Iowa secondhe Congressional District debate. Your voice, your vote. Moderator welcome to the second Congressional District debate in cedar rapids. This is the first of a twopart set of debates. The next debate will be next thursday, october 15. Focus on a few different topics and we will tonight such as education, but still, weve got plenty of subjects to work through for the next hour. James lynch,y longtime political reporter with the gazette in cedar rapids, also to serve as moderators tonight. Audience. Hout an we are trying to keep it socially distanced with the candidates and now it is time to meet our candidates. Democrat rita hart is a former served as iowa state senator in the 49th district six years, covering clinton and scott counties. On the right, Mariannette Millermeeks, ophthalmologist from a tumwater ottumwa. Soft for 60ead a seconds to talk about why you are the best choice for this seat in congress. Ms. Hart thank you so much and it is a pleasure to be here. Im rita h
Stuart look at the big board, the dow is up. I wont call this a rally but it is again close to an intraday high, awfully close to 17,100. How about that. Stock of the day, time warner, look at it. 21st century fox makes a bid for the company, time warner turned down by the door is open. We should mention 21st century fox owns this network. Mary kissel is here to pass judgment on this titanic development. In my opinion a couple of issues here. Content is king, time warner is king of content. There is a migration, television to online. This is all part of that. It is just great more broadly speaking susie animal spirits in this economy. 2 growth, nice to see Companies Bidding for one another even if it doesnt work out but you are right. Content is king whether it is comcast, time warner, dish, spectrum, verizon, the tv deal they did absolutely is very valuable. Stuart i dont think it will make a difference to what our viewers see in the immediate future or where they see it but look down
Organization. Get ready for the real story on jobs and the economy like youve come to expect ever day. Varney company is about to begin. 34ubg. Tom lets check the big board right now. Not too far away from dow 18,000. The dow on pace for its best week in three years, and look at that . Less than 100 points away from the 18,000 mark. Lets take a look at twitter. User growth slowing, but results were still better than expected in this result and as a result, that stock is moving higher up 16 . Meantime gopro is forecasting a Current Quarter profit that could miss wall street expectations, and they also have said their chief operating officer is resigning. The stock is down on that news down 10 at gopro. And linkedin is a winner after reporting strong numbers. Stock hit a new high 271. Were just a penny under that right now. Looks like the jobs report 257,000 createssed last month. And created last month. A lot of those are low paying jobs. And the labor force that Participation Rate we t
By the house for a conference and authorize the presiding officer to appoint conferees. Mr. Cornyn ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the ayes are 54 and the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Boozman i ask for unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes. The presiding officer without objection. A senator today we honor the 150th anniversary of abraham lincolns death. Mr. Cotton on the evening of april 14, 1865, the fouryear anniversary of the beginning of the civil war and just days after its end in appomattox, president lincoln was shot while attending the theater. The next morning his last labored breathing ceased. His fanatically unreconciled assassin was enraged by lin
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