Leaders are not allowing lengthy debate. Later this week theyll take up a bill funding defense related programs, also for energy, water, legislative branch, v. A. , military construction. Votes later. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord our god, thank you for giving us another day. As they are returning to the capitol, please be with the members of this peoples house and all their undertakings today. You know them through and through. You know how they relate with one another and know them as the American People do as the 115th congress of the United States. Lord, help them to know you. As ultimate truth, send your spirit upon them that you might find a dwelling place among them so that all your people can place trust in them as leaders as well as their representatives. May all that is done this day be amen. Ur greater glory the speaker pro tempo
Kims nuclear bases. It says they could be involved but what would be the risk involves two raf planes . Not very much, they are unlikely to be shot down. Whether it happens or not i dont know, the bigger risk is the Nuclear Armageddon that might break out. There is not much risk to oui break out. There is not much risk to our planes, probably. But as rowena says, it is interesting that you have footage of people in why, some quite relaxed about it, saying they have heard all about it. People hear my filly bit more nervous if we were in the firing line. The interesting thing about this was that trumps rhetoric is quite bellicose and al gore was making the point on radio 4 that it gore was making the point on radio 4 Thatitis Gore was making the point on radio 4 that it is not trump being a hothead, this is a problem that other illustrations in the past have allowed to develop and therefore it isa allowed to develop and therefore it is a big problem that is going to have to be confronted
Are you taking a break from the booze after the excesses of the Festive Season . Well meet one man who hopes to turn abstinence into a business opportunity. But can non alcoholic drinks really take over from The Real Thing . During yesterdays metro strike in london, uber prices surged by up to 500 . Are companies right to reflect increased demand . Or do price hikes leave you feeling ripped off . Let us know what you think. Welcome to the programme. There are just a couple of weeks of Barack Obamas presidency remaining, and later today he gives his big farewell speech. As well as being commander in chief hes also overseen the worlds biggest economy for the last eight years. But what kind of legacy has he left . Well, since his inauguration injanuary 2009 more than 11 million jobs have been added, with the Unemployment Rate falling from 7. 8 to 4. 7 . It peaked at 10. 0 in 0bamas first year in power. The typical American Family brings home nearly 54,000 a year. Thats almost exactly the
And you can see we are up ever so slightly in france and generally across the board for the major european markets. The tenyear note yield yesterday crept above 2. 5. And this morning is hanging right in there at 2. 53. You can see crude oil also up a little less than 1 . Lets get to our roadmap this morning. And it starts with debating the dow 20,000. Is it behind us . And were going to drill down into the dow 30 stocks. Well have more on caterpillar, dupont, j. P. Morgan, goldman. Yeah, i know, dont look at me like that. Who knew . Man, ive been up since 3 30, im ready to go. Whats wrong with you . Youre slacking. Another busy day for earnings, ford, fiat, comcast and interview with Andrew Liveris on his recent meetings in the white house. Speaking of dow, Johnson Johnson makes a 30 billion cash acquisition this morning. Its actilion. A large cross border deal and we will take a closer look at it as we should. Could it be a faber . I think the whole show today is kind of my reporting
Introduction of the person who needs no introduction. Before i do that, i nor wyden mentioned the nba allstar metaphor, i just wanted to follow up on that, the score in the nba allstar game this year was 192182. It was the highest scoring basketball game i think ever. Were hoping our speakers today dont take quite as much offense as the nba did, and were hoping the speakers provide some defense as well. So we look forward to some very good discussions. Alan is the robert d. Burch professor of economics and law at university of california at berkeley. Hes the director of the burch Center Research associate of the nber, in the tax world hes very well known as the former president of the national tax association, and he was deputy chief of staff at the joint committee on taxation in 92 when they did the landmark study of Corporate Tax incidents. Beyond the economic beyond the narrow confines of the tax world, he is a leader in our profession in numerous honors and awards, the editor of no