Controversial extradition law and hong kongs chief executive has apologized for it. Not good enough for the people of hong kong, who turned out by the millions this weekend and who have returned to the streets today. They want the law dropped completely and the chief executive to resign. The pressure on xi remains. He is not leading a united country. Trouble back home. To the markets. We are going down a little at the opening bell, not much. Maybe ten points for the dow, up about 13 on the nasdaq. This is all about Interest Rates. The Federal Reserve will announce a decision at 2 00 p. M. Eastern wednesday afternoon. Will they cut . Dont know but theres a good chance they will. Thats what investors are waiting for. I want to know what happens to stocks if they do cut and what happens if they dont. Now heres those outage stories. You could call this a sign of the times. When computers go down, it is truly devastating. Over the weekend, target stores all shut down for a couple of hours.
Organizations are sponsoring the forum. Following the life forum you can provide your input by joining the colin programs are adding your comments. The road to the white house 2016 on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. Officials from the dea, the white house and other federal agencies testified tuesday about how to stop the increase in heroine abuse and how pain relief medications have contributed to the problem. They were at a hearing at the Homeland Security committee it is one hour 15 minutes. Our nation faces a profound challenge with the growing heroine epidemic. Last year, a number of heroin deaths grew by a shocking 72 . While northwestern wisconsin suffered six overdoses in six days this february. Clearly this is a problem that does not discriminate by race or class and transcends geography. Earlier this year, the white house released the 2016 2015 Drug Overdose mortality data. The data shows that while drug deaths related to prescription opioids has remained stable since 2012
Training posture and both for military and rest of the economy. Again i think weve not been arguing for a certain size of the military been arguing for the competitiveness of the nation. Both on the military sides and also economically. I think that is a huge question that youre hearing in innovation space but also in skills and then the defense Manufacturing Base which i think were seeing there a, the Technology Side is now, i think lifted. The Manufacturing Base to an extent where it is now much more competitive than it was even though it is not hiring, to the same extent. There is real transition that is about the trend or, for Defense Budget but then what about the rest of the budget if and or, are there other sources for delivering these services that are needed so that we can leverage. Unless there are any final words, well recognize there are a lot more topics where we havent come up with industrial policy for solving the was ton nationals decline among other topics. We have ful
Join us this thursday for live coverage of the white house state dinner for justin trudeau. Beginning at 6 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Participants include federal judges, advocates and state attorneys general. Good morning. Welcome to the alternative sentencing key stakeholder summit. My name is aaron lipskar. Im the director of the institute. Along with our many partners that have collaborated, worked with us by producing this event today. We are privileged and honored you have joined us here as we take some time over the next few days to talk about and share our experiences and ideas regarding alternative sentencing and explore the possible role that alternative sentences can play both in reducing our number of individuals that are incarcerated but certainly delivering on Public Safety and fiscal efficiency and responsibility. We have as you can see from the program to very full days. We are very thankful that we have very excellent to experts and leaders in the fields of alternative
Congress of American Indians for supporting both the Indian Energy and the irrigation bills through their resolutions passed last october so thank you for getting that done. These measures are small but important pieces to several tribal economies and i dont plan to stop at this point. I intend to continue the conversation with Indian Country on Economic Development issues throughout this entire congress. Today we heard many examples of how tribes are engines of Economic Growth and innovative governments. While we triumph in Indian Country, innovation and progress, we cannot forget those that still need attention and help. President Franklin Delano roosevelt once said, quote the test of progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, its whether we provide enough to those who have little. [applause] i cannot think of any more deserving of our attention than the most vulnerable indian children. Indian country innovation and input will be critical in reversin