Record high in history. The dow, nasdaq and s p having worst week since october of 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. Checking on Global Market action, pmi out earlier, below 50, but that was up from 47. 9 in last month and we have losses across the board. The biggest loser there is the ftse 100 in england, down 2. 6 . Checking asian markets overnight, chinas manufacturing getting slammed by the coronavirus. Private measuring of Manufacturing Activity released monday record low for february. 40. 3 reading in february. The lowers since the survey started in april 2004. Nevertheless asian markets are close but agreeing across the board. Hong kong retail sales fell 21. 4 year over year, 12month of declines. Could led to worse number for february. Market rebound in asia. All eyes on the coronavirus. Two deaths now reported in the United States due to that virus. Cheryl casone has the details, cheryl. Cheryl thats right, dagen, Washington State has confirmed the second coronavirus
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Next Immigration Services director testifies on supporting critically ill children and their families. At a House Oversight subcommittee hearing he talked about his decision to stop processing deferred action earlier this year. Good morning everyone, thank you for letting us today. The subcommittee will come to order without objection this years authorized clearly says the committee anytime, 33 with examine the administrations decision to support children with critical illnesses and decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will tell you the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to the port critically ill children and their families. It appears that this family is policy has been reversed after congress in American People rose up in an outcry in this policy. Treat this hearing as an honor but as
All right i think well get started, i know there is a quick lunch but we have a very fall day. So great that was a great introduction and now we have a interesting discussion that we can turn to and for me this is a real honor and a personal privilege to introduce our lunch and guest. Susan is no stranger to the womens Foreign Policy group and throughout her career she has represented the best of the values that we promote at the womens Foreign Policy group. We all know are from her public life in the Clinton Administration and. She served as one of the youngest secretaries of state and then went on to service the u. S. Ambassador to the United States and then a National Security adviser to president obama. And her terrific new book and susan takes us behind the scenes of u. S. Foreign policy making from the rwanda and genocide the bombing of two she gives a clear insight into these and other tough National Security moments. Susan it was in the room at the table and even in the crossha
Morning, everyone, the committee will come to order. Happy halloween. Happy world series. Everybody stayed up late watching the game. Kind of exciting. Kind of exciting. So we are here to talk about good things, recreation, and im going to keep my comments brief because i know colleagues have been very engaged in this and a couple of you want to make some opening comments as well but we have three pieces this morning that were considering, s1665, which is the simplifying Outdoor Access for recreation act. Senator heinrich calls it the s. O. A. R. Act. I like the acronym there, pretty good. S1723, the ski area fee retention act from senator gardner. We all love skiing, or we love skiing. I cant wait. S1967, the recreation not red tape act from senator wyden. This hearing is building off one that we held in march where we focus in improving access, infrastructure and permitting to meet the increasing demands to provide highquality recreation opportunities on our federal lands. So the pro