This is an hour. My name is jane campbell, and i have the honor of being the ceo of the United States capitol Historical Society, a position that i took in february, and so it is new for me, and this is my first salute to congress, and im so glad that youre all here with me. And so the first thing is for us to all rise as the Capitol Police ceremonial unit will present our nations colors. Please rise. Forward march. And now please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you very much, you may be seated. I am honored tonight as we gather to salute the 116th congress to present to you one of the most consequential political figures of our time, a woman who makes history every single day. Nancy pelosi is the 52nd speaker of the house of representatives. She made history in 2007 when she was ele
Its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk, high reward investment is all about. So if that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome, a lot of people as you might guess came and went. And it involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity for computers so thats new in the first gravitational wave was detected. And what the source was, that was two colliding black holes that were in a postbinary system. The most recent gravitational wave detection to neutron stars emerging. So its, but it was a very long tail. There are many many directors, many and its a Program Officers involved National Science board, they changed over large number of times during that interval and had to improve all the funding and that of Course Congress of course was the ultimate arbiter of appropriations and making the decision to continue an investment but nobody was quite sure what would have a result so how risky is
Cramer, faber is off president is in wisconsin, surp positive, yields tick up on decent core ppi. Tech stocks taking a tumble. Treasury is out with its plan to loosen Bank Regulations and is the worst over for under armour . The stock having a nice bounce after the warriors take the title. First up, tech stocks looking to rebound from their worst twoday streak of the year jim looking at some of the percentage declines for fang, somewhere in the 4 to 5 range. What happened is you didnt get followthrough other than the negative apple you got a downgrade of adobe that lasted for about 30 seconds. There were no substantive calls and by the way no preannouncements that these great tech selloffs that weve had there usually is a linkedin tableau data, upgraded today by goldman. Theres something to hangon to which says tech has slowed down but we didnt get that, which made it so it was more of an air pocket than it was the beginning of some gigantic rollover. Just didnt get it i was looking fo
Make you their sure foundation. From this foundation, may they gain strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. Help them to base their hope on your exceedingly great and precious promises, as you do for them more than they can ask or imagine. May they have such an inner sense of your presence that they will desire to commune with you throughout this day. And lord, bless our incoming summer page class. May these young people increase intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell last week the senate voted on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis to advance the iran sanctions bill currently bef
Power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. All three indices are hitting record highs dow is up by 93 points s p up by 1. 5. Nasdaq adding about 9 here we should note that the strength of boeing leading the dow and accounting for 120 points, hitting an alltime high, its boeing best day since 2009 this comes on the back of very strong earnings. At t posting strong gains following positive results amazon, expedia and akamai at a low and ibm at a sixyear low. Brian . The markets and the fed are where we begin today the fed is expected to leave things unchanged how hawkish is the key for you and your money as President Trump tells the wall street journal that he hopes chair janet yellen will keep stocks low for the foreseeable future stocks once again are higher Steve Liesman following the action in d. C. And bob pisani tracking the markets at the nyse is this all about Balance Sheet reduction conversation or do rates still matter youve got that right there is a s