The meeting will come the order, subcommittee on crime, terrorism and Homeland Security investigations will come to order. Without section chairs authorized to declare a recess, we welcome everybody to todays hearing on combating crimes against children and i will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and recognize the gentleman from michigan and chairman of the full committee, and we will begin our questioning. I will thank each of you for being here today, this addresses one of the most difficult issues for people to contemplate, exploitation of societys most innocent and vulnerable, our children. Public safety is a preeminent function of government even among the preeminent dysfunction protecting those who cannot protect themselves is most important. Examining current laws, to evaluate effectiveness of these laws and Work Together across every proverbial aisle. To make sure laws are tough and effective as possible and when needed strength and where needed. Thank our witnesses fo
Exchange , mark, gene and our own rick santelli. Art, let me start with you. Is this a rise above rally . Does it look like we might get a deal . Weve been rising above the levels weve been at. No question about that. Traders felt reassured coming in this morning. Washington is a ghost town. The president s out of country those are good things. Congress is not coming back until next week. No one will go before the cameras and jeopardize the cliff. The only file you have to run is the kumbiya moment after the meeting. They said nothing across the pond will hurt us, lets buy here. No sense of urgency right now. Does the market feed off that . Is that whats going on here . I continue to look at the treasury market. You can look at a chart overlaid with the stock market. We were following themmer earlier, especially with the opening you describe, then it started to fall off. Treasury market seems unimpress unimpressed. Im in agreement with art, which is a good thing because art is mostly r
good way. and i think again, just to take a regulatory example, which is local land use policy, why do i think of local land use policy, why do i think of health care policy as critical to innovation, you know. we could have a better materials, we could that s got to be valuable. we could have an electric car. that s got to be valuable. or we could you know, i remember myself as a 5-year-old living in washington wondering, why did they put the beltway way out there? washington could have grown up rather than out. and how do we know how would we know now whether we want to bring people have people commute in on a really nice bus or commute in an electric car if we want them to live in the district or arlington. there s a lot of different ways to save carbon and a lot of different ways to improve health. there s a lot of different ways to advance the economy broadly. that was my next example. all of them are running into bottlenecks on the buy side. the one thing i d sa