Prohibition of cell phones during the meeting. Please be advise ed this is prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chair may order the removal from the meeting room for any persons responsible for the use of a cell phone, pager or other similar soundproducing device. Time allotment of public devices, theres up to three minutes on each item, unless they adopt a shorter addendum. If you wish to addressright thrs and there are no reportable actions and the next order of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business, no matters of unfinished business. Item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. First the consent agenda, 5a, approval of minutes from regular meeting of november 19th and december 1 17, 2019 2019. Any speakerrer cards . No. Hearing and seeing none, i will close Public Comment and turn to my fellow commissioner for comments or motions. No comments. I move approval of the minutes for november 19th and december. I second that. So moved
Midnight. Members also expected to vote on the confirmation of the deputy secretary of state nomination. And now, to live coverage of the u. S. Senate 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. Eternal god, the giver of every good and perfect gift, help our senators to listen clearly to your sacred word and find wisdom in your guidance. May they remember your teachings and courageously follow them. As you guide them along the right path, keep them from stumbling. May they live such exemplary lives that they will be like sunlight at dawn, growing brighter with the passing hours. Lord, give our lawmakers the wisdom to carefully guard their thoughts, to strive to speak truthfully, and to refuse to deviate from integrity. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of
We cannot lose sight of the fact that none of this would be possible without that spectrum, and that is owned by the American People. That spectrum is essential. As a result of the efforts of some swamp creatures, both in and out of government, we came that close to having this spectrum, which belongs to the American People and is worth as much as 30 billion to 60 billion, given away in a back room through a private auction to three Satellite Companies, which happen to be domiciled in foreign countries. The excuse given was that these three foreign Satellite Companies can conduct an auction themselves and allocate it to the american Telecommunication Companies faster than the f. C. C. Can, even though the f. C. C. Has only conducted about 100 of these public auctions, generating about 123 billion for the American People. Why . Because the American People own the spectrum thats being auctioned off. Its theirs. But there was a proposal that came that close to passing at the f. C. C. To j
A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
These are your markets. There seems to have been the u. S. Saying they will remove the threat in china, which is why we have seen a little bit of moves. Awaye exactly seven days from that election. Opec meets in vienna, brent crude at 62. 91. Moncler, really the stock of the day after that report that kering, the owner of gucci, was interested in buying moncler. They do jackets for the winter, skiing jackets now turned into fashion. That stock price has gained 9. 2 . Moncler at 42. 40 two. Coming up, we talk all things fx. It thing or two to say about the pound. We will also talk about emerging markets. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. We begin with fiscal stimulus. Japans government pulling out all the stops. Tokyo announcing measures to support growth as the economy contends with an export slump and the fallout from the sales hike. We have learned the total package amounts and is expected to boost growth by 1. 4 . An unexpected hold in india. R. B.