Today we consider how the United States should confront the full range of threats that iran poses to our National Security and poses to the security of our regional allies and partners and ill give you my view of this, but i believe that president obamas flawed nuclear deal was a gamble, a gamble that iran would choose to become a responsible actor, a country focused on prosperity for its people and security along its borders, and unfortunately and predictedly, the tehran regime clearly sees itself as a movement, one that uses ideology and violence to destabilize its neighbors, to threaten others, mainly the United States and israel. That is why we still hear death to israel, death to the United States. Israel is a one bomb country. Thats why we hear this. In iraq and syria, irans revolutionary guards have taken advantage of the fight against isis and theyre using their shock troops and militia to brutalize syrians and to seize much of the territory. As isis loses ground the risk is re
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Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving our nations infrastructure a top priority. And this committee is continuing its effort to highlight our nations infrastructure needs. As i stated infrastructure is critical to our nations prosperity. In personal meetings i have met with members of this committee, both sides of the aisle, and i will tell you that infrastructure is always listed as a top priority. It is a priority because it is a driver of the nations economy and it impacts every community. This committee has a long history of working together in a bipartisan way on infrastructure issues. I want to continue that tradition. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has sweeping jurisdiction over our nations infrastructure. Our last hearing focused on highways and roads and the needs of rural water systems, all of which within this committees purview. Recent natural weather events in the last month in california and in other western stat
Fear, because oil comes down or Interest Rates are coming down, bank stocks are going down sell sell sell. Or we can collectively roll up our sleeves and find out what high quality stocks are on sale simply because theyre caught up in the marketwide sell jot. Today paid off after initially getting obliterated, the averages rebounded nicely, to close down 255 points, the nasdaq inching down just 0. 39 . First lets get the negative going on. Whats really ailing the market is that all stocks trade together off of news that shouldnt produce such an how meteorology niced output. The negative goes like this something is ailing the europe banks. So are ouric banks stocks ranked to go down . Why not . Theyre acting hideously. It could be because they have more balanceoid loans than we dont know about, or maybe just theyre going down because theyre going down, the industry is collectively lying to us. They have all the huge exposure to European Banks. In other words, people are worried that the
Something is ailing the europe banks. So are European Banks stocks ranked to go down . Why not . Theyre acting hideously. It could be because they have more oil loans than we dont know about, maybe just theyre going downwnecause theyre going down, ththindustry is collectively lying to us. They have all the huge exposure to European Banks. In other words, peop are worried that theres systemic risk, that havent yet happened again, and for the report might not happen at all again, but we have tore scared out of our wits, because thats what we did in 2011 and decided to sell everything, because the market went count 19 . There, thats the scenario. Plus oil is going down. We have Oil Executives chatteringngbout how well have to put crude in swimming pools, because theres so little Storage Space left. I thought it was a funny comment. But the oil futures guy realize its danrous to own oil. The market bounced somewhat when once again we heard press reports i could have said lies but that ther