we will hear from randy johnson. as tom said, randy gets to deal with the easy issues like health care and labor relations and all of the topics where parties seem to agree all the time. i will be very interested to hear what he has to say about the three new regulations issued to the nlrb as the chairman made her way out the door. and they will be very interesting. their presentations, i hope, will help create some useful context to the major economic debates that are now re-gaining momentum as people come back from their holiday. in the coming days, everybody and their uncle will be offering a jobs plan, and that is a good thing, because that is where the focus needs to be -- on jobs. we are not going to be able to deal with the other challenges we face if we don't start putting people back to work, to take them off the public payroll and have them paying taxes and driving economic confidence. at the chamber, we have been intensely focused on jobs since the outbreak of the financial crisis. just look at the front of

randi. >> all right. athena jones, thank you so much. we'll continue to watch and wait for the president there who is about to speak in holland, michigan and tour the johnsony we were just talking about. we'll take a quick break, and as soon as the president starts to speak, we'll be here with it. and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ the authentic, the rare, the hard to define. to those always searching for what's pure and what's real from we who believe we know just how you feel. haagen-dazs. >>> and we want to remind you that we're waiting for president obama to speak. he'll be speaking any moment now we believe in holland, michigan. he's been touring a plant there for hybrid car battery technology, and this very plant was actually created with stimulus funds. >>> now for some other headlines and news you might have missed. u.s. markets are back up today after positive news about corporate earnings and the labor market boosted investor sentiment. the dow up 389 points after yesterday's 500-point plunge. at some point in each of the past three days the dow has soared or plunged more than