Do. Lets welcome the significant substantial expansion of nursery places for the people of scotland. [applause] after the summer recess. The next questions will be live on wednesday, september 3. Majority subleased speaking. S he talked about the state of congress and issues related to Border Security and the economy and veterans. This is 30 minutes. [applause] thank you very much. I want to thank the west chamber for having me today and for the work you all do throughout the parish. It is been a great experience over the last few decades to see how it has grown in how the Business Community has grown and even more new developments coming up. I want to talk about some of the things that are been happening in washington and some of the things were been working on to solve the real problems that our country is facing. When i come back home, it is really an honor to be elected by my colleagues to be the House Majority whip. It is more of an honor to represent the people of south east loui
Chamber should do quickly and quietly. High, im greta bronner. This week on the washington journal we will be focusing on president Lyndon Johnsons vision or a Great Society and its impact today. Tune in at 7 00 a. M. Eastern and join the conversation by calling us or sending us an email. Andcan also send us a tweet join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. House majority rep Steve Scalise was in louisiana this past week speaking at the World Chamber of commerce. He talked about the state of congress and issues related to Border Security, the economy and veterans. This is 30 minutes. [applause] thank you very much. I want to thank the west chamber for having me today and for the work you all do throughout the parish. It is been a great experience over the last few decades to see how it has grown in how the Business Community has grown and even more new developments coming up. I want to talk about some of the things that are been happening in washington and some of the things were b
An assessment of the 50 war on about what its going to take to break through the ideas. 50 Year Anniversary was anuary 8th and as congressman jordan already said president Lindon Johnson said he wanted to attack the causes of prof symptoms. Nd not the thats a noble intention. Is it born out. Today that comprises 80 provide, programs that cash, food, house know, medical ssistance and targeted ssistance to poor and low income individuals. A total price tag over the years trillion. I bring that up only to say if we were going to win this war on spending, we would have done it a long time ago. Look more deeply at the things that bobs calling o us look at, the incentives within these Welfare Programs. This is just as true for any is ate enterprise that trying to tackle t incentives matter. Period the time unwed child bearing rate has gone from single digit to 40 markers e have some that we need to be aware of, but get very focused on the incentives that will bring out stories and thats what
As the price of Oil Continues to decline. West texas intermediate fell to an eighth month low and brent crude hit a 14month low dipping below 100 a barrel before coming back just a bit. That pushed shares of oil drillers, oil refiners, Oil Explorers and Oil Services Companies lower today. Case in point, exxonmobil. It was the biggest decliner in the dow today. Falling 1 1 2 . Chevron, the only other energy giant in the dow down about 1 . As for the major averages overall, the dow lost 26. Nasdaq bucked the trend. It was up 9. S p 500 down 6 but Still Closing just above the 2000 mark. Jackie deangelis has more on the slide in oil prices and where prices are trending and what it could mean for you at the pump. Energy prices continued to decline weighing on the s p 500, but bringing consumers a little bit of relief. Retail gas prices down another two cents over the last two weeks bringing prices down a quarter in the last 11 weeks. The National Average now 3. 46 a gallon according to the
Stuart here it is. Look at that. The dow is above 17,000. 24 hours ago on this program we call it. Profits up, stocks up, the gop poised to take the senate, 17,000, there it is, 17,007 as of right now. The stock of the day, facebook, down really big after Mark Zuckerberg said he wants tt spend more money on new technology. The news on mobile ads. That doesnt matter to investors. Stock is down 6 . A big draw. Charles payne on whether facebook is a buy at 75. A stock we dont often talk about but is in the news today, with the Orbital Sciences. It is down big. One of their rockets exploded shortly after lift off last night. It was a spectacular explosion. Nobody was on board. Was headed to the International Aerospace station. Nobody injured on the ground despite the size of the massive explosion. The rocket was carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies going up to the International Space station. It was a huge explosion. Everybody knew it and everybody side. We will talk aboot the future of priva