Page 39 - Budget Priority News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Thank you, senator. I do want to respond to some of the comments made earlier. The chairman started out by talking about the cuba issue and said i will just bear freeze, it is down, down, and even dumber to essentially shield cuba from the influences that we have on other dictatorial regimes and authoritarian regimes. I could not agree more. I could not agree more. This why i oppose our policy on cuba for so long. Mentioned another senator mentioned that iran is the only country less free cuba. But even iran, we dont shield the people from the influences or the government from the influences o...

Understand most of the time. Maybe thats true. Most of the time theres someone on the legislators staff who understands it. Thats not necessarily the case with intelligence bill. On the senate side you have one dedicated staffer who is clear, who can talk to their boss about these things. On the house side they are pretty dependent on the committee staff. For example sessen brenner who wrote freedom acts bill is completely cut out of the negotiations with the administration over what to include in the final version of the reform bill. This is nothing i reported, in cq. He didnt have sufficient...

Announcer washington journal continues. Host we continue our focus on wisconsin as part of washington journals midterm battleground series. Our rest is university of wisconsin madison lytic vassar Political Science Professor Larry burton. What is it about wisconsin that makes it a battleground state . And not just this cycle but at least since the year 2000 and maybe even before that. Guest i think that is what is stunning about wisconsin, it remains competitive even as the demographic in the state shifts. Like many states, there is in flux and out flux, populations in different parts of the s...

Announcer washington journal continues. Host we continue our focus on wisconsin as part of washington journals midterm battleground series. Our rest is university of wisconsin madison lytic vassar Political Science Professor Larry burton. What is it about wisconsin that makes it a battleground state . And not just this cycle but at least since the year 2000 and maybe even before that. Guest i think that is what is stunning about wisconsin, it remains competitive even as the demographic in the state shifts. Like many states, there is in flux and out flux, populations in different parts of the s...

Alcoa is up right now. And it is 4 00 on wall street. Do you know where your money is. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiromo on the floor of the new york stock exchange. The market closing lower for a second day in a row today as we kick off the Fourth Quarter earnings reporting season. Take a look at how were settling out on the street today. The Dow Jones Industrial average off the lows of the average with a decline on the session of 55. 75 , about onehalf of 1 . Volume not great. 562 million shares at the big board. S p 500 down five point, a third of a point a...