House lawmakers begin their twoweek holiday recess but not before owning yesterday to approve of the republican 2015 budget proposal. It balances the budget by making 5 trillion in spending cuts over the 10 years. Party lines. Along the senate is not expected to take up the measure. He said it does have a presession this afternoon at which point he reread will take up plans to judicial nominations. You can watch the senate today live at 4 00 eastern on cspan2. We will take you live to the white house this morning for a personnel announcement from president obama. Hes expected to announce that Sylvia Burwell will replace Kathleen Sebelius as health and Human Services secretary. For youhave that life at 11 00 eastern this morning and we will open up our phone lines to get your reaction afterward. And joe Michelle Obama biden host a white house event in support of military and veteran caregivers at the white house. Also participating, Elizabeth Dole and former first lady roslyn carter. Th
Flee a city. This is unsafe on the american highways for all of us. A renewed focus on how tired truckers are while driving on the nations roads. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. It is one of the most stunning election upsets in congressional history and could have ramifications for the republican leadership. It is huge. Stephanie. House majority leader icon tore was defeated by david brat in the virginia primary. The loss is more surprising when you consider cantor outspent his opponent by five to one. Brat an economics professor took 56 of the vote to cantors 44 . The loss is significant, because cantor was the number two republican in the house and the likely successor to Speaker John Boehner. For more on the political upset, Mike Viqueira joins us from washington. I it was a bolt from the blu. Not only was eric cantor expected to become the next speaker of the house, perhaps as early at next year, but this was a year that the tea party was in retreat, a series of stinging defeats thi
Bloomberg television. We are happy to be back. Lets talk tech. Another big tech deal to talk about, priceline is buying opentable 42 . 6 billion. For 2. 6 billion. This is crazy. Around isy head this the new normal, is this where we are supposed to be . Or is this the return of 1999 . In 1999, i loved opentable and urban fetch. But where those now . It a lot more worthable that uber is 17 billion. Er is a life changer. We will have to agree to disagree. Opentable is a life changer for me. He just eats at mcdonalds, they dont take reservations. Every time i try to use opentable, i can never get a table. Instead, i call, and restaurants say the same thing. 5 30, 10 30, i would rather they off. Say screw said, weo of priceline think it is a good fit. They called it an adjacent business. We have similar Business Models. You are catering to the same sort of customers. There is definitely true to that. These are the same people spending their money in different channels. One thing i was intr
While the black lab is sweet, he pays no attention to her son. And even though hes supposed to be scent trained to find jackson, when her son ran off, idaho did not respond to the command to search for him. Matthew coleman raised 10,000 to purchase a service dog for his 7yearold daughterar ary i. The black lab actually pulled her down and hurt her neck. He would chase whatever scent he came across and pull her to the ground. And that was dangerous right there. Far from keeping her grounded, he was dragging her away. And theres just no way that this dog has the temperament to be a Proper Service dog. Reporter now coleman, an attorney, has filed a complaint against the nonprofit alleging fraud and false advertising. Founder of positive service Dog Solutions called the allegations unfounded. She says the dogs receive three to four months of advanced training and she said the dogs performed perfectly. She says dogs have saved the lives of other children. Elaine says she just wants to save
Stuart the script says the market is losing a little steam. It is losing some steam, all right. Down 100 points as we get this day going. The s p down seven points as we speak. Maybe there is a connection to eric cantors loss last night. We will be discussing that one. As for the price of gold, 1262 this morning. This calendar year is up 5 . That is the 10 year treasury yield. A little change. Not to google. They bought a satellite Imaging Company for half a billion dollars. No impact on the stock. Over the longterm, google keeps going up. Watch out, yelp. Watch out, angies list. Amazon is up six points at 338. Apple and starbucks. They are getting flush tax breaks. The European Union wants to know what is going on. Apple is up. Starbucks is down. Fractionally. House majority leader erik cantor p 105544. It was the republican primary in virginia. A big turnout. 18,000 more republicans voted. Special report tells us that threadbare was shocked. He is here with us now. The democrats, the