Also testified at this Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Reign Relations Committee hearing. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Together today to discuss the nominations. Calista gingerich is the nominee to be the ambassador and nathan rank and status of ambassador at large. George edward glass is nominated to be u. S. Ambassador to portugal and mr. Kroll ridges to be assistant secretary of state for Consular Affairs. I want to welcome the nominees and their families. And congratulate them on their selection by the president. Thank you for your willingness to serve. I want to know with congressman rooney supporting mrs. Gingerich. Congressman rooney was congressman from florida in an ambassador to the holy see during president bushs term. Also honorede is to welcome our distinct colleagues who will and to do so by witnesses. I will make this a filibusterfree opportunity mr. Chairman and it is a great privilege to be able to
Mr. Nathan al kpapder sales, with the rank and status of the ambassador at large. Mr. George edward glass. And mr. Carl c. Rich to be assistant secretary of state for counselor affairs. I want to welcome the nominees, their families to this committee, congratulate them on their selection by the president and thank you for your willingness to serve, i also want to note that we have congressman rooney here supporting commissioner gingrich. Congressman rooney was the ambassador to the holy c. During the commissioners term. Well introduce two of our witnesses, the senior senator from oregon, senator ron widen, an esteemed member of this committee and senator portman from ohio. Were pleased to have you here today. Mr. Chairman, thank you for your courtesy, as senator portman knows, were right in the middle of debating tax reform, i know a topic of great interest to me here. And im trying to help out chairman hatch. So i will make this a filibuster free opportunity, mr. Chairman and it is a
Week for congress, especially the house, as they tackle these issues. Ryan mccrimmon, thank you for your time. The committee met this week to look at nominations. Mrs. Callista gingrich is the nominee to become the u. S. Ambassador. Is nominated for counterterrorism. Mr. George edward glasses the nominee to be the u. S. Ambassador to portugal. Is nominated to be the counselor for foreign affairs. I want to welcome the nominees, their families, and this committee congratulates them on their selections. We havee that congressman rooney here supporting mrs. Gingrich. He was the ambassador to the holy see during president bushs term. We are honored to welcome our distinguished colleagues who will introduce our witnesses. And sen. Ron wyden, portman ohio from ohio. Thank you for your courtesy. As senator portman knows, we are in the middle of debating tax reform. I know it is a topic of great interest to many senators, and i am trying to help out chairman hatch. I will make this a filibuste
Anna a very warm welcome to the program. This is our flagship europe show. Lets talk about what we heard from the fed and what that has done to the dollar. The the dollar the big beneficiary from what we heard from the fed. How the changing expectations from the fed around Interest Rates in 2017 have pushed up the dollar index. The rate went up 2. 75 percent as expected at the fed. The fed also signaling that the economy is strong and will improve and taking what some of our colleagues have called a victory lap. Lets put up the risk radar and on variousere we are asset classes. Weve seen reaction aplenty to what we heard from the fed yesterday. To reiterate what we heard about the dollar, this is the bloomberg u. S. Dollars stop index. What a of focusing on stronger u. S. Economy does to a Global Economy, the preoccupation is on what a strong dollar does to some of the corporate and others in emerging markets and focusing on the negatives there. Dropped to its lowest since march of 201
Mountains down into morgan hill as we go through the weekend. Coming up, well give you the hourbyhour forecast in ten minutes. Thanks, rob. We did have sunshine today but dont let that fool you. Parts of the south bay are still covered in mud and downed trees from last night. Here are some of the hardest hit areas as the communities brace for more rain. Laura . Reporter janelle, im on summit road. This tree was ripped right out of the ground and took part of the road with it. You can see the cones there marking the spot. There are trees like this all along summit road and homeowners took a hit, too. The near constant rain is eroding the ground right underneath their feet. Mark holt knew the recent storps were going to hit his Santa Cruz Mountain home hard but never expected this. I was up in the room up there a little before 7 00 and there was a big crack and looked out and the hot tub was sliding down. Reporter a landslide took holts deck and hot tub with it leaving them just feet fro