Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration
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Big news out of the United Nations, nikki haley announcing a cut in next years budget after the un voted to call for donald trump to withdraw his plans Israeli Embassy to jerusalem. Varney and company starts right now. Charles lets look at futures, under pressure all morning, fractionally better. Lets bring in zach hour. Everybody wants to know 205k in 2017. In 2017, i dont see why not, certainly lets call it by valentines day a couple points, next year will be a strong year for the stock market, the first half of next year especially. I am worried about a blow off topic for the market sometime next year but that is all the more reason. Charles you could argue this year, last year, the year before, pretty long market, people are calling for it. Prices are not crazy, prices are okay, we are introducing new money into this economy with conditions tight. What i worry about is a faster rise in Interest Rate than we expect giving more competition. The cd rates, why am i taking this risk in
Weakness in italy and spain. When it comes to the treasury yields, this is what were watching closely, the tenyear is trading at 2. 433 should we be doing a Weather Board . Like a freezing cold Weather Board . I saw this morning that 90 of the United States is freezing or below a third of the continental United States, the lower 48, are actually below zero. As was predicted. Its cold because its warm. Dont do this as a Global Warming thing. No, no, because only weather that proves Global Warming like every brush fire is Global Warming. Every drought. Every flood. Thats all Global Warming. You didnt see the day after tomorrow. It got freezing. If the atmosphere traps more heat, you would think it would not be as cold you know what sorkin, dont act like you studied this i have studied this what i have as it happens, i have. Sorkin, if it was 40 degrees, and it was a very warm winter, would that be indicative of Global Warming or just answer that question. If it was unseasonably warm, wou
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