After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
Surveillance. Lets check in on your markets. You can see the stoxx 600 pretty much flat. They are down a touch, but pretty much unchanged. We did see a nice rally that started in the u. S. Filtering through to asia. Oil advancing. Havea reminder, we may little trading volumes because it is president s day in the u. S. And Chinese Markets are closed after the new year. Coming up, we speak to the former italian Prime Minister. That is coming up next. Then we talked to Credit Suisse. We talk sustainable investing. Later on, we talk bonds, the selloff, and what is next in the markets with andrea silverman. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra u. K. Prime minister theresa may and her ministers gather on thursday. May seeks to unite the factions in the cabinet. It is becoming clearer that the u. K. Wants to stay close to the union in some areas while breaking free in others. Employment numbers are scheduled for monday. Imports exports and both registered strong gains in january.
Strong partnership between labor and management that has driven performance significantly where they are producing the work they are doing on our submarine attack fleet on schedule, under budget. A takeaway from the hearing some of the best practices being put in place that we need a better mechanism to share those among the shipyards to ensure that we can learn from each other to make sure that that Strong Partnership is there for excellent performance between labor and management and i know that the naval Systems Command in Partnership Forum is an important start in that effort but there can be more done based on the hearing we had yesterday. I wanted to ask about your commitment to make sure we institutionalize best practices among our work forces and relationships between labor and management among all the four shipyards. Admiral richardson they are a Magnificent Team in portsmouth and our public yards are strategic tools. Even in my current job as director of naval reactors, very
There is no more fair place on the planet than in the military. We embrace every race, every ethnic group, every religion. We are literally generalists and becoming even more so. It is genuinely a place where an irish immigrant can become the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Thats all ive got for you. Thank you. Gen. Dempsey youre welcome. Before we came here this week, we were all asked to decide on a defining moment that changes into we are to do and who we will eventually become. And i would like to know if you have a defining moment or moments that kind of major the man u are today. Gen. Dempsey well, thats a profound question, young lady. Thank you. Gen. Dempsey a good question actually. You know, a defining moment is tough to pin down, but i will fill you this. For about the first on when i we talked about this often. I went to west point because my mother wanted me to go. I had no interest. The mother wanted me to go. I got there and it let my fire and i got enthusiastic a