Vote vote vote the presiding officer is there anyone wishing to change their vote . Is there anyone remaining to vote . On this motion the yeas are 87. The nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk nomination, department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary fo secretary of transportation for policy. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. The Commerce Committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. Its now november 9. Over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. This noncontroversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. Its truly unfortunate, madam president , when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nomine
Contracted 3. 4 in february, in line with estimates. Same story in china. The shanghai composite declining, extending yesterdays losses, down 7 10 of 1 . Up. Seng the cost be kospi up. He weakening korean yuan oil, butbound and today losing ground, down 3 10 of 1 . See song this week after cap gain. Ng its same story with brent, managing to hold onto gains above 40 per barrel, but still coming down half a percent. News, cpi, pping numbers, inflation data from china. Millions of chinese traveling, eating out, shopping, dining, food prices were a considerable element of this latest cpi report, a bit thanger than expected. Bloomberg called for a 1. 8 increase, down to the price of seafood, fresh vegetables, pork prices in china. 2. 3 is still well below the chinas 3 . S of if those price gains are stabilize, and easing of deflation,er investment, profit margins, so cpi still well below the governments target range. This pickup and prices not constraining room for easier Monetary Policy at
The youngsters want to deploy. We are just working our way through all through what all this means. Part i feel good about. I cant tell you what it means to have smiles on their faces. Theres not a lot to keep me awake at night. That is a good place to end this conversation. Here and listening online will probably sleep a little better tonight as well. Having listened to you, i cant. Magine a better shepherd let me thank you for your service and leadership but also to the men and women of the marine corps. Thank you very much. On the next washington using algorithms and ultra highspeed networks to execute trades. And saturdays elections in afghanistan. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation via facebook and twitter. Live at 7 journal, a. M. Eastern on cspan. Lets take a case like hsbc, which got a 1. 9 billion settlement levied at them. Part of the deferred prosecution theyment they admitted had laundered as much as 850 million for a pair of central and south America
It is clear that the u. N. Will likely maintain a political presence. They have a critical human rights mop to having role monitoring role, and were seeing right now the centrality of supporting the afghanled voting process. Those are all things that dont cease to be necessary in the wake of any u. S. Drawdown or even eventually, you know, when all troops are, all american troops are out of afghanistan. Because president karzai has not signed the bsa, the president has not made his decisions about what the u. S. Troop presence is going to look like after this year, and i think the u. N. Is waiting to understand that better. Weve seen just with the monstrous taliban attacks that have occurred in the last few weeks mission to all those that preceded those attacks just how precarious the security is, particularly for civilians who are trying to aid the afghan p population. And so that is a challenge. Thank you. Chairman, welcome. And let me ask you, we talk about the fact that we spent a
U. S. Student loan debt. Later, discussions about Cyber Security and business. Now a Senate Hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. Mark begich questioned officials representing the Forest Service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in Populated Areas. This hearing is an hour. Thank you so much for being here. Its a pleasure to have folks here. This is the subcommittee on Emergency Management intergovernment relations in the District Of Columbia. I apologize. I have a cold so im suffering through a cold. So i appreciate you being here. I want to thank the witnesses to be here especially on short notice to lend their expertise to our discussion. We are here to look at the problems that are serious and concerns to many states for a while now, and thats wildfires. This is a challenge that confronts communities of all towns, villages, cities, states and the federal government. As a former mayor myself i know firsthand how important