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Last month a threejudge panel on the d. C. Circuit court of appeals heard oral argument on the constitutionality of the senates 60vote filibuster rule. The case is common cause v. Joseph biden. It seeks to have the 60vote threshold needed to overcome the filibuster thrown out and replaced with a simple majority rule. The Lower District Court had dismissed the case saying common cause lacked standing to sue. The oral argument runs about half an hour. Good morning. May it please the court, im emme...

Himself and the two daughters on their mother first lady laura bush. Thanks for being with us. I dont want to steal barbaras you can go first next time. I would say probably her work for women and all over really. We were so lucky because her parents took us on travels to africa so we got to see pat farr and being in clinics and schools and meeting people whose lives would be forever changed. I would say her work for women but more broadly pepfar and my dad too. Im very proud of him for that. Ei...

At Andrews Air Force base. In order to meet the debt ceiling. President clinton did at first but the democrats in 1993 and that it again with republicans in 1995. There were seven of these negotiations during bush 41. The reason the debt ceiling is therefore is for the power of the purse. Thats it and youre supposed to have negotiations leading up to it. I think its just slightly inappropriate to say i voted against it but now you guys have to vote for it without negotiating with me. There we go...

That is nonDiscretionary Spending. That is the essence of discretion. If we are going to have an entitlement culture that now funds three quarters almost of the budget spending, and we will say congress has no say at all in funding those three quarters, we push the limit here. It is to favor the ease and convenience of governments. I think we are giving up something in the process. I think it is an inelegant way of doing it, but i think the right path is to have negotiations. The reason you have...

The prior fiscal year or within this quarter as well, so we had 20 as needed csos issued, nine im sorry, not issued but involved 20csos with dollar amount of 250,000. Nine Construction Contracts and total payments of 13. 4 million. Of that 14 went to lbes. Professional Service Contracts and five contracts and total payments of 52,000 in that. Now just to point out as the as needed csos and professional contracts and 48 participation so these are dollars that went to the lbes and the other things...

There is how much we spent we paid that went to lbe contractors, again within that quarter. Right. So on the total contract over time over on these projects weve only met 12 of the 20 goal . Yeah. That is correct. As of this moment in time. As of this moment in time. Okay. So i guess i am just i want to make the point again that i think this report is very important, and i think that a lot of people want to know this information of how were doing, and there maybe an issue that were not doing eno...

User growth is slowing. And german carmaker daimler posted jumping quarterly profits, telling investors to expect Significant Growth this year. We catch up with the chairman first on cnbc in just over an hour. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. The countdown into daimler, also on todays show, danish lender bankia bank has plans to pay out a dividend in seven years. Well speak to the firms cfo. And animated hit movie frozen helps disney serve up ho...

Worth saving. So as lou demonstrated only less than 20 percent of that existing siding was there and will new foundation and he resided lay out it that makes no sense to try to patch that when its only in the 20 percent of the west corner. I candidly believe they did owners should be given an award for the short time theyve improved the building. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners aim sheri live 3 block on the other side of alamos square from the property. I cant wait. It to be finished. I...

Recorded its biggest weekly loss in 4 weeks. Gold and oil had a relatively quiet day. The Treasury Department admits for the first time the goverment has some wiggle room in payments if congress triggers a default crisis. The Obama Administartion is taking Public Comments on fracking. Radio shack is pulling back on plans to close 11hundred stores after failing to reach a deal with lenders. And the Financial Times report allergan is set to reject valeants take over offer. Well its a monday mornin...

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im with the Law Association im secretary there. My views on the building ive sat here many times nothing has changed but i would like to say that just to observe that in my observation correct or incorrect im seeing false conflicts between interests being laid out here that are false conflicts the first december decision made of the fourth floors this is somehow a project that is against Affordable Housing none of it is true weve come out and made formal statemen...