Minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from florida is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Brown thank you mr. Speaker. Here we go again passing another extension and failing in our duties to provide a world class Transportation System. Transportation program is much too critical to our economy to be delayed any longer. Unfortunately, the Republican Leadership in washington continues its long running failure to fund Surface Transportation Infrastructure programs. Just last week House Republicans passed a bill cutting taxes by 269 billion for the richest 1 of americans with no offset but failed to pass a real transportation authorization bill that put america to work. We know for every billion dollars we invest in transportation it generates 44,000 permanent jobs. In closing second anthony foxx said all of us have a role to play in shaping our secretary anthony foxx said all of us have a role to play in in shaping our nations infrastructure. As we saw last week during the tragic Tr
Lets give you a look at the futures in a moment. Were coming off a bad day for the broader markets. As you can see we do look poised for a higher open. Crude oil, wheres that hanging around . Yeah, right around that actually down a bit. 57. 74. Dont have the dollar for you. Thats figuring prominently again. Certainly against the japanese yen. Lets get to the road map. It starts with a Luxury Retail lift. Tiffany shares a higher market. Michael kors man, that is ugly. Posting its slowest sales growth in more than three years. See that stock. Amazon hiring 6,000 full time workers for its distribution centers. Thats a lot of jobs. First lets get to carl. Hes at the code conference in los angeles. Hell take it away. Carl. Yeah there it is david. You might be familiar. What an amazing view we have here as the hashtag goes today. Were at the resort going to be here for the next couple of days. This is the technology. Apple, twitter, go pro, google. Target, cvs, gm sprint and vox announced it
Congressman to threaten a reporter and why the lawmaker is standing by his action. And breaking his silence. The nfl player who says he was bullied, Jonathan Martin tells his story publicly for the first time in an exclusive interview. Comments of a raceful nature, aggressive, sexual comments were related to my sister and my mother. Will he ever play in the nfl again . Today, wednesday, january 29th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside carson daly and Natalie Morales. Weve got al roker in washington, d. C. This morning. Matts got the morning off, and boy, do we have a weather story. The news is the weather, and especially down south, the storm is so devastating. They dont have enough salt or plows to deal with this weather. Theyre not used to it like we are up north. Things are so bad, a number of School Distri
Support for Economic Growth and job creation. The u. S. Economy continues to be hampered by the lingering effects of the financial crisis on its productive potential and by a number of headwinds that hindered cyclical adjustment of the economy. The Federal Reserve is doing its part by providing accommodative Monetary Policy to promote a Stronger Economic recovery in the context of price stability. As i said before, while Monetary Policy can help to support economic recovery, it is by no means a panacea for our economic ills. Uncertainties about the situation in europe and the prospects for federal fiscal policy seemed to be weighing on the spending decisions of households and businesses as well as on financial conditions. Such uncertainties will only be increased by a delay. In contrast, cooperation and creativity to deliver fiscal clarity, in particular a plan for resolving the nations longerterm budgetary issues without harming the recovery, could help make the new year a very good o
Tree] first Lady Michelle obama, her daughters and their dog came out to watch the arrival. President obama was not on hand. He took advantage of the nice weather to play his first round of golf in several months. Happy thanksgiving, everybody. I think we will take it. It is a go. It is good. We can have christmas now. Well done. How does it look . It is gorgeous. It is perfect. We are going to take it. You all take care. Here is some of what we have coming up for you today here on cspan. Nobel laureate and burmese Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi excess the congressional gold medal, followed by another congressional Gold Medal Ceremony with professional golfer Arnold Palmer. Later, africanamerican photographers talk about the integrity of photojournalism. Watch the history of the president ial appointment process at George Mason University tonight at 9 00 eastern here on cspan. I can remember Barack Obamas speech in 2004. The Democratic National convention, this dazzling speech that