Unfortunately, we saw another tragedy with the School Shooting in parkland, florida. Betsy devos the education , secretary, we just learned, has made comments that Congress Needs to hold hearings looking into these types of issues dealing with School Shootings. Your committee and your leadership you have not chosen , to go that route into gun violence. Do you think that mrs. Devos recommendation is a good one . Rep. Goodlatte we will consider that. We do believe that communities need to make sure that theyre doing everything to keep their schools secure. When i visit schools around my Congressional District i know that a lot of measures are taken today that were not taken 20 years ago when i first started visiting schools as a member of congress. You could go up to the door and walk right in. Now they are always locked and always seven has been arranged to meet me at the door and sign me in. Those precautions need to be taken. Obviously there are extraneous circumstances that lead to i
Resource,itional there is a link on our website to the National Constitution centers interactive constitution. Newsmakers is pleased to welcome representative bought. Goodlatte. The area around harrisburg and virginia. , her 24 years in congress is announced he will not be running again let next year. He is a full plate between now and the end of the term. We will talk about the issues. Thank you for being with us. It is great to be with you and your viewers. Let me introduce the reporters. Scott long covers congress for the hill and alan gomez covers congress for usa today. I think we are starting with you, scott. Thank you for being with us, today. Unfortunately, we saw another tragedy with the School Shooting in parkland, florida. Betsy devos, the education secretary, we just learned, has made comments that Congress Needs to hold hearings looking into these types of issues dealing with School Shootings. Your leadership committee, you have not chosen to go that route into gun violenc
[applause] good afternoon. I am lindsay paulson, cochair along with kimberly at the polk county democrats event committee. I would like to start out by thinking hour more than 100 volunteers that are here today to make our event successful. This event was built entirely on volunteers. One of the most inspiring things for me has been to watch our political veterans and our local freshmen come together to revive an american tradition. As you are leaving today, please stop and think some of the individuals in the light blue tshirt spread those are your volunteers and individuals who worked hard to make today access but its my honor to begin the presentation from our three headliners and introduce our first headliner Sherry Bustos of illinois. Its fitting we decided to have me introduce the congresswoman, the one who was born in illinois. She represents illinois 17th Congressional District which includes western, central and northern illinois. In her third term, she focuses on job creation
Headliners and introduce our first headliner, congresswoman, sherry boost owes of illinois. Its fitting we decided to have me introduce her, the one born in illinois. Congresswoman boostos represents illinoiss 17th congressional district, which includes western, central and northern illinois. Now on her third term, congresswoman boostos focuses on job creation, strengthening our economy, building a stronger middle class. Shes been a relentless advocate for women and families and worked across the aisle with both democrats and republicans on Common Sense Solutions to cut government waste and to strengthen both medicare and Social Security. Born in springfield, illinois, the congresswoman grew up in a family that taught her the importance of hard work, caring for others and public service. She began her career in journalism before moving into health care. Congresswoman boostos is credible a leader in the make it in america plan to create more goodpaying jobs in our communities, and she a
And the consumer crunch. Elaine lever unilever delivers a topline miss. Nestle sees its weakest ninemonth figure in 18 years. Thehe bond proxies worth price . Matt lets take a look at european futures, equity Index Futures showing a bit of a lack of direction this morning. We can see the unchanged eurostoxx 50 and ftse futures and cac futures. Interesting what we have in the spread between treasuries and bunds. Trip ading at 40 basis points and treasuries at 234. The widest spread we have seen in 17 years. A very widespread here, this chart goes back to 2000. 17 year record here for that spread and that is why investors think the dollar could be ready to gain some ground against the euro. Guy lets talk about what else is happening around the world. Lets talk about what is happening in the gmm. Filter,t one is the g10 it looks like labor will be forming the basis of the next government in new zealand area the kiwi has been suffering as a kiwi dollar the versus the u. S. Dollar trading d