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Oil producers hit and at extended curbs. They tell us the strategy is working. Ramy good morning, david, and good morning to our viewers across the asiapacific and around the world. What were talking about this whole weekend, the Government Shutdown. Right now, partial, but how total will it get . Looking at markets on friday, equity markets closed at record highs for the s p 500 and nasdaq , but we were talking in the past hour about whether it could hit gdp. It depends on how long it lasts. Th...

Swings in the markets. Stocks briefly went negative this morning. They are up again. Quieter in the sense we are seeing a continuation of the much not the intraday swings that we are seeing for the major averages. The nasdaq is leading gains, up the best of the three major averages. All of the majors are up for defense straight session. The s p 500 has its best fiveday performance going back to october of 2016. This bloomberg shows the change on the daily basis, the spread between the highs and ...

Let me try to call this full have stored or, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill gholston , senior fellow here in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The location of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate. This one entitled broken can the senate save itself and the country those of you ...

Perpetuating the problems of the looking more or just that what we think we can do and not looking squarely at what the country needs to do. Those can be two different things. Does the department do any recalculation of revenues on the chance we could go a bit longer if congress tales to send the president the bill and are there any contingency steps the department is taking in case that doesnt happen . Them when we think about the impact when we think about the impact, it is not a small impact....

He was the first africanamerican student body president and his law degree from new york university. After law school he spent a month in new orleans playing trumpet and becoming friends with wynton marsalis. Then he worked in a law firm and later served in the u. S. Department of justice and on the staff of the house judiciary committee. He returned to charlotte in 2001 to work in a law firm there and got elected to the Charlotte City council in 2005, and he was reelected in 2007. He was electe...

The availability of drones and the use of drones, and we are scouring our authorities to see what, if anything, we can do as an agency on and well hear more to say about that in the future weeks and months. Are you hoping to meet the september target date . I think hopefully we will meet that deadline or come real close to it, in terms of getting the rule over to onb and hopefully soon thereafter having the rule out there as final. Heres the last one from me. A lot of talk this week about car ha...

Which is one of the tragic consequences. Attics okay. Okay. Drug addiction is a tragedy. But it is a bigger tragedy when they die because of the drug war itself. Finally i should wrapi should wrap this up by saying that is futile is this drug warriors as destructive as it is that is not the real reason why we should call for the end to this war. I mean, we see the futility going to put him back in jail make sure he is incarcerated for the rest of his life without parole like they did the silk ro...

He was history teacher and came to congress and realized there was no organization saying nice things about the congress and thought there ought to be somebody who did that and created the u. S. Capitol Historical Society as a way to create an organization whose responsibility would be to educate the public about the capital, the capital building, the people who served here and the architecture thats here. For over 50 years, we have been doing this with publications. With guide books to the capi...

Vote the presiding officer any senator in the chamber wishing to vote or change his vote . If not, the ayes are 57, nays are 38. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Cornyn mr. President. The presiding officer the majority whip. Mr. Cornyn mr. President , the senates not in order. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr. Cornyn mr. President , beginning today the Senate Budget committee will take the next step in our effort to enact progrowth tax reform this time by marking up a budget res...

Ive been in the senate a while and i can only remember a few times when the white house, and Senate Leadership were in agreement on an issue as complicated as tax reform. The current state of affairs is remarkable. Clear in the document, this is only a statement, not the product. The taxwriting committees will be taxed with putting together legislation with meeting the goals and principles outlined in the framework. Ofrefore it is the chairman the finance committee, my job is to produce a compre...