I want to thank the ambassadors and for their presence here today. Id like to turn to discussing the importance of cyber terrorism in our fight against our cyber warfare that is infighting against terrorism. Would you agree for small that our nation cyber activities are increasingly important as we carry out the fight against isis, al qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula . Okay. Do you have any thoughts related to policy funding or other legislative initiatives that we need to be embarking on to improve our Cyber Capabilities . Is a very big question and i dont think im prepared to answer that in its entirety so let me put a couple facets of the question is the second today. Were happy to come back and discuss it. It is a broad question but i want you to was nearly on the counterterrorism. I think one of the vulnerabilities that we face is that the shady figures who are willing to sell on the dark web exploit capable taking advantage of vulnerabilities and common use of Software Products ha
I now call to order the committee on House Administration or purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the congressional work place on examining the funds to the Congressional Accountability Act. Figuring record will remain open for five legislative days until members submit any they wish to be included. A quorum is present or we may proceed. I ask for unanimous consent that the committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks, represented Jackie Speier and Bradley Byrne said on the dais and question our Witnesses Today. Without objection so ordered. At the outset with an call of our witnesses for taking time out of what i know are very busy schedules to be here. We are much appreciative of that. First and foremost, let me reiterate there is no place for Sexual Harassment in our society. Especially in congress. One case of Sexual Harassment is one case to many. The speaker of the house, paul ryan, tasks the committee with heading up an extensive review on this issue
Form of profit stream. No longer just to cover revenue as a form of revenue or actual profit for government or profit for the private sector. See this really take off in the 1970s and 1980s. You may also hear about fees in terms of hotels. My research into fees looks slightly different. There is a rise, particularly in housing, education, and employment, and what gets us from home, to school, to work, transportation. We see an incredible rise of in relation to financial expenses in those areas. Lets say Student Loans, for instance. Aboutain, i am talking fees, but fees are part of a for a student loan. , ares a Registration Fee test fee, a delinquency fee, but look at the loan itself. U. K. , they call it tuition fees, because that is what it is. Its a tuition fee, and a student loan is a fee. For the average student loan borrower coming outtuition of sl. 28,000 in debt you have heard the argument that it beats not going to college. , really, theres hangover effect that a student loan
Every day, some new atrocity occurs, like yesterday or the day before. Three more people came forward with the idea that he had raped them. This has been going on for years and years and years. There were eight settlements against him. Obviously everyone in the company knew about it. I have to say, i wonder about his wife, who i gather last night announced she was leaving him, finally. How she could possibly not have heard about this. How do you think this happened . How is this allowed to go on and on and have nobody ever speak out until now . Gretchen because as a society and as a culture, we protect harassers. If somebody can actually tell me why that is the 20 million question, why . Why do we do that . Is it because we are protecting our own jobs . Is it because we are protecting a person in power . I think those are the top two reasons. But now that the floodgates have been opened, i give so much credit to the women who were able to tell their stories. By the way, eight settlemen
A positive upward momentum we had recently. Be one of the reasons we are seeing a pause. Stocks have gotten too overheated levels, according to several measures. One of them is the 14weak relative strength index. We have a chart of it here for the s p 500. Line,y, this of her red when this goes over that redline it indicate stocks are overbought. On the bottom you have a green line that indicates oversold typically. So we have a record level for this 14weak indicator. If you look at the 14day rsi come it shows the highest since 1971. Momentum indicators have gotten a little overheated, and that is something investors have been talking about. Individualk to the stocks, watching some of those financial earnings as they come to a close. Morgan stanley, which has been bouncing between gains and losses this morning is holding onto a gain of half of 1 as the companys Wealth Management fees climbed to a record, raised its target for return on equity. On the flipside, bny mellon reported inlin