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Here. Please no live blogging or tweeting. Corker its a pleasure to be with you. I do enjoy doing these kinds of things. I realize that it is a gift to serve in the senate and to wake up on a daily basis and deal with issues that matter. I have enjoyed very much dealing with senator menendez. We have a number of issues in the senate. We have had a good run as far as causing things to happen. I think, instead of me giving a lot of opening comments i would rather just take questions. Cook let me throw a one or two ceremonial softballs in the monitor tradition. What do you expect from tomorrows m...

The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . On this vote the yeas are 53, the nays are 42. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote on the hazel nomination. Does anyone yield back their time . Is there objection . Without objection. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The question is on the hazel nomination. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any other senators wishing to vote...

And mortgage apps. Keep your eye on gold if youre looking for clues about the fed. We did dip below 1,300 this morning. Just hours away, is the taper finally upon us . Well break down what it means for the markets. And the reviews are in. Words such as gorgeous and game changer being used for apples new operating system and the new verse of the iphone. But will it help the stock . Fedex beating expectations. Up more than 3 in premarket trading. And starbucks asking customers to please leave your guns at home. The ceo saying firearms are not banned in the stores but theyre not welcome either. A...

Declared a saint. Good morning. This is alJazeera America, and im morgan radford. 17 hours, thats how much Time Congress has to avoid a Government Shutdown. The gop has tied the bill to a one year delay of the Affordable Care act, also known as obamacare. The democratic controlled senate is promising to scrap that provision. The American People overwhelmingly reject obamacare. The only people not listening to the argument are the career politicians in washington. Theres a time and place to debate obamacare but not at a time when millions of innocent people are held hostage if we dont fund the ...

Through the first month of obama care, just a fifth of what Administration Officials had projected before the launch of healthcare. Gov and the opening of the exchanges. To make matters worse, the federal exchanges operating in 36 states accounted for only 27,000 of those successful enrollments. 80,000 originated in the staterun insurance exchanges. On a Conference Call this afternoon, secretary sebelius revealed the embarrassingly low number, but then opened herself and the administration up to outright ridicule by calling those numbers consistent with what massachusetts, a state of only 6. 5...