Opportunity oversight hearing on veteran homelessness. I want to apologize first for being a little late. I had another obligation in my responsibility on the budget committee. And my breathe brad winstrup, chair of the Health Subcommittee will not be able to make it and so im going to preside. We have the vha subcommittee chair Julie Brownley and her capable leadership. Thanks for being here. Then my friend from texas and Ranking Member of the subcommittee for Economic Opportunity, orourke is joining me as well. Our chairman is joining us. Thank you, dr. Rowe, for coming, i want to begin by also asking for unanimous consent for congressman mike kauffman, congressman scott peters and i guess thats it to set in on the dais and participate in todays hearing. I dont hear any objection. So ordered. Im going to cut through my remarks here and break from my customary reading a script and just say that this is a subject that is heartbreaking. And when you look at the statistics on veteran hom
U. S. Equity futures at this hour have been a bit weak in the for the morning. You know what . Just the dow futures. That might have something to do with what becky is going to tell you about. The s p is actually up a point. The nasdaq is up about four. The nasdaq had some rough sledding lately. The dow is the index down today. Down about 21 points. Crude prices coming off a loss of about 5 . Wti posting the lowest close since november. Joe, i ae lewd eluded to it. Its sitting there at one price, then a totally different price. You think it has to do with the world we live in now . Absolutely. At 11 20 p. M. , oil is trading 45. 25 and the next hour 43. 76. How does that happen . Were the world is chasing alpha, when the quantitative models see an opportunity, which they see in oil, thats where all the activity is. It wasnt an overweight trader with fat fingers . No, and not pure fundamentals. Fundamentals are deteriorating for oil. It is seeing the opportunity, lowvol world. You go ar
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Mr. Nathan al kpapder sales, with the rank and status of the ambassador at large. Mr. George edward glass. And mr. Carl c. Rich to be assistant secretary of state for counselor affairs. I want to welcome the nominees, their families to this committee, congratulate them on their selection by the president and thank you for your willingness to serve, i also want to note that we have congressman rooney here supporting commissioner gingrich. Congressman rooney was the ambassador to the holy c. During the commissioners term. Well introduce two of our witnesses, the senior senator from oregon, senator ron widen, an esteemed member of this committee and senator portman from ohio. Were pleased to have you here today. Mr. Chairman, thank you for your courtesy, as senator portman knows, were right in the middle of debating tax reform, i know a topic of great interest to me here. And im trying to help out chairman hatch. So i will make this a filibuster free opportunity, mr. Chairman and it is a
Investigation and his own party. And the olympic golden boy versus a great white. Michael phelps coming up short trying to outswim a shark. Why some are frustrated how he did it. Massive reaction pouring in overnight and what phelps is now saying about a rematch. We do say good morning, america, hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. Michael phelps is not used to taking a silver. No, he is not. Especially against a computer which had a lot of people talking on twitter. It was actually a computergenerated shark, not a real one. A lot of people felt had on that one. They did and well talk about that in a bit. But first, it was a very busy day, a lot of anticipation for Jared Kushners interview with Senate Intelligence Committee Investigators. Yeah zlets take a live look at capitol hill right now. Kushner will speak with the Senate Intelligence committee behind closed doors and just released a statement hes going to give them and denied any collusion with the russians, detailed his conta