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Phil mattingly looks to update u. S. Licensing laws. Moves to reform veteran health care. Theres the wrapup of the General Motors shareholder meeting. What was the takeaway . Thiswas preparing for meeting. I looked over the transcripts of last years meeting and dan ackerson ran the meeting for only an hour. I thought this one was going to take a lot longer. This company is in real trouble with the ignition switch recall. A recalls 14 million vehicles this year. That is 12 times more than the number of vehicles they sold in the same amount of time. Sales have been on a steady rise. Companye cle...

Make sure they get through high school. Understand the calculus that they are going through. Second, i will ask about something that is on the front page of your hometown paper, the chicago tribune. Gm named its first female ceo. What is the important symbolism of that . She is obviously very qualified. She came up through the company, 33 years. She knows the Company Inside and out. For any business to promote from within is an incredible statement about the strength within the corporation. You are able to grow your own leadership. I think that is wonderful. It is not just a statement about he...

Question of the chicago homecoming came up. The talk about the president and your answer was in the very shortterm calculus. What do you see in the longterm future if there is a homecoming . Agree with a lot of people in chicago who think that an obama president ial library should be in that city . Where should it be . All politics is local. I am very hopeful. I have no inside information on this. I am hopeful that the president ial library will be in chicago. I think it is very important. I know that the leadership in chicago, both political and late leadership would very much like that. It w...

But that is not set in stone yet. There is still more to do. Can you walk us through what the next steps are . You are right. That is a joyous atmosphere. It was a huge event. It breaks the logjam of getting away from these herkyjerky shutdown showdowns we been going through for all these months and years. The budget number is only the first step. They must take it and break it down for each agency and department of the government. We have to do that before january 15, because that is when the current continuing resolution wears out. We have to pass that bill through the bodies and have it sig...

Giveback in the markets, happening as the tenyear yield was climbing and that was concerning a lot of watchers of the market. The dow futures are indicated down by 70 points. The s p futures are dune by about 8. 5. These are some bigger movements because the dow was down by about 25 points yesterday. Giving back all of the gains that had it had made this week. Gains have been modest and this morning you see some red arrows. Didnt get out of hand yesterday, got down 50, 60 points a few times that i saw. And it closed down a little. Pretty good numbers, though, yesterday, to be down. And i dont ...