Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build measurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the Flood Disaster thats stricken texas and oklahoma claimed more lives and property today. At least 16 people have been killed since saturday, and dozens more are missing. The latest deluge hit houston after an allnight downpour. Lightning snaked its way across the night sky and the rain fell and fell and fell 11 inches in about six hours in southwest houston. By morning, parts of the nations fourth largest city were underwater. Hundreds of cars were stopped in their tracks by rising water, causing allnight backups. In some
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build measurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the Flood Disaster thats stricken texas and oklahoma claimed more lives and property today. At least 16 people have been killed since saturday, and dozens more are missing. The latest deluge hit houston after an allnight downpour. Lightning snaked its way across the night sky and the rain fell and fell and fell 11 inches in about six hours in southwest houston. By morning, parts of the nations fourth largest city were underwater. Hundreds of cars were stopped in their tracks by rising water, causing allnight backups. In some
Goods, but ive actually got a steel plant right in the middle of seattle that makes the best rebar, the cleanest rebar point in the whole world i think. Under the criminal of the Commerce Department, but we will monitor that. Another time ill talk to you about drug prices. Happy to. Glad to see you here. Thank you. All right. Mr. Brady. Thank you, mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing. You know, trade is economic freedom. Its the ability to buy and sell, compete around the world with a as little government interference as possible, and what it means is that when that mom walks into a Grocery Store or that College Student goes online, the choices they see and the prices they pay are determined by them rather than some government somewhere. And so the work youre doing, ambassador, is just critical and results not just in new jobs here in america, but in new choices and families being able to stretch their pocketbook farther. So this has a real impact on our families. Thats why i hope ou
Hill and meeting with both republicans and democrats to talk about trade and tpa. We do need strong support from the white house and the president , ask as i said in my opening statement, we need to be really all hands on deck. What is the administration doing to build congressional support . Well, we have a wholeofgovernment approach to this. As you know, the president talked about this in the state of the union. The Vice President has talked about it, they have met with members of the Democratic Party as well as with the Republican Leadership on this issue. Weve had the chief of staff of the president up here talking about it as well as the secretary of treasury, secretary of commerce, secretary of agriculture, secretary of state, secretary of defense has been writing op eds on the importance of our rebalancing towards asia including tpp as a critical component of that. So we work with all of our interagency partners at the cabinet and White House Level on down to build support up he
Also coming up on the program, the ipos are continuing thick and fast as lloyds announced it will sell shares in its state of tsb. Will the deals be snapped up . Here with more is caroline hyde. Lets start with tsb. How much is the offer . 25 . It has been estimated that it is worth about 1. 5 billion pounds. 370 5 Million Pounds could be up for grabs as quickly as next month. So far, it will be going to institutional buyers. They will also be depending on Retail Investors in a big way as well. People sitting at home, 2000 pounds they might want to put to work. And a bit of a bonus as well. If you are that retail investor, freeu buy 20, you get one if you hold onto it for more than a year. There have been a few concerns about flotation recently. Because of the bailout of lloyds back in 2009. Bailout back in 2009, they agreed that they would eventually have to do this and now they are making good the making good. Also, investors can buy into your next euronext again. They can. Listings,