We welcome everyone today. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Article one of the constitution explicitly gives congress authority for spending. Is oversight authorization central to congresss responsibility to ensure the government allocates taxpayer dollars responsibly and in line with the values and wishes of the mecca people. It has been the repeated topic of discussion and debate and calls for a forum. We can agree that abuse and a lack of transparency have often been associated with the process. This has, understandably, fueled concern among tax paying citizens. As a result, earmarking became known a process known for its secrecy and selfinterested motivations. Despite efforts to reform the earmarking process, and increase transparency, the American People and many members of congress remained unsatisfied. Highprofile cases persists. Since the enactment of this ban, members have become frustrated as federal funds have been appropriated only to be redirected via the execu
On thursday, follow the congressional debate over funding the federal government. Live coverage on cspan. The senate on cspan two. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Earmarks the legislative permitsn that congressional spending two states were banned in 2011. Proponents for the practice are calling for the reinstatement. A House Committee took place this morning. Men make many members of or for thee against march the marks. This is three hours. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we welcome everyone today. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Article one of the constitution explicitly gives congress authority for spending. Is oversight authorization central to congresss responsibility to ensure the government allocates taxpayer dollars responsibly and in line with the values and wi
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Shares of ge sinking premarket on the heels of the biggest decline in almost a decade John Flannery will join us later this hour. Hurricane boost for home depot, raises full year guidance reports. Buffalo wild soaring premarket, getting a buyout offer from york capital. Well talk about that in a moment 7 drop, the biggest one day fall since 09 on monday they outlined the turnaround plan and announced it is cutting its dividend in half. Were going to talk to John Flannery exclusively later this hour lots to get to on the portfolio, on the influence of trian and dividend itself and what the message is going to be from here. Totally agree i think there are some issues about the way they are going to build the cash flow issues about the way 2018 is supposed to go and yes, theres a bit of a truth in reconciliation needed about how the company could have been so wrong about its own numbers in 2017, about how to tend to switch to real acting as opposed to the suboptimal form of accounting. Th
Great reporting by alex sherman over the last few days for this. The verizon sale will not include yahoo cashiers in alibaba, and verizon will be integrated with aol. Alex sherman is joining us now. You scooped this on friday. Talk us through what happened in the last 72 hours because there were still stumbling brocks tumbling blocks on friday. Alex verizon was always a favorite and we have been talking about that since january. Verizon upped its bid. In the last round of bids, verizon was still only bidding between 3. 75 billion and 4 billion. That was not the high bid. Yahoo had more or less put pressure on verizon saying if you want to buy this thing, you have been the presumptive buyer the whole time, you have to step up and increase the bid. We realize you do not want the nonessential into little property that is not part of the deal, but you still have to bump it up a little bit. Verizon figured when push comes to shove, at the very end here, that is when we will make our move. B