governors united against bbs campaign. together they made a powerful statement. first that the goals of the bds movement are antithetical to their value the and the values of their respective states and second they reaffirmed their support for israel as a vital u.s. ally, an important economic partner and a champion of freedom. i hope you ve had a chance to look at the wall street journal which carries a full page add naming all the governors who participated as well as the mayor of the district of columbia. bds has been rejected coast to coast. [ applause ] thank you. ajc continues to work with local, state, and federal legislators, and tomorrow one of our key advocacy items is combatting aides of 2017. it protects states that support bds legislation. one of the co-sponsors is here. it s a staunch supporter and committed jewish leader and a long time personal friend of mine. i m talking about u.s. state minority leader, senator chuck schumer. chuck has been at the forefr
achievement that we saw in this video under our leadership 50 governors, republicans and democrats alike, joined the governors united against bbs campaign. together they made a powerful statement. first that the goals of the bds movement are antithetical to their value the and the values of their respective states and second they reaffirmed their support for israel as a vital u.s. ally, an important economic partner and a champion of freedom. i hope you ve had a chance to look at the wall street journal which carries a full page add naming all the governors who participated as well as the mayor of the district of columbia. bds has been rejected coast to coast. [ applause ] thank you. ajc continues to work with local, state, and federal legislators, and tomorrow one of our key advocacy items is combatting aides of 2017. it protects states that support bds legislation. one of the co-sponsors is here. it s a staunch supporter and committed jewish leader and a long time perso
president s remarks, let s take a look at the week ahead on capitol hill. can we start on the house side? there are reports that trade came up in the legislative process. is that something your hearing? yes, it sounds like trade king trait can cop up later in the week and there are number of amendments as they are up debating appropriations billss. they could push it into next week but there is adash to get enough democratic and republican votes to get this bill and democrats are struggling to get about a dozen more folks to get on board with the trade bill. that will be something to watch over the next few days. john boehner was asked last week if he had the votes and he said he would have them. what does it look like? it sounds like republicans are making some inroads slowly. this is an interesting moment for carl ryan who is leading this effort. leadership and everyone is very engaged. leadership said this is big coming there number one priority. this is consumin
as represented by the dow jones average, which gained 68 points. and then we had the losers, almost everything in the nasdaq down 1.39%. it s not done going down, believe me. while the s&p 500 fluctuated somewhere in between, ultimately declining 0.35%. remember when i said the bulls would love a market that didn t need to rob peter to pay paul? meaning if there was enough new money coming in from the sidelines, investors wouldn t need to brutally sell stocks in one sector in order to buy them in another. well, we clearly haven t gotten there yet. this market feels pretty zero sum right now. today there was highway robbery of the techs and the health cares, ransom money to buy shares of industrials and banks and oils. it wasn t exactly what we let s just say it s exactly what we don t want to see. we basically ran out of new money to fund a healthy, broad-based advance. and instead went narrow into a couple of so-so leadership groups, which is not a positive longer term sce
while the s&p 500 fluctuated somewhere in between, ultimately declining 0.35%. remember when i said the bulls would love a market that didn t need to rob peter to pay paul? meaning if there was enough new money coming in from the sidelines, investors wouldn t need to brutally sell stocks in one sector in order to buy them in another. well, we clearly haven t gotten there yet. this market feels pretty zero sum right now. today there was highway robby cares, ransom money to buy shares of industrials and banks and oils. it wasn t exactly what we let s just say it s exactly what we don t want to see. we basically ran out of new money to fund a healthy, broad-based advance and instead went narrow into a couple of so-so leadership groups, which is not a positive longer-term scenario. you don t want fuel stolen from the techs. you don t want fuel stolen from and those dear old bond market equivalent names that aren t so equivalent when interest rates spike as hard and as fast as t