This account funds programs that are important to both sides of the aisle, including permitting for Construction Projects across the country, toxic Risk Prevention and parts of the successful Brown Fields Program and pesticide licenses. I understand the money would direct more funding to states in appalachia and appalachia is suffering, from raging environmental harm. Unfortunately, i cannot support deeper cuts to the e. P. A. I oppose the amendment and reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentlewoman reserves. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. I yield to the chairman such time as he may coe desire to consume. The chair the gentleman is ecognized. I understand the gentlemans goal. Mr. Calvert we can accept this package of amendments at this time, work toward maintaining funding for six states in a final fiscal year 2018 enacted bill. If were able to achieve that, i hope we can count on the gentlemans support to pass that package and the 2018 spending bill. I urge my c
Trump about how we could end up in a major, major conflict in his words. Did put some pressure, if you see the nikkei, down about 0. 3 . Same with the hang seng. In europe this morning n some early tlading, things are mixed. The ftse is down by 0. 25 . The cac is up by that much. The dax is up by 0. 10 . With crude oil prices this morning, looks like wti is still below 50. Up 27 cents. Tech stocks on the move this morning. After quarterly reports late yesterday. Lets give around up of whats going on. Amazon eps tops estimates by 36 cents. Saying revenue from the Cloud Business, advertising and Subscription Services helping to drive those results. Alphabet beating the street on both the top and bottom line. Strong ad sales sending profits up 29 , despite some advertisers boycotting youtube. And microsofts ref knew ju revenue just missed consensus. Sales of the Cloud Services platform jumped 93 in the quarter. Last but not least, look at intel. Reporting lower than expected quarterly rev
2. 145 overnightin asia, look at whats been happening. You can see the nikkei closed down by a quarter of a percentage point the hang seng off by 1. 2 . The shanghai was flat. Lets look at whats happening in the european markets in early trading. At this point there are red arrows across the board there as well biggest decliner is the cac, which is down by 1 . The ftse and dax are off by 0. 8 when it comes to currencies. You will see right now the dollar is up across the board. Euro at 1. 1163 crude oil prices which were down 3. 7 yesterday, the lowest settlement weve seen since november 14th, you can see this morning down once again. Another 11 cents to 44. 62. We want to bring you an update on the terrible shooting that took place yesterday. Republican congressman Steve Scalise is in Critical Condition this morning after he was shot by a gunman yesterday. Squawk was on while this happened the congressman was shot in the hip, underwent surgery at Medstar Washington Hospital Center a s
To cause him to run for the house of representatives and the state of michigan and he wanted to be the speaker the house. All of them, they had so many things that were different than i really couldnt have picked a favorite. Did you have a favorite first lady. They are all favorites. [laughter] they will never said. Thank you all for being here. Please come and pick up a book and have it signed and we really appreciate your time and attention. You are watching the tv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Welcome to buffalo new york for our regular book event. My name is leslie, director and i am pleased to welcome our special guest, Margaret Crayton who has written a new book about the panamerican exhibition that did happen here in buffalo. Also mark, writer for the buffalo news. You have a conversation with margaret and we are going to open it up to members of the audience. Thank you so much for being here [applause] hi
Pipelines. Anywhere from 30 to 40,000 jobs0 and very importantly as i was about to sign it i said who makes the pipe . Who makes the pipe . Something this audience understands very well, right . H simple question. The lawyers put this very complex document in front. I said who makes the pipe. They said, sir, it can be madede anywhere and i said not anymore. I put a little clause in the bottom, the pipe has to be made in the United States of america if were going to have pipelines we believe in two simple rules and i can tell you everybody in this massive this is a massive hanger. This is for the big planes. And by the way, do that one media group back there, that one network will show this crowd not one, not one . They wont show the crowd. You know, coming in on the planp and that plain represents so much, and just so you know, they were close to signing a 4. 2 billion deal to have a new air force 1. Can you believe this . I said, no way. I said i refuse to fly in a 4. 2 billionaire pl