Talking the talk: The wide pack of potential GOP presidential hopefuls are weighing in on gay marriage as they attempt to distinguish themselves from one another and the Supreme Court is posed to take up the issue. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says a Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage won’t be enough to make it the law of the land overnight. Gov. Bobby Jindal, meanwhile, told ABC’s This Week on Sunday that he wants to amend the Constitution to leave the decision over who can marry up to each state. Also, Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum—a strident social conservative—just seems to want to be asked fewer questions about it. CNN has the full story.
Feeling good: Rising sales helped boost hiring at U.S. businesses in the last three months of 2014, and companies are optimistic that continued improvement in business conditions will bring increased employment and wages in the current quarter, a new survey shows. And many businesses expect the steep drop in oil prices in recent months to have a positive impact on them this year, according to the survey released today by the National Association for Business Economics. A total of 51% of respondents say they expect wages and salaries to increase at their companies—up sharply from 34% in the fourth-quarter survey. The Associated Press has the full story.
Something in the air: The U.S. Secret Service recovered a small, remote-controlled drone on the White House grounds overnight and is investigating how it got there, a federal official says. The device found is a quadcopter, a commercially available device that costs a few hundred dollars, said the official, who asked for anonymity because the information isn’t yet public. White House press secretary Josh Earnest declined to characterize the device earlier this morning, saying only that “it does not pose any sort of ongoing threat to anybody at the White House.” Bloomberg has the full story.
