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Potential conflicts of interest and the possibility of recusals. From capitol hill, this is about 2 1 2 hours. This hearing will come to order. This morning we will hear testimony on the nomination of jay clayton to be chairman of the United States Securities Exchange commission. Mr. Clayton has extensive experience in our Financial Markets as a highly regarded securities lawyer. For decades he has helped Companies Access our Capital Markets, increased their ability to invest in the United States, and grow and create jobs. One area on which mr. Clayton has already indicated he would focus is Capital Formation. Capital markets drive innovation and job creation and access it the life blood of our economy. The jobs act helped revitalize the primary markets in both congress and the sec should continue to find ways to help companies go public and allow their investors to share in their success. Recently, this committee marked up several bipartisan securities bills and we encourage you, mr.
Market. A lot of different nuggets today. Everything from a short trade to mixed commodities, as well as mixed earnings. This is where we stand right now. You can see, premuch mixed and close to the flat line. The nasdaq is up by. 1 . Lets take a look at what happening in terms of the s p. So far today, a very volatile, upanddown day. The most around 11 30 a. M. , and now we are close to the flat line. Markets, as well as volume, not happening today. Down by 8 against the 20 day moving average. Jeweler, up by about 7 . Earnings per share Beat Estimates by . 84 versus . 71. There is bad news as well. Samestore sales dropped. Less buying there. Is up higher, shares rebounding after falling 11 the last three or four days. Programs toanding help people pay. They are not lowering their own retail price for the a b pan, but they are expanding the program to help people pay for them. Is up, helped by rising oil on the day. Lets take a look at the chip makers, micron as well as western digital
Immunity, there are several that recognizes it. Jasta goes much further than any recognized practice of International Law. Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from texas just suggested, one fundamental indication of fairness of legislation is not how it would work for our benefit but what would we think of it if it was used against us . The United States allows our citizens to haul foreign nations into foreign courts, what will other nations enacting legislation allowing their citizens to do the same thing to us . Obviously we would not want to put our diplomats, military and private companies at that risk. Consider our nations actions in iraq. While there may be questions about saudi arabias indirect involvement on 9 11, theres no question about who the state sponsored actor was in 2003 when we bombed baghdad and killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people with little to no evidence that iraq was any immediate threat to the United States or our allies. Hat would we think if iraq enac
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