Stocks giving up early gains ahead of the tax vote. The dow transports did manage in an intraday record high before turning lower. Energy and Consumer Staples the best performing sectors. Real estate utilitys the biggest laggards as we are seeing the biggest rise in the ten dayyearold darden restaurant rallying, beating earnings estimates navistar is soaring to 10 the truck maker comfortably beating profit estimates revenues also beat navistar calling 2017 a breakthrough year of the company. Shares of chicago iron tanking, being bought by Mcdermott International for 6 billion in stock. The two companies provide construction and Engineering Services for the oil and Gas Industries that stock down almost 7 . Thank you very much, melissa. Welcome everybody, im tyler mathis mathisen we begin with breaking news. The house all set to vote on the big tax bill in the next half hour the biggest change to the u. S. Tax code since 1986 or thereabouts. It will affect every business and every househ
Freeing japanese hostage kenji goto. The militant group didnt show any evidence and released a video that purportedly shows the killing of goto. Government officials in iman are trying to verify the authenticity of the latest images. Jordans state run tv broke the news across the nation. It carried a banner saying our hero has been killed. It reported that the pilot was killed on january 3rd and said he was already dead when Islamic State was negotiating with the jordanian government over his release. The broadcaster provided no evidence. It showed a message from king abdallah, he has confirmed the killing happened last month, he says one of jordans precious pilots has been killed by terrorists. Translator i have received information regarding mr. Casas kassasbeh. Words cannot express the anger i feel over this act. Our nations people must stand together in solidarity at this most difficult time. A jordanian military has denounced a purported killing, in a Statement Released on state r
Budget. No one in california in the legislature would be able to vote for this document because this is a madeup document with madeup numbers. It is one of the most fanciful things ive seen in all my years as an elected official and youll see through the markup how outrageous these numbers are. I yield back the balance of my time. Thank you mr. Chairman. I just want to thank all my colleagues on the democratic side for putting forward our critique of the republican budget and laying the ground work for the budget well friend present next week. I thank the ranking members and the other members. We will proceed with the staff walk through of the fiscal year 2016 concurrent resolution on the budget. We need staff to move to the witness stable, please. While staff is getting set, let me remind members this is an opportunity for members to ask questions that are factual and technical in nature. The staff is not here to answer questions or defend policy. Thats our job and well have great opp
Committee, but if theres anybody watching this on television they should run and get anybody whos 55 years or older to come and watch and listen. What they are planning to do is set up an exchange. Now, they dont like exchanges in the Affordable Care act. They went to the Supreme Court over that whole issue. They dont think its good enough for the ordinary folks in the country, but for seniors, theyre going to set up an exchange that they say will be carefully monitored for medicare plans. So it isnt good enough for the rest of the country but were going to take medicare away from the seniors, give them a voucher and send them out to the exchange so they can choose from whatever plan whatevers been advertised or whatever. Now, no one can look at that and think they care anything about the health care of this country. Thats why this budget is dead on arrival. I would now yield to miss grisham. I thank my good friend from washington for yielding. In previous hearings republicans on this
Thank you for being here. Thank you to the men and women who serve our public. This is not only about the men and women who serve their country every day in the civilian work force and military, it is about the people we serve. We are their Public Servants. Lets be very clear about the shut down. Get three bytes of the apple in our constitutional system. You pass a bill or you defeated. You can challenge it in court. They lost that round out the Supreme Court. And then you can take it to the ballot box. It is over. Let us not hold the American People by defunding their government hostage. Nobody is going to agree to anything when a gun is that there had and that is precisely when a gun is that their heads and that is precisely what the republicans are doing. It will affect the lives of ordinary americans in every corner of this great country. For. Is what we are here we are committed to turning that around. We are inviting republicans who understand the consequences of join us in to pa