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Susie a parade of Business Leaders in washington today to persuade president obama and congress to avoid the fiscal cliff. With just 33 days left to nail down a deal, c. E. O. S made the rounds to explain to lawmakers that because of cliff gridlock, theyre holding back on hiring and spending. As darren gersh reports, c. E. O. S werent the only ones campaigning hard today. Reporter the president and republicans focused today on staging events designed to pressure the other side. The president cal...

For republicans, 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. For independents, 2025853882. You can also find us online. Send us a tweet, twitter. Com c spanwj. Or join the conversation on facebook by looking for cspan and weighing in. You can also e mail us, journal cspan. Org. Here is the first page front page of the hartford current this morning. Day of grieving. The top headline, along with a list of the victims. The employees, all women. The children, all around the age of 67. This is the sunday ...

Are we entering another week where we think a deal is soon on the table but by the end of the week it wont be . And what do you as we understand it, Mitch Mcconnell is trying to pass something regarding taxes. Raise rates on upper income americans, as Many Americans are willing to do, and agree by setting that up, that in the new year they will discuss these spending cuts. Of course, the problem is House Republicans are saying no, we dont want this. You could see a deal on the table that puts th...

Altogether. The New York Stock Exchange and the nasdaq have halted all possiblyday and possib tomorrow. Many of the Campaign Events that we are planning to cover today have been cancelled due to the storm. President obama is cutting back on his Campaign Appearances today. He was to appear with bill clinton in florida this morning. Instead he will be in washington monitoring the storm from the white house. Mitt romney is in the midwest today with stops in three battleground states, starting with ...

Economy. Is the debt ceiling negotiable . Your thoughts . Send us a tweet or post your comment on facebook. You can also send us an email. President obama held his last official News Conference of the first term yesterday in the east room of the white house. Heres what he had to say on the debt ceiling debate. [video clip] republicans and congress have two choices. They can act responsibly and pay americas bills or they can act irresponsibly and put america through another economic crisis. But t...

Connell 3. 24 a gallon. These are the best prices we have seen all year for gasoline. A very, difficult day and weekend for many around the country. Dagen it will be a difficult week, month and many years to come as we try to deal with these shootings in newtown, connecticut. We will bring you uptodate about any news as we get it. Youll hear about it in the fox news minute coming up in just a short while. Connell the Business News of the day. We will begin with Nicole Petallides at the new york ...

Rare chance to propose and pushed through an agenda for Public Safety. The assault weapon ban should be renewed and tightened with a special emphasis on those that hold more than 10 rounds. Offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, we give us thanks for giving us another day. The peoples house gathers today and celebrates in its gathering the wonder of our constitutional form of government. Our nation has once again achieved something so often lack...

We will also hear from president obama, who signed the deficit reduction measure into law, part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling. First, Senate Majority leader harry reid and republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell will talk on the senate floor about the january fiscal deadline. Since our country voted to return president obama to the white house, i have spoken often about compromise. I remain optimistic that, when it comes to our economy, when it comes to protecting middleclass families...

The next 30, 40 years, so maybe that helps. This is a very complex issue. It has to be resolved. There has to be a happy medium there. Whether or not it is because these ceos are boring abroad for certain things or not, that is up for debate. Im certainly not one who will take a position on that because i dont know enough about it to make that call. There are a lot of very smart people out there, who we should respect, they are very good at what they do and they are still debating about what the...

I am extremely hopeful. I did not believe the republicans will allow us to go tubhe cliff. I hope that is true. It is such a simple problem to solve. We have had experience. We know. A couple of rounds with the speaker and obama. We had the judd gregg kent conrad. We know it. It has been doing something with actual tax revenues. Mitt romney proved during the campaign you cannot do it just by doctoring up the tax code. That should be part of the deal. We need to have tax reform, we have to have t...