Mcconnell filed cloture on brian mcguires nomination to be deputy undersecretary of the treasury. We expect a vote on his nomination today. The senate live here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Savior of humanity, your unfailing love sustains us. Stagger freedoms enemies and bring them to their knees. Use our lawmakers so effectively that our citizens may rejoice because of your mercy. Be for our nation a towering rock of safety, a shelter in the time of storm. Lord, we wait quietly before you, so use your strong arms to bring us your peace. 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. Grassley madam president. The
,fficials warning protesters stepping up its rhetoric on that front. David one of the interesting things is how any people are demonstrating. One recruiter one reporter said it is fewer people, but they are more violent. Nejra we have seen this. Everberate through the markets youre seeing u. S. Futures negative now. They were positive earlier. The 10 year yield dropped 10 basis points last week. We are down to a 1. 69 handle. Session backodays about 1500 an ounce. David the one clear winner is gold for the last week or two. Morning brief. E we get cpi data, followed by china retail sales numbers. We get german gdp numbers. Thursday it is u. S. Retail sales for last month, and walmart reports earnings. Friday, the u. S. Reports Housing Starts for the last month. It is time for the bloomberg first take. We are joined by Brooke Sullivan in new york and Kristine Aquino with nejra cehic. Lets start with argentinas shock, a big defeat for mr. Macri in the primaries that suggests he may not g
To this conference. The topic today is the saudi arabia United States relationship. Many of us have supported this relationship from deepening counterterrorism cooperation to championing womens rights. The challenge for each side is to reconcile cooperation, National Security issues, while valueing very different systems. Under the current leadership of both countries, these tensions have been brought into sharp focus. The nature of our military operation, human rights violations, addressing regional bad actors and more demand attention and likely change. These issues are ripe for review, and we are fortunate to have an experienced group of panelists today to delve into factors at play affecting the u. S. Approach to saudi arabia, i relationship, and its future. Todays turn to program, i would like to say a few words about the middle east policy council. It was established in 1981 to promote dialogue and education between the United States and countries of the middle east. We have thre
Stronger when we Work Together with threats to global stability and trade, that principle is more important than ever and throughout the summit my message is on the overriding need for International Cooperation and compromise. Longtime discussions with International Partners on economic and Security Matters i made clear britain would always stand by the global rules and the best means of securing peace and prosperity for all of us. I would take the may issue in turn. On the other issue is the need for International Collaboration greater than in the threat to the country and our people from Climate Change. As i arrived last week i was immensely empowered that britain had become the first major economy to commit in law to ending our contribution to global warning by 2015. I urge other countries to follow britains lead and set similarly ambitious net 0 target in their own countries. Those issues, the last generation of leaders with the power to limit Global Warming and i believe we have a
Tension and change. Tose issues are from form dispassionate view and we are fortunate to have an experienced group of panelists today. They affect the approach to saudi arabia, its relationship and future. Before i turn to todays program, i want to say a few words about the council. The council was established in 1981 for the purpose of promoting dialogue and education. We have three flagship programs. Our quarterly, capitol hill conference, a quarterly journal, middle east policy which jesses wrong reputation and can be found in 15 dozen libraries worldwide. Our education outreach program. It provides Educational Resources in the middle east, targeted to students and teachers. Visit us on our website. At teacheach program mideast. Org. Todays event. To this program is being live streamed on a website. I welcome all of you who have joined us on mine. Proceedings will be posted on video and transcript form will be posted. An edited transcript will be published in the next issue of our j