Federal employees. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor jon lands, Fellowship Baptist Church, vienna, west virginia. The chaplain lord god, i thank you for your hand of providence that has guided our nation and protected us over these past 241 years. Were thankful for those who have gone before us and paid the price for our freedom from tyranny. In recognizing your blessing in our history, we now ask for your continued favor and grace. We ask that youll protect those who even now place themselves in harms way to preserve the liberty of our land. I especially thank you for these dedicated men and women who gather today to do our nations business. We pray for all in authority, that we may live in peace. We ask you to lead this congress, to follow your instruction given to the prophet mica. To do justly. To love mercy. And to walk humbly with you. These things we pray in jesus name. Amep. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined
and, therefore, we re going to get revenue improvement. we re getting earnings improvement. but the key is to get revenue improvement. and there are going to be encouraging signs before year end. 10% is not bad, but if 90% of the people feel better than they did a year ago, then we could see it. look, we don t need to come down a lot. we just need to peak and start ticking down. and that s what i think we re going to see. all right. byron, thank you very much for joining us. appreciate it. great to be here. that does it for us. be sure to join us tomorrow. squawk on the street is next. live from the financial capital of the world, this is squawk on the street. good morning, everybody. i m mark hanes. and i m erin burnett. this, mark, is likely to be we have a little pad. the day we go over the 10,000 mark. we re approaching the opening bell. dow 10,000 is what it says. mark, it s only fair to say we were there ten years ago. but you got to start somewher