Fully expected him to return in the new year. This is about 25 minutes. Sen. Mcconnell i picked a heck of a week to have laryngitis. I probably talked more yesterday than i have any day this year. I apologize for sounding like donald duck. Ive my traveling close on, im ready to go to louisville, kentucky. I hope you all are headed in that direction as well. Youre welcome to come. [laughter] sen. Mcconnell this has been a year of extraordinary accomplishment by any objective standard. The Supreme Court justice, 50 years old, extraordinarily wellqualified if his health holds out he will be there for a long time. The u. S. Circuit court system was set up in 1891, working with the administration we have confirmed 12 circuit judges that is the most in the first year of any Administration Since 1891. We just completed comprehensive tax reform and there is nothing more challenging than that which is why we have not done it in 31 years. This particular effort was even more challenging because
Released a new policy for harassment prevention, which aims to cover areas such as Sexual Harassment, bullying, hazing and other forms of behavior considered hostile to the workplace environment. During a press a briefing, a spokesman said that spoke about how it would be implemented in the military armed forces. This is half an hour. Good afternoon. Secretary mattis talked about the National Defense strategy. Which will drive our budgets for the next four years. Tomorrow secretary mattis will travel to fort benning to meet the First Security force assistance brigade. Ms. White the first unit of its kind to provide advisors at the tactical level. Next week the secretary will travel to europe to reaffirm key alliances and partnerships in the region. Switching gear, id like to share two unrelated nnouncements with you today. Yesterday Syrian Democratic forces acted in selfdefense with support from the coalition to defeat an unprovoked attack by syrian proregime forces in eastern syria. P
I know a lot of confusion. What is going to be and even if we get it through, what happens in the senate, if it does not like what we were talking about . Somentense time and confusion over the details. Time when different it was shelved in march. As we watched the developments, a check on how markets are trading with julie hyman. Julie we are not seeing much reaction to the Health Care Bill. Stocks mostly on earnings and energy. In the 2 the 2 big themes. That has been the case most of the day. I want to talk about health care. Health care is up a little bit, it has been up since election about 11 which is about the same the s p 500 has risen. We have a chart on bloomberg of valuation, the Health Care Index versus the s p 500, the price to earnings ratio in white and the s p 500 in blue. For much of the last several years, health care has been more expensive. That it changed and the spread on the bottom. That changed in late 2016 after the election and we see health care trade at a di
I know a lot of confusion. What is going to be and even if we get it through, what happens in the senate, if it does not like what we were talking about . Somentense time and confusion over the details. Time when different it was shelved in march. As we watched the developments, a check on how markets are trading with julie hyman. Julie we are not seeing much reaction to the Health Care Bill. Stocks mostly on earnings and energy. In the 2 the 2 big themes. That has been the case most of the day. I want to talk about health care. Health care is up a little bit, it has been up since election about 11 which is about the same the s p 500 has risen. We have a chart on bloomberg of valuation, the Health Care Index versus the s p 500, the price to earnings ratio in white and the s p 500 in blue. For much of the last several years, health care has been more expensive. That it changed and the spread on the bottom. That changed in late 2016 after the election and we see health care trade at a di