Opec meeting, psych cyber monday today. The benchmark yield around 2. 33. Our road map begins with the holiday return of the consumer black friday sales topped 5 billion. Cyber monday expected to set online records. Retailers are in the spotlight. Futures flat ahead of the first full trading day ahead of thanksgiving. And the Koch Brothers making a big bet on magazines, backing a meredith bid to buy time inc. Adob bee analysts expects consumers to spend 6. 6 billion this cyber monday. That would be up more than 16 from a year ago and bigger number than the 5 billion adobe says was spent online on friday. We talked about colder weather, and lean er inconvenienventorie reports that in store traffic was down maybe a percent, maybe a little more, but not dramatically. Thats a good test of exactly how low expectations had been for basically physical scores. They dont look like they will broadly give back the pop they had on friday. So many things working in the background in favor of having
Be followed if you really want a solution. Reporter it was a total reversal from the june 2016 tweet saying thank you to the lgbt community. I will fight for you. Caitlyn jenner who endorsed mr. Trump in the general election tweeted there are 15,000 patriot yachtic Transgender Americans many the u. S. Military fighting for all of us. What happened to your promise to fight for them . Youre not worried about what someone Sexual Orientation or identity is. Youre worried about if thaifr got your back. Reporter the pentagon today not issuing a comment or a statement on this but a navy captain said they are willing to work closely with the president on this matter. One of the president s tweets this morning talked about the medical costs of allowing transgender people to serve in the military. Do we have any numbers on that . Reporter thats right. He is very concerned about the increasing costs of medical care in the military. The president estimates it would go up by between 2. 4 million an
Homeland security departments Inspector General and the head of the Census Bureau. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. Good afternoon. I welcome all witnesses. I appreciate your thoughtful testimony and willingness to spend some time with us today. I asked consent that my written Opening Statement be entered in the record. Without objection. This hearing really is what this committee is all about particularly on the Government Affairs portion. We have a Mission Statement that we developed last congress with my former Ranking Member, senator carper and my new ra Ranking Member had a very good addition to it. The original one was to enhance the economic and National Security of america. Senator mccaskill suggested we add and promote efficient and more efficient, effective and accountable government. Thats exactly what the gao does and Inspector Generals do. We certainly appreciate your work. I dont know how many times i have said and others have said, youre our
Homeland security departments Inspector General and the head of the Census Bureau. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. Good afternoon. I welcome all witnesses. I appreciate your thoughtful testimony and willingness to spend some time with us today. I asked consent that my written Opening Statement be entered in the record. Without objection. This hearing really is what this committee is all about particularly on the Government Affairs portion. We have a Mission Statement that we developed last congress with my former Ranking Member, senator carper and my new ra Ranking Member had a very good addition to it. The original one was to enhance the economic and National Security of america. Senator mccaskill suggested we add and promote efficient and more efficient, effective and accountable government. Thats exactly what the gao does and Inspector Generals do. We certainly appreciate your work. I dont know how many times i have said and others have said, youre our
Without objection. This hearing really is what this committee is all about particularly on the Government Affairs portion. We have a Mission Statement that we developed last congress with my former Ranking Member, senator carper and my new ra Ranking Member had a very good addition to it. The original one was to enhance the economic and National Security of america. Senator mccaskill suggested we add and promote efficient and more efficient, effective and accountable government. Thats exactly what the gao does and Inspector Generals do. We certainly appreciate your work. I dont know how many times i have said and others have said, youre our favorite folks in government. You give us the information to make government more efficient and effective and accountable. Todays hearing is really on the gaos high risk series, their list, something prepared by gao since the early 90s. The facts speak for themselves. In the last ten years, they report about 2 240 million over that 10 year period by