Host clinton cash is the name of the book Peter Schweizer joins us from tallahassee. Mr. Sub forum page 183 you write that the clintons are perhaps the most politically sophisticated public figures of their generation. They know how things work in the corridors of power and around the world. They know that Foreign Governments are trying to influence American Foreign policy and they know that rivalry is rampant around the world. They have numerous avenues for making money. Some of those avenues may not be as lucrative as even the 700 thousand dollars speech in nigeria. Guest yes one of the defenses you hear from the clinton camp is that they are unaware of certain things or perhaps there is nothing seriously afoot with all this money flowing to the Clinton Foundation or in the form of speaking. But they have been playing on the International Stage iv a long time. A lot of people but contributed and paper speeches by bill clinton they are not an Insurance Company in the u. K. They are co
Consent the reading of the names not be necessary. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask consent the mandatory quorum under rule 22 be waived. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i now prove move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed say noah. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Reid i now move to proceed to executive session and calendar number 569. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All those in favor say aye. All opposed say nay. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk pamela l. Reeves of tennessee to be United States district judge for the Eastern District of tennessee. Mr. Reid there is a cloachtion at the desk cloture motion at the desk, mr. President. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk we the undersigned senators in accordance with th
Measures of asset prices and whether or not they appear to be diverging from historical norms. Namely its hard but trying to spot any asset price bubbles that might be emerging. Were looking at leverage, which build up in leverage can be very dangerous to the Financial System and pose stability risks. Were looking at trends in leverage. Were looking at credit growth to see whether or not that has potentially worrisome trends. In addition to that were looking the particularly through the stress tests at Financial Institutions and a low Interest Rate environment. We have to worry about whether or not theyre appropriately dealing with Interest Rate risk ls. We have been looking at that and, in fact, our current stress test includes a special portion related to and as youre looking and im going to run out of time and our chairman is very punctual, have you found anything yet that gives you concern . Do you have a tool with the zero Interest Rate policy to address that if you do . I would s
Emphasized, and i agree, there is no need to bring down the size of our portfolio in order to tighten Monetary Policy. We have a range of tools that we can use to raise the level of shortterm Interest Rates at the time that the committee deems it appropriate to begin to tighten Monetary Policy conditions. Thats a way off. But we continue to develop tools to make sure that we have an arsenal of tools to be able to, as appropriate, tighten conditions, and not have to do asset sales or manage our portfolio in any way that would be disruptive to financial markets. If i can shift now to the regulatory side of your duties here as chair of the fed, board of governors. Bozal three is supposed to be in effect, is it not in 15, 2015 . I believe so. Adjustments for capital, flexibility, capital liquidity, so to speak. Is that correct . I believe so. Senator crapo mentioned the foreign banks and so forth. Will you as a regulator make sure that the foreign banks comply with their capital standards
And the battle of a brain dead teenager in oakland goes from the hospital room to a court room. Well tell you what to expect in the jahi mcmath case. And were just two days away from the big 49ers packers playoff game. Kron 4s mike pelton is at Lambeau Field in green bay with your pregame coverage. Since fact san mateo bridge is a problem for a ride in both directions of 92. Your drive time about 12 minutes between 881 01. As we take it over to the traffic map westbound 24 is a clear shot through the caldecott tunnel looks like that before doing pretty good with mostly green on the roadways sensors indicated speeds over 50 mi. An hour. Anny the family of 13 year old jahi mcmath will be in court today, looking for a judge to order Childrens Hospital oakland to allow the teen to have a feeding tube inserted so she can be transferred to another facility. Mcmath is scheduled to be taken off life support on tuesday after she suffered complications from a tonsillectomy last month. Several do