The legislation would raise taxes for middleclass families should be replaced with a bipartisan alternative area. The committee will come to order. Today we are going to continue our consideration of the chairmans mark as modified. For the tax cuts and jobs act. About the mark and modification with extensive discussion of amendments last night. Admittedly, things were a little chaotic at the outset and tensions ran high. Were going to improve the process in communication today and hopefully make things move a little more smoothly. That with that issue address i like to say a few words about the tone of our discussion this morning. Or this week. Because i think it has been a real problem. As i said, i dont seek retribution anyone for holding a passionate viewpoint on any issue. I dont doubt my colleagues sincerity and any views expressed what for the committee operate we need to be recyclable and allow the debate to unfold in an orderly fashion. Members are free to disagree about any is
On the clock this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up under is Opposition Leader silva donuts maintains a steady lead of the president when and as his vote counting continues. Indonesias mount eigen volcano continues to spew ash forcing the closure of one of its busiest apples for a second day. How the impending trial of a tough gold trader is testing u. S. Turkey relations. So i think government gas strikes have killed nineteen people in syrias rebel held enclave of the capital damascus it is a second such attack in forty eight hours and on sunday twenty three people were killed by shelling and strikes including a number of children its tax have comet a key moment in the conflict a new round of un backed talks is scheduled to begin on choose day aimed at ending the six and a half year wall Opposition Groups and government representatives jute to meet in geneva about u. N. Officials have been unable to confirm that the government delegation is planning to travel diplomatic at i
Today. Certainly peppered with questions about the president s meeting tomorrow with students from parkland high school, and, of course, his thoughts on strengthening gun laws in america, something the gop and the president are seemingly open to changing gun laws in this country. Also, the issue of russian meddling in the 2016 election. The mueller investigation. Those issues are likely to come up with the press corps. Were going to take you there as soon as sanders takes to that microphone. Were going to leave both of the shots up on the screen. I would like to say hello to you. Im Cheryl Casone in for liz claman today. You know, the long Holiday Weekend not enough to erase investor fears over the issue of the month. The rising Interest Rates, the yield at 2. 9 this morning. Stocks mixed right now. The dow at lows of the session, barely off of them now, 228. 241 was the low a couple of seconds ago. We are on track for the dow to snap the sixday winning streak at the close. Another vol
Worldwide exchange on cnbc, im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost irma has been downgraded to a category 1 hurricane the storm is packing sustained winds of 85 Miles Per Hour right now irma is 25 miles northwest of tampa nearly 5 million homes and businesses across florida were without power and some 12,000 flights have been canceled due to the storm. Weve got full Team Coverage of the monster storm cnbcs Contessa Brewer on the ground in fourt. Lauderdale. Jackie deangelis is standing by. Lets start with cnbc meteorologist david biggar. Good morning. Hurricane irma were watching it very carefully i wanted to show you what the track is still looking like. We have a category 1 storm it will continue to track up and along floridas western coast line weakens as it does so eventually becoming a Tropical Storm. Its eventually starting to shift from more of a wind producer to a rain producer. I wanted to show you the current wind field this is what it looks like right now. All of these colors, that
Okay. Lets get started. Im al teich, Research Professor here at the center for international be science and International Science and Technology Policy at George Washington universitys Elliott School which is where you are now, and i want to welcome you on behalf of our center and the center for science and democracy of the union of concerned scientists. They are cosponsoring this event together with George Washington university. Shawn otto, our speaker here, is an awardwinning science advocate. Hes a writer, hes a man of many talents. Really get to know him, hes quite an impressive guy. A writer, a teacher and a speaker, and hes a cofounder of science debates. Org for which he received the ieee usa National Distinguished Public Service award. Hes advised science debate efforts in other countries as well. Hes a novelist and a filmmaker. His novel sins of our fathers, which is a lit tear thriller, was literary thriller, was a finalist in the l. A. Times book prize, and his film, the hou