Minerals for firms not only firms getting the actual hard commodities there, but also for firms well down the supply chain, who have no idea where the aluminum in the electronic parts came from. So i think its telling when a liberal law ultimately convinces the Washington Post Editorial Board that it was a bad idea, which they have come out against conflict minerals. Its time to revisit the motion all together of including immaterial disclosures in security laws. Both by legislative fiat and by the sccs own power. And republican and democratic chairmen have both been guilty of this. I think it should be a binding constraint on any rule making. And business round table stands for the proposition. How is a mandatory immaterial disclosure going to provide benefit to investors . None. By definition fails cost benefit analysis. We have ways to measure immateriality. Methodology that has gotten great in the last ten years. I think it should be a binding constraint, the same way for litigants
A busy day in washington plus, the president is abroad, hes in paris for his third foreign trip were going to hear from him multiple times in the next few hour what retail pain target boosts its outlook as traffics improving. And a live and exclusive interview with the cbs chairman and ceo, Leslie Moonves in the next few minutes busy day on capitol hill fed chair yellen returns for a second day of testimony, later in this hour, this time before Senate Banking her comments on rates sparked the dows rally to that record high also this morning, Senate Republicans set to unveil their revised Health Care Bill, and the cbo will release its analysis of the president s fiscal 18 budget. Some questions about whether or not the House Freedom caucus is going to vote for this, unless there are specifics on Corporate Tax rates and more well, look, i still think that its interesting that the fed comes to capitol hill and the second comes were looking at the data, we may do this, do the right thing i
Good afternoon, in the news this noon, frustration in the poconos as the ongoing search for a Police Killer blocks p. M. From their neighborhoods. And the revel casino hits the Auction Block in new york city. But the big story is the heavy rain on the way. The clouds are building as we look live from sky 6 in atlantic city. Clouds are expected to arrive and sweep across the rest of the region with steady rain into the night and the morning commute tomorrow. For all the details lets head to stormtracker 6 live double scan. So far so good on stormtracker 6 live double scan, we werent expecting rain now and we dont have it. But if you look at the wider view, there is heavy rain on the way from the coast of the carolinas and its close to the southern border of delaware, by 4 00 or 5 00, well have it up north into Cape May County, philadelphia by about 6 00 to 8 00, and past the northern suburbs, and it stays with us all night long. How much rain are we looking at, future tracker 6 with the
The atrocities produced in situations where ordinary people kill large numbers of civilians as occurred in the vietnam war and which i wrote about, that continues to haunt us in our war fighting in iraq and afghanistan. We learned, or should learn from, what we have done and what others have done to us. Amy for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of people were killed across yemen on wednesday in one of the worst days of fighting so far. The heaviest violence was seen in the southern port city of aden where those were killed kind of fleet and to the north 35 civilians were killed by an airstrike. Speaking during a visit to saudi arabia, secretary of state john kerry said the situation in yemen is dire. We are deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation that is unfolding in yemen, shortages of feud and best food and fuel and medicine. The situation is getting more dire by the day. Am
Known psychiatrists, Robert Jay Lifton. For the past five decades, he has written extensively on the psychological dimensions of war, from the u. S. Atomic bombing of hiroshima, to doctors who aided nazi crimes, to nuclear war. The atrocities produced in situations where ordinary people kill large numbers of civilians as occurred in the vietnam war and which i wrote about, that continues to haunt us in our war fighting in iraq and afghanistan. We learned, or should learn from, what we have done and what others have done to us. Amy for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of people were killed across yemen on wednesday in one of the worst days of fighting so far. The heaviest violence was seen in the southern port city of aden where those were killed kind of fleet and to the north 35 civilians were killed by an airstrike. Speaking during a visit to saudi arabia, secretary of state john kerr