[inaudible] melania do you want to read yours . O you want to read it . Dear troops, merry christmas. Its ok if youre not celebrating with your family this year. I think youll still have a great time. If you are, thats even better. Theyll be very happy to see you. Thank you for all your help and service. Have a very merry christmas. Melania bufmente dear veterans, i want to wish you a merry christmas. [inaudible] the u. S. House returns in about 20 minutes to begin work on several Natural Resources bills and another measure that provides support for efforts to protect Mental Health of Law Enforcement officers. Tomorrow, the house, a debate on a resolution requiring all members and staff to complete mandatory antiharassment and antidiscrimination training in each session of congress. The house is live here on cspan when members return at 4 30. In other capitol hill news, the Senate Budget committee has passed the tax reform reconciliation bill by 1211, party line vote. Legislation inclu
Journal live Tuesday Morning. Join the discussion. President trump announced earlier this month that the u. S. Was withdrawing from the paris climate agreement. Next, a one hour portion of debate by european leaders reacting to the president s action. [ speaking Foreign Language ] the Paris Agreement has been a historical achievement of the international community. The First Ever Global commit ment to address Climate Change in these consequences. One would regret the decision taken by the United States of America Administration to withdraw from this agreement. Our long standing commitment to Global Action on Climate Change must not relent. We europeans, weve not missed the opportunity. The Paris Agreement presents for our citizens for our plan, for our economy. President , this Global Challenge also starts working with our industry for new investments and new technologies and more Sustainable Growth than jobs. European parliament has been at the forefront of a Climate Action within Eur
Take a look, though, at the transports, off better than 1 on the trading day, and for those who follow the dow theory and other theories, the transports are very important, because they tend to confirm whatever move the dow is making, and right now the transports are decidedly negative and the dow is now down 164 points. So a very negative day on the Trading Floor down here at the nyse, bob, and china is part of that certainly. Yes. Weve been drifting lower, really, almost since the pope look at the s p 500. Sue referenced, china, poor retail sales data, poor industrial Data Confirms concerns about the slowdown there. Later in the afternoon, later in the morning, sue, we saw headlines, including some from reuters. The ukraine acting president seeing risk of war with russia. Right. Russia ready to invade. Thats a quote there. Sees International Efforts to end aggression. But those kinds of headlines came out about two houratio as affecting the markets. Sectors, two to one. Started posit
Representation from nsf and darpa as well of some of the best and brightest and most visionary neuroscientist we can identify and its an amazing team. They have been hard at work for the last year putting forward exactly the kind of answers to your question what should be the milestones and what should read the deliverables . We will hold ourselves accountable. They gave us an initial set of recommendations which gave us a chance to issue no less than six requests for applications which we have now received. Thats very exciting bunch of scientific applications and they will in june lay out a fiveyear plan with very specific intention to those kinds of milestones which we let presented in our open meeting. I think it will be ambitious but it has to be achievable as well great its going to take a lot of tools, a lot of new technologies to make measurements we need. How do you work with the biologists and the engineers in this area . A great question there as well because i will be critic
Media. She spoke in an event at the university of georgia in athens, georgia. [applause] thank you. When you say i do all those things now i know why i am tired. [laughter] when you become a feminist activist i havent had a chance to wash my hair in 30 years. [laughter] im just giving you fair warning. Im so glad to be here and im stunned and delighted and humbled by the enormity of the attendance and its very special particularly to hear that you do throughout the year and clearly the womens studies presence. Theres enough energy in this room to light a city block. Clearly throughout the year that you dont just settle for womens History Month which i had my moments of ambivalence about because there is black History Month and theres womens History Month and then the other 10 months are pellmell months . [laughter] so we need to have a little available room and spread. We are going to cover a lot of ground so im going to leap right in. I thought that for some of the fresh lemon and wom