From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling on congress to get to work when they return to washington next week despite the push to many polls say americans are not confident lawmakers will get anything done. Futures are showing this in your market. Dow futures up 72 points. Much to miss them. Weve got the good reading on secondquarter Economic Growth coming in at 3 yesterday. The dow up 27 points yesterday and had he not at least the start of the last day of trading in august. Europe stocks higher across the board. Case in england, fran
Senator what senator senator senator wyden im going to listen to oregonians who have been clobbered by several megafires unlike anything we have seen in my home state of oregon. Addition toat, in megafires, there are numerous other fires just up the road from my hometown of portland, the eagle creek fire has merged with the indian creek fire and spread over an area of more than 31,000 acres. , again just seen staggering and its implications, and fire jumps the Columbia River into washington state. It is a ravaging our iconic Columbia River gorge. This is a treasure, beloved by the millions of people who visit it every year. It is burning in the Columbia River gorge now four days. Days. Although it appeared the first sparks at eagle creek fire were ignited by a young man. It is clear that the inferno was accelerated by the unusual heat in early september. Now the lives and homes of gorge residents are under threat and a world renowned treasure in my home state has been devastated. Sadly
Decertify the deal. Continue to watch this hearing online at cspan. Org. Here on cspan taking you live to the u. S. House. They gavel in for legislative work, beginning work on debate rules for fridays bill dealing with whistleblower protections. Live coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend molly fraser, fwig harbor United Methodist church, gig harbor, washington. The chaplain god of many names we give thanks for many opportunities to serve and remind us we are servants of our country, our people, and the land. Let us not forget the blessings you have given us so we might use our power and influence to oorder the country in ways that allow each and every person to find life and liberty and to pursue happiness. Become, perhaps we come, perhaps already weary from an onslaught of emails, texts, fen calls, and meetings where people make demands on how we vote and assumptions on every decision we put forward.
But regardless, it was pretty cool. Everybody had their glasses. I kept hearing the media as like we were going to go blind if we looked up at the sky. I am the senior vp for research here at fordham. We are pleased to have a Live Audience here today and we are pleased to have cspan covering our event. We want to thank our partners at the American Confederation for children. Federation for children. Im not on twitter, i am the last person on twitter. I dont mind that i am not on twitter. If you are on twitter, you can join the conversation by using the engaging choices. For those who like to engage in conversation on twitter, please do. When we get to the q a at the end, we will look and see whether we have questions coming in. Let me suggest that we talk about School Choice. Particularly at the High School Level. Im going to keep this overview brief. Mike told me to and he is not here today. Also, i have sat on panels like this and the moderator is usually the least interesting person
Institute center for american seapower and managing director of the ferry bridge group. Thank you for joining us. Guest my pleasure. Thank you. Host next, we will take more of your calls. Do you trust the government . Are you confident in the government s ability to handle National Disasters like Tropical Storm harvey . If you are in central or eastern time zones, you can call 202 7488000. In mountain pacific time since, 202 7488001. The texas residents in harveys path, 202 7488002. We will be right back. Monday night on the communicators, what is the framework on how you look at Cyber Security . I think congress, whether there is bipartisan support on that, i think the Trump Administration is focused on that, and we will, as well. We visit microsoft in washington, d. C. , to look at tech issues facing congress. Vice president of Government Affairs at microsoft and microsoft researcher share their thoughts. Systems a complete between data from sectors to be able to provide useful servi