The committee will come to order. I want to thank the c ha the committee will come to order. I would like to thank chair glandular say it to come back from boats and thank you for making yourself available. We now will recognize the gentleman from new york for five minutes. Thank you mister chairman. Thank you so much for being here. I also share the Cybersecurity Infrastructure in the homeland committee. And congress places an Important Role in harmonization so there is no freedom of regulation. We had a hearing, including one from ppi, that their cybersecurity employee spent anywhere focusing on compliance matters instead of daytoday emission. Last month, the fcc decided to release for new proposals with regulatory language on resilience for the Capital Market industry. This comes nearly a year after the fcc proposed to the rules that would require issuers to publicly disclose it within four Business Days following the determination that let me be clear, given the existing workforce
Annual is this on . Yes, ok. Welcome to the 15th annual Barbara Olson memorial lecture. I am eugene meyer, president of the society. This memorial lecture started as many of you know shortly after 9 11. Ted nelsons inaugural lecture reminded us of what it means to be an american, how are our legal tradition is a critical part of our identity as americans. Bo ted was here today. And barbara understood this connection. We want this lecture to remind a to remind lawyers of it. So that they foster legal principles that advance freedoms, personal responsibility, and the rule of law. Other lecturers have included Justice Scalia, chief justice roberts, Vice President cheney, judges can star, robert burke, edith jones, douglas ginsburg, now justice neil gorsuch, former attorney general michael mukasey, peter teel, john allison, and senators tom todd. And then sask. And ben saas. That brings us to todays lecture. It is my honor to introduce white House Counsel don mcgann. Before the council off
Reaction around the fact that the government had been shut down for a third day in a row. The senate cleared a pathway for shortterp spending through february 8th. Investors seem to be heartened from that. Hiles now off the record lows. The s p 500 energy index is the best second tar for the s p 500, helped out by a lot of the drillers. Real string there for the driller after they reported a strong Fourth Quarter. They beat earnings and revenues. Earnings by more than 13 . Margins quadrupling to about 15 . Lots of strength there. The company is also talking about the idea that there is a worldwide recovery under way for the oil market and that the u. S. Shale market has much to do with this. Helping out some of the other drillers as well. Lets take a look at the 10year yield along with some of the rate sensitive sectors. If we look at the 10year yield, we are going to see earlier it was down about two basis points. At this point i am hearing that we dont have that, but the rate sensiti
In the Senate Chamber at about 8 30 p. M. And walk over to the house for President Trumps first state of the Union Address. Tomorrow, republican senators join their house colleagues for a threeday policy retreat. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, the earth belongs to you and everything in it. And even when wrong seems overwhelming, you continue to rule. Create in our lawmakers a hunger and thirst for integrity and honesty. Give them pure hearts and truthful lips, accompanied by a passion to glorify you. Provide them the wisdom to live for the honor of your name, as they remember they are your ambassadors. May they look to you for help, knowing that you surround them with the shield of your favor. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Unite
Questions are good a lot going on all right the markets are crazy, becky what was that, 350 on friday, when it was all said and done. And strongly higher again this morning. Almost 200 and also well, well take a quick look heres a check on the markets u. S. Equity futures at this hour are, as you can see, 193 points indicated on the dow the nasdaq up another 25 the nasdaq shb dhad been diverg last week. Thats a big move that we saw, continuing buying, going on, across the board in this country. And actually in asia and europe, overnight, some strong Market Action and some interesting news in the tenyear note as well. But as you can see, the nikkei was one more than 1 point 260 points hang seng up sharply as well check out europe, green across the board, in europe, when i watched, at least looked this morning. Not the gains that were seeing here or in asia. But well see what happens this week as we move forward. Its only 6 01 and treasury yields moderating on the tenyear, which that you