its ipo. I thought it was, you know, ipo bonanza down there. It is. Thats right, global force actually withdrew. Theyre a cloudbased Employee Recognition software company. They cited market conditions, so they withdrew their plans for the ipo. Lets take a look, though, at some that really went forward if with it including the nyse Network Specialty lending up thr
This is real money. So tell us what is on your mind by tweeting us at ali velshi. We learned more about the effort of an u. S. Corporate giant to bid 100 million for an in great britain. It relates about april being the cruelest month, especially if you get stuck writing a check to the irs. Most of us do everything in our power to reduce our tax bills. Its no different for companies, and some of them in Corporate America are going to extraordinary lengths to cut their tax bills, and theyre doing it by quitting this country all together. The Worlds Largest drug company renewed its bid to buy out its british rival by doing so not only can pfizer become a bigger company, but theyll take up address in london. And because britain has lower corporate taxes than the United States, it could save pfizer a billion every year. Companies like chicata banana, walgreens are all exploring merger deals with foreign rivals that will allow them to take advantage of a lower tax rate. Britains tax rate ha
You cant ever forgive me, okay . Dont worry. Everything will be all right. It will work out in the end. On the day of her death, Michelle Okeefe, 18 years old, college freshman, was in a wonderful mood. Her Early Morning class was over. She had been offered another film gig in l. A. That very afternoon. A walkon role in a music video with kid rock. She aimed her parents gift, the shiny new blue mustang, through the streets of the Antelope Valley in los angeles. She had less than 12 hours to live. Her mother, pat okeefe, was just leaving the house. She was pulling up as i was driving out, coming back from a college class. So she waved and said hi with a big smile like she always does and i waved. She told me she was going to do a shoot that afternoon. That was the last time i saw her. It was february 22nd, 2000, a fine high desert morning, cool and clear. The fresh, clean start of a brandnew millennium. The storm was due that evening. She goes, im going down there. I said be careful. I