Correspondent, rory cellan jones, if the little guys can ever compete. And well get his views on all the other big stories of the week. As donald trump is matched with your account is shut down by an employee on the last day of work, we want to know what you have done as a parting gesture on your last day. Nothing too rude please. Use the hash tag, business live. Hello and welcome to business live. We start with apple. Its already the worlds most valuable Public Company worth getting on for 900 billion and counting. Now its shares have hit a new record high after it revealed a big jump in profits and forecast strong sales for the all importa nt holiday season. Lets show you the details. Apple made a profit of 10. 7 billion in the three months to the end of september up around 19 on the same time last year and well above what investors were expecting. At the heart of it all is the iphone. Apple sold over 46 million of them across the world in the three month period up 2. 6 on last year.
Gavel back in. Take you live to the floor, and today work on a number of bills including legislation that would redefine the term joint employer to ensure that franchises and temp agencies are not held liable for the working conditions of employees. Also today, several bills on veterans medical care. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] cappingscappings. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offer bird the guest chaplain, chaplain michael j. Halliard, south texas veteran system, san antonio, texas. The chaplain merciful and loving god, source of life and constant guide to your people, we ask your blessings on our esteemed representatives as they continue to help govern a course for our nation and its citizens. In these days of disrepute and impropriety, keep them steadfast in their deliberations. Inspire them
Think about truman for a minute. Truman was an oldfashioned democrat who belong to every known club in the home town in missouri. He was a back slapper. He despised harry truman. John Kenneth Galbraith despised harry truman. They wanted him off the ticket in 1948. Even though they had no idea what eisenhower represented, but he wasnt truman. Truman was normal and they didnt want that. Kennedys father hadnt been very pleasant in world war ii. Robert kennedy worked for joe mccarthy. So what was so appealing about this was he wasnt ordinary. He didnt come out of the middle class. He represented the something above elevating the american pace. The big changes the addition of the publicsector liberalism. As we know it is a force collapsed with the tromping of mcgovern as some and then Ronald Reagan electoral victories in the 1980s. But the liberalism reconstruct itself when labor reconstructs itself around the public sector. Thats why i say what happened in new york is an expression of this
For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an
The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Brown thank you, mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown and ask for unanimous consent also to speak for up to ten minutes as if in in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown thank you. Earlier this afternoon, mr. President , i appeared with senator blunt, my republican friend from missouri, in front of senator rockefellers Commerce Committee to talk about our Bipartisan Legislation with manufacturing hubs that would promote new technologies to make our country a leader. Let me illustrate by this, mr. President. Along the ohio turnpike from toledo to lorain to cleveland to sort of akron to youngstown, much of the Auto Industry grew up along that turnpike from glass that would go for wields in windshields in toledo, steel in lorain and cleveland for the fenders and thehoods in much of the car to rubber in akron for tires, the w