Expect by wednesday. By the end of the week in the senates expecting the house to sentenced over the short term spending bill to fund the government until december 22nd current Government Spending expires this friday. Now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Spirit of the living god, fall afresh on us this day. Radiate your hope and power through our lawmakers creating in their hearts an expectation of your best for them, our nation, and our world. May they face their challenges with total confidence in the triumph of your unfolding providence. Give our senators the wisdom to seek ways to Work Together to find Creative Solutions to the crucial issues of our time. As they seek to serve your purposes for their lives in this generation, may they remember the sacrifices of those who fought and died for the american dream. Lord, change and decay surro
First we start with chaos on capitol hill as it took down stocks again, the dow sinking and ending the day down triple digits this as protesters in d. C. Has emerged as uncertainty swirls around the final draft of the tax bill ylan mui is on capitol hill for us tonight reporter scott, this is really democrats last stand to try to block this tax bill they stormed Office Buildings here on capitol hill today they were chanting tax the rich, not the sick. They also said, kill this bill, dont kill us. We saw the protesters sitting down on the floor, trying to block the entrances to lawmakers offices they were blocking the hallways as well. We saw several people getting arrested, about 300 protesters at all were expected here today. They were targeting lawmakers who represent swing districts, republicans who might be representing purple districts. For democrats, this is really now more about just the tax bill they now are looking at this as a health care issue, because the Senate Version of
Lifetime we debate it power lunch starts right now we have to rename the show bitcoin lunch. Im Brian Sullivan stocks are steady this hour. The nasdaq higher fueled by a rebound in some big tech names like ebay and electronic arts. After a few days of weakness, technology, the Top Performing sector today Semiconductor Stocks like micron doing pretty well. Some other companies you need to keep an eye on, whole brothers having one of its worst days in a long time. Its a case of good not being good enough. Investors wanted more. Coffee is hot. Dunkin brands hitting intraday alltime highs, up almost 220 from its ipo in july of 2011 and 21st century fox up, disney down the two are getting closer the a potential 60 billion deal that could come as early as next week thank you very much welcome, everybody we begin as we have so often in this eventful year in d. C. President trump meeting right now with the Republican Leaders of the senate. He spoke to the media just moments ago. Lets get to ea
Members today will before they get to that debate we expect Texas Democrat al green says hell submit articles of impeachment against President Trump. The house may have a vote related to that issue or go on to the gun bill. Live coverage here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, four conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving us another day. We thank you on this day for the example of st. Nicholas, who fed the hungry, brought hope to the imprisoned, gave comfort to the lost and taught the truth to all. May all who work here in the peoples house strive to imitate him by putting you first in all we do. Give us the courage, love, and strength of st. Nicholas so that, like him, we may serve you through our service to all our brothers and sisters. May all that we do be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings a
Delivered. Even though we are taking this matter extremely seriously. Dagen power has restored that the damage done as passengers are scrambling to rebook flights one week before christmas. Tax reform at the one yard line. Lawmakers preparing to about an house ways and means chairman kevin brady told maria republicans plan to punch it in. I think we are headed the American People are headed for a big win on tuesday. We work hard to make sure those sun devils dont hang this up in any way. Train to the optimism on wall street. 123point gain on dow futures now across the board game. Gala s p and heading higher. Europe stocks also in the greed and in asia overnight markets mostly higher. There you go. The only loser that kospi and south korea down. Bitcoin but ends up with the details as features of the crypto currencies start to drain on the cme on a week ago they started juries and on that cboe. The less chatty with the secondhighest owning for for a film ever. The massive amount the Com