Switzerland after the Iran Nuclear Talks stretched through the night in a marathon session. Officials say discussions are now focused on whether the u. S. And eu would agree to ease sanctions apart from those of the u. N. In political news indiana lawmakers expected to announce a deal today to alter the religious freedom law. The legislators want to ensure the rules dont discriminate against gays and lesbians. Well have a live report in about 20 minutes. On the economic front, three reports of note weekly jobless claims International Trade and factory orders. In Corporate News micron warning of lower revenue. The chip maker is willing to hold inventories longer in light of weaker customer demand for electronics that uses technology. The wall street journal meanwhile reports that the European Union is preparing to file antitrust charges against google in the next few weeks. Just works too well. The paper says the eu could fine the company up to 10 of its annual revenues and in other new
And girls that emphasizes how pressing and pervasive this problem is on our campuses. I am attending an initiative in connecticut to try to raise awareness about it and i would like your commitment that you will work with me and others on this committee on this issue. I look forward to working with you on that important issue in the statistics are alarming. 20 of all young women are either assaulted or an attempt of an Sexual Assault. Usually this happens and there freshmen are early part of their sophomore years. We have used those statistics in the work of the task force of the president has put together to deal with that issue and we look forward to working with you and other members of congress and trying to come up with meaningful ways that we can deal with an issue that has too often been if not ignored not given the attention it deserves. Just so no one thinks that this issue nearly involves rhetoric. There is a legal basis for legal action and federal title ix in protecting wom
Let me just say on the issue of trafficking i welcome your comments on that score. I have proposed a resolution, bipartisan resolution with my colleague rob portman who is not a member of this committee basically saying that there should be more vigorous enforcement of these laws particularly around the time of the super bowl because the trafficking on web sites like back page. Com and tends to increase during this time so i welcome your comments. And let me just add briefly, to take senator leahys comments, i want to thank you and the department of justice for really over these past years viewing these legal issues on their merits, on their legal merits putting politics aside. The Justice Department went through a dark area in my view under the Previous Administration when politics far too often became part of the analysis and i want to thank the career, Justice Department employees who worked so hard and long under you to make sure that the rule of law is berserk. Let me turn to a pa
October 3rd. Good evening everyone im sue herrera filling in for tyler mathisen. Im susie gharib. Forget the government shut down. Today it was about the looming debt crisis. Words coming from the u. S. Treasury today saying a default on the nations debt could be quote catastrophic. A scenario the treasury says will be worse than the recession were emerging from and pushed the markets sharply lower by the open. By midday there was slight relief after john boehner would not allow the u. S. To default. Boehner spokesperson says the speaker maintains the u. S. Will not default. That brought stocks back momentarily and if that werent enough, may ham outside the u. S. Capital after police shot and killed a woman who tried to ram her car through security barricades at the white house and then exchanged gunfire with the police. All and all, it looked like it ended like this after the market closed. The dow fell 136 points closing just before the psychologically important 15,000 threshold the
October 3rd. Good evening everyone im sue herrera filling in for tyler mathisen. Im susie gharib. Forget the government shut down. Today it was about the looming debt crisis. Words coming from the u. S. Treasury today saying a default on the nations debt could be quote catastrophic. A scenario the treasury says will be worse than the recession were emerging from and pushed the markets sharply lower by the open. By midday there was slight relief after john boehner would not allow the u. S. To default. Boehner spokesperson says the speaker maintains the u. S. Will not default. That brought stocks back momentarily and if that werent enough, may ham outside the u. S. Capital after police shot and killed a woman who tried to ram her car through security barricades at the white house and then exchanged gunfire with the police. All and all, it looked like it ended like this after the market closed. The dow fell 136 points closing just before the psychologically important 15,000 threshold the