This includes the National Fish Habitat Conservation through partnerships provision, a bill i championed. This title establishes a National Fish habitat board that supports a successful Publicprivate Partnership to restore fish habitat. I would like to thank the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources committee, rob bishop, and the Ranking Member of the subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife, tom mcclintock. I would also like to to thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for their ceaseless effort and commitment to making sure we do everything we can to conserve prork tect and enhance the resources that we are in charge of taking care of. I look forward to continuing to advance other important provisions, but this bill hopefully will be on its way to the president s desk. As cochair of the Chesapeake Bay watershed task force i would specifically like to act modge my friends an colleagues in the bay delegation who labored so hard for so long to help clean up our great Che
Our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be alarmed if that happens. The focus of todays hearing is googles Online Advertising business. Whether its a monopolyist and whether it might have engaged in any conduct that harms competition and harms consumers. But before we go into that, i want to say just a few things about antitrust policy more broadly. Ive been a member of the subcommittee ever since 2011 when
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Early investor will join us to talk air bnb power lunch starts right now the markets are at all time highs. Usually means great things on wall street but means much worse on main street these days. Well get to Steve Liesman for more on that lets start with bob on the market the low print was at the open were 25 points above that its the same pattern that we have seen for a while now. That is Technology Leading and consumer discretionary, amazon mostly, pushing the market to be upside industrials, energy and banks and energy has been on a downtrend for the last six or seven trading sessions and so have bank stocks they had a brief rally about two weeks ago. They have been down on trend for the last six or seven trading days i mentioned the ten new highs but were at new highs its because the megacaps continue to move the market forward. You get the big five moving up that pushes the market up even if the rest of the market is down semikwuk semiconduct iors are down trending we have nvidi