The Dow Jones Industrials plunged 2,000 points. And trading was halted trying to break the slowoff. The Circuit Breaker slowed but didnt hit a decline. The national leftwing media playing up fears of the coronavirus that affected 113,000 people in 111 countries and territories around the world. Well turn to the dimensions of the pandemic here at home later in the show. Vladimir putin refused to go along with saudi arabia and opec to boost oil production. The result soil prices suffering the worst collapse since 1991. For the day, the dow, the nasdaq and s p dropping 7 . The losses amounting to 2. 5 trillion in lost market cap. Well have lots more on what to expect in the days ahead. The worsening outlook for the coronavirus pandemic is bringing more fears. A cruise ship carrying 3,500 people docking in oakland after spending the past five days offshore. 21 people on board the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. After removal from the ship all passengers will face a 14day quaranti
Including some turtles. Thats right. Your tax dollars actually paid for a study that put turtles on treadmills. So here we have our turtles on a treadmill. To no ones surprise, it turns out that turtles are really, really slow. Okay. Thats what our tax dollars went to. In fact, this wasteful study found that turtles moved at nearly the same pace as dead turtles on a treadmill. Arent you glad that washington bureaucrats used your hard earned dollars to conduct this study . Good grief, folks. Now how many of your tax dollars went to this study exactly . Well, folks, your guess is actually as good as mine because there is no legal obligation for most federal agencies to publicly disclose the price of government projects even though the american taxpayers are paying for them. Folks, this is your money, your money. So shouldnt you have a right to know how it is being spent . Its been said before, and i sure believe it, government functions best when it operates in the open. This is the basi
Plunged 2,000 points. And trading was halted trying to break the slowoff. The Circuit Breaker slowed but didnt hit a decline. The national leftwing media playing up fears of the coronavirus that affected 113,000 people in 111 countries and territories around the world. Well turn to the dimensions of the pandemic here at home later in the show. Vladimir putin refused to go along with saudi arabia and opec to boost oil production. The result soil prices suffering the worst collapse since 1991. For the day, the dow, the nasdaq and s p dropping 7 . The losses amounting to 2. 5 trillion in lost market cap. Well have lots more on what to expect in the days ahead. The worsening outlook for the coronavirus pandemic is bringing more fears. A cruise ship carrying 3,500 people docking in oakland after spending the past five days offshore. 21 people on board the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. After removal from the ship all passengers will face a 14day quarantine. There have been a tota
The Dow Jones Industrials plunged 2,000 points. And trading was halted trying to break the slowoff. The Circuit Breaker slowed but didnt hit a decline. The national leftwing media playing up fears of the coronavirus that affected 113,000 people in 111 countries and territories around the world. Well turn to the dimensions of the pandemic here at home later in the show. Vladimir putin refused to go along with saudi arabia and opec to boost oil production. The result soil prices suffering the worst collapse since 1991. For the day, the dow, the nasdaq and s p dropping 7 . The losses amounting to 2. 5 trillion in lost market cap. Well have lots more on what to expect in the days ahead. The worsening outlook for the coronavirus pandemic is bringing more fears. A cruise ship carrying 3,500 people docking in oakland after spending the past five days offshore. 21 people on board the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. After removal from the ship all passengers will face a 14day quaranti
In the house today work on two veterans bills and recommendations for modernizing congress. You are watching live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, reverend erin keys, capitol hill presbyterian, washington dis. The chaplain let us pray, god, we ask you blessing upon all those gathered here today and upon our nation as we along with countries all over the world face the anxiety and fear currently surrounding the coronavirus. Though much about how the situation will continue to unfold is unknown to us. We trust that it is known to you. From the beginning of time, your spirit has hovered over the chaos of our world bringing order and life so we pray that your spirit continues to do so now. We pray for the safety of all people and we pray for the wisdom of our leaders as they guide us through this time. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and anno