Joy for australia theyve retained the ashes after bowling out england on the final day of the fourth test at old trafford. Good evening. Government ministers have dismissed the accusation of a former senior colleague that too little effort is going into securing a new Brexit Agreement with the eu. Amber rudd who resigned from the cabinet last night said today that the vast majority of brexit focused work was going towards no deal and that there were no formal negotiations with brussels. Shes also called the expulsion of 21 conservative mps opposed to no deal an assault on decency and democracy. The chancellor, sajid javid, says the government hasnt given up on a deal and is sticking to plans to leave at the end of october, come what may. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. From cabinet minister to backbench mp overnight, amber rudd walked out of government no longer believing the Prime Ministers priority was to get a new brexit deal. This morning im joined by the now
This event at cspan. Org. We leave it now to take you now to a briefing with Senate Minority leader chuck shumer. Reporters and where the little kid reporters. Theres one. Anyone else . Theres one. You see, its not your fault, kids. Your parents refuse to cooperate here in the nice little exercise we had. Okay. Anyway, thank you, big and small, for coming. Grownup and growing up for coming. So we all know a lots happened in the last few days. So i wanted to take a couple of minutes to discuss where Senate Democrats are on taxes, health care, government funding, and then take some questions. First on taxes. The president s outline yesterday is a direct assault on the middle class. And an expensive gift to the wealthiest americans and the special interests. Just this morning, secretary mnuchin was asked to guarantee that the middle class would pay less under the trump tax plan. He refused to do so. If on one piece of paper you can guarantee that the wealthy and the special interests will
In asia, the nikkei closed up by 1 . Shanghai was down about 0. 4 . Hang seng was up by 0. 6 . In europe, some of the early trading right now, it looks like the dax is up by 0. 6 . The cac and the ftse are flat. If youve been watching the tenyear note. We fell below 2. 4 on the tenyear yield. This morning that yield is at 2. 38 4 off the lows of yesterday. If you look at crude oil prices, crude down 11 for the month. Its up 42 cents today, sitting just above 48 at 48. 16. President trump will be taking aim at former president Barack Obamas Climate Change policy by signing an executive order on Energy Independence today. The order will seek to curb the federal governments enforcement of climate regulations and focus on protecting american drives. The move expected to get legal and political pushback. The monthly s p 500 caseshiller home price index comes out at 9 00 a. M. At 10 00, march Consumer Confidence. Several fed officials speaking today, including janet yellen on Work Force Deve
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Meeting at one p. M. Room 416 b please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, and use of cell phones, Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. C announcement of time alignment please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to address the commission unless the commission the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that any member of the public wishes to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit it to the commission secretary. The next order of business is item 3 report on actions taken at the previously closed session meeting in any no reportable actions the next order of business is item 4 matters of urban finished business in matter of Unfinished Business the next order of business matter of new business with consen