Birthday in march, the reality of spending more than 1500 nights away from my family over eight years hit me harder than it had before. Representative chaffetz was first elected in 2009. Agriculture secretary sonny purdue testified before congress for the first time yesterday since taking office. He briefed members of the housing a which you are committee on the role of farming, on rural economies throughout the United States. This hearing runs about three and a half hours. Good morning, the hearing on the committee of agriculture entitled state and Rural Economy, secretary of agriculture sonny purdue will come to order. Ive asked david scott to open for us. David . Sure, bow our heads, please. Dear heavenly father we come before your throne of grace to first of all say thank you, we thank you for so Many Blessings that you bestow upon us, many which we dont even know. On this occasion, we ask a special blessing on our agriculture industry and that your blessings come upon our new secr
Bannon and donald trump and the republicans on this fcc roll back on access to the free press. Thank you again very much. Thank you all for being here. And stay woke [ cheers and applause ] thank you, congresswoman. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. That is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Later today on cspan3, canadas National Defense minister talks about his countrys defense policy, support for nato, protecting Canadas Arctic territory, and funding for troops and equipment. Hosted by the wilson center, its live at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. In his first appearance before the house agriculture committee, agriculture secretary sonny perdue testified about the role of farming in the u. S. It economy and President Trumps proposal budget cuts to the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Congressman mike conoway chairs the committee. Good morning. State of Rural Economy. Bow our
Coming up next on the presidency, author Warren Bingham talks about his book George Washington 1791 southern tour 689 he discusses the newly election to the southern states, and promote the constitution. George Washingtons Mount Vernon hosted this hour and 20 minute event. All right. Good evening, everybody. Its great to see such a full house tonight. Im rob shenk. I want to welcome you all this evening to the ford evening book talk. Weve got a great topic for tonight. The Washington Library is proud to offer free monthly book talks as part of our mission to disseminate knowledge about the colonial revolutionary and founding eras. I want to pause to thank ford motor company. Ford has been a supporter of mount vernon for more than 90 years. [ applause ] tonights guest is Warren Bingham. Hes a speaker, broadcaster, free lance writer, and author. He earned a b. A. In history from the university of North Carolina. Go heels. An m. A. From hollins university. His career includes nearly 25 ye
Foreign policy. Just last tuesday the president led the American People to believe that he is withdrawing our marines immediately. In fact, he is not. Were now told that redeployment might take many months. Even though it could be done in just a matter of hours. In the meantime, the president has ordered naval bombardment of beirut and those 16inch shells are tearing into villages, killing women and children, while our marines are kept in place to become even more the targets for fanatical retribution. Theres little military justification for what the president is doing and no moral justification whatsoever. Because of our steadily deteriorating relationship with the soviets and because of our illconceived and morally outrageous position in lebanon, we need new leadership both at home and in the world. Together we can make a difference and together we can make a more sane, sensible, and secure future for ourselves and for our children. Thank you, senator glenn. Our next opening remark
Here are the big stories were watching China Central bank cutting the bench mark interest point. The move giving stocks a boost in asia today. And then this one is deep. A big deal. Check this out. Nxp, andrew is buying free scale. Check out the nxp price. Its in cash and stock about 12 billion is what they said. No premium initially because it closed at 36. 11 free scale did. And theyre paying 36. 14 in cash and stock. Look what happened to the acquiring company nxp is up 14 or 15 . So the tieup between the two companies are getting more valuable by the second. But its more than 40 billion. Both make a lot of things for cars. You know, some mobile stuff but i think free scale was mostly microcontrollers and nxp has recently gotten into stuff for payments, too. Which is getting both have been in private equity hands and come out. Freescale used to be motorolas semiconductor and nxp was part of philips. You know this . I did. Did you really . Youre acting like everything im telling you