Protection commissioner mark morgan is among the witnesses scheduled to appear before the Senate Commerce aviation subcommittee. Education secretary betsy devos testified on the 2021 budget request, members asked about Public Education resources and nondiscrimination policies. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, secretary devos. Welcome to the subcommittee. This is our second Budget Hearing of the year and your forth on hearing with us and we are going to examine the president s the permit of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget material, this much was clear to me. You are seeking to privatize Public Education. It is the wrong direction for students and our country. We need to be moving toward expanding Public Policies like Early Childhood education. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking but standing it. Im getting more into the consequences of the cuts you are proposing. I want to start by examini
The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, secretary devos. Welcome this morning. Welcome to the subcommittee. This is our second budget hear ing of the year. Today as i was reviewing the budget materials, madam secretary, this much was clear to me. I believe and ive had this conversation before with you, i believe for our student and our country. Instead we need to expand things like childhood education that we know helps students to succeed. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support but, in fact, are expanding it. Ill get more into the consequences of the cuts you are proposing. But i want to start by examining your privatization philosophy. The full premise on which it is built and the research that it ignores. Contrary to your claims, the nations Public Education system which 90 of our children attend has witnessed significant progress for all groups of students over the last 30 years. Average mathematic scores have improved for
Means either you cant stand your relatives and you couldnt sleep all night, or youre going to work and youre one of the real ones. Hi, mike. That would be us, wouldnt it . Youre going to work under clear conditions. Look at live doppler 7. Bone dry. Look at sutro power, clean air over top of us once again. Dry conditions. It is significantly cooler this morning. Some of us may be scraping ice off our car. At noon, 52 to 54 under a mostly sunny sky. Partly cloudy, 54 to 56 at 4 00. Grab that coat, youll need it this evening as we drop into the mid to upper 40s by 7 00. Still tracking a chance of rain this weekend. Well talk about that coming up. First, heres sue. We have a Traffic Alert for you. The bay bridge, a car fire, at least a car smoking west of treasure island. Im watching the tow trucks push that off to the western side of the span. Look at this. Youre seeing all the brake lights starting from about the s curve towards the tunnel. So a few backups there, a few cars stacked up.
Things where its always on the horizon, were about to do it. I think they will do it. That will take a huge uncertainty out of the way, usmca, nafta 2, getting that out of the way. The other thing to avoid is a trade war with europe over auto parts and imports. With all the optimism, bank of america said 68 of managerses think the markets going to be good. Thats usually a bearish sign. Lauren i know. When everyone starts saying things are so good, mitch, you study this, you know the stock market, does that mean you should go in the other direction. Not necessarily. Think about what happened last year. We were worried about the fed raising rates. This year the fed lowered rates three times. The markets are sending them a message, saying we like lower rates. I think fed talk will be the thing to look at. I would look at corporate earnings next year. Baked into the market this year is the fact that next year will be a good year for earnings. Last year was a meh year for earnings. Lauren i
Exclusive interview with jay clayton. Power lunch starts right now weve got the market flat on this day but its been a whip saw getting there. This chart shows the swings weve had on one trade headline after another early this morning. Right now the major indices remain mixed were seeing green here and there but mostly flat. Shares of netflix, the stock down 2 after needham says its sale as the streaming wars heat up well have more on that move just a little bit later. Tyler. Markets not getting a boost from the seemingly positive trade headlines today. A deal on the usmca and more time for a deal with china we have the latest House Democrats announcing they reached a deal op a new nafta. Regular compliance and removing certain protections for brand name drugs against generics. The deal will have out sized impact on the auto and pharmaceutical industries. If you look at jobs and nashlg Safe National safety, its time to vote for the bill. The u. S. Able to show progress on this bodes we