That curse . I wholeheartedly agree with the attorney general with regard to his comment. The short answer to your question is that this budget submission reflects hard choices given our fiscally constrained environment in which we are operating pursuant to the bipartisan budget act and the top line limit that we face. With regard to the coast guard, i am personally committed to continuing with our recapitalization effort. My understanding is that the coast guard has the oldest fleet of vessels of any navy in the world. We need to continue our recapitalization effort. I am pleased that we have asked for 562 million to fund the National Security cut number eight which is the last one in that production line. I am pleased that we are continuing progress towards the selection of a contractor for the off shore patrol cutter, which is the medium sized cutter in the fleet and i am pleased that we have forward progress with regard to the smaller cutter. We asked for appropriations for two ver
Nichols in berlin. Fill us in. Where do we stand . This is according to a person familiar to the metal matter the french government will be neutral. Turnaround from the weekend. Over the weekend, the french government indicated that they wanted there to be a potential other suitor, siemens. They wanted to do an asset swap. They wanted to have two france. Ses in but it looks like ge is back in the game. Ballgame, a neutral if the french government does not try to put its thumb on it, it looks like it will go in ges direction because that is what the board wants. Ge has done their due diligence. We have to decide by wednesday. What my be the difference in price . We dont quite know. That is a good question. Offeredmens, they just a letter intent that says they will match or exceed any offer that is made by ge. Is saying, this is much further along in ges perspective. Siemens says, let us come to the table. Lstom shares were supposed to start trading this morning. They said they will make
Many of these diseases are related to the handling of wild and Domestic Animals in food production, slaughterhouses. Presenting disease starts at the farm, which is where the inspections take place. Preventing animal infections at the farm level can reduce foodborne illnesses. For example, reducing the number of salmonella in farm chickens results in a 50 fewer incidents of people getting sick from the bacteria. Salmonella chicken herds it is fundamentally irresponsible for this body to be cutting the food safety and Inspection Service budget. God help us all if there is some widespread outbreak in this country where we dont have 3,000 deaths a year, we dont have 30,000 deaths a year but we have 300,000 deaths a year caused by poor food inspection standards. We must restore this money to the budget and i ask my colleagues to support this amendment. Thank you. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Does any member seek time in opposit
Possible collusion when it comes to companies and funds going long. Herbal life, herbal life stock moving higher by 2 right now, but theres a lot of bad blood now between the soros fund and akman fund. Watch it closely. More on this in a moment. Hedge fund heavy weight bill akman turning up here on jcpenney frustrated with the retailers performance, and he wants a new ceo installed in 3045 days. Now, former ceo has been receiverring the interim ceo after the Company Fired ron johnson for providing over dismal store sales and a reset of the stores that did not work. Now we have another former jcpenney ceo, allen, who says he might consider returning as pennys chairman. He apparently has been asked, according to the wall street journal, by akman, and the stake has been a mess. Theres an intraday high today, but at 1371, its a far cry, certainly, from hitting the 12year low of yesterday, which was 121. 50. He has to do something. Theres a couple positions going the wrong way, and herbal l
Plus theres this assumption in washington that if you get less money, its a cut. Dnc chair tom perez on the president s plan to defund Climate Science and more. Were not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money. Then the president stands by his baseless wiretap claim despite public rejections from gop leaders. Are you going to take the tweets literally and, if you are, then clearly the president was wrong. Hawaiis attorney general joins me on his lawsuit against trumps new travel ban and a mac attack on the fast food president when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris heys. At his inauguration, President Trump promised his voters, who he called the forgotten men and women that he would fight for them and never let them down. 55 days later that looks like a very hollow promise. The Trump Administration has unveiled policies that seem to brutalize his core constituencies the older bluecollar rural americans who make up a key pa