more background on this with margaret tallen who has a piece with the white house angle from bloomberg news. first the speaker of the house as he went to the floor earlier today with this statement. >> my colleagues, in recent days, americans of every faith and political persuasion have mobilized in an objection to a rule put forward by the obama administration that constitutes an ambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country. this rule would require faith-based employers, including catholic charities, schools, universities and hospitals to provide services they believe are immoral. those services include sterilization and abortion and inducing drugs and devices and contra s contracepti contraception. in imposing this, the federal government has drifted dangerously beyond the constitutional boundaries, encroaching on religious freedom in a manner that affects millions of americans and harms some of our nation's most vital institutions. if the president does not reverse the department's attack on religious freedom, then the congress acting on behalf of the american people and the cons

>host: bloomberg news? safety reporter stephanie armour joins me to talk about a federal regulation of school vending machines. what new rules will start governing what kids snack on in schools? guest: the usda is expected in the spring to come out with new guidelines. initially it will be a proposal. what they will do is that nutrition guidelines for food that is sold in school during the school day. if this will include things like what is sold in vending machines, at fund-raisers that may be done during the school day, and a la carte items that children may buy the during the school day separate from the school lunch. for example, they may sell domino's pizza or french fries and that is separate. they will set nutrition standards for all those items, which has never been done. host: they call this competitive foods. guest: because they compete with the standard school lunch or breakfast. host: we are coming off a glass proposing new rules governing school lunches -- coming off of last month's new rules go

national debate over gun control the debate being led in large part by new york mayor michael bloomberg new york city's mayor michael bloomberg blames gun crime here on lax gun laws in other states congress should also be doing more to stop illegal gun sales before they occur and vince didn't want to contribute to violent crime in his city bloomberg decided to sue twenty seven firearms dealers in five states seven of them in for ginia mayor michael bloomberg is going after rogue gun dealers there this week they fought back with a controversial garden giveaway. giveaway. we're going to have a drawing the drawing is to simply send a couple of messages message one is going to new york mayor bloomberg but if you're going to come under for jane you know you don't go around virginia law enforcement and the other message is that human life is sacred. and human life and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem in fact you can't have enough guns of that type. the right to carry is exactly that it's a right it's n

business news from bloomberg headquarters in new york, linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. wednesday morning. still ahead, a funeral plans have been finalized for whitney houston. we will talk about how she is being honored in her home state of new jersey. also, a father's weakness may have helped his son to save someone's life. traffic and weather every ten minutes. here's a look at what's ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] gross -- i'll tell you what's really gross: used dishcloths. they can have a history that they drag around with them. for a cleaner way to clean try bounty extra soft. in this lab demo, one sheet of bounty extra soft leaves this surface 3 times cleaner than a dishcloth. it's super durable too. it's the cleaner way to clean. bring it with bounty extra soft. in the pink pack. and try bounty napkins. >> d.c. area transportation leaders will sit down today to discuss evacuation plans. the new plan for ordination and decision making. plan to address issues brought up by the january 2011 snowstorm that caused an extremely long commute for tho

a couple of messages which one is going to new york mayor bloomberg that if you're going to come into for june you know you don't go around virginia law enforcement and the other message is that human life is sacred innocent human life and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem in fact you can't have enough guns of that type. the right to carry is exactly that it's a right it's not an obligation it's an important option that we all have as americans this is a semiautomatic beretta nine millimeter handgun it's a very dependable weapon is currently in use by the u.s. army. or washington today the supreme court took up a landmark case a case that could decide for the first time ever whether the second amendment guarantees americans the right to own a gun the second amendment says plainly the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed but that comes at the end of a much longer sentence giving states the right to keep a well regulated militia. in one nine hundred seventy six the d.c. council i

