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Of life for native alaskans. This is our garden, our Grocery Store, you know, its kind of hard to say if our younger generations will be able to do what we do. Ifill good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight there was new fallout from mondays Mass Shootings in the Nation ....
June 24th and then theres oil, wow, up 16 in two weeks and well talk about why you should expect sticker shock at the gas station in a few moments. First up, as we said, the dow closed yesterdays session up 118 points and thats back from may 28. Futures indicate we are likely to open above that level and charge toward the intraday high of 15. 542. This coming on the latest message of Monetary Policy delivered late yesterday. The dual mandate is to pursue maximum employment and price stability. Currently, zee an Unemployment Rate of 7. 6 which i think if anything, overstates the health of our labor markets. On price stability, inflation is 9 which is below our 2 objective and so both sides of our mandate, and both the employment side and the inflation side are saying that we need to be more accommodative. All right, jim. Lets kick this off here. A, lets just talk welcome b ....
Vote vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 66, the nays 32. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, and the president be immediately notified of the senates actions, and the senate will resume legislative session. Mr. Schumer mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader is recognized. Mr. Schumer it is my understand respecting the senate has received a message from the house of representatives to accompany s. 3373. The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Schumer i ask the chair to lay before the senate the message accompanying s. 3373. The clerk veal that the bill from the senate, s. 3373, an act to improve the iraq and Afghanistan Service grant and the children of Fallen Heroes grant, do pass with an amendment. Mr. Schumer i move to concur in the hou ....
The u. S. Government. Growth. Yeah. By the way, japan tenyear yields 0. 602 in case you wanted to check in. Europe, lets take a look there. You can see. Lets call it more or less a down more than up. You know, japan was not not a lot of news going on. China stocks decent gains, japans stocks seemed to take a breather following a multiweek run. You can see for europe sort of a mixed bag this morning. Up small to a certain extent slow, quiet night. Tech, food, beverage, media, retail, health care, all out performing, autos, telecommunications and energy, under performing. Lets get to our road map this morning, our start with markets, records and some big round numbers. We hit s p 2,000, dow 17,000. Well why all the talk about fear and volatility given those numbers. Ackman, well, he ackman has rejected allergan said his and valeants bid too low, calls out their competitors, unsustainable Business Model and anemic growth. Allergan sa ....
Recognized. Mr. Cuellar thank you, mr. Speaker. I thank mr. Thompson for the leadership that you have provided on this piece of legislation and other legislation thats so important for the security of our nation. I certainly want to thank also chairman peter king also and, of course, my good friend, Michael Mccaul, chairman mccaul, for being one of the original cosponsors, along with mr. Farenthold. A new member from the bounceville area, mr. Faleomavaega, who always worked in a bipartisan way. The jamie zapata, this 915, has received bipartisan support in may when it was first passed by the house. It was overwhelmingly supported by the house. Both democrats and republicans. Went over to the senate and certainly i want to thank, also, senator lieberman and senator collins for the support of this bill. Senator lieberman was outstanding in making sure we move this as quickly as possible. We have a bill that does two things. First th ....