Authorizing highway, bridge, aviation, and waterway projects. Members are working on 170 amendments. They plan to complete work on those amendments around midday today. That will be followed by a vote on final passage of the package. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving day. Other we ask your continued protection empowerment of those who tend to the sick and those who medical solutions to this dangerous pandemic. The work of the house these last few days to votes. Wo upport for the department of agriculture. During these times Food Production and delivery and the many e been among challenges facing our nation. Whatever the particulars of this may it proceed through the legislative process ultimately help the benefit of all americans. We ask, also, your continued protection and empowerment of hose who live heroic lives d
Was nasdaq and s p 500 down almost 3 . Add boycott slit sit Major Companies pulling out of advertising dollars from social media giant is costing Company Millions anding to surngd pressure and down two and a a quarter percent right now. Boeing takes flight test of the 737 max begin this is week. The stock is up on the news this morning premarket up close to 3 and Federal Reserve Shopping List essential bank releasing name of companies that it is purchasing Corporate Bonds from. Including automakers, telecommunication companies, even beverage cocacola, plus china take more steps to plan down on hong kong frms and beijing says it will impose visa restriction on americans with what they call egregious conducts on Hong Kong Related issues. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets look like this european indices highser with the up a third of the percent and paris up about 16 points also a third of the and dax is higher than 34 points twothirds of one percent. In asia across th
To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation policy. Its valuable in our efforts to pass the act, which was the first longterm highway bill in a decade, and were going to continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations surface Transportation System still needs additional investments. Enacting a long Term Solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to insuring we can address those needs long into the future. Since passage of the f. A. S. T. Act, building a con
Jpmorgan chase, berkshire hathaway, with what theyre calling Health Industry salvo to remind them, maybe all of us together can underpin you twice and maybe underprice you twice, all of those guys, including unitedhealth are taking it on the chin. United health is accounting for a third of the roughly 324 point selloff today. Their presence and teaming up has a lot of folks worried. A lot has to do pretty much with Interest Rates as well. A backup picked up considerable steam amid expectations come tomorrow, that the Federal Reserve will make it official yet again to hike Interest Rates. It will be Janet Yellens last meeting. Again these are sort of a representative of marketbased rates that are 2. 72 . The markets get very leery of this sort of development. The backdrop is still very strong markets going into today, the markets are noise. Volatility index, socalled vix as it is known. It is better than 18month high. Highest it has gone in the bull market cycle. High as 20. Were a long
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists commit smithed by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Gutierrez mr. Speaker a few weeks ago i was on the h. B. O. Show real time with mill maher on friday night and had a chance to talk with ann cowl ter. As you might have guest guessed i dont have my speed dial. It was several days after donald trump was running for president. When it was my turn i told mrs. Colter what they were saying about mexican immigrants would serve as a vote rergestration machine to turn g