law that google records in new -- , linda bell reporting at bloomberg news, linda reporting for abc 7valentine's day love from the weather department? not really. there's a system that could affect us on sunday. something in the imagination of the computer models. something we will keep an eye on. otherwise a few snowflakes possible this morning, but not a big deal. that would amount to a few flurries. gettysburg and clipping northern california county week at a few their north of the most of thatbut ground.ing the moving into the shenandoah valley, from romney towards winchester and interstate 81. we will see action like this off throughout the day and thisbly a few sprinkles afternoon and evening. of actuallye any of that perception today. 399 california in the district. chance of actually precipitation today. degrees in gaithersburg right .ow extensive cloud cover. gray skies on this day.tine's be avionics system moving .verhead today that will move offshore and to the northeast. out baltimore. pressure system developing over the four corners continue moving east by will move to ou

joining me now is margaret carlson of bloomberg news. margaret, thank you very much for joining us.now, listen, i want you and other reporters to go out there and dig into the state laws. i just did a quick read of them and the ones that say there are no exemption, can you find the very easy exemptions. the obama administration, i think, was led to believe or believed that they were doing something that actually been done in 28 other states. my reading of the law says at this point the obama administration with its definition of the exemption is on its own with the narrowest exemption out there in law. >> well, i'm not as good on the areas you are, lawrence. i called a couple hospitals to day where i knew someone and could get some information because i called the huge hospitals, catholic hospital association, the long island catholic hospital group, and i kept being referred to the diocese. so the two hospitals where i called which are catholic hospitals, they do provide prescription drug coverage. i was told that they have to provide contraceptive coverage because it would be disc

. >> smith: dan golden, an investigative reporter for bloomberg news, has written extensively about somethe most extreme military recruiting efforts at for-profit colleges. >> i went to a marine base in north carolina, and i found that one of the for-profit colleges was sending a recruiter to the wounded warriors' barracks, where she was signing up brain-injured marines who even had difficulty remembering what courses they were taking. and it's quite a widespread phenomenon. >> smith: take the case of sergeant chris pantzke. he always planned to return to college after he came home from iraq. he had joined the army in 2003. two years later, he was promoted to sergeant and became a squad leader charged with protecting fuel trucks driving through battle zones west of baghdad. he served there for nine months until one day a car bomb attack inflicted a traumatic brain injury, or tbi. >> i started getting moody, angry. i was so depressed that i did become suicidal. i was hospitalized, and they diagnosed me with ptsd. >> smith: pantzke's story was first reported by dan golden in bloomberg news

bloomberg new energy finance just completed a study about a month ago summarizing what happened in 2011 and projections for 2012. they said, if -- and they looked at all forms of energy, new, gas turbines, coal, wind, solar all the way down the line. they said if you have 10% finance, borrowing charges for all these forms of energy, wind today -- and this is wind on a site that's a four site, not a six site. it's a moderate site, within 10% or 15% of the cost of the loss form of energy today which is new gas, and we expect that to improve still further. we also expect solar to be coming down. so this is all good news, but you need a financing mechanism. even at 6%, 8%, 10%, that would really tip the balance. >> do you know -- let me ask on a somewhat different issue. we had a very good hearing where the quad renyel technology review was presented to us, and this was the first of these quad renyel technology reviews. to what extent were the conclusions in that quad renyel technology review used to influence what you've presented to us in this budget? does this budget reflect the same pri

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the economic news isn't all bad. >> bloomberg reporter jane king joins us live from the new york stockter news on-the-jobs' front? >> yeah, the jobs news continues to steadily get better that in a second, foreclosures something we've been watching carefully, filings nationwide down almost 20% in january compared to a year ago. 3% pick-up in foreclosure activity come paired to december. in california the total number of -- foreclosure findings fell from more than 67,000 in january a year ago to 52,000 last month. stronger than expected housing starts last month. coming -- thaw coming -- [ unintelligible ] general motors out with its largest annual profit in its 103 year history, a couple of years after the government bailed out the company. problems in europe hurting profits. here's how we look, dow is up about 334 points better -- about 33 points, weekly jobless claims continues to fall. bloomberg index is down 4/of a percent. i'm jane king, bloomberg news. >>> still waiting for that jeremy lin jersey you promised. >> you realize there is no cure for lin-sanity, you get it and keep it

