tell market here on the news you need to know those fourteen republican senators
filibustered an appointment
for secretary defense for the first time
history yesterday
are refusing to let truck eagles confirmation to a vote
only four republican senators thad cochran sentences collins lisa marie
hausky mike joe pants
voted to break the filibuster in the final vote was fifty eight
republicans held up the nomination saying they want more information about
the attack qazi
and chuck hagel had nothing to do with
senate majority leader harry reid said
make no mistake republicans are trying to defeat senator senator hagel xen on
the nation by filibustering
while submitting extraneous requests that will never be sets
you know this is exactly why many democrats were angry over
reads week agreement until about a reform
so pursuing a rule change designed to stop g_o_p_ obstruction
blocking a vote on a cabinet member is unheard of in civ
republicans
played games with our defense department
considering we have thousands of servicemen and women fighting
afghanistan
supposedly the senate will take an opera down photo nichols confirmation ten days
after returning from the president's day recess
yesterday centered lindsey graham said he expects the vote to move forward and
boat
plus there's some bombshell like he likes blood-sucking vampires quote
for the republicans also said they expect the confirmation of a forward at
that time
makes a filibuster truck they don't seem to even more absurd
after days like yesterday it's not hard to see why congress has exposed burglary
in scrutiny is
alloys facebook's stealing your privacy they're getting your tax dollars to
company made over a billion dollars u_s_ profits twenty twelve
uh... became a single penny of it in federal estate income taxes
back face book will be getting a refund from you and me of four hundred twenty
nine billion dollars
citizens for tax justice uncovered the social networks use of a single tax
loophole
produce their income taxes by about a billion dollars in twenty twelve even
got a bit additional four hundred and fifty one million in refunds earlier
years
becoming is preparing to go public last year democratic senator carl levin
predicted this outcome saying
but profitable corporations can use the stock
option tax deduction to base euro corporate income taxes for years on and
average tax payers are forced to pick up the tax burden
face book is the law
twenty rows natan two dozen eleven twenty six large corporations pay no
federal
corporate income tax despite their combined two hundred and heat
billion dollars
to corporations get the benefit of using our cummins
and they keep profits off hard-working americans like you and me
aimed for the script
our congress intel makes baseball payoff
don't pass the center ship as key corporate tax fairness act
it it does to the rest of the news senator elizabeth warren didn't waste
any time going after the bank srs
yesterday warned challenge financial regulators to explain the lack of
accountability for wall street's role in the financial meltdown
tell me a little bit about the last few times you've taken the biggest financial
institutions on wall street all the way to a trial
regulators were able to provide specific answers she didn't mince words about her
feelings of the matter saying
i'm really concerned that too big to fail has been
has become too big for trial
despite causing our nation to teeter on the brink of economic collapse
and swindle and thousands of americans out of their homes
bank stirs have avoided
public testimony by settling alleged crimes out of court
progress plot points out prosecution of financial fraud to get a twenty-year low
in two thousand eleven
even as many of the biggest banks were found guilty of fraud
maybe a few years late thanks to senator warren
bank stirs me final answer further crime
president obama is not waiting for congress to take on a lecture reform
yesterday he appointed to of the nation's top election lawyers to a new
presidential commission
charged with finding ways to streamline the election process
reduce the long lines they kept thousands from voting last november
new york times is reporting that robert our and ben ginsburg who have had
opposing views on issues like voter registration
boating laws presidential debates
i'll be working side by side effects are broken election system
senior adviser to the president and fight for said
there is a whole set ideological partisan issues around voting
another very specific questions of the administration of elections
that is something that you would hope and believe republicans and democrats
want a song
dampening challenged the voting rights act of the supreme court but far
reaching republican effort to repeal echo college
will have to fight harder than ever to preserve our democratic process
we have the power to control our democracy
but to do it we need to move to a national popular vote
let's get it done
for national popular vote dot com
and finally
is the onion a better news source the box news
one professor of west liberty university think so
presser stephanie wolfe provided students with a syllabus with which was
the two sources the students couldn't use while researching their assignments
the onion and fox news
as a wolf it's going to be onion is a parody site
but had a more interesting reason for banning the use of fox appalled news
do not use foxnews tagline parties makes me cringe
please do not subject me to these this biased news station
i'd almost rather you prep off an article from onion
unfortunately university officials informed the professorship in
and students music box so called names
for the sake of professor wolf sanity
pick up the students decided stores honey
and that's the way it is today friday february fifteenth twenty thirteen
i'm john hartman