The speaker the house will be in order. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 4, 2021, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, madam speaker. And now mr. Speaker. By rejoining the Paris Agreement, President Biden has promised the world the u. S. Will retake its position in the fight against Climate Change and be true to its word to meet our commitments to reduce Greenhouse Gases and now it falls to us, it falls to congress to prof. The president right. Prove the president right. Despite the confused, disingenuous and false rhetoric around the Paris Agreement, in reality, it is catalyzing, measur
Nice recovery and some near normal temperatures with some sunshine expected in the forecast. As you head out on the roads, i want to give you a view of the xhat bridge san mateo bridge. Well see a smooth flow of traffic, hopefully that continues looking at the traffic maps, as we see this live view at the san mateo bridge flowing smoothly there. There have been a couple of issues, ill check on those and see if it will slow you down for your drive, coming up in a few minutes. Breaking news this morning, several people have just been rescued from a warehouse fire in oakland. Today in the bays thom jensen live at the scene with the very latest for us. Thom . Reporter well, i can tell you that everybody did get out of this warehouse fire. This is at the apgar warehouse here in oakland at apgar and west street. There was what weve heard from witnesses on the scene, and people who actually lived in this warehouse is that there was as many as eight People Living in here, even though the wareh
Monday in parliament. Hello and welcome to monday in parliament. We have a new Commons Speaker the question is that sir lindsay takes the chair of this house is speaker. Sir Lindsay Hoyle will succeed john bercow. This house will change but it will change for the better. And he gets a warm welcome. Youll also bring gore signature to our proceedings. We have a problem if they can hold the executive to account and i know that you will stand up for that principle. So after several hours of voting sir Lindsay Hoyle was finally elected to one of the most important jobs in politics. It fell to the longest serving mp, the former conservative chancellor, now independent mp, Kenneth Clarke to deliver the results. Sir Lindsay Hoyle beat six other candidates. The job of speaker comes with a salary of 150 thousand pounds and the added bonus that now he doesnt have to campaign in the coming election because its customary for candidates not to stand against the speaker. So no wonder sir lindsay was
Cspans q a. This week on newsmakers, neil bradley, the chief policy officer and executive Vice President of the u. S. Chamber of commerce. Thank you very much for being here. Neil thanks for having me. Greta we still we also have with us Jeanna Smialek with the New York Times and chris with rugaber with associated press. Chris. Chris lets talk about trade. 40 of the fortune 500 has complained on earning calls and so forth about the impact of President Trumps tariffs on chinese imports and other items. How big an impact, how much is this hurting companies . I am interested how you may compare it to the benefits of the tax cut in 2017, which reduced rates on business. Have these tariffs got into a point where there almost offsetting the benefits of the tax cut . Neil they are certainly dampening the benefit of the tax cut. There are two impacts of the tariffs on business. The first is the tariffs in already in place and are at cost. The is uncertainty of additional second tariffs. That i
Point where there almost offsetting the benefits of the tax cut . Neil they are certainly dampening the benefit of the tax cut. There are two aspects of the tariffs on business that are impacting business. The first is the tariffs already in place and are at cost. The second is uncertainty of additional tariffs. That is playing out over the next several months with respect to china and even automobiles, with respect to tariffs on automobiles. And if you are running a company by the way, not just Large Companies if you run a company, you have difficult y planning, because you dont know the cost of goods you are buying to either sell to consumers in the United States or the cost of something you are making in the United States. That is a real problem. The other side of that is not just tariffs on our imports, it is tariffs posted in retaliation huge harm for the ag industry and increasingly manufacturers. Jeanna the university of Michigan Confidence numbers just came out. What we saw was