in our last hour margaret tall len joined us covering the story for bloomberg news.asked her about the politics involved in all this and how the white house looked at all options. >> absolutely n. many ways the debate in the white house mirrors the debate in congress now. one in four voters is catholic. of course. there are catholics who support -- who use contraception, catholics who don't, older catholics, younger catholics, different levels of do you attend mass and do you take your queues from the bishop? all this plays into this. this is a policy debate and to some extent a political debate. the argument for the policy debate was largely put forth by this group of women advisors inside the white house, everyone from valerie jarrett, the president's adviser to melody barnes to tina chen who is mrs. obama's chief of staff. making the case again behind the scenes according to people familiar with these discussions that the president really didn't have any choice but to stand by secretary sebelius. these are policies he believes in and the whole health care law fall

concerned about a rolloff of these investments, and you see this in the financial newspapers, bloomberg, "new york times," all of these things, a real concern. is it just going to roll off and stop? and, again, i go back to reiterate that it's very important that america develop a home market for the development of the industries of manufacturing in america. you know, one of the g about the industry is we had a very large home market and that actually stimulated a lot of development of automobiles. >> is it fair if they let these tax credit expire we'll see a number of jobs lost as part of that? >> yes. i think the early returns out on that already. again, as you read the financial pages of the various newspapers around the country, and around the world, where there are continuing policies, aloys investmei allowing investments otherwise you see pullback i. was pleased to hear the president in the state of the union and see that in action as well the commitment to energy efficiency, something i believe is very important. senator portman and i have a bill 1,000 that addresses energy efficiency

. >> stephen sloan of bloomberg news. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> i mean my friends, they knew america where freedom is made real for all without regard to race or belief or economic condition. i need a new america which ever lastingly attacks the ideas that men can solve their differences by killing each other. >> as candidates campaign this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for the office and lost. go to our website to see video the contenders who had lasting impact on american politics. >> the profits of the radical liberal left offer one solution to the problems which confronted. they tell us again and again and again we should spend our way out of trouble and spend our way into a better tomorrow. this is c-span3 and every weekend, american history tv, telling the american story. get our schedules and see past programs at our web sites and join in the conversation on these social media sites. >> now a house energy subcommittee hearing where lawmakers questioned the homeland xurlt department about a leake

angela gryling-keen is a reporter for "bloomberg news," new chair of the speakers committee and also our membership secretary. thank you for all of that. skip over the speaker for just a moment. amy morris is the organizer of today's luncheon. this is her first and she's done a fabulous job. thank you for all of that. and she is executive editor and anchor for federal news radio, part of the wtop empire. thurgood marshall jr. is vice chairman of the board of governors for the postal service. he is the incoming chair as well. congratulations. nice to have you here today. and the list of former presidents goes on and on. jerry zremski, former president and also bureau chief of the "buffalo news." shawn riley is a reporter for "the federal times," and mike kazi is senior correspondent for federal news radio. and now please, give them your round of applause. [ applause ] popular lure tells us of the u.s. postal service, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. but what weather might not prevent a financial

. >> from bloomberg news. i want to ask about the personnel, the fore structure review. if i understand you correctly, that the result of that might be additional reductions in the overall and strength levels in some of the out years and, also, have you done any calculations, any projections, ballpark, about what pro portion of the currently projected reductions might require involuntary separation? >> i want to first make sure that i did not misspeak, and it's not additional. at the end of the day, we're going to, we're ramping down to the 57,000. really, for the army leadership, what's most important is, not the forward 90 but the rampdown to make sure we do not put ripples in the force and we have the ability, we have reversibility. if something happens between now and the next five, six years as we do this rampdown, that we have the capability to reverse that and bring that back up. there are many things we can do for it, and so we can start to put a lot of our mid-grade majors and lieutenant colonels back into the regenerating force. we need to pull them out, we can

the report from bloomberg news at bloomberg.com says that the senate is planning to vote friday on a republican plan to allow businesses to refuse plans that violate their religious beliefs and it would cancel the rule from president obama's rule to mandate businesses to cover without charge to religious affiliati affiliations, and so this is how the debate began to unfold on the floor. this is senator roy blunt from missouri. >> this is going to allow people of a moral factor to whether people comply with health care mandates. now mr. president, we have long had the exemption for hiring mandates and in fact, when i served in the house of representatives, i have been a president of the southern baptist university and i understood the importance of these institutions, and i thought that maintaining the faith distinctives is part of why they provide education and health care and day care and other things, and so, i have long been an advocate of a principle that the supreme court held up just a few weeks ago, 9-0, that there is a difference in these faith-based institutions. and now tha

