Abigail the dow, s p, and nasdaq, we see solid gains. The s p 500 now higher for a fifth day in a row, the longest since early november. That is true for the dow as well and the nasdaq up 1 10 of 1 . Our friends at Compass Point financial think this action could continue, and relative to taxes, you were just talking about the breaking news on taxes, everyone is waiting to see whether republicans get a bill to the president , our friends at Compass Point think it goes through in 2018 or 2019 but is not entirely priced in. If there was somewhat of a stall, that would be a negative. Lets see where it has been a true roundtrip with regard to taxes. We are looking at the highly taxed companies relative to the s p 500 at the time of the election, and shortly after the election when investors were positive on the possibility of tax reform happening quickly. However, on the health care stalls and lots of other policy stalls, these companies have been underperforming. Right now, pretty much bac
Bill that has bipartisan support. As im sure well hear from our witnesses today, the bill was approved by the committee by a vote of 4712. By the Committee Even adopted a democratic amendment by voice vote during the markup. After we hear in our distinguished Financial Services committee members, well move on to our witnesses from the weighs and means committee, to hear about hr1 conference report. I know there will be a lot of opinions about what should and should not be included in tax reform, weve had those opinions and that discussion for one, im excited that our tax process is finally coming to the floor after years of work for the president s signature. With that, id like to yield to our Ranking Member hr33, 12, a lot of us are concerned this is another roll back of important dodd frank protections, and it undermines the oversight of large regional banks, but ill let our Ranking Member when she gets here. As far as the tax bill goes, i would agree with you, general, we should hav
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Congressional reporter from bloomberg. They are here to talk about the week ahead. What a week it will be. We talked with our listeners and viewers about the tax reform bill. A lot of other materials are on the table. First of all, your impressions. As the year began, did either of you expect that the week before christmas there would be so much to get done in the last five days . Sara certainly not. Republicans control all three branches of government. There were talks of trying to get an infrastructure package, health reform, tax, all done by the end of the year. And we see they are barely able to get one of them over the finish line by the end of the year. I do not republicans correctly assessed how challenging this would be. This big ball of things rolling towards the end of the year . Did you expect to be reporting from the capital in the last week of the year . Because they were not able to get other things down, passing tax reform becomes more important so they can have somethin
Panelists for agreeing to speak on this very critical and timely topic. To all of our viewers watching on cspan2 and listening on cspan radio. We would like for this panel to be as interactive as possible so we have cards on the table for our guests and house to submit questions for the q a and we also, for the viewers watching on tv, you can tweet us your questions. Before i pass the microphone to our director of policy and Efficacy Program and the moderator of todays program, would like to say a few words. Mpac is a National Public Affairs Organization that works on pluralism for the american doublet. We do that by working on policies that affect our community. The Foreign Policy areas we work on our National Security and Civil Liberties, immigration, human security, as well as religious freedom. For purposes here on this panel, we will be discussing the issue how to counterd isis. It has been mpacs position for years that a robust position is necessary but at the same time our natio