[background noises] a subcommittee on a visual consort is unescos at the chairman authorized to declare recess without objections ordered also ask you nose consent the subcommittee on aviation will come to order. We are authorized to declare recess any time during todays meeting. Members may ask questions without objection. As a reminder, members wishing to insert a document into the order email the documents. I now recognize myself for the purpose of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Thank you for being here, administrator whitaker. I want to congratulate you for your unanimous confirmation. As you know, achieving Something Like that in todays times is quite remarkable. We appreciate your expertise and look forward to working with you. I hope you understand that is strong support from congress, but also enormous recognition of the responsibility of the job you have now taken on. We have heard a lot of descriptions about americas Aviation Industry. Everything from it is the Gold S
Ahead of the federal the head of the federal Aviation Administration Michael Whitaker reiterated to lummox bring a public hearing that their safety is a top priority and agency still reviewing boeings manufacturing procedures after a door plug mishap on board at Alaska Airlines flight. After the incident the faa cup really grounded over 150 planes and ordered inspections. This house transportation subcommittee hearing is about threee hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee on a visual come to order. I hasis been in the consent of the. [cheers and applause] offers. Without objections order. Also ask members not of the baby people and ask question without objection. So ordered. As of monday members wish to consider dr. Parker please email to documentstimail. House. Gov. I now recognize myself for the purposes of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Thank you for being here, administrator whitaker and i want to first off congratulate you for your unan
These two are busy over here as well. I want to check in with kari as well. Yeah, that radar is pretty much covered all around the bay area but there will be some very few spots where we will have some breaks and as we get a look at some of the heavier rain now starting to move back in we are going to have some pockets of some rain getting a lot heavier from San Francisco to the peninsula, down to the south bay. As we look at the hour by hour forecast, this rain will be staying with us for a long time throughout the day and thats the change this morning as you check in with us. We are going to have this timeline of the rain extended farther into the day. So we are seeing this streaming all over areas from San Francisco over towards the east bay and down to the south bay through at least this evening. So that is going to add to those rainfall totals. Its really going to stack up today and that could mean flash flooding as well as a lot of problems here as we go into the afternoon. Now,
It will be another record close. On the week, the dow on pace for its first two week decline since august. Some who think this pullback we are seeing today and on the week could continue. This is a great chart that Katie Stockton shared with our new weekly charting segment earlier this week. This basically suggests we could see a bit of a pullback before stocks climb higher. This is the s p 500 in white over the last year. Katie is saying its likely to move down toward this area theed the cloud, perhaps 200 day moving average, a pullback of 25 before refreshing a year and rally. Year end rally. These are the big gainers on the week. Foot locker up 32 , mattel up 20 . Vision health care of 15 . Netap op onand earnings. Here onsee a decline the bloomberg dollar index, down. 7 . On the year, down more than 7 , on pace for the worst year since 2003. House republicans did pass that tax bill, perhaps a first step in an economic jolt. Some investors relative to the, dollar not too optimistic.
Have your back in terms of all people in our country, including people of color. This spending bill, it does just the opposite. I hope the members will understand the message that were sending to communities of color in this bill and rectify some of the problems. You have a chance to reject further institutionization of any quality and injustice and recognize how painful these cuts will be to people of color and women. Im going to give you my examples and my amendment shows what im talking about. The jackson Lee Butterfield amendment, this would increase funding by 16 million for the office of job corps. This amendment is fully offset with the department of Labor Administration funds. I offered a similar amendment in committee, and while that amendment failed, i believe that this amendment before us is not subject to point of order. Its critically important. You know that many minority youths and disadvantaged youth who have benefitted significantly from job corps will be locked out of