$109 a barrel that's a high for nine months it will likely go higher next month according to a bloomberg news survey ... the face-off with iran will be getting more intense the feds are turning up the heat on the banks citibank we have just learned got a subpoena from the justice department as part of a new government initiative to investigate banks in the more gyp mortgage-backed securities business ... orange juice is getting the all clear from the usda ... on an adjacentthere will be no major price hikes for orange juice at the grocery store now ... google may be coming out with a 7 in. design for an electronic reader at about $200 they may produce 2 million tablets and apple is working on a smaller i-pad in the testing phase is right now gasoline prices are rising so quickly there nearly $5 a gallon in california this is an coronado near san diego as you can see premium is $4.94 a gallon the nationwide average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now at $3.65 that's up 12¢ this week part of the reason for the increase in these prices is iran. the country recently cut off oil experts toexpo

that's business news from bloomberg headquarters in new york, linda bell reporting for news. you. >> thank you. is chilly outside. >> we are entering the second in the trial of the uva murderingarged with his ex-girlfriend. what prosecutors are expected to bring up next. >> and how the cold weather this couple closeo a calls for a woman and a truck driver. calls for a woman and a truck driver. >> we buying this juicer online was unbelievable. what a bargain! [ female announc ] ] sometimes a good deal turns out to be not such a good deal. but new bounty gives you value you can see. in this lab demo, one sheet of new bounty leaves this surface cleaner than two sheets of the leading ordinary brand. so you can clean this mess with half as many sheets. bounty has trap and lock technology to soak up big spills and lock them in. why use more when you can use less? bring it with new bounty. >> winter's return to the d.c. area made the latter half of the weekend little uncomfortable. the cold weather led to a call in berkeley. a big tree crashed into an this home,droom of trapping a w

is making changes to protect privacy while on the internet it's getting a do not track button bloomberg news reports that google has agreed to embed the button and its browser to allow users to restrict the amount of data collected on them either internet firms during the same thing is part of the proposed internet privacy bill of rights that president obama is urging congress to pass >>i pads may not only the entertaining but educational as well a study by a school district in maine found a bump in literacy scores and children who used the i pads in the classroom the school district provided i pads for half of its kindergarten class last fall after completing a series of literacy tests the district found that the students from the i pad classrooms outperform the students from the classrooms without the i pads some experts caution not put too much educational value in these tablets because the novelty may just wear off >>we will be back with the medical watch after the break some constipation medications can take control of you. break free. with miralax. it's clinically proven to relieve con

i'm beejal patel of bloomberg news with today's business headlines home prices in the chicago area aretill sinking ... in january the median price was $140,000 in the nine county chicago metropolitan area home sales across the state where the strongest in january since 2007 ... business is still booming at the dollar tree stores the stores are getting bigger thanks to higher demand for more affordable products on the part of consumers ... in the search for savings chicago residents know how to find a great deal and new survey said that chicago was among the top 25 frugal cities in the nation the use the most digital coupons nine cities in the men west dominate the headlines in that story we have a new update on the housing market is another sign that there's a bounce back but a bigger jump in home sales was expected coming up a former chicago police officer is sentenced for a deadly drunk driving accident ... and will have an update on the jesse it's time to get going. to have the energy to turn a "to do" list into a memory. to put more giddy-up in our get-along. to keep stepping up ev

