A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
Robert granieri through the vanguard donor advised fund. The David Tepper Charitable Foundation inc. Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Sthens inc. Hoover welcome to the firing li, mayor bloomberg. Bloomberg thank you for having me. Hoover were here the Global Business forum and one of the. Pics you are most focused on is climate Chang Bloomberg yes. Hoover . And how businesses can step into the fray and help ll the void where the federal government, or governments, are not taking responsibility for addressing the climate crisis. Bloomberg well businesses fill the void, the public fills the void, and private philanthpy fills the void. It would be nice if you had the federal government along with you, but i think weve shown by closing 297 of the 530 coalfired power plas in the last few years. Weve been closing power plants in america at the same rate when trump was president , than when obama was elected, which says that the federal government can help
The market, this is called a rally. Investors want that mini china deal and now it looks like they may get it. Stocks are going straight up. Look at this. The dow up about 1 , 250 points. The s p up about 1 , 27 points. The nasdaq, up better than 1 , up 78. That is a rally. We are also covering this. Violence and intimidation outside the trump rally in minneapolis last night. Oh, it was ugly. The trump haters attacked the police and Trump Supporters. Senator tim scott said people across the country are quote, consistently being intimidated. Watching what happened last night, senator scott said it sickens my stomach. Yeah. Theres a lot going on today. We are going to cover it all. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart happening overnight, a rocket attack on an Iranian Oil Tanker. It was near the saudi port city of jeda. Lauren, what happened . Lauren you had an iranian tanker attacked maybe by two missiles, caused a fire, oil leaked into the red sea. This was 60 miles from that Saudi
I are so pleased to announce a major step forward in President Trumps plan to help ensure that more americans have access to safer more affordable and cleaner new cars that meet their familys needs. 2 1 2 years ago President Trump spoke with auto workers in michigan and said that we would review and revise the last administrations unattainable fuel economy regulations. Those rules were making cars more expensive and impeding safety because consumers were being priced out of newer, safer vehicles. Our team of experts have been jointly working together conducting a long, thoughtful and detailed review of these rules. And todays action is an important down payment on the president s commitment. The one National Program that we are announcing today will ensure that there is one and only one set of National Fuel economy standards as Congress Mandated and intended. No state has the authority to opt out of the nations rules, and no state has a right to impose its policies on everybody else in