andy, thank you. i ll see you later. thank you all for joining us. i m kasie hunt. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. we re so glad you re with us. a lot to get to on this tuesday, november 14th. president biden s foreign policy set to face yet another major test as he departs today for a high-stakes meeting with chinese president xi jinping. they will be meeting on the sidelines of major economic summit with other global leaders. we re learning of a u.s. fentanyl deal. the president is now urging that those facilities, quote, must be protected. and biden s government is now just three days away from a potential shutdown. a vote to avert it set for today. but the measure includes no funding for either of the two wars his administration is supporting. public pressure for biden to maintain his support for israel will be on full, literal display today. a huge rally at the national mall planned with tens of thousands expected to attend. meanwhi
Priorities including overtime rules, training and apreniveship programs, collective bargaining rights, retirement programs and accessibility of other employment benefits. The House Education Committee held this hearing last month. The quorum being present, the committee on education and the workforce will come to order. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hearing. The committee is honored to welcome our distinguished guest, secretary alexander acosta. Secretary acosta has been at the helm of the department of labor since april and were grateful he could join us to testify for the First Time Since his confirmation. Mr. Secretary, welcome to the committee. We look forward to your testimony. Which we are sorry did not arrive earlier. And discussing the department of labors policies and priorities under the new administration. The department of labor is on the front line of the issues facing workers and job creators. It sets policies that have a widespread impact on our nations e
Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Carl quintanilla with john fortt, sara eisen, and Business Insider editor in chief henry blodget, guys, good morning to everybody. Got a news alert to start things off. Inventory is out on the oil complex. Lets get to jackie. Jackie good morning, carl. You can see crude prices are pairing losses, but still negative after this report, saying last week crude inventories fell 2. 7 million, so thats a little bit supportive, but on the flip side, gasoline inventories were up 2. 5 million, so sort of cancelling each other out there. The other thing i would note is u. S. Production was actually down weve been watching this steadily creep up. 9. 48 Million Barrels a day people are waiting for it to eclipse its peak of 9. 6 Million Barrels a day, so definitely a good sign were moving in the opposite direction 50. 44, as you know, weve been trading around the 50 mark for quite some time. These numbers arent going to help us find a direction ill sen
Executive order today is an important step in achieving that goal. I want to thank you and your administration for continuing to focus on finding affordable healthcare solutions. In addition to instructions given to the treasury, and health and Human Services department, the president will pass the department of labor with considering ways to deliver quality affordable healthcare. To the american workforce. Im calling on senator rand paul for a few brief words. Thank you. Today is a big day, President Trump is doing what i believe is the biggest free market reform of healthcare and a generation. This reform if it works and goes as planned, will allow millions of people to get insurance across state lines and inexpensive price. 28 Million People were left behind by obamacare who do not have insurance today. This specifically targets and will help people who dont have insurance or people for whom insurance is too expensive. Im glad to be part of this and i really want to commend the pres
All right. I think we are going to go ahead and get started. We are missing aft president randi winegarden. She will be joining us as soon as she gets here. Im the education reporter at u. S. News. Youre at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. Ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelis panelists. Theres nothing really going on in dc right now, right . I am going to leave the bio to you guys. You can look in the program and see it. I will quickly run down the line here. We are lindsay burke. For those of you who are sort of like outside the beltways here jeffreys is the president of democrats for education reform. He is also a civil rights lawyer. Next to him is marty west. The republican from tennessee. A quick housekeeping note, that is one of the first panels at ewa. Please tweet using so its fair game. Its a little warning. We want you to make news. This is also being live streamed on periscope. Because we have such big task today we want to provide lo