It right here live. And we are looking for more market records today. The dow and s p and the nasdaq, all expected to make records. It was a year ago today that the market was in freefall. Remember that . It was about 6,000 points lower on the dow. That is very much not the case today. Varney company is about to begin. David and there is news overseas. We are watching hong kong this morning. Monthslong protests are flaring up once again. Riot police fired tear gas at protesters this morning. We are going to be monitoring this throughout the morning right here. But lets focus on some positive news at home. A brand new sales record, Super Saturday sales hit 34. 4 billion, the biggest single day of retail sales in u. S. History. The figures coming from Customer Growth partners. Joining us is retail watcher michael zacore. Ive got to think this is all about the economy. We have fatter wallets because people are making more. Weve had increase in wages and we have jobs galore. Is that why pe
Did investors markets react to all of this dire political theatre . By moving to new record heights the house of representatives and in the midst of it all, all the low dram passed President Trumps usmca. The new trade agreement with canada. And mexico, 1. 3 trillion dollars worth, and matter of fact, in the midst of all the political turmoil, radical dems subversion more than 3 years President Trump succeeded delivering another Major Campaign promise continuing to balance and make reciprocal u. S. Trade and with House Speaker pelosis decision to delay o delivery of those articles of impeachment to the senate, and with the house now adjourned for the holidays there wont be any action until early january. The president maintaining dems entire process is a hoax, a setup, and that the republicans are now winning because of pelosis outright default for more we saturn to chief white house krrnt john roberts. Jeff thank you very much a great honor. Offal office welcoming former democratic co
A report concluding that President Trump abused the power of his office by pressuring ukraine to announce investigations beneficial to his reelection l campaign and obstructed congress when he ordered witnesses to defy subpoenas in the impeachment inquiry. Lets bring in columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and kim extrakim strassel and big b. The report said the president abused his power in a way that jeopardized National Security and the intel gritty of our elections inte integrity of r elections. Did it jeopardize security . Even in the worst case scenario, if you believe he threatened to do this paul the way it was provided. The way it was provided. Its interesting that the witnesses against him support the policy i think you and i would support of lethal weaponry for ukraine which was stronger than the policy he inherited. Paul from barack obama. Im in the camp where it was unseemly but not criminal or impeachable. Paul kim, what about the integrity of elections point . Thats
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 36. Twothirds of the senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails to pass over the veto of the president of the United States. The senator for illinois. Mr. Durbin mr. President , i ask consent before the roll call to be recognized to make a unanimous consent request. Id like to take that opportunity now, unless theres some other item of business before the senate. The presiding officer there is not. The senator for illinois. Mr. Durbin thank you t lets start with madge, basic madge, andrew yank math. Heres what it boils down to. Each year we have 140,000 employmentbased visas issued in the United States, 140,000. A decision was made several years ago that politicians were playing favorites, picking countries that would get more of one and more of another
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order we are meeting to examine an issue that effectively weve been at a stalemate for quite some time. What we should do with used nuclear fuel accumulating at the Nuclear Reactors. At a starting point we should recognize that Nuclear Energy is an important part of our countrys electric generation. I believe its a vital part of our mix. The large reactors not landscape provide reliable admissions free power to communities across our country. Our Nations Nuclear industry is critically important but it also faces a number of challenges and one that impacted the first reactors began operation and Nuclear Waste disposition. Beginning with the passage of the Nuclear Waste policy act of 1982 congress attempted several times to address the backend of the fuel cycle. In an effort to resolve an earlier stalemate the federal government was supposed to begin taking title to use fuel and moving it to a repository at Yucca Mountain in nevada beginn