around greece and that xwrooes is in a very complicated situation that quote from the reporting of bloomberg news. the elections scheduled for early april in greece and citigroup raising the possibility that greece will be porsed to leave the euro within the next 18 months, raising the possibility everyone 25% now the to 50% if the greek government is unable to reach any solid reforms that would stabilize its debt and lead to the path to more economic stability in greece you're listening to "washington today" here on c-span radio. >> and some other news today, first to wall street. the dow was up 33, closing at 12,878. nasdaq up 2 and s&p also up 2. the white house today saying it wants to allay the concerns of catholic church affiliated employers over that new requirement for them to provide birth control coverage regardless of religious beliefs. jay carney did not say how those concerns could be addressed. he said there were a lot of ideas for doing it and continued to defend the new policy while making it clear the white house is looking for a way to calm the firestorm some say that's erupted

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm beejal patel with bloomberg news live from the cme group in chicago with today's business ... apple is literally at top the world half a trillion dollar valuation makes it a new all-time high for share prices ... it is expected to unveil the new i-pad 3 and the new i-phone launched in the fall ... and a new low for james murdoch who is stepping down from his chairmanship at news international he is still going to be working in the new york headquarters of news corp. ... it will be costing you more money to have a checking account a new study says that consumers are paying 21% more in fees for basic checking that's $7.72 per month more than what they are typically accustomed to ... 30 many regulations for banks that make any discounts on these fees prohibitive ... ben bernanke is keeping stimulus effort in place ... the employment rate is still too ominous markets are in the red today after the fed the chair comments gross domestic product shows the economy growing 3% better than expected ... and income gains are stronger than expected as well in spite of the mild winter se

bloomberg news says apple will pay $50 million to buy a company called chomp, technology helping you sort through apps that apple sells. the mercury news reports facebook is about to get advertising more prominent so you'll see bigger ads for products your friends have likd and it should make fisbook more valuable z on wall street, dow sael failed to stay above 13,000 mark today. and nasdaq and s and p edged up politicians from all over marin and sonoma counties celebrated a realization of a dream. they were at the station for the ground breaking of the smart train, the passenger rail service that will go from lark spur to cloverdale. and will run parallel to highway 101. there is a special saefls tax to fund this project. >> tonight a california watch investigation. >> every trip i have were injury autos we look into injuries and deaths among patients in a state-run venl care system that have never been fully explained. >> that means we didn't find out what happened that. disturbs me. >> also ahead two studio was oscar dreams. work from pixar that could result in academy gold. stay w

has business news from bloomberg headquarters in new york. >> good morning. wall street.ay on few hours we will get the report from the labor department. economists expect it to show workers were added last month. rate is expected to hold steady at three-year level of 8.5%. stock-index futures essentially. essentially. a blog says apple is working andd on the iphone 5 unveil it this june. if you cannot wait that long, of folks saying 3 could be unveiled next month. burger king is giving away a golden rings this weekend. have details on that and how social media is expected to change the big game this year. that's in the next hour. for abc 7 reporting news from new york. back to you. >> thank you. 4:37 on this friday morning. >> still ahead, more in the murder of a local community activist. police are saying about the second arrest in the case. >> i saw the police cars coming up banda della copter. was exciting. on?d, what's going correct a wild night for drivers in northeast. 20-mile police chase came to halt.eching >> first another check on traffic and weath

into the political analysis we return to washington and ron klain, who has done a column for bloomberg newsn this very subject, and he has served as chief of staff, and a friend of mine and i'm so glad to be able to welcome him inside "the war room." ron, welcome. >> thanks jen. it's good to be here. and congratulations on a great start to your show. >> thanks. i know you have been in a lot of war rooms in your day. but you also know having been in many campaigns and served many candidates that gas prices is the perpetual issue, and that no ceo can actually lower the price of gas, but you did write a very interesting column this week in bloomberg with an idea of how to at least soften the blow. >> sure. i absolutely agree, the president can't magically lower the price of gases, and speaker gingrich can't do that anymore than he can build his moon base overnight. we can make more fuel-efficient cars all of the things that president obama has been doing and doing the right way. anditit g g pririsso hihi giving some help to the folks who are hurt by that through no fault of their own, folks wh