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Europe is down for the second consecutive day. Our road map begins with jcpenney, a pleasant october surprise as comp sales rise for the month. Trends look upbeat for the month and is giving the stock a big boost in the premarket. Deere jumps on quarterlies but lowes falls. And youre going to want to hear what yahoo Ceo Marissa Mayer had to say last night in San Francisco. Well have that for you. Shares of jcpenney up sharply despite a wider than expected quarterly lost. Mike ullman says penneys is encouraged by the open in november. Theyre talking 2 billion plus in liquidity, sequential increases in margins and comps. There was a whisper around they would lose 2. This is the agabeginning what i have would call the normalization of jcpenney. Theyre going to go back to being nothing, just another retailer. Theyll be like kohls. Well talk about jcpenney like kohls. Main thing is you want to buy pvh because they were the supplier that stuck with the previous guy. Notice i didnt call him c
Resuming debate we left off yesterday. Let me try and give a summary of what this is all about. This is all about getting our fiscal house in order. This is all about prioritizing hardworking taxpayer dollars. This is all about doing in our generation what we need to do to make sure the next generation has a secure future, a debtfree future. So thats why we are bringing a budget to the floor and thats why we are making those difficult decision, and thats why we are advocating for these important reforms. In much of the 20th century, a lot of programs were created. A lot of laudable goals were established. But now in the 21st century, i think we have learned a thing or two about how we can better accomplish and abelieve some of these goals such as Retirement Security. Because the way these programs were designed nearly a generation ago, they are now going into bankruptcy in this generation. And if we allow that to happen, then we will pull out from underneath those who depend on these p
Tong forward its important get the laws changed so we do not have a report that just sits on the shelf is we cannot afford to have this kind of tragedy. Be of our work will important. I turn back and thank the chair. Let me close by thanking the officers. You are true heroes to me and this committee. Thank you for my Watertown Police patch. I will wear this very pro next, the house debates the federal budget. Then this weeks Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Followed by a house hearing on the oneyear anniversary of the bombings. Athon the next on washington journal, a look at the differences between the budgets released by House Democrats and Budget Committee chairman paul ryan. Our guest is congressman john of kentucky, a member of the Budget Committee. Representative aaron schock of illinois, a member of of the ways and Means Committee, will theere to talk about prospects for tax reform in congress. Washington journal is live starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern,
Go huskies. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from maryland seek recognition . Ms. Edwards madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Ms. Edwards thank you. I acknowledge the simple fact that Women Deserve equal pay for equal work. Same job, same experience, same pay, but thats not happening. On the aggregate, women earn just 77 cents on the dollar. For africanamerican women, its only 64 cents, and for latinas, its a staggering 54 cents on the dollar for every dollar earned by white men, white nonhispanic men doing the same job. And as we know, the consequences are great. These pay gaps translate into a loss for africanamerican women of more than 18,000 a year. And for latinas, more than 24,000 a year that they lose to this pay gap. Families increasingly rely on womens wages to make ends meet. The pay gap is about our nations overall econ