Order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Id like to welcome back chairman powell. As i discussed earlier, and at our last hearing with you, i remain very concerned about the president s efforts to interfere with the feds independent Monetary Policy. A recent news story noted that trump has tweeted over 100 times about the fed since your nomination. Many of those tweets appear to be attempting to exercise pressure on the fed. Chairman powell, you and the fed board of governors must not be swayed by these aggressive tactics in upholding the feds independence you should be mindful of public perception. Of course, trump continues to try to claim credit for Economic Growth that was put in motion by the policies of president obama Congressional Democrats and the Federal Reserve, irresponsible tr
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And back in your bonuses, mps called support. On former thomas cook boss is to do the right thing after the travel firm collapsed with debts of £1. 7 all going smooth, lets get the sport with will perry. Lets talk billion. And coming up, all of the sport with about the fallout from those a will perry. Coming up, we will have all of the disgraceful scenes last night in fallout from last nights events in sofia. The uefa president has been sofia, bulgaria in that game against bulgaria and england. Also the speaking after the abuse of england latest from the england and wales for all players in bulgaria which caps for the Rugby World Cup in japan. See you later. Included nazi salutes. They said thanks, and darren is looking at the weather for us. They need to wage war on these we have much needed dry weather racists and uefa claims it is doing today. The sunshine is even out, as well. More rain in the forecast, we everything it can to eradicate what will look at that later as well as it c
Now on bbc news, monday in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to monday in parliament. As labour tells the government to come clean on brexit. The only party insisting on secrecy is the uk government. So the question is obvious. What is the government hiding . But conservative say its time Opposition Mps saw things their way. Now is the moment to speak up, get behind the government, and support the government in getting that deal. Also in this programme, if the arguments havent driven you to drink yet, what will britains departure from the eu mean for Scotch Whisky exports . 21 of all of our food and drink exports, 41 bottles a second. Mr speaker, thats faster than i can drink it. But first, a minister has denied hiding anything about the governments new brexit proposals, butjames duddridge rejected calls to publish the full legal text of the plan unveiled by Boris Johnson last week. Under the Prime Ministers plan, the whole of the uk, including Northern Ireland would leave the eus c
Points higher right now. The s p 500 looking to open little over four points higher lets show you what happened over night in asia as well maybe were pushing a little bit i was going to say, i thought it would be the opposite situation but the hang sang off little over 1 almost 1. 5 . Shanghai composite down. European equities as well right now. We see whats going on there there you have green arrows across the board finally the number that Alan Greenspan says he likes to look at, treasury yields. Show you where things stand. Thats a sad i look at all those things its a sad commentary on our life. I dont know if its sad. Sad that its the first thing i do oh, to see before coffee, before brushing my teeth, before anything. Yeah. Shaving shaving any way, developing story this morning, over the british ship that was seized by Iranian Revolutionary guards last week, iran releasing new video over the weekend shows commandos repelling on to the deck tanker from helicopters uk leaders spent t