Were honored to have both the chairman and the Ranking Member of the committee here. I understand senator cardin you have an introduction to make. Lets recognize first senator carper because he will come back into his little bit later. Junta thank her chair and Ranking Member for putting this together. I like to ask unanimous consent this appears in the record five a chance to give it life i will do that. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. How to thank you for being here today think my friend and his staff for their help in getting this hearing together. I think the last one is retiring this year, that leaves you and me. I hope thats not a message. We did come in and spend a lot of time together working in a bipartisan way. Looking forward to working with my colleagues on the committee to benefit the economy. Since the president has been in office weve added over 2 million jobs in Consumer Confidence has skyrocketed. However the economy willingly grow infrastructure is maintained. In
Bureau federation was president george h. W. Bush 25 years ago. So it is an indication of what this president thinks about your organization and u. S. People and what you do for the United States economy. Just think about it a year ago you remember what it was like a year ago . Washington was accustomed to writing regulations that strangled growth and freedom. One year ago, washington was accustomed to Political Correctness that smothered the truth. One year ago, washington was accustomed to moving at a bureaucratic pace that was all talk and no action. One year ago, washington was accustomed to apologizing for america being a great nation. Let me tell you, our president , president donald j. Trump, is moving at lightning speed and accomplished more in his first year than most president s do throughout their term. [cheers and applause] sec. Perdue listen to this hes liberated the American Economy by eliminating 860 rules and regulations, cutting 22 regulations for every new one, and a
Lauren in europe political deal to help boom stocks in germany, as other major averages. Cheryl in asia mixed bag. Stocks lower in japan, higher in south korea and shanghai. Lauren we heard about alexa in mirror or car but would you buy an alexa powered toilet bowl, fbn am starts right now. Cheryl it is 5 01 a. M. In new york. Good morning, im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning, tgif, im lauren simonetti. Alexa stay out of the bathroom, out of the mirror and toilet. Cheryl they want alexa everywhere. We have a lot of breaking news to get to this morning. American workers expected to see the effects of tax cuts in their takehome pay as early as february 1st, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin says new withholding tables published yesterday by irs shall allow employers time to adjust workers paychecks, purpose of tax reform was to put more money in companies so that they could better compete with international rivals. The whole purpose of the tax cut act was to put more money in companies
Of the problems we dont have the same thing ten years from now and thats totally proper. So i do believe there is a compromise to be had. I do believe congress, we will work with our members to find it with a compromise is so that we can bring resolution to this very legitimate problem. Thank you. House democrats also held a briefing today. They talked about immigration policy and providing a path to citizenship for people who are undocumented will have temporary protected status. This is about 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. We wanted to be on the steps of the capitol, and we will do this again soon. We will do it constantly until we pass the dream act. Its an honor to be here with the senator vitter, chuck schumer, with a champion on this issue, with the chair of the hispanic caucus in the house, congresswoman Michelle Lujan grisham of new mexico, senator dick durbin who, for at least 15, 16 years is
To the militant group itself. Also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to read to take disputed kurdish held areas as the u. N. And the u. S. Appealed for calm. And from great hope to great misery south sudan is one of the worlds newest states but today millions of people there are reliant on food aid we have a special report on one womans struggle to survive and to feed her family. Plus calls for justice grow louder in malta following the murder of anticorruption journalist tough enough to leave. And following the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse allegations stories of Sexual Harassment sweep across social media using the hash tag me to. Im sara kelly welcome thanks for joining us. U. S. Backed fighters in syria have retaken rocca the city that the socalled Islamic State considers its capital now troops fighting i say that they have captured one of the militants last holdouts that is of course the citys hospital but there are still pockets of resistance