Prohibition of cell phones during the meeting. Please be advise ed this is prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chair may order the removal from the meeting room for any persons responsible for the use of a cell phone, pager or other similar soundproducing device. Time allotment of public devices, theres up to three minutes on each item, unless they adopt a shorter addendum. If you wish to addressright thrs and there are no reportable actions and the next order of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business, no matters of unfinished business. Item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. First the consent agenda, 5a, approval of minutes from regular meeting of november 19th and december 1 17, 2019 2019. Any speakerrer cards . No. Hearing and seeing none, i will close Public Comment and turn to my fellow commissioner for comments or motions. No comments. I move approval of the minutes for november 19th and december. I second that. So moved
Including bows and arrows injuring police. Youre watching our to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. The president of iran has moved to quell mass anger over a 50 percent hike in fuel prices Hasan Rouhani said on sunday the government will compensate those worst hit however there has been trouble at least a dozen cities with buildings vandalized and pictures of irans Supreme Leader burned. Were now joined live by our donna for more on this you know whats the International Reaction to the spin. Well weve heard something coming out of europe finally and germany was the 1st european country to react and essentially berlin has said has called on the reigning in government to recognize what it called a legitimate plight of the people. It is legitimate and deserving of our respect when people courageously air their economic and political grievances as its currently happening in iran the iranian government should respond
Given adequate steps this is the language in the bill. Madam re the facts, chair. If attorney general barr was given Broad Authority to take adequate steps in correcting the in any democratic district, imagine that. Imagine the uproar. There would be a public uproar. Same could be said for a democratic attorney general. This section not only gives Broad Authority to the a. G. But its extremely vague and will leave state and local Election Officials struggling to comply with this section. To make matters worse, weve not heard from a sing the state or local election single state or local election official about how this might affect their ability to conduct elections. This is the reason why we have hearingings and call people into congress to listen to them about the impact of legislation that were debating in this house. And we did not have a single hearing before this bill was rushed to the floor. This is not regular order. This is not what the democratic majority promised when they we
We need fed chief jay powell to listen to last nights big, bad Conference Call from csx thats a railroad. Or this mornings report from aerospace texron that showed a weakness in almost always Robust Aerospace sector or tonight, surprisingly not so hot guidance from united rentals, the Equipment Rental company at the same time, we need to innor ti ignore the bank Conference Calls from bank of america on the heels of the major bank stocks that have been good. Certainly happen we got lets hope he stays away from any Conference Call in the red hot airlines sector. Why . Because we have two economies and right now out of scn krrks nrks krrcn sync if you believe bank of america, j. P. Morgan, citi group, why not, consumers are spending but were taking down a little debt. Paying it off. Based on what is happening in the consumer economy, you could easily make the case for more rate hikes here but the Business Economy is a totally different story. That Conference Call, i have to describe it as
The dow is going up another, what, 140 points plus when trading begins today. Its another big gain for the dow. Also for the s p. Look at it go, up another 17. The nasdaq, that looks like its going to be up another 1 . The win with mexico and the feds likely rate cuts, thats whats driving this thing. So, too, is the news early this morning that Small Business confidence has come roaring back to historic highs. That survey was taken in may, when everyone had the jitters about trade wars. Small business ignored the noise. They are investing, theyre selling and theyre hiring. All good stuff. Theres also this. Gas prices are tumbling. The National Average is down to 2. 73 and falling fast. That is another shot in the arm for the economy. I think its helping the market as well. Watch out, iowa. Here comes the president and his current leading challenger, joe biden. Looks like a setup for the 2020 election. Iowa farmers will be listening to mr. Trump after his win with mexico. Joe biden will