Is taking care of our constituents at home. Voices from the states on cspan. Maine Governor Paul Lepage delivered his final state of the state address last week at the statehouse in augustine. He said he will not move forward to a voter approved measure to expand medicaid because the state legislature hasnt determined to pay for it. He leaves office in january of 2019 after eight years on term limits. [applause] thank you so much. Members of the 128th legislature, distinguished guests, and my fellow citizens, i want to briefly remember Paul Mitchell of waterville, brother of senator mitchell, who passed away this weekend. He was a dedicated Public Servant and a good friend. As i begin the last state of the state address of my time as governor of this great state, let me be first to thank my wife. Honey, please stand. [applause] first of all, she looks gorgeous. [laughing] [applause] she has been unwavering as a representative from the governor to the people of the state of maine. And h
Last two weeks. The yields on debt that comes due in one month have risen to levels higher than yields for maturity thats dont secure for six months. Thats a big deal because normally an issuer would pay to borrow for longer periods of time. The institutions want to avoid being stuck with debt in the event of a default. Citigroup has told clients it would rather not take treasuries on october 24th as a sign of collateral. Andrew, this a sign your money is no good here. Weve got more on the situation in washington in just a few minutes. I dont know if people are going to be taking paengz or not, but i think we should see a number of Companies Set to post Quarterly Results for today. Before the bell, well hear from the follow. Citigroup, cocacola and johnson and johnson. Intel and yahoo are among the other we will be hearing from. Burberrys ceo is leaving the British Fashion house to move to, guess where . Apple. Angela ahrendts is going to take up a newly created position at apple with
However, these hardworking federal employees should not be asked to carry even more of this burden. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and i yield back the balance of my time. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields. The gentleman from california. Mr. Issa mr. Speaker, i know my friend from virginia means well, but once again he talks about a lack of accomplishment. Apparently he has not looked at the work that the clerks did. He hasnt done the work that the Congressional Budget Office or the Government Accountability office. Those are all funded and yet we had an 11 reduction in spending. So in fact when we talk about the hardworking men and women of the government, this branch has found a way to reduce spending by over 11 in spite of the hardworking men, not just here on the floor and in our offices, but the Government Accountability office and the c. B. O. And others. With that i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. Connell
The bat the fiscal cliff, all reports are that congress can retroactively prevent the tax hikes set to begin today. It has one more day to prevent automatic spending cuts that take in on wednesday. Our coverage of this class continues this morning on washington journal. If you want all along, go to c span. Org fiscalcliff. We will begin with your take on this emerging deal. Democrats republican independents remember to send us a twit a tweet at twitter. Com. Facebook. Com cspan. Or at cspan. Org. The senate voted around 2 00 a. M. Eastern time. Here are the senators that voted no. Michael bennet, democrat of colorado, along with senator tom carper, democrat of delaware, senators grassley, harkin, as well as these four republicans, senators lee, paul, rubio, and shelby. Not a boating were senators jim demint, the republican of South Carolina. He is retiring. Senators kirk and lautenberg as well. Here was the reaction from all four House Republican leaders. It put this out in a joint sta
The fiscal cliff. Is power players are all talk and no action. No real weather issues in the weather department. That is a good thing. This weekend plenty of changes on tap and changes coming midweek. We will detail it for you in a minute or two. People in San Francisco are firmly of the opinion that you would use your taser every 30 seconds. People are all fired up over the debate on tasers. We sat down with the top cop for more on the stun gun proposal. No sooner did the legislature go back in session than there is already talk about modifying the biggest tax law in the state. That affects all property owners, plus drones. We are talking about Remote Control airplanes with cameras on them and how they can help Law Enforcement and privacy advocates concerned. More on that. And more back and forth between the white house and republicans in congress showing no signs of letting up. Yes , there are three weeks left until the u. S. Goes over the fiscal cliff. We have been talking about tha