Tuesday night for the new york state primary. Join us at 9 00 eastern. Taking you on the road for the white house on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. President obama delivers his last speech at the end of the month and this coming weekend they take a look back at the previous dinner routines. Heres a poerth of what you will see. No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald. He can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like did we make the moon landing. What heal happened and where are big e and tupac. All kidding aside. We know your credentials and breath of experience. For example, just recently in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice at the steak house, the Mens Cooking Team did not impress d andy recognized that the problem was lack of leadership and you didnt blame lil john or meat loaf. You fired gary busey and these decisions would keep me up at night. See the speech saturday night at 10 00 eastern on cspan. The program also incl
Issues you are faced with. I came away from the first for him a few weeks ago deeply impressed with the urgent need that i felt from the members in attendance. I am going to try to be concrete and not be too high level or reviewed too much of what dr. Compton has already presented. I spent 10 years as a prescriber because i came to government. 5 years in my solo private practice. And 5 years as medical director of an Opiate Treatment Program for western psychiatric clinic pittsburgh. I maintain my private practice over that time. I can tell you the single most therapeutic thing i did for anybody was provide respectful medical treatment. Whether that included medication or just listening and advice in coronation of ancillary services. It almost did not matter which. Obviously medication was an important part. Of going to spend a lot of what i talk about todahyy on that. A word about the pictures im showing you. One day i asked everybody i saw if they could give me their permission to ta
Transparently just and fair that falsehood may be banished by the truth that sets us free. Supply the needs of those who are hurting because of this Government Shutdown, as you give our senators the conviction that, with you, all things are possible. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid following leader remarks the senate flb a period of morning business for debate only until 4 00 p. M. This afternoon. Senators will be allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each during that period of time. Mr. President , senator schumer yesterday on the floor talked about what the house is doing, and he described it like alice in wonderland. I dont know if thats an apt description. Mamaybe it
Thank you for joining us, everybody. Here on markets now, i am connell mcshane. Into the trading session, stocks are extending their holiday run. A lot to talk about, peter schiff will, in a minute. Juan williams later on. But we will start with Lauren Simonetti in the stock market. Lauren 105 million shares trading hands down here, but not only up arrows, but record highs. The nasdaq flying higher as is the s p 500, if youre keeping track, which we are. Counting todays close, 50 record highs counting todays price, 50 record highs for the Dow Jones Industrial average in 2013. We haae not seen a number that big since 1995 when we had 59 record closes. December, as you know, is historically one of the best months of the year for the stock market. Today is the best day of the month for the stock market. Amazon. Com. It was up quietly, but this year up 59 . 1 million customers became new prime numbers. Connell thank you very much. Today is one of the best days to be in the stock market. 80
Youre watching live on cspan. Before we begin this hearing, guests and viewers should be advised that this hearing will discuss the medical abuse of women in the custody of the u. S. Government and that the subject matter is deeply distressing and highly sensitive. 18 months ago, i launched a p. S. I. Investigation focused on the medical treatment of women detained by the department of homeland scus. Id like to thank Ranking Member johnson and his staff for their contributions to this bipartisan investigation. Our findings are deeply disturbing. It is the bipartisan finding of the subcommittee that female detainees in georgia were subjected by a d. H. S. Contracted doctor to excessive, invasive, and often unnecessary gynecological surgeries and procedures with repeated failures to obtain informed medical consent. This is an extraordinarily disturbing finding. And in my view represents a catastrophic failure by the federal government to respect basic human rights. Among the serious abus