From a fall yesterday in which he broke several ribs and facial bones. The accident occurred when he was exercising with a fitness band which snapped causing him to fall. The nevada senator who is a former amateur boxer was released from a hospital and will travel back to washington for the weekend. Former nsa director Keith Alexander is speaking out against companies considering retaliating against hackers. Some companies are turning to the offensive tools in their battle against cybercrime. The former nsa director said companies should not be wading into this fight. I think its a national responsibility, a government responsibility, to respond to these. Whether it is criminal, fbi, or its a nationstate. You cannot have companies escalate us into a crisis. So i think what the administration and what the government has put out today is in fact the correct approach. Companies can do more to protect their networks and thats perhaps something we should discuss. He made those comments in a
It is positive. Nine days of the last ten trading sessions. S p 500 also on track to close at a record high for the 52nd high in 2014 and nasdaq just turned positive for the month of december. And is trading around the highest level since back in 2000 and a close eye on the russell 2000. The index of small caps trying to close at a new high. We are seeing intraday records for the First Time Since june. If it does close at a record, thats the First Time Since back in march. And just think last october it was down as much as 20 from that march 4th high. Talk about a round trip for the small caps index. Incredible rebound. Talk about it with the guests today in the exchange. We have rob morgan with us. Jim lowell. Nicole sinclair. And our own jeff cox from cnbc. Com. We have trader Matt Cheslock and, matthew, ill start with you. What do you make of whens going on right now. Back at alltime highs including those small caps that were hit so hard through much of this year. Yeah, well, time t
[inaudible conversations] calling to order the subcommittee of vacations and technology. Good morning and welcome to first hearing of the 114 congress. I can think of no issue within our jurisdiction thats more important to consider at this time in the future of the internet and our responsibility as legislators to set internet policy for the country. Thats why we have put forward draft legislation to provide consumers the protections they deserve while not choking off investment and innovation. We have shared this draft out with both sides of allen made it available probably invited our Witnesses Today to give us their views on this draft proposal and i thank all of our witnesses for their participation. With a very important choice to make between letting three very smart and capable but on elected people at the fcc the Majority Commission uses statute written for another era to cobble together regulatory scheme and undoubtedly will end up in court for years in litigation providing n
Fiscal problem that is much more severe. So i think the discussions of the dynamic scoring cannot let it us slip into a place where we look the other way and theres a highrisk that some of the decisions we make will leave behind a big fiscal mess. Ive had the misfortune of inheriting fiscal messes and taken great pride in cleaning them up and i think we have to be careful and not create those problems. You spoke approvingly of the ryan murray spending bill that helps us avoid the shutdown but that build left in place some caps on domestic and defense appropriations in 2011. Are you comfortable with a the level of those taxes . I never thought the caps were in the right place. I think we have a tremendously important need in this country that are both on the defense and nondefense side that will lead to a stronger economy and a stronger nation if we have the room to invest sensibly. In the context of the conversation about these kinds of issues there will have to be further discussion a
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