SubCommittee Hearing. [inaudible] good morning, this midi this meeting comes to order. Good morning, this meeting will come to order. Readiness includes many thing such as in Strength Training and modernization. Today, we will focus on sequestration. How budgetary process has affected the current force to be ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned with the army next week. I would like to record i would like to welcome our witness, the deputy commandant for programs and resources in them are in score in the mari ne corps. Allows forring will a much deeper review of the modernization and Readiness Challenges identified by the assistant, dont of the marine corps during last months full Committee Hearing on the state of the military. Based on his testimony, we know the marine corps is not only out of balance, but also lacks the necessary resources needed to rebalance itself. This is a dangerous trend that we must reverse for the nation
With a d. What are your infrastructure priorities . We have regional lines today, in the eastern and central time zones call 2027488000. Those in the mountain and pacific time zones call 2027488001. You can also reach us on social media on twitter at cspanwj. And on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Lets look at what the Washington Post said about this new report on the nations infrastructure. According to engineers, 1 trillion for infrastructure is not close to enough. It says the president promises to pop 1 trillion into improving the countrys crumbling infrastructure but a benchmark report says it will take almost 4. 6 trillion over the next eight years to bring the systems up to an acceptable standard. According to the assessment released thursday by the American Society of civil engineers, it gave u. S. Infrastructure and overall grade of d plus, the same great it got in 2013, suggesting only incremental progress was made over the last four years. Body president is onto something f
With be a secretary david show ulkin. This is two hours and 20 minutes. [inaudible conversation] the committee will come to order. We thank all of you for being here and joining us tonight. Its somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours for a conference we are staying up late for. I want to keep our work laser focused on the future and how we can Work Together to create a better, brighter healthier one for the Healthcare System rather than on rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward, we must not lose sight of where we started. Years ago, next month in this very room, the Committee Heard testimony from a veteran named barry coates who spoke about waiting almost a year for care at the department of Veterans Affairs facility of south carolina. He was finally seen long after he should have been. He was diagnosed for colon cancer that had spread to his liver and to his lungs. He passed away in january last year. It was garys story and accompa
Enough to hear what people attribute stock markets moves to. Everybody atrilktds it. The crazy stuff. The cause and effect. Thats no crazier. Hes not a trump fan, really, but his point is that since brexit t mark brexit, the market has been straight up. Its also koicoincided with tru getting the nomination. Thats his point. Although he talks about the social and situational risks of admitting that you were voting for trump. Holeman has been, at the end he says trump still has to convince conservatives that its okay to put their faith in him and talking. The fact a lot of Business Leaders are voting for him, but dont want to say theyre voting for him. Exactly. We might want to have holman come back. We dont need to debate it. People can have opinions. Everybody can have an opinion. You dont need to try to undercut his opinion. Unle. S. Equities trying to undercut the futures this morning. Dow open 7 points higher. S p 500 up 9 points higher. The nasdaq up about 28. 5 points higher. Wher
European banks. This morning, things are shaking some of those concerns just a little bit. The dax is up. 75 . The cac in france up. 30 . The ftse is flat. Crude oil picked up. Pushed back above 40 yesterday towards the later half of the session and that did help stock prices. This morning, wti giving back about. 25. 40. 60 is like a c minus. Every time it fulls below 40 m people think ha is going on. We did get numbers on gasoline drawdowns. That helped some of the oil prices. Maybe the demand picture not as weak as people have been concerned. Well talk oil over the next three hours. Good morning, everybody. Also on your agenda today, bank of England Holding the policy meeting. Due out in about an hours time. The bank of england is expected to cut rates and could also launch a new round of quantitative easing so we could get some action around the boe coming up. In the meantime weekly jobless claims out. They are expected to hold right around 265,000. Then at 10 00 a. M. Eastern look