Under the eight previous years of republican chairmen, debate was never cut off when democratic members offered difficult amendments during democrats members democratic members offered difficult amendments during the process. We took tough votes when we needed to. Mr. Speaker, i wish we could have had such a different conversation today, the day after veterans day, than this one. But i would be remiss in my duty as Ranking Member if i did not call out this behavior and ways in which it fails our nations veterans. Chairman takano has spoken movingly about how he want us to use his chairmanship to stand up for the rights of minority veterans and i commend him for that. And have stood alongside him in doing that work. Including in may when we stood side by side to launch the Bipartisan Women Veterans Task force. Yet i urge him now in carrying out this that commitment not to spurn the historical bipartisan traditions of the Veterans Affairs committee, not to trouns on the rights of the min
For those attending for the first time, the forms began in the 80s as a way to bring expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics and bipartisan atmosphere. We have an expert speaker to address a critical topics in a bipartisan collegial atmosphere. There are a lot of media here, so i asked during the question and answers, reserve the for the Congressional Staff because of the limited time constraints and schedules. We are honored to have a prolific author, to address whats happening in asia today. Especially the citizens of hong kong and south korea on the front lines of freedom. Form is the author of south korea, shut down. The coming collapse of china. Shes the calmness of the daily beast and his writings on china have been featured in numerous newspapers from the New York Times the wall street journal and hes also a frequent commentator on cnn, fox news, msnbc, pbs and many others as well as a regular coke host and guest. I know his time is in great demand. We are mon
In order to get that meeting. That really followed up on a public tweet from Rudy Giuliani in june where he was criticizing the Ukrainian Government for not having started an investigation into the bidens. Detailds an interesting to the focus on whether there was a quid pro quo. We expect the impeachment inquiry to dig deeper into the public hearings. These are transcripts and things we have had. We will have public hearings. What is important there . One of the witnesses will be william taylor. He was a temporary ambassador to ukraine who was handpicked by mike pompeo in may after the u. S. Recalled the previous ambassador. Reputation as a detailed notetaker. He has help filled in the gaps. We have some key earnings reports that are during well. Qualcomm put up a betterthanexpected outlook. Those shares are soaring. They did very well. The stock is up more than 10 . U. S. , the influence as that alphabet is a top stock and one of the top sectors. Both of those stocks getting the trade
Disney leaps in late trade with quarterly profit topping estimates as the lion king roars at theaters and theme parks stay strong. Kathleen lets take a look at how asian markets are opening. The asx 200, a little bit higher beenthe 6726, which had the biggest advance in three weeks on the market close yesterday. Now to nikkei futures, a fractional move higher. There is uncertainty about the trade war deal getting done. That will weigh on japanese stocks. Stocks had risen for a third day yesterday, but there could be a fourth, the kind of company that could benefit from this u. S. China trade deal. Stocks are looking about a half point higher, a little bit of hope there, and of course, the s p 500 why is it down . Because it was up so much today. The s p 500 hit that alltime high. From here, we will have to wait to see some fresh impetus for stocks to continue to rally. Lets get to first word news now with jessica summers. Jessica thanks, kathleen. The french president has attacked nato
Percentage point hang canning down and shanghai off by about. 9 active trading in europe now youll see red arrows across the board. Biggest decliner is the ftse 100. Look at whats been happening in the treasury the 10year is yielding is 1. 824 zben well above 1. 8 talk about pg e, saying its power lines may have started two wildfires over the weekend in the bay area the fires began in a section of town where the utility opted to keep the lights on another round of blackouts is expected to begin today as more strong winds move on shore the u. S. Is considering extending tariffs. Skapgss on nearly 1,000 products in september, they plan to exclude American Farm goods. Bowings ceo said that their company made mistakes and got some things wrong. We own that and are fixing that. Saying boeing employees felt pressured during the certification process. That hearing begins at 10 00 a. M. Eastern well watch closely and talk to two senators who will be questioning mullenburg lets talk shares of G