Thank you, madam speaker. I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Thank you, madam speaker. I yield to my friend from maryland, the majority leader. Mr. Hoyer i thank my friend from georgia for yielding. On monday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate, i repeat that because its unusual. On monday, 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 10 00 a. M. For legislative business, votes expected to occur as early as 2 30 p. M. On tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 10 00 a. M. For legislative business. On thursday, the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For legislative business. The house will consider h. R. 1425, Patient Protection and Affordable Care enhancement act. This bill will sig canly increase the a. C. A. s affordability, subsidies, lower Prescription Drug prices, expand coverage and crack down on junk plans. While strengthening protections for people with preexi
Appearances this week before a congressional committee. And he let off a house commerce subcommittee this morning. Good morning. The subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection will come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Good morning. Today, were here to get the facts, to learn what happened at equifax that led to the personal information of over 143 million americans information being stolen. Americans deserve to know what equifax is doing to fix the problem and help individuals that are impacted. Well find out what happened. The public deserves to know what happened and what steps are being taken to protect their Sensitive Data Going Forward. Todays hearing needs to shed some much needed information and light on this breach. We have received assurances from equifax that mr. Smith can speak for the company on concrete remediation steps that the company took in the aftermath to secure its Computer Systems and protect the
This might be a sign of stabilization in the industry. 481,000 homes. It was little changed from the 82,000 we saw in december. That forecast was 470,000. There had been concerns about supply constraints with new homebuilders not building any particularly lower and homes and higherend homes. It looks like again we might see stabilization there. We are also seeing improvements in the job market, feeding through the home market as well. Better than estimated month over month, down 2 10 of 1 . Julie, thank you for breaking it down. It is time for the bulletin, the top business stories of the morning. Day two of jenny yellens testimony on capitol hill. The chair of the Federal Reserve will be questioned by the House Financial Services committee. Yesterday, testifying before a senate panel. The fed is coming to the end of having Interest Rates near zero. Yellen also said wage growth inflation are too high, which would argue against raising rates anytime soon. Too high . I am not sure about
Maybe buying s ps is not that crazy. Bobs all for it. Do you want to run the dow up to 30,000 . 100,000. 100,000 . Performance would be phenomenal, right . And wed all be rich. The japanese have the equities, reits, they bought a whole bunch of investments. Why are you such a stick in the mud . I guess im a traditionalist. Look at the wealth creation. Yeah. Ill leave it to bob to thank you. It might not work, bob. Weve got to get back to the real economy. Weve had too Many Companies report better than expected earnings, revenues that have been this much better, and give negative forward guidance. Thats got to turn. We complained of a lot of things. We havent put the earnings on the table. In the meantime, weve got low inflation and a Global Economy thats growing moderately, and Central Banks that are, back to your point, giving us all kinds of ammo. Thank you. Weve got to go. Squawk on the street begins right now. It was a year ago that this vision youre looking at right here became re
Impeachment . And odd new ally. President trump has a new campaign surrogate, kim jongun, as the north korean dictator goes after democratic president ial candidate, joe biden, taking a page right out of the president s playbook. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. For the second time this week, a federal judge sides with congress against the president in the latest ruling, a judge in new york is upholding subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and capital one for financial records tide to the president. That comes as the president storms out of a meeting with Democratic Congressional leaders and stages a hastily arranged rant in the rose garden next to a sign reading no collusion, no obstruction. The president erupted after House Speaker nancy pelosi said he had engaged in a coverup. She spoke following a meeting of House Democrats, where she tried to discourage a push for impeachment. The president then went ahead with his meeting on