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The middle of anywhere, you should have fast reliable internet. Thats why were leading the way. Media com supports cspan along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. And we take you now live to the floor of the senate where this morning, members will be considering a nominee to be undersecretary of the air force. And later, senators will be revoting on a Border Security measure that failed in the chamber earlier this year. Youre watching live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Today ace opening todays owning prayer will be offered by pastor adam weber, pastor of embrace church, sioux falls, south dakota. The guest chaplain let us pray. Gracious lord, we thank you for this day. Help us not to take it for granted. Thank you for the breath in our lungs. Thank you for hearing ....
Wednesday session. We are one hour is today. There is the stoxx 600 down by 1 3 of 1 . The third continuous decline. A while. Ain in the highest in 15 years. Loafers, handbags contribute into it. 2 . October, its up by as we approach the december fed meeting, many expecting, there. S 70 probability ofa a hike u. S. Crude stockpiles expanded it prefersays freezing output at current levels rather than cutting production. Lets get to my first wonderful chart of the day. Its all about volatility expectations. Uge. Ss asset gagu as you can see, it has fallen to the lowest level since 2014. Are investors getting too comfortable . Making some nervous threats from washington to beijing. The uncertainty about the u. S. President ial vote has diminished. Investors are coming to terms with the potential rate hike and december. Its possible investors are too nervous to make any big bets. What a wonderful chart. Lets get to bloomberg first word news. Thank you so much. In extended fell trading afte ....
A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from colorado is recognized. Mr. Bennet thank you mr. President. Id like to congratulate you for sitting in that chair. The presiding officer the senate is in a quorum call. Mr. Bennet i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Bennet and id like to congratulate the presiding officer. Mr. President , id like to speak about the fischer amendment that were slated to vote on at some point around here, and while i respect my neighbor from nebraska where she is coming from with this effort, the proposal unfortunately misses the mark by a mile. The amendment would set up new and unprecedented process for protecting for protective land designations. It says the secretary of the interior or agriculture has to publish in the federal register two findings before any congressional protections on public lands would go into effect. First, the secretary has to find that new protected land would not a ....
Representatives made because i do think we have got to reform immigration. I believe we need to reform it on a stepbystep bases. I know that we have disagreements about how we do that but i think you will see that things will start to happen on that with regard to Border Security and we passed a bill in this house last year with i think, 350 votes, that dealt with legal immigration. And we have got we didnt do everything but it did a bunch of things to get it started. And i know the member from utah is going to reintroduce that and expand and do things on that. I appreciate all of the witnesses being here and your points of view. We clearly are a diverse country with diverse views on many things including this issue but i think the bottom line is this is a fight about how we will get to a solution not necessarily rather the people want to get a to longterm solution on these issues. The gentlemen from colorado. Thank you, mr. Chai ....
And how the world has changed but it is also the industries that have changed in the sense that this is a Corporate Structure that is out there now as well a lot of consolidation going on in Companies Getting into various areas of the business of at one point they are acting like a commentary, including a content provider and so forth. You mentioned the distinction between Information Services and Telecommunications Services in this law. Is that a meaningful distinction today . I think over time it should not be. We are entering a world in which a bid is a bed Data Networks follow radically different characteristics than the one that inform this written in the 30s or the 90s. Its one o ....