Shell Companies Moving money to farflung places. Julie hyman have the latest Economic Data. Accelerating for the first time in five months, coming in at 54 and a half. 54. 3 was the prior reading. Predictingave been 54. 2. This Services Industry accounts for about 90 of the u. S. Economy. Were talking about a very important figure here. Economists say were looking at moderate expansion. But the s p and the nasdaq down six cents of 1 . Followed by about a quarter of 1 . Perhaps overwhelming this Economic Data is the general global concern that appears to be manifesting itself this morning. Were definitely seeing a risk off environment. That is perhaps most evident in the japanese yen. We are seeing a rally in the yen, the dollar falling over the past recessions three sessions. The dollar is at the highs it has been in a yearandahalf. Versus all ofing its trading partners. Change in todays major currencies versus the japanese yen, basically read on the screen. All of these are fallen ver
I give a little bit about the agenda. I know were going to havet then several debates in this committee on the floor of the subject. Todays was through the meeting because i did not know we have been scheduled for 1130 i would like to finish but 1140. That where we all get a chance to vote. But anyway, we have several bills on the agenda for the 1st time as well as for nominees, three of those are right for a vote. Last week but moving those out of committee. We know we had difficulties between the two parties on that issue. I went over that. The we will hold over the thgislation on one nominee vote on the other three. It has been a lot of discussion about the Supreme Court vacancy last couple weeks. The record is clear about how the senate approachesup vacancies that arise. I spoke at length on the floor about these issues. Y i thought i would spend a few minutes reviewing where we are in dispelling some of the myths that i have heard repeated a number of times. The most appropriate p
It is the Prime Ministers first visit and the first visit since 1977 from a Prime Minister of canada. Chuck grassley said his committee will not take up a Supreme Court nominee until a new president is elected and sworn in. The committee met today. That is coming up next on cspan2. Then Charles Bolden testifies about his agencys 2017 budget request. And later a discussion on the use of executive power. Join cspan friday at 1 30 p. M. Eastern for the Funeral Service for former first lady nancy reagan. First lady michele obama, and former president george bush and laura bush will attend the funeral. Ms. Reagan will be buried next to her husband at the library. Live coverage on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. The republicans are saying they will not vote on any nominee for the Supreme Court that is sent in them. Senator grassley is the chair and senator leahy is the leadcrack on lead democrat on the committee. [inaudible conversations] i cant officially start this meeting until we get
Education that is a monopoly. Colleges and universities are the only ones allowed to serve degrees without providing a job in the worst part of it is, they borrowed money to pay for the degree so now they have thousands and thousands of dollars in student loans. And that you only job he can get, they could have gotten without the degree. We have been failed by every big institution. Every day, we find out they have cheated someone. They lied about something. They lied to their stockholders, investors, took multimillion dollar bonuses while the company was going into the tank. We have been failed by everyone and people are not confident in our institutions and it leads to anger and frustration. That is why leadership matters. Leadership does not come to you and say, lets be angry and angrier. Leadership says, yes, we have real problems and we also have answers and solutions. The solutions do not lie in one person. I always get uncomfortable and people say, we put all of our faith in you
This was a governmental operations and it quickly took on the nickname of its chairman, frank church, and it was best known to history as the Church Committee. The committee met for 16 months and reviewed more than 10,000 documents and called more than 8000 witnesses before its staff. This included the creation of the senate Collection Committee and the creation of the foreign internet Intelligence Surveillance act of 1978 which we know as isa. We will have guests to provide Historical Context of the 40yearold video that you are about to see. From new york city, Frederick Schwarz is with us and here in our studio in washington, d. C. Is elliot maxwell. He was the counsel to the does any of the pennsylvania senator rick sweitzer. Lets start with the basics, mr. Maxwell, could you explain how the Church Committee got constituted . What was the impetus . My view is it came about as a series of articles by activities in the Intelligence Community, followed by many other people. This was in