News. Today in mason city, republican president ial candidate ted cruz responded to the arrest of two refugees on terrorist charges. Police arrested one in houston, texas, and the other in sacramento, california, on charges of supporting isis. Cruz is using this as a way to support his view that the us should not accept refugees from syria. Both came in through the vetting programs that president obama tells us are perfectly effective for vetting terrorists. Cruz used to be a long time supporter of expanding legal immigration. But he now says there should be a temporary halt on legal immigration. Johnson county needs poll workers for a january 19th special election. County auditor Travis Weipert says because of the unusual date and the short notice, the usual workers are not available. Poll workers get 200 dollars for the entire day. The special election will fill a Johnson County board of supervisors. We had d foggy, drizzly day outside today. Will this continue into the weekend . Col
It is, why isnt the sec requiring public Issuer Companies to disclose this information . Do you have any plans to engage in a rulemaking on this issue any time soon . As you know, we have two petition actually still pending before the sec to require such disclosure. If, in fact, in a particular company the political spending is material under the law, under the law that would be required to be disclosed. The petition is broader than that. Tibl senator and others are aware were focused on our mandated rulemakings under the doddfrank act. I do note a number of companies have voluntarily made those disclosures and that subject can also be and often is the subject of a proxy proposal. Well, i appreciate where you say your focus is. But when 1 million i think its very rare that you get 1 million Public Comments in support of a proposal. And even if you look at Justice Kennedys majority opinion in Citizens United airlines which opened the floodgates for corporate election spending and presum
Players who become doctors and there are lots of people who go on to law school who were gymnasts. These are decisions that the student had to make. Its not easy. Its difficult, again from it gets into the whole issue of time commitment, and if its a tough balancing act, but whether or not the degree to which athletes are supported in their academic choices again gets into, its a school by School Situation but some athletes experience proved to be really fulfilling. Others not so much. There some question whether call it was talk about, those experiences are out there and theyre real and those things happen. Theyre not just happen in football and mens basketball. They happen in gymnastics, swimming track athletes come it happens across the board. Host mike from pennsylvania. The morning, go ahead. Caller okay. Earlier you had a call from another penn state alumni and abroad of the fairness issue of what happened to penn state. You didnt seem to have an opinion about the fairness issue,
The states that so is situate it says any group that doesnt get the benefit, a group that is nonpregnant, then pregnant people are any group at all . If you have a policy, im not sure what one would look like that singled out pregnant employees plus one other employee, my guess is what category of employs . A policy that is at issue here distinguishes on the job versus off the job injuries. Thats a distinction that is echoed in state and federal law. Thats a far cry from the policy that singles out pregnant women. Singling out is in the first or targeting or otherwise primarily disadvantaging. That distinction tracks what workers comp requires, which is payment for employees were injured on the job, and many employers, including the u. S. Postal service have found it advantageous to provide lightduty accommodations to their employees can be at work while they are rehabilitating and provide some Productive Work for the company. That distinction is as legitimate as you could get. I see m
I er the last four years, have done enough back and forth, ttweeted both parties equal further, that people will now come to grudgingly say, okay, you are someone we can do business with. The Senate Majority pac, which affiliated with harry reid, they stopped answering my questions midway through the Campaign Season because they felt they were not getting a fair shake for me. Pm sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. On the cspan , networks. Here are some of our future programs. 10 00 am eastern, the washington ideas form. Energy conservation. K club owner, warren brown. An inventor, dean kamen. 4 oclock eastern, the Brooklyn Historical Society Holds a conversation on race. And apollo 7 astronaut, walt cunningham, on the first manned spaceflight. New years day on cspan2, author hector tobar on the 33 men who were buried in a chilean mine. And Richard Norton smith on the life of rockefeller. And Cheryl Atkinson, on her on the nces reporting obama administration. New yea