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Members met senate to reconcile bills. Orrin hatch chairs the finance reportersand told that then reached agreements on how to overhaul the code. The Senate House Committee will come to order. I am deeply honored to chair this Conference Committee, the first Tax Reform Conference Committee in 31 years and to be here with you as we move forward with this historic effort. Before i deliver my opening remarks, i want to take a moment to welcome everyone and discuss the format of todays meeting. I al...

Washington and the leadership in some parts of the republican party, particularly the senate, and that is what is driving him. Want afterward senate and 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2 possible tb. Now, to the house and Senate Conference meeting on tax reform. Committee members talked about the two tax reform bills passed separately out of each chamber. Good afternoon, everyone. I am deeply honored to tear this Conference Committee, the first Tax Reform Conference Committee and 31 years. And to be ...

Move out to of our nominees that are currently pending before the committee. We obviously have to have the requisite number of members here. So until such time as we have a quorum, we will move to our scheduled full Committee Hearing on infrastructure permitting, if were able to get the quorum of 12 we will take up the businessman at that point in time. I would anticipate that it would be relatively quick. So with that, we have names on the table in front of us, but i would invite you each to co...

Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. Yesterday apple reported an earnings beat but offered weak guidance amazon topping expectations as the Company Reported its biggest profit in history. And alphabet missing on the bottom line. Well dig into those results straight ahead its been moving things after market amazon up 5. 7 though it closed down 3 yesterday. Netnet, 2 gain apple up 2 . Lets look at how futures are pointing to. Currently a lower open dow off by 220 points. Nasdaq off by 41 points. And t...

When people feel fear, they rush for safety. We had the yield on the tenyear below 2130 earlier today. Selling of stocks across the board. The dow down 117 points off just slightly yesterday. That is half of 1 . The biggest and hardest it is then not back down almost 1 this hour. In europe, losses across the board as well. Heavy selling in england, france, germany being the hardest hit, 1. 5 right now. Asia overnight, markets mostly lower. All of that and so much more coming up this morning. Wit...

Are trying to determine how much damage there is and whether any civilians were left behind. The processls say could take as long as two weeks. Congress may vote as early as next week on a multibilliondollar aid package for houston. Thats according to the white house, which says emergency requests to replenish tricking reserves will be addressed in the next few days. Government reserves are running low with a political debate looming. Congress may have to act sooner governmentshe Borrowing Autho...

Blake burman is at the white house and our Political Panel is ready to react. And finally, the sun breaks out in texas today, the Harvey Recovery efforts picking up the pace. The storm reduced to tropical depression but moving to the middle of the nation as the death toll stands at 31 and growing. Were going to talk to retired Navy Captain Chuck Nash to compare and contrast that but right now lets go to the white house and the press secretary. Questions related to hurricane harvey, and as you al...

Lets kick off with first word news, with mark crumpton. Mark an encouraging sign for texas, as it struggles to return to normalcy. Hasus christi ship channel reopened, after being shut down nearly a week. Port Officials Say the reopening is a step toward resuming operations at seven refineries, and transporting that fuels to market. The channel was closed when harvey slammed into Corpus Christi last week. Are inan 1500 people louisiana, and officials expect that number to rise as more people are...

Down the street getting ready to leave his home and he told me he was packing like he wasnt going to come back for a long, long time. For the folks there obviously scrambling to get out of harms way do you know where theyre evacuating to . A live look now at the dark sky over florida. Again the storm is toward reporter a lot of people are leaving the state entirely, but that is not an option for a lot of folks. So the first step is to get away from the coast, get away from where we are and to go...

Democrats call 202 7488000. Republicans call 202 7488001. Independents and others 202 7488002. We welcome your comments on our Facebook Page and will look for your tweets as well. Just a quick note on the hurricane, we are expecting a briefing sometime in the half fema and0 or so, from will take you to that when it comes up. We will talk to a florida congressman within the hour. Were talking about the president s deal with democrats. The storm this morning downgraded to category four, churning t...