The housetol hill gavel out just before 11 00 this morning after debating two noncontroversial bills. They are now in recess. A couple of tweets to pass on. How longsman was asked congress is expected to be in he said late. Also, at 2 00 therell be strategy. If there are remarks afterward, we will have them for you. We will likely hear the agenda for the senate for the day after they have cap old then. Senators will offer general speeches until 5 00 when harry reid will be recognized. Today, the White House Briefing with jay carney where we expect or remarks and questions about a Government Shutdown. Supposed to start at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. We will have it live. House republicans held a News Conference on the steps of the capitol. Included kathy rogers, who spoke first. Ok. Good sunday afternoon. With me are several of my colleagues from the house. We were here almost midnight last night taking action. After midnight. Taking action where the house would stay open the senate doors are l
Here are the numbers to call you can also find us online. Send us a tweet. Or join the conversation on facebook. You can also email us. The Washington Times has this headline and in the Washington Post we would like to hear what you think about this bill. We will be digging into it more, going over some of the details. If to give us some perspective is pete, a staff writer with the the hill newspaper. Thanks for being with us. Guest hi. Host they talk about the House Republicans balked at first. What was the Sticking Point . Guest you used to just have to keep taxes low. But with the debt creeping up more and more, it is increasingly coming to play in our republicans think. When they first look at the deal yesterday the senate passed, theyre looking at it when the cbo scores came out and the source said this is a bunch of new debt because we are letting people off the hook on texas and a little bit of spending cuts and that is not what they wanted and it is not the balance to deal they
Tonight your show your money. Your voice. And your skyrocketing energy costs. Despite the energy boom feeling the country in record cold temperatures causing Natural Gas Prices to soar. Fox business contributor for the Price Futures Group joins me now with the answers to our questions. The Energy Information administration put out a rare Energy Market to alert me. They say in new england we will have problems getting be energy to you. Natural gas has a hard time are you kidding me . The stiefel nursing and the largest supply in the country with the shale formation. What gives . They were slow to move to natural gas. The northeast has traditionally heated homes with heating oil. We dont have the infrastructure in place to take a vantage of the cheap prices. The demand for natural gas as people say this is the fuel of the future coming demand has gone up faster than the capacity. Gerri the industry is behind their not cashing in on the opportunity. With the production is expected to incr
So, ladies and gentlemen, and congressman, thank you very much for that conversation. Heres how were going to proceed for the remainder of our our. We will engage in a short and brief conversation up here. Ive a couple of questions im going to pick up on based on your comments this morning and then we will open the microphone for questions from the floor. So be thinking about the questions that you want to ask and when the time comes well ask you to raise your hand and do our usual procedure of wait for the microphone and identify your identify yourself. Let me start out with a couple thoughts of your very useful description of both while youre doing what youre doing and what you hope to do. Theres a lot on worth the effort peace if you will. I think he made the case very strongly for why its important or critical. Its a little harder though to talk about the possibilities, not necessary the possibilities of undertaking the effort of the possibilities of achieving results. How are you
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