Next, the hearing on the house energy and commerce subcommittee on the potential Health Effects of e. Cigarettes. It also includes Public Officials from North Carolina, massachusetts, michigan and kansas testifying how the states are responding to the rise in vaping related illnesses. The subcommittee on oversight and investigations hearing will now come to order. Today the committee is holding a hearing entitled sounding the alarm the Public Health crisis of cigarettes. The purpose is to examine the Public Health impacts the regulatory authorities related to key cigarette manufacturing sales and use. The chair now recognizes for purposes of an opening statement. Our country is facing a serious Public Health epidemic one that is causing severe harm. It will examine the cost of the epidemic and the uncontrolled rising use of e. Cigarettes lifethreatening illnesses and the use of products we must work to protect the American People from the misunderstanding about these products. The data
The subcommittee on oversight and investigations hearing will now come to order. Today the committee is holding a hearing entitled sounding the alarm the Public Health crisis of cigarettes. The purpose is to examine the Public Health impacts the regulatory authorities related to key cigarette manufacturing sales and use. The chair now recognizes for purposes of an opening statement. Our country is facing a serious Public Health epidemic one that is causing severe harm. It will examine the cost of the epidemic and the uncontrolled rising use of e. Cigarettes lifethreatening illnesses and the use of products we must work to protect the American People from the misunderstanding about these products. The data is clear over the past several years, we have seen an unacceptably high proportion of people facing nicotine addiction. This year alone more than 27 of High Schoolers report they are using ecigarettes or vaping as it is also known. 2011 to 2015, there was a 900 increase, 900 increase
Fbn a. M. Starts right now. Glory days. Well, theyll pass you by. Glory days. In the wink of a young girls eye. Glory days, glory days. Well, theres a girl that lives up the block. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning on this wednesday. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, everybody. Im cheryl casone. Lauren lets take a look at how your money is moving after a monster rally yesterday. We do have a retreat this morning, dow futures down 102, nasdaq giving up 29, s p down 10. Cheryl we did see a fall in bond prices yesterday on news of the tariff delay. Yield on the 10 year right now is lower by 5 basis points, a little bit of a boost this morning. Folks want to watch this on to todays market. Lauren as we continue to watch what goes on with iran, the price of the u. S. Dollar, we do have oil pulling back by 1. 3 , 56. 35 a barrel. Cheryl chinas economy weakening even more. Real estate in particular. Taking a look at asia, despite that news, there is green arrows across the boar
Legal basis for directing National Security agencies to take such an extreme action. As we reported on this broadcast yesterday the New York Times lays out the multipronged effort by trump and his allies to get just one federal agency to bite and join the crusade to overturn the result by seizing machines. Trump reportedly tried to get doj to seize the machines and then rejected by ag bill barr so then a plan for the Defense Department to do it. Only to get pushback from white House Counsel and Lo And Behold his own lawyer Rudy Giuliani. So then giuliani was asked if he could look into whether dhs could seize the machines. Giuliani said, sure. He tried but then he too was rebuffed by secretary Ken Cuccinelli and now another attempt by trump to get an official to agree to the plan. The New York Times Reporting This, quote, Cuccinelli Who told giuliani that the Homeland Security department didnt have the authority to impound the machines later encountered trump at a meeting on a differen
Legal basis for directing National Security agencies to take such an extreme action. As we reported on this broadcast yesterday the New York Times lays out the multipronged effort by trump and his allies to get just one federal agency to bite and join the crusade to overturn the result by seizing machines. Trump reportedly tried to get doj to seize the machines and then rejected by ag bill barr so then a plan for the Defense Department to do it. Only to get pushback from white House Counsel and Lo And Behold his own lawyer Rudy Giuliani. So then giuliani was asked if he could look into whether dhs could seize the machines. Giuliani said, sure. He tried but then he too was rebuffed by secretary Ken Cuccinelli and now another attempt by trump to get an official to agree to the plan. The New York Times Reporting This, quote, Cuccinelli Who told giuliani that the Homeland Security department didnt have the authority to impound the machines later encountered trump at a meeting on a differen