Welcome to this hearing on the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights. Today we are pleased to have with us the chairman of the federal trade commission, joseph simons, and the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the department of justice, makan delrahim. Welcome to both of you. As an initial matter, as a matter of housekeeping, we have been informed we may have a block of more votes starting about an hour from now. The practical matter, we may be able to push it to an hour and a half from now, but before we hit the recess at some point we will likely have to go to recess to cast a few votes. We will have to play some of that by ear. I apologize in advance. Theres no way to predict these in advance. It does seem to be an uncanny event, with antitrust subcommittee hearings. It seems to be a good predictor, albeit an unintentional predictor of when votes are going to occur. As both of you know, ive been critical of the fact that we have two federal agen
Welcome to this hearing on the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights. Today we are pleased to have with us the chairman of the federal trade commission, joseph simons, and the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the department of justice, makan delrahim. Welcome to both of you. As an initial matter, as a matter of housekeeping, we have been informed we may have a block of more votes starting about an hour from now. The practical matter, we may be able to push it to an hour and a half from now, but before we hit the recess at some point we will likely have to go to recess to cast a few votes. We will have to play some of that by ear. I apologize in advance. Theres no way to predict these in advance. It does seem to be an uncanny event, with antitrust subcommittee hearings. It seems to be a good predictor, albeit an unintentional predictor of when votes are going to occur. As both of you know, ive been critical of the fact that we have two federal agen
Of the mehdi hasan show tonight, gop dysfunctions, driving us towards a Government Shutdown. Even House Republicans are pointing to figure at one man, Kevin Mccarthy. Plus, the white house just created the First Ever Office devoted to curbing gun violence. I will speak with former Gun Violence Activists turn gen z congressman maxwell frost. And, covid rates are on the rise, again. My conversation with americas doctor, Anthony Fauci. Good evening. At this moment, we are about six days away from a potential Government Shutdown. The first, since the start of 2019. And its a shutdown that we are facing, because House Republicans are completely dysfunctional, behaving in a pathetic way, and pushing for a completely meaningless shut down, because they want to burn the whole place down. Those are not my words, those are the words of House Republicans themselves. We are, completely dysfunctional. There needs to be a realization, that you are not going to get everything you want. And, just thro
The sfenate flaplan ylan reporter we dont have to rely on sources because the Senate Version of the tax bill is now officially out. Here is some of the key details. As weve been reporting, it would delay the introduction of the corporate rate cut by one year to 2019 however, it would get down to 20 and stay there permanently it would also limit the ability of companies to deduct their interest, but give them full and immediate expensing for five years. The individual side of the senate plan is quite different from the house version of the bill the Senate Version has seven individual tax rates the top tax rate is 38. 5 . The senate bill will also include a full repeal of the state and local Tax Deduction. Now, that gives them a lot of money to play with to do some other things in the bill such as keeping that 1 million limit on the mortgage Interest Deduction. The house version of the bill had lowerered that for newly purchased homes. The Senate Version of the bill it keeps it at its cu
Karen rogers is off, we have david murphy in. Reporter all right, guys you can see a lack of sunshine in most neighborhoods. As the day rolls on additional clouds roll in and well have additional showers in the suburbs. 22 in wilmington. 16 in millville. 32 in cape may. Yes, the mild air is coming, you still need the winter coat this morning. Winds are not all that strong, calm currently in philadelphia. 27 degrees by 7 00 a. M. 42 by noon. 3 00 p. M. Well bounce back up to a high of 52 degrees falling back to the mid 40s by 7 00 p. M. Sun giving way to clouds, most of the rain will be later in the day or in the evening. You talked about how weird matt and tam, the weather has been this winter, well, it might get weirder as spring arrives this weekend as we are looking for the potential of a bit of snow, ill have the details coming up. Reporter it makes sense reporter yes, its still march. Reporter good morning, everybody, a good start on the roadways, last week it was not a good situa