Puts 1. 6 billion towards a physical barrier construction along the u. S. Southern border. Members debated many amendments to the legislation for about four hours. Morning. Meeting will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. We meet today to consider both Homeland Security appropriations bill. I now turn it over to chairman carter. Judge carter. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Before i start, its sort of a tradition to have some kind of snack from your home district. The most famous thing are the doughnuts. The National Magazine have declared it the best doughnuts in the world. However, theyre so good they dont travel well. So as a substitute we have a large Czech Community. Everyones welcome to eat a. Our Czech Community is very proud of them, and theyre very good. We had them here last year. Theyre good. The question is what are they, and then were going to move on. Theyre a roll with fruit on top of them, and theyre good. Judge carter is recognized. Thank you. Now that ive gott
If were to be successful in this third wave. Watch the communicators, tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan 2. Last week members of the House Appropriations committee met to mark up legislation for Homeland Security. It included provisions to address drug and people smuggling while allocating 1. 6 billion for construction of a wall along the u. S. Southern border. The bill also addressed Immigration Enforcement, Aviation Security and Natural Disaster response. This is close to three hours. Morning. Meeting will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. We meet today to consider both Homeland Security appropriations bill and interior appropriations bill. We made some remarkable progress over the past month. I hope well continue today. I turn it to chairman carter to present the fiscal year 2018 Homeland Security bill. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Before i start, its sort of a tradition to have some kind of snack from your home district. The most famous thing from my district are the dou
All right, welcome everyone. This is our Second Annual it is becoming an annual tradition what to do this close as possible following devcon, which is very popular for a lot of us. If you are out in las vegas, it would be for you. I am very happy to see so many people in the room, and i know there are more following us online, the internet, twitter, or on cspan. My name is bo woods, i am the director of the diversity initiative. I would like to welcome you to event hosted by the cyber cyber statecraft initiative. I would like to welcome those who are following on the webcast. I encourage you to join the conversation with the twitter hash tagged acccyber. Devcon two d. C. , we hope it will policy forayer of people to understand the significance, urgency and Response Options to the flood of Technical Information from the hacker conference that took place in las vegas. That is devcon, blac chyna black hat, and others. Joinedry pleased to be by a distinguished group of my colleagues and fr
The heels of that Disappointing Services report. Joe energy, utilities also in decline. Day. R a pretty solid we have that feeling when you are so high on the s p 500, you dont even need to do much to get a new hive. Im going to look at the market minutes for stocks and looking at some of the sectors in particular, one in the energy group. Despite oil being down recently, energy has held up fairly well. We are year to date up 15 and largely flat since the start of july where oil has had more volatility. Is veryor that important Going Forward is the financials group. We were looking at some weakness there. Investors start to reassess expectations for a hike. Financials have done well here with the expectations. Any changes to that speculation could send that down further. The brakes ended up closing. Your today, we are down. In the green for some time today, which happens every now and then. In the red closing so all is well in the world. The lets look at Government Bond market. Notable
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