Leaders such as Angela Merkel and french president francois hollande. Im pleased to have david cohan at the first time at the table. Its said you know as much about sanctions as anybody in the obama administration. Give me the sense of what you have learned about how to make them work. How effective they are, what you have to have. Once you have applied them and taken them off, is it difficult to put them back on . David sanctions can be enormously effective if we have a couple of key elements. One is a linkage between what the sanctions are trying to achieve and overall u. S. Government policy. We bring to bear all of what the u. S. Government is trying to do to affect a policy objective. The second is that we have as much international buyin and cooperation as possible. Our sanctions are much more effective when we have our partners around the world working with us. The third key element is a very clear objective. I think the sanctions against iran are a good example of that, where w
Report. Which first sent the market down, and then upon further review, made it roar back to life. Dow ultimately gaining 108 points, s p advancing 0. 6 . Nasdaq 0. 92 . Wow so how do you play something as dry and convoluted as the labor departments release . Simple, you look at outsized gains in certain segments of the report and you extrapolate. Which ones showed truly outstanding growth . First there was construction. The economy added 30,000 construction jobs in march, with the heaviest concentration in residential specialty trade. Second, retail, which added 48,000 jobs. The biggest gains besides general merchandise, 10,000 new jobs in building and materials and Garden Supply stores. Bingo hallelujah you have your payoff. By home depot. It dovetails perfectly with the release. Now, we know home depot said it was hiring more than 80,000 people for the spring selling season. Thats the big holiday. So, profit point number one is hd, which is not, coincidentally, breaking out here. Se
Quorum call mr. Thune mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune mr. President , i know of no further debate on the motion to proceed. The presiding officer is there further debate . If not, the question is on the motion to proceed. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the bill. The clerk calendar number 55, h. R. 636, an act to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to permanently extend increased expensing limitations and for other purposes. Mr. Thune mr. President , i call up substitute amendment number 3464. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from south dakota, mr. Thune, proposes an amendment numbered 3464. Strike all after mr. Thune i ask consent that the reading be waived. The presiding officer without ob
No option to negotiate with another station of the same network because of the little individual fiefdoms that have been created by the broadcast networks. Host do you foresee a day when mctv is simply an isp . Guest boy, you know, im proud to say our Third Generation leadership is installed at mv tv now. My mvtv now. My daughter joined us a couple years ago. I think thats a problem shell have to deal with, but i dont think thatll happen probably during my end tenure or lifetime. Host bob gessner, matt polka of the american cable association, this has been the communicators on cspan. Guest thanks, peter. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Today the American Enterprise institute and the Markel Foundation host a discussion on expanding opportunities in the digital economy. Thats live at 1 30 p. M. Eastern. And the Senate Returns at 3 p. M. For general speeches, at 5 debate begins to com
Domestication right now than in the last 10,000 years of domestication until 1960 combined. Huge numbers of livestock that were keeping right now, and many of them live in these factory farms. We have a million or more individuals crowded together. So theyre basically, the animal equivalent of urban slums. This similarly allows pathogens to amplify and change to make them more virulent. One example of that Avian Influenza virus, normally live in waterfowl. But when the viruses drop into these factory farms where captive animals are come together, they start to change and replicate and mutate. That is what viruses do. They become more virulent. We have problems with more virulent forms of Avian Influenza. Some involve ways that can infleck humans. They started carrying these pathogens found in more efficient way. That is something cholera took advantage of. That was steam travel. We started streaming across the atlantic. Also with clipper ships, steaming up and down all of our rivers an