Lets see how things did overnight in asia. Asia was leading the declines yesterday. This time a little different story. Nikkei closed up by 1. 5 hang seng was up by 0. 6 shanghai was flat. In europe, at least at this early trading hour, there are green arrows across the board. Barely hanging on for the ftse the dax and cac each up by better than 0. 6 looking at crude oil prices, at least right now, crude oil looks like its down 7 cents 55. 26. Couple big stories were watching, mattel has rejected a takeover approach from rival hasbro reuters reporting that mattel believes the offer undervalues the company and doesnt take into account the potential for regulators to rejected the deal on antitrust grounds reports saying mattels new ceo who took over in february may be trying to drive a harder bargain in talks with hasbro the company cut its fullyear revenue outlook. You are looking at both of those stocks now time inc is reportedly restarting talks to sell itself to publisher and broadca
Proceedings were postponed earlier today, 29 1 2 minutes of debate remained on the bill. The gentleman from texas, mr. Brady, has 17 minutes remaining. Without objection, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Neal, has 12 1 2 minutes remaining. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Brady. Mr. Brady thank you, mr. Speaker. Im pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from alaska, mr. Young. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from alaska is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Young thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Congress established Alaska Native Settlement trust in 1988, to provide Permanent Health ed health, education, and Welfare Benefits to alaska natives who were among the most economically disvanged population in the United States. Unfortunately, mr. Chairman, the tax code has many cases impeded the creation and funding of the settlements. As a result, Alaska Native Settlement trust have not been able to function in the Manner Congress originally intended, to p
Understand how much of a hole its going to blow into the Housing Production but i expect that there are other unintended consequences by twhesm just found out last night that wind and solar will also have the same issue in being impacted by this. I hope we can adopt my amendment and fecks this. I hope we can slow down and understand this important part of our tax code. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Senator grassley. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, im not going to vote for this amendment but i do appreciate that she brings up an issue that we better be very, very certain about, not only because of low Income Housing but also because of Renewable Energy and she mentioned wind and solar, something that should not be touched, and it is hurt very badly in the house bill. Shouldnt be tutched by any of this stuff. We made an agreement three years ago to be in transition get rid of the tax credit 20, olar 21, for wind in and as i indicated yesterday or two days ago in our discussion in my v
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File debate on floor action for tax reform, and cspans congressional chronicle, at cspan. Org congress. We will look at todays white house briefing. Press secretary Sarah Sanders went over the president s age of trip, and also addressed questions about tax reform on capitol hill. Good afternoon. Apologies for the delay. Its great to be back with everybody. Certainly, missing most of you who were not on the road i have seen most of you who were not on the road. A little wiggle room there. The president s historic five country trip to asia was an incredible success. He rid the world against the menace of north korea, strengthened our alliances, and showed our commitment to a free, open, indo pacific region, and took a stand for free fair and reciprocal trade. American families will be safer and more secure, and American Workers and companies are one step closer to competing on the level Playing Field they serve. Speaking of leveling the Playing Field, the president applauds the house for