Joes excited. You are excited. He comes bringing orange juice, coffee for folks. Clapping. Its energy, man. Its energy. Really loud youre not that old time for the Global Markets report we will look at u. S. Equity futures. Yesterday the dow was up by 167 points 80 of those gains came from two stocks 3m and caterpillar gm and others were also reporting. Which is great news finally youre starting to see earnings and not financially engineered earnings, actually seeing real earnings with the commensurate Revenue Growth now the question becomes are the stocks that you just mentioned getting expensive on valuation thats what the market decides right now everything is the tailwinds are significant for the market who were you eluding to financially engineered earnings . Many. Many of these companies. You were not talking about General Electric specifically . If you would like me to speak about it. Theyre doing a lousy job of it. Of financially engineering. I was wondering if has risen to the
Bigotry to take power away from the people in our country. Their use eight Voter Suppression which Justice Alito and thomas go to the Koch Brothers retreat then come back to this bill they get a the Voting Rights act of civil rights of this country that is part of their agenda. The other half is to use big money to john that the voices of every citizen votes has the right to vote then it Koch Brothers and mccutcheon know that there antimiddleclass and antidemocracy agenda they know they will fail. While they spend there billions of dollars it is no surprises congress voted over 300 times over environmental laws. 300 times. We are here today because we need to send a clear message to people like mccutcheon and the Supreme Court we lost it byebye the dream of american democracy is torn up at the feet of Justice Roberts said his Supreme Court. Were here to tell the Supreme Court that american democracy is not for sale. Thank you. [cheers and applause] and now all of you in the audience in
Indulge me for a few minutes. Because as serious as the case may be with regards to our budget and debt limit, we have another crisis brewing, one that goes to our National Security interests, one that unites us across the aisle. Thats the issue and the threat that Irans Nuclear ambitions pose to the world. The reason why i felt i could no longer wait to address this is because i believe, as many of you do, that the world is entering a crucial time in the International Efforts to stop Irans Nuclear program. On september 24 of this year i, along with a group of other senators, wrote to the president , and i expressed we expressed our concerns about reports that the administration was contemplating making a fresh, new offer, a fresh, new series of offers to in. We said that iran must not be allowed to develop a Nuclear Weapon. Understand that if, god forbid it becomes necessary, we could support the use of military force to prevent an iranian bomb. And that iran must not be allowed to in
This international front. Thank you. Just to point out when you said standards, you dont mean standards need standards where people have to use fuel, but rather when it adds up and you know exactly whats going into your car when you buy the product. And what struck me is that the fuel is still economic. Especially compared to gasoline. If you look at this graph, this is the price compared to the price of gasoline it is apples to apples comparison and its such a Competitive Price compared to gasoline this is really economically driven but i want to jump over to daryn of the Natural Resources Defense Council and put you on the spot. As one of the representatives of the environmental organizations in the room. You hear many voices in the Environmental Movement that over the years have called for high oil prices. High oil prices are good for the environment and we have high oil prices. Are they good for the environment . Well, no. High oil prices in and of themselves are not good for the e
About those issues or all of the activities that are under review until we come to a conclusion about the way we can balance those if some decisions have been made and you have this uproar overseas and on capitol hill, why not make public some of what you are changing to show people that you are taking action . Well, we are engaged in direct communications through diplomatic channels with a number of countries on these matters, and a number of countries have, as you know, expressed concerns about the reports, the disclosures that are emanated in the wake of the unauthorized leaking of classified information. So that communication is happening, and its robust. And as i said yesterday, we understand the concerns that have been raised, and we are working with our friends and allies to discuss these matters, to explain what were doing in terms of the review that were engaged in and to continue to focus on the cooperative relationships that we have when it comes to intelligence gathering be