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Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi. The speaker of the house of representatives. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Yes. Yes, indeed. This afternoon is very much a cause for celebration and cheering for what happened 100 years ago today. In the house of representatives. Well, thank the u. S. Army String Quartet for making it so pleasant for us. [ applause ] im honored to be here with Kevin Mccarthy and the bipartisan members of congress. Mostly our women members of congress. We salute our cochairs of the bipartisan house caucus for womens issues, congresswoman Brenda Lawrence and congresswoman debbie lesko. [ applause ] and let us welcome cokie roberts, a trail blazing force for women in journalism and her daughter rebecca, an outstanding journalist in her own right writing about women. [ applause ] as many of the women members know, the lindy boggs room in this room, the only room named for a woman in the capitol is named for cokies lovely mother and rebeccas grandmother, l
Potential impact it has on the United States and global markets. This is about an hour. [inaudible] thank you all for joining today. Happy new year. Have you here at aei. With the clock running, i want to kind of moved into a broader discussion. We had the opec deal reached in november, and this comes after watching the price go up and down over the year. 2017, the question is will the price hold . The newon for president elect donald trump and his administration, and also for you producers and nonopec producers. It is an interesting moment. I thought of looking at the price of oil before coming to the event, and it is at about 55. That is about the range they were hoping for back in november. It is an interesting moment to watch. Discussion,t with we will give a few moments for opening remarks, and then we e the full that one moment moment. The full one i believe you also served at one point in the Bush Administration in the white house. The reagan administration. And we have the coor
Warren here to talk about it. They are pointing out that bonds and stocks are in sink again which question as reflation trade and i kept asking that last week. 235 . What is going on with the tenure. Were going to blow out the deficit and military spending and infrastructure and tax cuts and all the greeowth, all the stuff. Maybe warren knows why. But u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Hes shaking his head. Were going to ask him. I wanted to surprise him with that. I got a lot of well, to eo late. The futures are indicated a little bit low. But nothing that significant yet. Overnight in asia. It was kind of quiet. Overall, we can see japan was down less than a percent and in europe, sort of the same thing. Were almost in a wait and see mode. Now im going to formally introduce you, becky. Time now for our special guest this morning. Becky quick. No, wait a minute. Becky quick is in omaha with our special guest and i love god, i love some of the stuff im reading about warren today. Money
Brown and other state leaders wrapped up a mini rally here in concord. They came here to sell this plan in concord, admitting that this is not, quote, an easy lift. In other words trying to get people to pay more in taxes and to convince the assemblymen and Senate Leaders to vote on this. Assembly speaker was very blunt in his assessment of the current state of our infrastructure in california saying, quote, our roads in california suck. The governor said that sacramento needs to pass this bill, otherwise the roads will continue to deteriorate. The plan calls for five billion dollars a Year Spending in road repair. That would be over the next ten years. Now, to pay for this the governor wants a 12 cent increase on a gallon of gasoline, 20 cent a gallon increase on diesel, a 4 increase in the diesel sales tax, a new annual transportation improvement fee on regular vehicles, that would range anywhere from 25 to 175 a year, a 100 annual fee on zero emission vehicles, and just over 700 mil