March 12, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable debbie lesko to act as speaker pro tpore on this day. Signed m johnson speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house ofuary 9 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitty the majority and minority leaders for morningour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between t parties and each member other than the majority and minority leade and the minority whip limited to five nutes. But in no event shall continue beyond 11 50. M. The chair recognizes the ntleman from new mexico,. Vasquez, for five minutes. Mr. Vasquez thankou, madam speaker. I rise today to pay tributeo a remarkable leader and cherished member of my district and the communy from the vlage of hatch, the chili capital of the james slim which the lock. Last whitlock. Last year i had the prilege of meeting mayor whitlock. It becamevident that slim wasnt just
Tom you see a bunch of headlines and it shows disparity in yields. Us dehn is going to join where you have a 14 yield. There is what we observed yesterday. Francine the dissent, i do you had there is relief on a lot of our markets today. When you look again, the reversal, right . After the initial encouraging news. Reversal. Tle well get this to the data check, 108. 2 p a little weaker yen today 108. 2. A little weaker yen today. The confusion i heard about yesterday. We have guests that will maybe explain this. Francine lets get to bloomberg first word news. Taylor, the governor of North Carolina has declared a state of emergency after he second night of violence. Police firingthe tear gas at demonstrators. In tuesdays shootings, a black man refused the demand to drop his gun. Some residents say he was unarmed. There is a report that yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach. Several hundred million yahoo User Accounts have been exposed. Word of the breach comes as yahoo is get
Global stock market after the fed held back on rate and really, it seems, bought investors more time. The expectation is that the fed will raise rates. A lot of the commentary we are seeing this morning. Their major averages remain higher. Down to some degree at the moment, but we want to mention we are seeing strength in tech. Amazon and out for that are trading at records today and apple is resuming its recent rally we have been seeing on expectations for sales of the iphone seven. Roleology is playing a here and has been playing more of a role. We have not been talking about the stocks. We were earlier in the year. A breakdown of the Industry Groups in the s p 500, the votest post exit low on june 27. You see since then technology is the best performing group, a 18 followed by financials, 11. 5 . Is playing a big part of the recent rally we have seen. Looking at the stock and the other assets here, we have got the 10 year yield at the lows of the day, down fours four points. Alan gr
This is another case where youre a public figure and you let your messy private life combine together. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. At a Senate Hearing for the active head of the federal Railroad Administration, members questioned the mom knee about implementation about positive train control. A safety implementation to preefrt derailments, twothirds of Rail Companies wouldnt be able to implement the system before a december 31st deadline. This hearing of the science and Transportation Committee is an hour and a half. Want to welcome our nominee here this morning. And get this confirmation hearing under way. Today were going to consider the nomination of sarah feinberg. The fris mission is to oversee the safe, reliable and efficient movement of people and goods throughout our nations rail network. That rail network is absolutely vital to the nations economy. So its important that those who oversee it have the requisite skills and experience. Serving s the act
To the railroads that i think notifications of First Responders should be a priority. That they are we have an emergency order that went into place in may of 2014, that remains in place. We have reiterated its importance with the railroads. I wrote them a letter reminding them the expectation to be sharing that information with First Responders so those individuals have as much information as possible. Are the states saying we dont are the info in time enough to make sure they have the proper equipment and people available in case god forbid something would happen . It depends on the state. Some states have said they want more and we are asking the railroads to please work with them to give them all of the information they could possibly need. Some are satisfied. And then, depending on whether that information is made public frequently depends on the states finally, if you put a working group together working with the railroad executives and engineers and the people on the front line a