Economic activity. And today, a rash of economic reports from jobless claims to personal income and spending gave us a look at just how fiscally fit americans are heading into the biggest shopping season of the year. Steve liesman breaks down the data. Reporter a torrent of Economic Data released early ahead of the holidays presented an economic puzzle. How can the same data both bring down the outlook for growth and consumer spending, and yet, keep economists upbeat about the holiday selling season . For the answer, you have to delve into the data and keep your rosecolored glasses handy. The bad news, consumer spending, Consumer Sentiment and new home sales came in below expectations. Some of the data included downward revisions to prior reports. So, consumers not as upbeat, and they arent spending a whole lot ahead of the Holiday Season. Ug. And all of that prompted wall street to lower their Growth Outlook for the Fourth Quarter from 0. 3 to 2 as updated in the rapid update. Ug agai
You can make comments on social media. Join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan or send an email to journal at cspan. Org. House narrowly passes bill to avoid shutdown. 1. 1 trillion in spending. Vote. 6 was the inside the New York Times story, the final vote was a blow to nancy pelosi. Elizabeth warned lead the dodd frank rollback. Led thebeth warren opposition to the dodd frank rollback. Postponing action on the spending bill until next year would not have been good for either party. Republicans were eager to get the package behind them so they can start 2015 with a fresh agenda. It Steve Scalise said the boat set the stage for the battle with the president over his immigration action. We want to hear from you this morning. What do you think the senate should do . What do you think of the house passed bill . Cq roll call, what is happening in the senate today . Now that there was the agreement that you just discussed and the house has mnibus the socalled cro spending bill, what w
This morning, we are asking you what you think about that 1 trillion budget spending plan. Give us a call. The numbers are on the screen. Also contact us through twitter, facebook, or email. If you havent had a chance to read that 1600 budget 1600 page budget, we will do our best to break it down for you over the next two hours ahead of the action on the house floor expected on that bill. Here is the front page of the Washington Times membersculation about of congress and what happens today and a few others with the spending bill. If you want to talk about what is specifically in that bill, turned to the front page of the Washington Post today with the graphic epics it down. That breaks it down. It does not include entitlements like Social Security or medicare. What it does include is defense spending and nondefense spending. Washington post highlighting some of that spending. And for more on that, we are joined by ed okeefe, the congressional reporter at Washington Post. Think you for
In Disaster Relief for those members of our fishing community, so many of whom have had their whole livelihoods taken away from them. And this Disaster Relief money is going to help them during these difficult times, help them to recover, to rebuild what i believe is one of the most critical economic sack ters still in new england. Its one of the oldest, certainly. Im also pleased that this bill reverses some of the reckless cuts from sequestration and instead it makes important investments in the friewrt of this country, in our education, infrastructure, in science and innovation, and yet it also makes strategic cuts. For example, one of my favorites in the bill is that it prohibits taxpayerfunded expenditures on Oil Paintings for public officials. This is an idea that senator coburn and i have been work on over the last year and i think its exactly the kind of Government Spending that we need to get rid of. It seppedz sends a message, a. Even though its not a lot of money, its symbol
Internet. They are places where more networks of the internet connects more than any whorls, and they are mostly in places you would expect, london, frankfurt, tokyo, and places like ashburn, virginia, an unincorporated suburb not far from dulles airport, where if you ask the Network Engineers that i talk about, they would say new york, los angeles, ashburn, as if it were a Global Capital and not a tiny suburb. There is a surprisingly short list of places that are the hot spots on the internet. Andrew blum looks for the internet in the real world monday night on the communicators on cspan2. Next, 10 years of the e government act, improving government access and productivity. This is just over one hour. All right, so why do we not just jump into this next panel . If ms. Panel was about the tenures, this panel is really about the next 10 years. What are the big challenges year, what are the things different now . From a technology perspective, this is pretty easy. I can tell you that if