Today. Call it daydream. The head of vr will join us to discuss this daydream. In a first on cnbc interview. In the meantime after losing a second lawsuit claiming Johnson Johnsons talcum powder causes ovarian canister, they are speaking out right here on cnbc. Comments in a moment. And super bowl of bio tech coming up in just a few weeks. Well start getting data from a number of companies that that could cause sol bic moves. And fed minutes released about an hour ago. Steve leisman has some of the highlights for us. Thanks a lot. The u. S. Federal reserve strongly suggesting the possibility of a june rate hike if the Economic Data improves and that is what they expect to happen. In fact in the minutes before the april meeting that came out just a few hours ago the fed said some of these conditions are already been met but many members of the fed expect the other conditions to be in place by the time the fed meets in june. That means further evidence by the economy is rebounding in the
Modi in a joint meeting of congress on june 8th. Well have live coverage of his speech on cspan. Employing people with disabilities and disorders was the subject of a hearing on capitol hill yesterday. Members of the Small Business Committee Heard testimony on the role the businesses play in creating Job Opportunities for the disabled. This is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Committee Comes to order. I want to thank everyone for being here today. Before i give my Opening Statement id like to welcome here the cochairs of the conference. Chris smith from new jersey is here, and mike doyle from pennsylvania is the democratic counterpart and we thank you for your work. And when this Committee Meets its to discuss the challenges facing Small Businesses. Today, however, we get to talk about some of the truly inspiring opportunities they have been offering. Small businesses are not just the backbone of the American Economy but t
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Corrected by reconstruction. This was the constitution that was written in 1875, and interestingly, texas still operates under this constitution today, even though it has had hundreds of amendments to make changes to it. We can flip to the signature page of the document, which contains all of the original signatures from 1876. As you can imagine, these are many of the most prominent men of their day. While this document addressed some issues of inequality, of course, these problems did not go away with equality, and franchise men, most notably even though men of african dissent could theoretically vote, women were not allowed to vote until well into the 20th century. This is a memorial to the Texas Legislature in 1884 by the undersigned committee of colored men. I guess that is kind of a predecessor of the black caucus. They are asking for redress on several issues that pertain to people of african dissent descen living in texas at the time. Tthis small leaflet entitled handicapped was