Good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism, including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are well documented. Youtube, facebook, and twitter, among others, help to connect people around the world, give voice to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes and provide a forum for discussions of every political, social, scientific, and cultural stripe. These services have thrived online because of the freedom made possible by the uniquely american guarantee of free speech and by a light touch regulatory policy. But as is so often the case, enemies of our way of life have sought to take advantage of our freedoms to advance hateful causes. Violent Islamic Terrorist Groups like isis have been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize and recruit over the internet and various social media platforms. The companies that our witnesses
The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california is recognized. Ms. Waters i have no further requests for time and im prepared to close. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is prepared to close. The gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Waters i yield myself the remainder of my time. Madam speaker, its become par for the course for the majority to recklessly advance harmful deregulatory packages like h. R. 3978. My friends on the other side of the aisle are moving forward with regulatory roadblocks at a furious pace, pushing dangerous bills through the house nearly every week. It appears that they may have already completely forgotten the way that lax Financial Regulation allowed the crisis in 2008 to occur that. Crisis badly damaged the occur. That crisis badly damaged the whole economy and harmed all of our constituents. The impact was enormous. 13 trillion in Household Wealth was lost. 11 Million People lost their homes to foreclosure. And the Unemployment Rate reached 10 . Democra
Cspan. Org landmark cases. Thursday morning were live in montgomery, alabama, for the next stop on the cspan bus 50 capitals to work. Alabama Senate President pro tempore del march will be our guest on the bus during washington journal. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Witnesses from facebook, youtube and twitter talk about what the companies are doing to prevent criminal activity by users and the tech sectors cooperation with Law Enforcement. The Senate Commerce and finance Committee Held a hearing last week. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I want to thank everyone for being a to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are well documented. Youtube, facebook and twitter among others help to connect people around the world, give
Space, berkshire results and the letter tonight and tomorrow. Europe is pretty mixed in the tenyear below 289 begins with stock futurer pointing to a better open. Investors continue to digest the potential impact of higher inflations and rates on equities, three weeks since the selloff began. General mills bets on pets. The cereal maker agreeing to buy natural pelt food company blue for a billion dollars. And on the heels of historic tax reform, turbotax maker intuit delivering but weaker than expected guidance ceo joins us exclusively later this hour. Stocks are poised to open higher, three major indices on pace for third negative week in four First Time Since november of 2006 the nas ended in the red. S p and the dow about 6 below alltime high. After another session which couldnt hold the interday highs. It has happened four days in a row. I think theres scepticism of investors being willing to wade back the flow of shows as of the weekending february 21st still major outflows of dom
Day, even if stocks are going to the downside. The swings we have seen today are not the largest in recent days and the volume is also dropping. Volume on the s p 500 running more than 20 below the 20 day average. We have seen volume running a little bit hotter. A bit of applause on a couple a bit of a pause on a couple of different fronts. We had an uptick in range over the past week or so as we have seen these wild swings between highs and lows. When you have today where we have seen the trading range has gotten a lot smaller. Volatility is here to stay for a little while. We may not see those swings every single day, so we have a little bit of a pause. Where we are seeing interesting action is with a couple of dental supply companies. Health care is pretty active and with these companies in particular, Patterson Companies and henry schein, they are being accused by the federal trade tomission of conspiring undermine the ability of independent dentists to get lower prices for product