Regulatory commission. Its just under an hour. Come to order. Good morning, and welcome. We find ourselves this morning with a bit of challenge. On the house floor. Votes may start within five minutes. Multiple roll call votes. Maybe up to one and a half hours voting on the house floor. In the interest of time, i had the great Opening Statement written by my texas constituent, i will not give it. But ask to put that in the record. Without objection, so ordered. Speakers put your statement in the record. For the record, moving forward we are three witnesses here. We have mr. , miss hofman. You have five minutes for Opening Statement. The head of ferk. You have five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Ranking member rush. Members for the opportunity to be here today. Before i begin my remarks i want to briefly reflect on the passing of senator. Who passed away yesterday. Former chairman of the energy committee. A leader in the space and he will be remembered. Id like to start by taking a m
Come to order. Good morning, and welcome. We find ourselves this morning with a bit of challenge. On the house floor. Votes may start within five minutes. Multiple roll call votes. Maybe up to one and a half hours voting on the house floor. In the interest of time, i had the great Opening Statement written by my texas constituent, i will not give it. But ask to put that in the record. Without objection, so ordered. Speakers put your statement in the record. For the record, moving forward we are three witnesses here. We have mr. , miss hofman. You have five minutes for Opening Statement. The head of ferk. You have five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Ranking member rush. Members for the opportunity to be here today. Before i begin my remarks i want to briefly reflect on the passing of senator. Who passed away yesterday. Former chairman of the energy committee. A leader in the space and he will be remembered. Id like to start by taking a moment to acknowledge all those impacted by Hurr
Man goes down to the forest and cuts down a tree and all the animals whispering in his ear while hes sleeping and he wakes up and he has an epiphany and he doesnt cut the tree down. And its about power for one person to do good or harm. Lending herer talent as an artist, lynn has devoted much of her recent work to climate change, even publishing a book specifically designed for children and parents. I think thahat my interest i the environment grew out of my love for nature. I had an experience when i was a little kid where i had these woods that i loved and i came pack and they were bulldozing it. They completely destroyeded it. It was a realllly traumatic experience and thats when i began thinkiking the adults don really k know what theyre thinking. I began to question. When i was first illustrating childrens books and i would go out and d i would talk to kids about the rain forest or about rivers or about endangered species, sometimes they get really upset. Sometimes they would c cr
All the latest details for you. After the bell, nike will report earnings. We got a debate on whether the stock is a buy ahead of that release. We begin with all of the news how ut of washington. Cnbcs john harwood is in d. C. With developments on the effort to repeal and replace obamacare. Ylan muil has the latest on the tax reform eamon javers, details on the press conference with the Prime Minister of jane Janet Yellens speech this afternoon. John, lets begin with you. Wilfred, today it became official what was obvious yesterday when Susan Collins became the third republican to oppose that Graham Cassidy block grant bill to repeal and replace obamacare. Turned tout be three republicans who caused them to pull the plug rand paul of kentucky, john mccain of arizona, Susan Collins of maine other opponents as well. Many states including the states of these three senators lost money under that plan. Remember, this is a plan in 2026 would have taken away 215 billion that the government is
Opec the catalonian deadlock intensifies as the regions government moves to declare independence on monday i investors take a dim view of osram sending shares lower, as siemens sells its remaining stake at a discount of 1. 2 billion euros. Rex tillerson said he never considered resigning, but he does not as an nbc report that he called President Trump a moron. Good morning lets look at the european markets this morning looking at stocks across the continent. Slightly more red on the board there than green the stoxx 600 down 0. 15 right now. Looking across europe, the specific bourses, well look at the ftse 100 first, up almost 0. 25 . Dax down 0. 10 the cac flat the ftse mib down 0. 5 looking at specific sectors across europe, utilities looking positive as are autos. Telecoms are up a third of percent. Food and beverages up almost a third of a percent Real Estate Companies are down half of a percent. Now the big story, saudi Arabias King Salman arrived in moscow for talks with vladimir