Around the country on npr. Spring in the mountain, and it blows down to the town. With support provided by bailey and glasser and the West Virginia tourism office, welcome to the Mountain Stage with larry gross. Nonstage is a two hour radio show composed of live performances, musical performances, from all kinds of music. All across the usa and all around the world. The music varies from african bands to oldtime appellation fiddlers and everything in between. Appalachian fiddlers and everything in between. We startedd december, Mountain Stage regular broadcast once a month. Was 26 showsink it later, we were national. Now onto hundred 40 stations in america. From the beginning, our idea was to show as many different styles of music as we could reasonably. That is what we still do. There have been so many folks, many of them before anybody else heard of them. People like lyle lovett and mary shape and carpenter in the early 1980s. Alison krauss when she was 19 years old. We had sheryl cr
Cspan 2. And a full meeting in the rules committee and another tomorrow beginning at 10 30, that will be on cspan3. Waiting for the house to gavel back in. Several votes here on cspan. We are expecting the house to gavel back in shortly. Votes next. Resumehe and takthe ha. E chair the commite of the whe houson the state of the union for furtr consideration of h. R. 3326 h the clerk will report by title. Trk a ill to to increae countabilityombat Management Effectivenessthe orld bank. Thair when the commite ofhe wholeose earlier today,mendment number 3 printed in part a of house repo11518 byhe geneman from ntuckymr. Barr, had een disposed thchair pursut to clause 6, rule 18,he unfind is request formendment numb 2 and by the gentlemanrom virgin, mr. Clly on whic further prdings were poponed a the yeas pvail voic vote. The clerk amendment number 2 printed in hoe 115518 fered by mr. Connolly of virginia. The air those in support of the requet for a recordevote willise. A sufficient nuer hav
Citigroup ahead of the opening. Well bring in the numbers when they hit the wires. Oil prices and focused through the new warning on oil demand globally. The International Energy agency says demand growth will slow for a second straight year. Oil at 53. 08 right now. Comments on the dollar waiting on Global Markets. He told the wall street journal that dollar is too strong. Futures this morning look like this as they are following the dollar the down 40 points in the Dow Jones Industrial average. Nasdaq and s p 500 down a slope. In europe this morning, indices look like this. As you see the ft 100 down half a percent as is the cac quarante. In asia overnight, mixed performances take a look. Asian indices for japan and hong kong were lower in china and korea were higher. Shanghai composite up a fraction. Your developments in the United Airline scandal. The man dragged off the plane now taking steps pursue legal action. Without those details coming up this morning. Her routine tries to h
Capitalal has changed its business and cites among other things ge capitals exit of the u. S. And consumer businesses and transformation of its funding model. You might recall during the financial crisis ges finance arm almost took the company down and since that time, it has certainly changed that this or i should say last year undertaking an aggressive plan to reduce ge capital selling over half of its assets and, indeed, since that time, it sold about 166 billion or signed 166 billion worth of deal. Now keep in mind, ge is one of four nonbank companies that have been given this systemically important financial rating. Others include aig, met life and prudential and met life is involvedn a legal battle with the fed having, of course, received a favorable ruling earlier this year by a judge who said tFederal Reserve or the government could not designate it as that. That means these companies are subject to Federal Reserve reover sight and enhanced capital rerooirmts. The fsoc voted to
Asnie i have been mistaken francine lacqua. We will start by checking first word news. Moving closer to getting syrias president to extend his stay in power. The u. S. Is opposed to rushs assistance that they be allowed to compete in a president ial election. China has a warning for taiwan. Cutting ties with taiwan could collapse if taiwan refuses to recognize the framework that has governed the nation for two decades. The leading candidate in taiwan says there are other options for negotiation with the chinese government. Iraqi troops recaptured ramadi on monday. There are still some fighters there. They have launched a few attacks. Former new york governor George Pataki has quit the race for the republican president ial nomination. He is the fifth republican to drop out. In 1996 president reagan pressed for a summit meeting with the leader of the soviet union by reading a spy novel. President read the novel risingrm before meeting with president gorbachev. 24 hour news powered by our