of the house. members today working on authorization for defense programs and policy for 2021. live coverage of the house here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. loving and grares gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. we ask today that you bless the members of the people s house to be the best and most faithful servants of the people they serve. as this second session of the 116th congress draws near its end, and legislative business once again weighs heavily on this hill, withhold not your wisdom, your spirit of wisdom and truth from this sameably. give each member clarity of thought and purity of motive so that they may render their service as their best selfs. in this time of waiting, as people of faith prepare for holy celebrations, bless our nation with peace and goodwill. may all americans of whatever faith or background work togeth
such as carlos sanchez is, you re saying hello from dallas. we welcome you. corey, you re also saying hello. thank you so much all of you. shoot away with your questions on facebook live. tell me, first of all, we re going to go a little light here. i think we all need that to feel like we can get our zen during this very difficult time. tell me what you did this mast weekend. what did you do? we were on a lockdown situaton here in a shelter in place. what did you do? so share that with us every day. we ll be here for you at this time with topical guests and ways to keep your sanity at home. we re also going to be on tv as well. the benefit of streaming on facebook live is added content during the breaks during which time we can just chat. we can share pictures. so let s get to all the headlines from today. okay. we ll start worldwide. italy recorded a smaller day to day increase in new coronavirus cases for a second straight day. the 2020 summer olympics have been officially
so you have to be careful if you come out on the roadways. now, we are stuck in traffic and people are moving rather slowly as they go home. on the sidewalks we do see some snow, a little accumulation, but not much. again, the main focus tonight is to be careful if you re out on the roads due to the refreeze. back to you, doug. yeah, that s all this is right now, shomari, as we continue to move on through. thank you very much. stay safe out there driving. it shouldn t be too bad if you re heading out friday night. watch out for the sidewalks. other than that, i have your weekend forecast and christmas forecast as well. as i mentioned, that one we ll talk about that in a few minutes. only ten days away, doug. thank you. tonight a father is sharing his story after his son was shot by mistake. he s only 11 years old and his recovery has been remarkable. this is video of the victim as he heels from the physical wounds of that shooting. we are hearing about the emotional tol
senate republicans passing a 4 trillion-dollar budget, clearing way for tax reform but there are still hurdles again. president trump showing the notion that there could be four, possibly five tax brackets in the plan. come on. more on this in interview with maria bartiromo. among our guests steve forbes, brad blakeman, lieutenant-general thomas mcinerney and gregg jarrett and tmz founder, harvey levin. david: what a week of records it has been. s&p and nasdaq closing at new record highs as well. let s go straight to nicole petallides on the nyse. futures showed downward arrow, all red. what happened? the momentum picked up throughout the day. ge a big laggard came off the lows. we re talking about what happened in washington. the financials climb on top of tabs reform once again. as they move forward, senate passed the budget as a step to move all of this forward. here is look at financials running up on this particular topic. names such as jpmorgan, bank of america, pnc
s & p 500 and nasdac all hitting record highs, the record close for the dow since election day 53rd under president trump. the dow less than 700 points from 24,000 after just passing the 23,000 mark. investors liking the senate clearing a big hurdle for tax cuts last night after approving a $4 trillion budget in a marathon voting session setting the stage for one of president trump s main campaign promises, tax reform but first the president responds to the fire storm involving democrat fredric ahad wilson with march maria bartiromo. maria: were you expecting that? president trump: he is a very elegant man. he s a tough strong four star marine. you re a four star marine you ve got something special to start off with okay? general mattis, general dunford, he was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call and so were other people and the call was a very nice call. he was so offended that a woman would be somebody would be listening to that call. at the li