Im rooting for it to shut down. Weve all survived shutdowns. The challenge it is politically risky for both republicans and democrats. Of theyre in a mudslinging fight and hoping the other part has more mud on their face at end of the day. Charles deroy, forget about the market, only one year was the gdp down. I get back to the point. Why are republican so afraid of this . They seem to think they will get burned. After the last shutdown they benefited midterm elections after that. Depend who defines the terms of shutdown. He should do Oval Office Address on friday evening as we go toward the countdown. Lay out deal he is willing to sign. Have the senate vote on it one by one, let democrats on camera decide if they shut down the government and allow the government to continue in operation. Shelby is right to separate between a market story and political story. To take the last shutdown we had in 2013, the market, participants in the market tended to focus what they were already focused
Every day. We will play the full briefing the next. Its about 30 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Let me start by previewing some of the president s plans for the rest of the week. Tomorrow he will travel near pittsburgh pennsylvania. It began as a small Family Business for half a century ago, 2017 was the best year in Company History which they credit to the president pro jobs pro worker agenda. Thanks to the passage of the tax cuts they will now be able to expend 100extend 100 of the int they make in the new equipment in the same year they buy it. This means their investments back into the company will be 50 higher than this last year. That means millions of dollars will be invested in growing the business rather than propping up the government in washington. When they buy more trucks and equipment for the fleet they hired more technicians to service them and buying more vehicles to transfer them from customer sites and buying more parts from suppliers to keep the f
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Committee, this is an hour and a half. Today the committee will examine the Justice Departments enforcement of a Foreign Agents registration act. I want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. I know that some of you even had to change your travel plans and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. We had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july the 5th. It is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. After a failed negotiation with the committee to, in good faith, i issued a subpoena with in the cooperation with senator feinstein to Glenn Simpson for his appearance today. I withdrew the subpoena after mr. Simpson agreed to a transcribed staff interview about, number one, his involvement in creating the trump dossier and, number two, his alleg
Committee, this is an hour and a half. Today the committee will examine the Justice Departments enforcement of a Foreign Agents registration act. I want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. I know that some of you even had to change your travel plans and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. We had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july the 5th. It is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. After a failed negotiation with the committee to, in good faith, i issued a subpoena with in the cooperation with senator feinstein to Glenn Simpson for his appearance today. I withdrew the subpoena after mr. Simpson agreed to a transcribed staff interview about, number one, his involvement in creating the trump dossier and, number two, his alleg