Will be in black and white or scary. That is where we stand, down 169 points. Stuart said this has more to do with the trade front. That things are not progressing. Chinese overnight, essentially getting nasty, it might be phase one and done if we get that. That is president is a little impulsive. Were not thinking well make progress for anything else getting done. President directly not responded to the criticism outside the fact hoped the deal would be scored although the chile conference it was supposed to scored and deal written on wont happen in chile. It will happen somewhere. They hope it happens pretty soon. Get the lead from John Layfield and rebecca waltzer. What do you make of how the chinese suddenly shifted ground here . I think that has more to do with the selloff and why 28 dow stocks are down than anything happening on the impeachment front, so far deemed much more political than substantive, what do you think . I think this is much more political. China is walking a ve
Our website, cspan. Org, type attacks on federal employees in the search box which youll find at the top of our home page. The u. S. Senate is about to gavel in on this wednesday morning, Senate Lawmakers plan to resume debates on appealing wavers on states to offer low cost Insurance Plans with the Affordable Care act 12 15 eastern toed and lawmakers plan to turn to 2020 federal spending on several departments including agricultural commerce, and housing. Now to live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The u. We offer you today a sacrifice of thanksgiving for we borrow our heartbeats from you. Inspire our lawmakers to love discipline and cherish your word, seeking always to glorify you. May they trust your power and wisdom to supply what is needed to keep our nation strong. Have your way, sovereign god. You are the potter. We are the clay. Mold and make us after your will while we are waiting, yielded, and still. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please
Coming up well talk with authors based here as we fir learn how the city was chosen as the states capital, and anyone 15 minutes the story of re olds and the auto company he founded in lapsing and then later well take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as hear about james turner and the found offering lansing. The founding of lansing. James turner was pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. State had a slightly more expected, i sincible proven but we daytona that. We had nothing here. There was no transportation. They had several months to build the capital city. That was the very interesting, exciting and unique story of lansings beginning. The legislature established a state in about 1836, about a year before we became a state. They designated detroit as the capital but they were fearful that detroit could be easily attacked from the lake eri
Annual history symposium entitled reconstruction in the long reconstruction to 150 years towards freedom. I am the chief historian, you can call me truck. Please not call me the guy in charge because none of this couldve happened without the involvement of so many here, in this society. It is an all hands, all board operation. Taking charge of the logistics and influencing much of the symposium contacted lauren borchard, the societys director of historical programs, she has helped along by charlotte cummings, and several other Staff Members as well as a whole host, of enthusiastic volunteers. Theyll do this not just once a year, but are not routine races on our Public Program including a noontime lecture series. The next one is coming up on the 29th of may, the other ones is a halfpage red fire on the registration flyer outside and i would like you to encourage you to fill out the questionnaire that you found on the desk in front of you when you came in. I will leave to the society Jan
High pressure put your thoughts on twitter and facebook if you wish. When it comes to that spending bill, to give you some some of the roundup, the budget cap for Discretionary Spending that will rise to 1. 37 trillion in 2020. That will go up to 1. 375 trillion in 2021. Defense spending goes to 738 billion in 2020. 741 billion in 2021. And when it comes to domestic spending, in 2020 the budget bill will spend 632 billion. If approved. Nd 635 billion in 2021. It has passed the house as you saw yesterday, set to go to the senate. President trump offering his support of that bill on twitter and other means. Politico taking a look specifically at republicans on this matter saying g. O. P. Leaders, their story this morning, despite a boost from the president , scrambled to round up republican backing in the hours before the house passed the twoyear, 2. 72 agreement. Hat was on a 2841894 vote 194 vote. It is expected to clear the senate next week. Only 65 out of 197 House Republicans ended