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In grateful praise to you, use us for your glory. Touch our senators. Lift them from valleys of pessimism as you fill them with your abiding hope. Prepare them to receive your best gifts, helping them to remember that you are able to do more than they can ask or imagine. Thank you that you are the beginner of our yesterdays, the mystery of our today, and the hope for our tomorrows. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance...

The jeep brand has its best month ever, with sales up 20 . And the threeday truce in gaza has all a part. Israel says hamas has ended the cease fire. Hamas has accused israel of the same thing. In the u. S. , more details on the market. Futures are lower after that big selloff yesterday. The july jobs report now is out at 8 30. For more on the markets, were joined by our stock editor, mike reagan, and peter. We have Team Coverage on this. Mike, lets start with you. People are saying we were worr...

Constitution but i dont think often enough if any changes. Your honor, and your honor, in this situation the meaning of the cause with respect to the timing of the vacancy has been a matter of contention since the first days you are questioning my hypothesis. You have to accept my hypothesis. Lets assume it takes these clearly against you. Should i say yes, it says Something Else, but the practice for over 200 years has been Something Different and its a practice that must prevail. Fact they sta...

Commerce Committee Representative joe barton a republican of texas. Congressman barton a lot of proposals are coming out now not from the fcc yet but for members of congress in different groups about how to treat Net Neutrality. Your colleague henry waxman recently wrote to the fcc asking it to be reclassified as title ii. What is your reaction to back . Guest i respect henry a lot obviously but he is wrong. You are trying to use an old law passed back in the 1930s for an industry in the 21st ce...

Without ever doing that. And so i literally would do things that started to build relationships. You want something to fall back on when you disagree on the issues. When mike says something and youre sitting across the table. You know, i know mike and his value set. There is something to fall back on. I see the same thing in board rooms for corporations. If they come in periodically to my you are not apt to get a very effective outcome. I think that is huge. The strategy part is not that hard. F...

Begin. New york city got off light. At this moment, though growing the economy shrinking deficits, bustling industry, Booming Energy production, freedom to write our own future. Stuart it sounds good. Do you like that graphic there . We have a weakening economy now. Some of the bigname stocks that you know reporting lower profits. Not good news. We have a selloff. Look at the names. Caterpillar down big time. The biggest drop for that stock in four years. That stocks biggest drop in a year and a...

Committee today. Rather than rehash all of those i will refer back to those, it will cause me to vote against this nominee. She is undoubtedly a very bright lawyer she has had a successful career. I none of us have concerns about her willingness to stand as an independent evaluation of the legality and constitutionality of the administrations actions have caused me great concern. I hoped and expected my concerns would be alleviated during the hearings. They were intensified at that hearing and t...

Moving money and putting off unnecessary programs and delaying modernization but those cuts and delays we will do with next year with the return now of sequestration and added to the cuts already would be a back breaker for the United States army and i would argue the military at large. Were doing everything we can. Just basic commitments to save normal security. Yes we have a presence in afghanistan but those are not big operations. That is dated day commitments. We are mortgage eight our readi...

Administration saying, i think it will be to the advantage of the democrats to go off the cliff, i think it will be advantage to the republicans to go off the cliff, or the president to go off the cliff, thats like betting your country. Theres stupidity involved in that. Syria on the bring. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton holds emergency talks with russia as u. S. Officials confirm reports that the Syrian Military is prepared to launch chemical weapons against its own people. Weve made it ver...

Manufacturing, access to capital for Small Businesses, making investments in infrastructure, utilizing Domestic Energy resources, Stem Education and implementing smarter regulations. I believe, mr. Speaker, that this remains the best recipe for getting our country back to work. Beyond our job creation efforts, im proud of our leadership on confronting the nations debt crisis. Though not always popular, i refuse to accept the status quo of no budgeting, skyrocketing debt and ignoring the problem ...