The committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2019 budget submission for the department of Veterans Affairs. 198. 6get request holds billion, in increase of 12 billion over last year. That is a huge number. Even more striking when you compare the growth in the Veterans Affairs budget with the overall federal spending in the economy. This graphic will illustrate this since 2006, the v. A. Budget point. Is up 175 . Overall federal spending increased by 54 and gdp grew only 40 . Given the aggressive expansion appreciateources i the secretarys testimony. The Department Must stay focused on the core mission to ensure resources are properly utilized and veterans care prioritize. D. V. A. Will take action on many important items in some examples 2019. Include the implementation of the forever g. I. Bill and the undoubtedlyt will be a costly and a lengthy replacement of the v. A. s Electronic Health records. Because we cannot possibly cov
Welcome to power lunch, im contessa brewer. Another strong day for stocks as all three indices look for a winding streak the dow is up about 143 points, a slight pullback from where we were a half hour ago both the s p and nasdaq are on pace in more than six years and both indices up 5 health care the best performing sector today johnson johnson, pfizer, eli lilly among the big gainers. A couple beatendown names moving higher, ge back above 15 a share despite being hit with a shareholder lawsuit and snap is now up 50 so far in february. Three hours left in what has been a huge week for stocks. Bertha coombs is at the New York Stock Exchange bertha it has been quite a big week. Its been two weeks since we had that downturn starts and after consuming a lot of rocky road ice cream, today it feels like vanilla. If you look at the major averages in terms of where they are from their highs back at the end of january, the nasdaq here within 3 of its all time high in january as weve seen a big
Yup. Winter is making a return from 60s to the 20s, yes, talking a huge dive in temperatures and even snow. Just when you thought spring was in the air the shoveling may be back in some parts of the area could get some significant snow. Thank for joining us this friday night im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. Better hold on because were in for quite the weather whiplash. Scott, when will the snow get here and how much . Its going to be moving in tomorrow afternoon, dawn and chris, in fact take a look. Off to the north and west we have Winter Weather advisories and winter storm watches posted north and west of philadelphia. Chester county, berks county, also montgomery, bucks county into the Lehigh Valley and also the poconos. The timing mainly 5 00 p. M. On saturday through 1 00 a. M. On sunday. Several inches of heavy wet snow sticking to the grassy surfaces. The untreated surfaces. I think most of the major roadways in around philadelphia will be wet or slushy but look at the hour
Indictment, we know who that individuals are in the company. It goes back as far as 2014, and apparently they were impersonating u. S. Entities and individuals as they try to interfere with the election. We have any idea of the location of these people or where these companies are . Kevin that is where this is all headed, whether or not number one, these russian folks and businesses are going to cooperate with the u. S. Authorities, and we have seen of course, some backandforth on this. Think back to other week with the Treasury Department announcing a list of companies, and it was greeted with criticism from republicans on capitol hill. The question because of the russians will cooperate and will Vladimir Putin have a response indictment ong u. S. Authorities. President trump cast doubt on russian meddling on elections, but tell us a little bit about what his stance has been so far. Be aere is going to crowded gathering watching him to part for florida as a result of todays developmen
Seek interfere in the United States political system, including the 2016 president ial election. They conducted Information Warfare against the United States. With the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. According to the allegations, 12 of the defendants worked at various times for Company Called Internet Research agency, llc. Its based in st. Petersburg. The other defendant funded the conspiracy through companies known as concorde management inc. Consulting llc, concord catering and others. The conspiracy was part of a larger operation called project lock dog. It included components, some involving domestics in the russian and others targeting foreign audiences in multiple countries. Internet Research Agency operated through shell companies. They had creators of fictitious personas to technical and administrative support personnel and an annual budget of millions of dollars. The structured organization and arranged into departm