House speaker ryan held a briefing with reporters earlier today. He was joined by other Republican Leaders as they expressed their support for President Trumps executive order on refugees and immigrants and then discussed g. O. P. Efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Its 15 minutes. Mr. Ryan good morning, everybody. This week in the house, were making important progress on two fronts. First, our committees are set to begin holding legislative hearings on bills to deliver relief for americans struggling under obamacare. This is the next step in a step by step approach to repealing and replacing obamacare with affordable, patientcentered system. We know that this law is collapsing. We hear it from every we hear it every day from our constituents. We hear it from the families who tell us deductibles are so high it doesnt feel like they have insurance. We hear it from people who have been denied choices. We need to step in and restore real choices and real competition so we c
Only worked four times in 42 years. Over those 42 years we only i want everybody to listen to this. We have only appropriated 2 1 2 appropriation bills per year. This is a fraud on the american people. Perpetrated for 42 years. Its time we deal with t thats one area we can use to help arrest this run away government spending. 2. 4 trillion is what we spent in 2000. We spent 3. 8 trillion last year. Thats constant dollars. We have to look we have to grow the economy. We have to save Social Security or medicare long term that makes it viable for our kids and grandkids. We have to get at the spiraling driver of our Health Care Cost inflation. Im running out of time im hold the questions for second round. Thank you. Senator king. Senator king thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, doctor. Nice to have you here. Appreciate your comments, senator perdue. Senator perdue in maine we have a saying that summarizes exactly what you were talking about. There is rarely a silver bullet. There is often si
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin mr. President , i rise also to speak about the stream buffer rule. I want everyone to know the state of West Virginia has been a heavylifting state, we have been an extraction state. We do the mining. We mine the coal that built the steel that built the guns and defended us and gave us basically the great country we have. We have done everything. There is no one in West Virginia that wants dirty water or dirty air, no one in oklahoma, no one in any extraction state. Pitting people against each other is just wrong. The way this comes down is just strictly, its strictly a duplicative rule. The stream buffer rule that was put in place. My colleagues know last year the department of interior office, Surface Mining reclamation and enforcement basically decided to send its final stream protection rule to the white house without fulfilling obligations and even a request by myself to please contact, wor
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin mr. President , i rise also to speak about the stream buffer rule. I want everyone to know the state of West Virginia has been a heavylifting state, we have been an extraction state. We do the mining. We mine the coal that built the steel that built the guns and defended us and gave us basically the great country we have. We have done everything. There is no one in West Virginia that wants dirty water or dirty air, no one in oklahoma, no one in any extraction state. Pitting people against each other is just wrong. The way this comes down is just strictly, its strictly a duplicative rule. The stream buffer rule that was put in place. My colleagues know last year the department of interior office, Surface Mining reclamation and enforcement basically decided to send its final stream protection rule to the white house without fulfilling obligations and even a request by myself to please contact, wor
Weve been seeing. Right now the dow is indicated down 58 points. S p off by 6. 5, the nasdaq down by 12. The dow once again yesterday set a new record high. You hate when i say new record high. New fresh record alltime high. It has been six records in a row for the dow. The s p 500 and the nasdaq breaking sevenday winning streaks. You are looking at the dow on pace for the best week in more than two months this week. Nasdaq and s p are poised for their fourth straight weekly win in a row. Overnight in asia, look and youll see the nikkei was down by almost 0. 6 . Weakness in the hang seng and shanghai composite. In the dax down 0. 4 . The cac off 0. 8 . The ftse is flat. And if you check out crude oil prices this morning, right now pull back of 38 cents for wti. Trading just below 53. Among the top corporate stories. Toshiba shares plummeting again, and s p could cut their Credit Rating by several notches if the Firm Receives federal aide. The credit is rated as junk right now at triple