Coast in years. Leaves tens of thousands of people without power. Just hours left until the government shuts down unless Congress Pass as bill to fund it and now a new front has opened in this heated battle. Congressional leaders said they had reaches an agreement that would avert a shut down, that was two days ago but decide a debt line, the house has still not voted on the bill what is happening to the deal that apparently is no longer a deal. Tony, here is what stands between now and a government shut down at midnight. A 1. 1 trillion spending package that was hammered out by leaders of both parties but it has gotten a lot of push back. Despite calls from leadership to get it passed. We, workerred through this process, in a bipartisan way, and i do expect it to pass. But, listen, if we dont get finished today, we will be here until christmas. It even won backing from the white house, it includes funds to fight ebola, and the group known as isil and includes a small raise for members
Northeast storms wreaking havoc. Details ahead. First, though, over to sue. Shes here at cnbc hq. As you know its a new trading month, but the volatility continues, and the dow has been both up and down. Triple digits today. You can basically call that flat. In terms of Interest Rates, the yield on the tenyear note right now is 1. 664 . Brent crude firming up a little bit. West texas intermediate is up about 1. We have ice brent up better than 2 on the trading session. Bob pasani is here to flush that out for us on the nyse floor. Bob. You are absolutely right. New month, but same pattern. That is more volatility. The s p moving the 30 point range today, and were not even over yet. Take a look at the Dow Jones Industrial average. That also moving to the 200 point range. This has been happening all throughout this year. Average last year the dow from a high to a low on a daily basis. About 125 points. Volatility continuing. Ism manufacturing for january, well, it was still showing growt
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Mr. Alexander mr. President i ask consent to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Alexander thank you, mr. President. I ask consent to that the senator from colorado, senator bennet and i along with the sthor from maine senator king, the senator from new jersey, senator booker the senator from georgia, senator isakson and the senator from North Carolina, senator burr, be able to engage in a colloquy on Higher Education for the next halfhour. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Alexander thank you mr. President. And i i further ask mr. President , unanimous consent to use a piece of demonstrative evidence in my remarks. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Alexander thank you mr. President. Mr. President , the senator from colorado michael bennet, and i have been working for a year to make it easier for 20 million American Families who fill out a the federal Application Form for grants and loans for colleges to make it easier for them to
Actually say in the beer distributors pockets. It was public money that was supposed to go to promoting recycling but was instead winding up in the distributors pockets just because of an error in the way the law was constructed. They were very active in political campaigns and that loophole of what we knew about it for years and years and years was not corrected. My first term in the legislature in 2009 was the first year the legislature was publicly financed. I cant point to a direct correlation. But i think it was about two weeks after we were sworn in that we came in and corrected that loophole and those funds are returned to the public. And so thats a clear example of a special interest that had been able, to no pun intended, bottle up legislation. If you look at connecticuts record, particularly the last four years under governor malloy, weve really been a shining light for those of us in the Progressive Movement as a place where we can see policies that are folks elsewhere can o