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Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt, sara eisen of post 9 of the new york stock exchange. The s p, the nasdaq, the russell all hitting record highs the dow is very close to a record of its own. Were in a period of time here seasonally the markets tend to do well. Its been about two weeks since we saw not only intraday highs, but even backtoback gains on the dow and s p. Technology is in the lead with some familiar names dom pointed to paypal, chip makers, technology stocks. The best performing sector of the year continues to plow this market forward deals are also a big theme, and the question this morning is how many of them are going to get blocked. 200 billion worth of deal this is month, according to deal logic. That is actually a record high for the month, and a lot of it they paint in the backdrop of amazons, facebooks, and googles, john, just getting bigger and disrupting industries and leaving co ....
Joining me is jeff okeefe and sarah clip. I am pleased to have both of them here. Let me begin with you, tell me what happened . Administration, the president and other key leaders were saying they had the votes, and in fact, they did. Was it difficult to pull this off . Absolutely. They did it today by the skin of 13. They did it today by the skin of their teeth. The magic number was to get it over to 16, which they barely did. They call the bow shortly thereafter. This crats voted for they called the vote shortly thereafter. No democrats voted for this. Article conservatives dont think the bill went far enough. But they decided they had to do it on thursday and they did it. It is a significant achievement, whether you are a fan of this president or republicans, or not. There is noted night at the house pulled off many thought they could not do. This is the first major legislative achievement for House Speaker paul ryan, who has b ....
Joining me is jeff okeefe and sarah clip. I am pleased to have both of them here. Let me begin with you, tell me what happened . Administration, the president and other key leaders were saying they had the votes, and in fact, they did. Was it difficult to pull this off . Absolutely. They did it today by the skin of 13. They did it today by the skin of their teeth. The magic number was to get it over to 16, which they barely did. They call the bow shortly thereafter. This crats voted for they called the vote shortly thereafter. No democrats voted for this. Article conservatives dont think the bill went far enough. But they decided they had to do it on thursday and they did it. It is a significant achievement, whether you are a fan of this president or republicans, or not. There is noted night at the house pulled off many thought they could not do. This is the first major legislative achievement for House Speaker paul ryan, who has b ....
Congressional budget office. Joining me is jeff okeefe and sarah clip. I am pleased to have both of them here. Let me begin with you, tell me what happened . The trump administration, the president and other key leaders were saying they had the votes, and in fact, they did. Was it difficult to pull this off . Absolutely. They did it today by the skin of their teeth. 217213. Than they tes needed. The magic number was to get it over to 16, which they barely did. They call the bow shortly thereafter. No democrats voted for this. More ardent conservatives dont think this bill went far enough. But they decided they had to do it on thursday and they did it. It is a significant achievement, whether you are a fan of this president or republicans, or not. There is no denying that the house pulled off something many thought they could not do. This is the first major legislative achievement for House Speaker paul ryan, who has been on the job ....
I just wanted to start with an brief opening comments to frame todays discussion. When it comes to health care, those on the right are often defined more by what they are again then by what they are for. The truth is there have a lot of plans that have been offered on the right of alternatives to obamacare. But there hasnt been any agreement on any single proposal. That may be about to change. A combination of the republican takeover of the senate, a looming Supreme Court decision in the white house race are putting more pressure than ever before on republicans to offer some sort of alternative to obamacare. Before they could get to any sort of agreement, there are some in the mental, philosophical disagreement that need to be worked out about how to get into the country into a more freemarket direction. That is why i wrote my book, overcoming obamacare. I looked at the flurry of plans that have been offered as alternatives to obam ....