[background noise] [gavel] committeese judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on protecting america from assault weapons. I will now recognize myself with an Opening Statement. Assault weapons have been repeatedly used of weapons of deadly violence on our citizens. In just the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, poway, midland and odessa have seen Mass Shootings at the hands of a gunman with assault weapons. Last month we added el paso and dayton to the list of communities shattered by Mass Violence perpetrated by a gunman old with armed with assault weapons. Todays hearing is about whether america will tolerate weapons of war in our streets and in our neighborhood. Simply put civilian assault , weapons are just semi automatic versions of military weapons. Have passed bans on assault weapons, these have been proven too easy to evade. This is one reason i support a
The Fourth Quarter and also this week we will get the first glimpse oncoming quarter on friday with new jobs report, so we talked about this last week and looks like the economy has slowed a little bit and we have to see whether we get confirmation of that with the data that come out in the next few days. The earnings and the guidance obviously as usual will be important but now the democrats are turning the story, so far no reaction from the markets but the markets are now accusing President Trump of soliciting additional foreign assistance, this time from australia to investigate the origins of the Mueller Probe. The story in New York Times, the president public told reporters in may that he asked attorney general william barr to look at variety of countries potentially involved in the 2016 election. House democrats subpoenaing the president s personal attorney for documents and said Senate Majority Mitch Mcconnell would have to take Impeachment Vote if it makes its way to the senate
Mr. Bennet madam president , id ask the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Bennet thank you, madam president. Last month over 50 americans were killed in Mass Shootings in this country while we were on the august recess when we should have been here doing our job. 100 americans are killed every day from gun violence. There are 100 desks in this room. There are 100 chairs behind each one of those desks. And if these were the americans killed by gun violence, they would add up to every single desk thats in this room. And yet the majority leader didnt bring us back during the august recess, didnt say we should cancel our vacation and come back to work for the American People, hasnt put a bill on the floor or given the opportunity for anybody else to put a bill on the floor now that weve been back in session for the last two months. In colorado alone in the last 1 months weve 18 months weve lost 882 people to gun violence. Thats a record in my state, mada
Perdue joining us along with Arkansas Attorney general leslie on the bigtech antitrust lawsuit plus newly chief Financial Officer whitney on new data connecting restaurants with suppliers. We are looking at declines, dow industrials off of the lows, 40 points on the dow this morning, s p down 4 and a quarter and nasdaq lower by 17. President trump hit campaign trail in North Carolina rallying for republican candidate dan bishop for congress in state special election today, the president sounded off on u. S. China trade and the economy. Watch. More americans are working today than ever before in the history of our country, almost 160 million americans, weve now had 13 straight months of wage gains of at least 3 , wages are going up, the economy is doing great and jobs have never been better. More than 7 million americans will be lifted off of food stamps. Nearly 600,000 americans entered the labor force last month alone. China wants to talk, they want to talk. China lost 3 million jobs,
As oppostion parties expressed their fury. Suspending parliament is not acceptable. It is not on. The Prime Minister is smashing and grabbing on oui minister is smashing and grabbing on our democracy and force through a no deal brexit. The leader of the scottish conservatives, Ruth Davidson a vocal critic of borisjohnsons is now expected to quit tomorrow and in other news League One Football team, bolton wanderers, have announced theyve been saved, with their administrators securing the clubs sale to Football Ventures limited. And teenage environmental activist, greta thunberg, has arrived in new york after a 15 day, 3,000 mile voyage across the atlantic. And at 11 30, well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, Political Editor of the sun on sunday, dave wooding, and former fleet street editor, eve pollard. Stay with us for that. Good evening. Borisjohnson has successfully secured the queens approval to suspend parliament for more than four weeks next month. To s