The trump administrations efforts to overhaul the tax code. This is 3. 5 hours. The committee will come to order. Welcome to the ways and Means Committee hearing on increasing u. S. Competitiveness and preventing american jobs from moving overseas. Before we get started, i want to take a moment to speak about the evil terror attack that occurred last night in the united kingdom. Our deepest condolences go out to the victims, to their families and their loved ones. Please know that you are in our prayers. Today, were continuing our work on pro growth tax row form that will improve lives all americans. This mornings hearing is strengthening americans pro competitiveness and preventing jobs from moving overseas. For years americans have watched as our manufacturing plants, middle class jobs and longstanding u. S. Companies have moved overseas devastating communities and the families that depend upon them. Hundreds of thousands of goodpaying american jobs have left and continued to leave t
Before we get started i want to take a moment to speak about the evil terror attack that occurred last night in the united kingdom, our deepest condolences go out to the victims, families and their loved ones. Know youre in our prayers. Today, were continuing our work on pro growth tax reform that will improve the lives of all americans. This mornings hearing is focused on strengthen americas competitiveness and preventing jobs from moving overseas. For years americans watched our our manufacturing plants, and longstanding u. S. Companies have moved overseas, devastating communities and the families that depend upon them. Hundreds of thousands of good paying american jobs have left, and continued to leave to china, mexico, ireland, and other foreign countries. Some of our communities have never recovered. Because when these plants and Companies Move overseas, local businesses housing value and local tax revenue disappear with them. Ive watched as 17 key Texas Companies have relocated t
As dw supports brings you the bobs. Im sarah kelly. Welcome to the program. The Environmental Group greenpeace has leaked the details of closeddoor negotiations over a freetrade deal between the European Union and theUnited States. It is called ttip. Greenpeace says the leaked documents show that it poses a major risk for the environment and Consumer Rights, but the eu and the u. S. Say that that is wrong and the leaked documents do not indicate the final deal. Reporter greenpeace has gone beyond putting the leaked documents online. It has set up a reading room in the center of berlin, within walking distance of the German Parliament and the u. S. Embassy, so anyone can read the content. Since we have gained access to the documents, we have the ability to share all 200 50 pages with the population. People need to know where negotiations stand. Reporter the documents have led to criticism the u. S. And germany have placed economic interest is over environmental and consumer detection. P
Either just trying to hire the next engineer or highskilled immigrants or to a laptop give away. We have actually built a Strong Coalition of some of the Top Tech Companies thinking longterm investing in Elementary School education which will not pay them back dividends but the country. To give you a sense, we may be one of the only non profits, collectively participating not on small levels delivering video lectures. These are all longterm investments in changing the system. These Companies Want to form a Publicprivate Partnership to bring Computer Science to all of american schools. Thank you, and i yield back my time. You did not have any time. So i would like to thank all of the witnesses. And also, we did not talk about it much today, but i think that the retention issue of students that do initially go into s. T. E. M. Is a big deal. I am a big glad well fan. In his most recent book he talks about the fact that the mismatch between the student and a school, which school that they
Dagen that movie better be good. Connell we heard a lot about it. Dagen nothing but naked woman and drugs and stock fraud in the book. Can you handle three hours of that even with leo dicaprio. We have tripledigit gain. Nicole petallides at the new york Stock Exchange. Good morning, everybody. The Dow Jones Industrials up 135 points right now as dagen and connell noted tripledigit gains which erases some of last weeks loss. Last week we lost 265 points on the dow. Were making some of that back right now. Were focused on the fed as we do have a fed meeting. Well see if they slow down on the money printing and bond buying. That will be on the 17th and 18th this week. Keep in touch here. Exxon, ibm, caterpillar, American Express some of the best performers on the Dow Jones Industrial average. The big picture is in europe they actually turned things around. They had been seeing losses. Recently they have an up arrow. Productivity numbers here at home were good news there. There was one par