Markets. Up and down. But right now if you look at what weve seen happen over the last month it has been impressive somebody this week was talking about 1938 in a different context. I cant remember what it was not political context in a fed or some type of economic context yeah. Yeah. So thats quite awhile may wasnt so great. May was terrible. That set you up for june all three major indices are having their best month since january of this year triple digit gains as we head into the g20 meeting this weekend with so many people watching what will happen between china and the United States look at what happened overnight in the asian markets you will see the nikkei was down by 0. 3 . Same thing with the hang seng. Shanghai was weaker. Down by 0. 6 then this morning in europe, where there is some active trading taking place right now, green arrows across the board at this moment. Biggest gainer is the dax, which is up by 0. 4 . Everybody is up by 0. 2 or more. Look at treasury yields thi
Year, the Vice President gave a speech on china which he took issue with basically the entire chinese model, the economic model, the political model, chinas, chinas stance on human rights, that was viewed then as the administrations hardline on china. So, the Vice President was set to give a speech just days before President Trump and president xi are set to have the meeting at g20 in china, however, now the white house is backing off of that. This decision comes just a couple days after of course President Trump and president xi got on the phone, had that phone call, which the president described it as productive, said there will be expanded meeting at the end of next week. The thinking here, neil, the tensions are being lowered between the u. S. And china on the trade front, just a little bit, heading into this Big Conversation next week. Speaking of tensions, completely different feel as it relates to iran, president acknowledging this morning that he had authorized a strike as reta
Mr. President , the first motion the senate will vote on is a straightforward proposition. The motion says lets send this bill back to the senate on a bipartisan basis and come up with a plan that actually works for the middle class. I will wrap up just by recapping the republican rhetoric on his tax plan. First it was said to be a guaranteed middleclass tax cuts. Then it was merely focused on the middle class. Next it was an average tax cut across a variety of income cohort. But now, the numbers are actually in. Republicans want to run up enough red ink to threaten medicare and Social Security and still raise taxes on more than half of the middle class. The senate on a bipartisan basis can do better than this. I urge my colleagues to support this proposal, to send the bill back and come back h on a bipartisan basis with tax reform that actually works for the middle class. I yeild back. The question on motion. Nay. Is there a sufficient second . The clerk will call the roll. [roll call
Human services. The Health Committee holds a courtesy hearing on the nomination of the secretary, the finance committee receives paperwork, it will vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement and former secretary and former governor of utah Michael Leavitt who we welcome today, good to see you and have you back and senator young who is a member of this committee will introduce alex azar after his testimony then senators will each have five minutes of questions. We have a lot going on in the senate today but we have a good turnout so i anticipate a good, vigorous questioning period. Alex azar, if confirmed will be did the of health and Human Services, you will be running 1. 11 trillion organization, that almost equals the total of 12 Appropriations Bills Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You will be overseeing medicare and medicaid, the nations government run Insurance Programs f
Vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by fiveminute votes on adoption of the conference report if ordered, and suspending the rules and passing h. R. 4323. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 191. The nays are 236. The motion is not adopted. The question is on adoption of the conference report. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Neal i ask for the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electron