For Economic Growth for the year. Heres the key line in the statement. Quote, the Committee Judges that the case for increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened but decided for the timebeing to wait for further evidence of continued progress towards its objectives. It has two more meetings this year, november and december. The dissenters were rosengren and lemmas sister from cleveland and es store george from kansas city. Trish. Trish you say case has strengthened for them to raise rates . Compared to the first half of the year the economy is getting stronger in the second half he despite some numbers weve seen recently. Retail sales a little softer. Jobs report a little softer. They took the growth forecast for gdp in 2016 from 2 in june to 1. 8 . So a slight downgrade. Trish peter barnes. Neil thank you very much. I am joined on set by ashley webster, our own ashley webster. Kathleen witt is from Donald Trumps economic team. Steve cortez an Economic Advisor to donald trump. A
And the inspired action you took to come to the aid of the veteran in crisis. Thank you all for the work that you do day in and day out on behalf of those who have served. A few weeks ago i had the honor of meeting with robert mcdonald, the secretary of the va. Secretary mcdonald is a man who has time and again answered the call of duty to his and our nation. He graduated from the United States military academy at west point in the top 2 of his class in 1975. An army veteran. Mr. Mcdonald served with the 82nd airborne division, completed jungle, arctic, desert warfare training, earned the ranger tab, that expert infantry men badge. Senior parachutist wing. Upon leaving military service, captain mcdonald was awarded the Meritorious Service medal. But mr. Mcdonalds expertise as a soldier is equal by his business beingaccumen. He earned a degree from the university of utah and has a career in the private sector. Before joining the va, chairman mcdonald was chairman, president and chief ex
School. At one time we were of the board and we started and to the faculty members. Today were 44,000 students and we sit on approximately a 200 acre site in largo, maryland. We have 250 full time faculty members, and probably another 8 or 9 adjunct faculty. This Community College is one of the most diverse institutions in the state. You have students from more than 120 countries . Yeah, 120 different countr s countries. Thats about the washington metropolitan area. It draws a diverse population through the world. Were lucky that we sit in a place thats going to take advantage of a Higher Education. 93 percent are Prince George county residence, and we pride ourself on the fact that they live in the county and that quit frankly when they graduate and transfer, theyre staying at home adding to the economy of Prince George county and the region. Educated in prin georges county. I i love that. Tell me a little bit about the value in the students that say that i want to be educated in the
Task force will be in order to. We have to get this hearing in before the votes start between 11 30 and noon each though its noticed for 10 30, i think the time for Opening Statements will burn up the time between now and 10 30, so we can get to the witnesses. I would like to welcome everyone to todays hearing on the Judiciary Committees overcriminallization task force. The tenth and final hearing will focus on the abundance of federal criminal offenses on the books and the role that the Judiciary Committees jurisdiction or lack thereof under house rules plays on this issue. This committee is comprised of lawmakers with the ability to avoid redundancy with the awareness of the entire body of criminal federal law. With other recommendations we should consider the amendments to clarify not only to criminal Law Enforcement with legislation as well. Again i would like to thank the members of the task force i hope we can come together to address many of the concerns of over criminalization
President of iran but not the gop. And today he insisted the republicans are, quote, just messing with me. Is all this bickering what sent the markets into a deep selloff . The dow finished 185 points lower even as investors expect janet yellen to take over the fed. Those stories and much more coming up in the kudlow report beginning right now. Its 7 00 p. M. Here at cnbc worldwide headquarters and we are live on the kudlow report. The big story right now, the house voting today to keep the government running through mid december, locking a sequester savings and defund obama care. It was largely a party line vote. Why are House Republicans so committed to fighting the president s Signature Health care reform . Take a listen again to speaker boehner. Listen, this is hurting our constituents. Its hurting the American People. At a time when the economy is barely eking along, wages arent increasing, new jobs arent available and what are we doing . Were putting more cost and more inconvenie