A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from colorado. Mr. Gardner i ask the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, the Senate Stands in recess until 2 15 p. M. And the senate and a break for weekly party meetings. When they returned at 2 15 p. M. Eastern they are expected to take a procedural vote on shortterm government funding. Current funding expires at the end of the month. The vote has been rescheduled twice as lawmakers work off afford to come to an agreement to move forward. For more details on where things stand we spoke earlier with the capitol hill reporter. Host nancy is a reporter for bloomberg. She reports on appropriations. Its less than two weeks before the deadline of the government funding could shut down. Whats the latest you hearing about the status of negotiations for the continuing resolution, a short term fix . Guest the status was the same as the status yesterday. And that they were close t
I think the Obama Administration in the previous Bush Administration both deserve a lot of credit for pushing advanced investments in those and integrating some findings into their allocations to different programs consistent with what steve was saying. My only concern about this is in a court of law of evidence information that changes your mind. Its its not simply randomized controlled trials. Theres a lot of things that budget examiners and on b do that they make decisions based not just on how programs work on the same goes for members of congress and their staff. Congress get evidence every day by talking to constituents. I think its quite relevant to hear from casework experience about how well programs work. I think in general the evidencebased approach is great. But we should also be open to the idea that there are many different ways in evaluating how effective and efficient and equitable programs are. This is from marge at Network Lobby for catholic social justice. Primarily
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Cutting the number of rate hikes it expects this year in half. What that means for the markets. Shares of fedex are up on earnings and company taking a shot at amazon on its call yesterday. Plus jim cramer spoke to target ceo about competing with amazon. How hes positioning his company against jeff bezos. First up something that would have been nun thinkable. Dow and s p down 1 for the year after the fed reduced the number of rate hikes it expect this year from four to two. Futures moving lower. Caterpillar issues First Quarter estimates in the wake of lower Commodity Prices even though they stayed firm on their guidance for the year, jim. Yeah. I found that two surprising things was one how deep the cut was First Quarter. And two, how they believe that somehow things are going to get better quickly. I think that caterpillar is in a nutshell what fed did. Look these are Great American companies. Not doing well at all. That has to do a lot with oil and gas and mining. Not just all inter