Certainly not to keep people in the business of sex trafficking. That injustice is why we introduced our legislation. Its called stop enabling sex traffickers act or sesta. I introduced it with senators blumenthal, mccain, mccaskill, cornyn, heitkamp and others. Senators thune and nelson took this bill through the Commerce Committee late last year. By the way, we had a spirited debate in that committee and ended up coming out of the committee with a unanimous vote. Why . Because after hearing from the victims, after hearing from the experts on both sides, senators said, whoa, this doesnt make any sense, and its our responsibility as senators to change this law. It provides justice for victims of online sex trafficking because theyll have the opportunity to sue. Hold these websites accountable, that knowingly facilitate crimes. It also helps in terms of prosecutions because the state prosecutor is now the a. G. s, the local prosecutors at the state level will be able to have access now
Majority missed a major deadline, a deadline to pass a budget for america and its government and Appropriations Bills that fund the government for the year. Republicans have the power of the majority here in the United States senate, in the house of representatives, and the presidency. Yet, the Republican Leadership has failed, failed to put together a budget for america and its government. That provides certainty for our country. Families in wisconsin who are struggling pie check to paycheck to paycheck, they put together a budget for their families because they have to in order to make ends meet. But here in washington, my friends on the other side of the aisle have played by a different set of rules. On friday night they didnt put forward a budget for america and its government. Instead they offered their fourth shortterm continuing resolution for the last four months. This is no way to govern, simply kicking the can down the road each month and ignoring the real needs of our countr
We should tell you that we are awaiting Sarah Sanders and we are just told that she has more moved the conference from right now to about 29 minutes from now thats right 3 30 p. M. Eastern and of course the wild rise in stocks in controversy already swirling plus a bloated white house budget plan that was just released. They are sure to be at least dominating those in the news conference. Get ready for another wild ride. The Treasury Department is saying that on the very day that the white house just unveiled the 2019 budget plan and this cannot be good news. Uncle sam is spending faster in 2019 then in 2018 then the wallet fattens up. Right now this current fiscal year they Just Announced that in the first performance months of the fiscal year. The deficit widened 11 in this First Quarter of the fiscal year compared to what we saw last year. The difference when you put a dollar figure on it from what the government spent and then what it took an in tax receipts it stands at a hundred
Is a five day difference. This is amazing coincidence to me. I think it is more than a coincidence. I want to put up on a screen a directive sent out by the chief Technology Officer of the irs. If we could get that on the screen. And this is the directive that went out to managers, is that correct, telling them not to reace the erase the data. Correct. This went out on may 22nd, 2013. When were the taped erased at the irs. On or about march 4th, 2014. So about eight months later. And is this if we look at the highlighted part on here it said do not destroy, wipe, reuse any of the existing backup tapes for email or archiving or other information for irs personal computers. Did that go to managers that were at the facility where the tapes were erased . It did. And there was a lot of discussion that we captured in our investigation by capturing the managers emails over what mullholland meant by this directive. So what did they say they thought it meant when you talked to them . They belie
Take a look at what is dragging on the transports. Its worth noting the major averages are on pace for weekly gains. The dow the best since the end of april. Relative to transports, weakness for shares of American Airlines come united, with a downgrade over and jpmorgan to neutral with analysts saying estimates seem unachievable. Royal caribbean down 1. 8 . This on a downgrade at credit suisse. Analyst cutting shares to a neutral, saying the outlook is uncertain. We had that terror attack in london. That could be impacting some of these stocks as well. At two otherlook big movers, oracle, fax. Oracle down 6 after they Beat Estimates for the quarter but it is that cloud outlook weighing. Fax down once again as senator Elizabeth Moran setting her sights on them, proposing legislation around the company today. Shares down once again. Overall, it has been a risk on week. This is an index of risk onrisk off. On the week, big risk on. Going into the weekend, on that terror attack in london,