Welcome to power lunch. Im michelle carusocabrera. Recordbreaking day for the markets. Take a look. The s p 500 with new highs with 60 members of the index at all atime highs the russell 2,000 also at new highs. Morgan stanley is one of the winners. Its market cap for the First Time Since before the national crisis, bigger than goldman sachs. Other big movers today include aetna, cigna, boeing, carnival and royal caribbean. And one name not feeling the love today though. Snap shares falling to new lows again. Stock trading below 14 a share. This record breaking day for the markets. A year of records it has been. Driven today by a flood of earnings five dow components. New housing data and a sky high read on consumer confidence. Weve got it all covered for you. Bob pisani is at the New York Stock Exchange phil lebeau with gm. We begin with bob at the big board. 21 declining stocks. More winners than losers on the story. Lets look at several dow components caterpillar great global sales
The lack of security and benghazi. The administrations response to the attack and how to prevent future attacks. Will then show you two news conferences, Hillary Clinton conducted these this year focusing on her private email server, a topic that will be discussed during thursdays hearing. Our presentation wraps up with clinton aid and the committees ranking member, that is followed by julia from the hill. Theyll talk about members of them Benghazi Committee himself. Now. Now it is the senate for Relations Committee from januar. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] in morning. The committee will come to order. Let me begin by welcoming the new members to the committee. Senators kane and murphy, senators johnson, mccain, flake and paul. Since the full senate has not passed the Committee Resolution officially seating members, i want to ask unanimous consent of returning members to allow our perspective members to participate in todays hearing. If there is no objection, so order. Madam sec
The senate about this bill . It isnt clear what is going to happen. There is going to be a push for amendments. There is senators who would like to see the United States send military aid the way of ukraine. They will probably make a push on amendments. There is others who would like to see us speed up the natural gas flow so that ukraine isnt as dependent on russia its energy supply. And there might be thinks related to Cyber Security or taking the imf language out. There might not be an aaagreeme at and then we will have to go back to congress. Guest there are concerns about what the approval might be doing to the United States budget. There was a tradeoff earlier this year with republicans wanting to see irs rules that govern the tea party groups, seeing the rule suspended for the imf language. And two bills passed on the house side and a bill to impose sanctions on iran. The House Foreign Affairs committee is taking up the bills again. Why are they doing this and who are the key su
I ask that the call of the quorum the presiding officer without objection, the quorum call is suspended. Mr. Coats mr. President , thank you. Mr. President , when the senate last met i introduced together with senator durbin a resolution regarding our response to russias invasion of ukraine. That resolution which received unanimous support here in the senate called for a number of specific steps to punish and isolate russia for its actions. Among these steps we called upon president obama to impose sanctions on officials of the Russian Federation who are most responsible for the invasion of the cry me an krimean region. And im pleased by recent announcements by the white house demonstrate that the president has begun the process of sanctioning some of these individuals though i had hoped the numbers sanked would be far greater. And i also sanctioned would be far greater. And i also want to note that the president today is in the netherlands discussing with our european allies and partn
Next week. The president has developed a strategy. That includes gun, immigration and the looming budget war. Washington has to deal with its spending problem. Sfwlt Republican Party just isnt there. There are things the Republican Party can do. Trying to put some new paint on the brand. Theyre going for a full makeover. Hi, im marco rubio. Marco rubio will be delivering the republican response. Makes sense. We have to identify our principles. The response to the state of the union. Thats hard work. Bobby jindal did it. Good evening and happy mardi gras. Hes still recovering. Health care, taxes, the economy. That takes time to explain to people. The Republican Party just isnt there. Washington has to deal with its spending problem. That may take more than one election cycle. Ive had enough of it. Its time to act. Get used to this new word. The sequester. The sequester. The sequester. I dont like the sequester. Something so terrible. Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria slow dow