Im chairman kilmer. Im excited to be here the first day of the new year. We had an incredibly productive last year with 45 recommendations to make congress more effective and officiate so it can better serve the American People. Im proud of what we accomplished as a committee so far and equally proud how we accomplished our Work Together. Every member of this committee has been fully engaged in the committees work and taken realtime to think about the issues in our mandate and their own perspectives and really listen and consider their colleagues perspective. This committee has worked because theyre finding Collaborative Solutions to the challenges this institution faces. The key word here is invested. Whether were talking about businesses or organizations or governments depend on people invested in the work that theyre doing and thats fundamental. Successful institutions also invest in themselves, their employees, infrastructure, overall Work Environment and experience. They think and
He met to learn abandon trends across the globe and hear about possible solutions. Please come in and take your seats. We are ready to begin our hearing. Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for attending todays hearing on global efforts to counter antisemitism. I would like to this our distinguished witnesses for joining us to offer their expertise and recommendations and i would also like to thank senator manchin and his office for securing this room for us today. The International Commission on religious freedom is an independent bipartisan u. S. Government advisory body created by the 1998 religious freedom act. Or irfa. The commission monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad, using International Standards to do so. And we then make recommendations, policy recommendations to congress, to the president of the United States, and to the secretary of state. Today as were gathered here for this hearing, ucerf is exercising its Statutory Authority under the
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right now on andrea mitchell reports, less than a week before the midterms, the president will give a major speech tonight from washington on why he believes the future of democracy is on the ballot. barack obama has been crisscrossing the country for democrats. liz cheney crossing party lines. the basic question that you should be asking yourself is, who will fight for you? if the people in our party are not doing the job they need to do, then we re going to vote for the people in the other party, because we are americans above all else. this hour, a deeper dive into online misinformation campaigns in the wake of the attack on paul pelosi. this time, looking at pennsylvania. new reporting on how capitol police missed seeing the break-in live on video despite a security camera on the house. new we action to a north korean barrage of almost two dozen missiles, setting off alarms in south korea and new intelligence that kim jong-un is helping to arm russia against ukr
Of course spain and italy, we always like to have them when im doing this part of the show. But we dont this morning. Italy a couple percent. Thank you, sara. As for the tenyear note yield still hovering around that 2. 5 yeah, there we are, 2. 54 we call it this morning and crude down about 1 . Lets get to the roadmap on this friday before christmas, and it starts with the Trump Twitter bomb. Defense stocks on the move after the president elect pits boeing super hornet jet against lockheeds f35. Investors are taking notice. Going nuclear, russian president Vladimir Putin responding to president elect Donald Trumps call for a nuclear arms race. And wheres the santa claus rally . Come on, its that time of year. Futures are plunging to a lower open as we see from dow 20,000. But the dow does remain on track to match its longest weekly win streak in two years. Well, Lockheed Martin shares are falling as you see right there in the premarket. This after president elect trumps latest tweet on