Highways Infrastructure News Today

Authorizing highway, bridge, aviation, and waterway projects. Members are working on 170 amendments. They plan to complete work on those amendments around midday today. That will be followed by a vote on final passage of the package. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving day. Other we ask your continued protection empowerment of t...

Was nasdaq and s p 500 down almost 3 . Add boycott slit sit Major Companies pulling out of advertising dollars from social media giant is costing Company Millions anding to surngd pressure and down two and a a quarter percent right now. Boeing takes flight test of the 737 max begin this is week. The stock is up on the news this morning premarket up close to 3 and Federal Reserve Shopping List essential bank releasing name of companies that it is purchasing Corporate Bonds from. Including automak...

To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation poli...

Jpmorgan chase, berkshire hathaway, with what theyre calling Health Industry salvo to remind them, maybe all of us together can underpin you twice and maybe underprice you twice, all of those guys, including unitedhealth are taking it on the chin. United health is accounting for a third of the roughly 324 point selloff today. Their presence and teaming up has a lot of folks worried. A lot has to do pretty much with Interest Rates as well. A backup picked up considerable steam amid expectations c...

Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists commit smithed by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Th...

And reach a conclusion i think it is 90 days after the implementation of the Security Council resolutions none of us knows what is in this agreement. To my mind there are questions of if you are given an explanation that this was peaceful activity it does not mean that the activity was also carried out for other purposes. How the director general will formulate his report will be a question of artistry and diplomacy as far as im concerned. So what about these activities . If you assume that thes...

To. Our leadership in the house is committed to a longterm bill. So again, instead of pointing fingers at each other, lets figure out a way to move Forward Together and i believe we will. With that, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from oregon. Mr. Defazio i yield are you ready . I yield to the gentleman from minnesota one minute. Could i inquire as to the time left . Before we proceed. The speaker pro tempore you have four minutes. ...

Hottest day of the year so far. Yeah exactly angie. The forecast high today at Reagan National 98 degrees. When you combine the heat and humidity this afternoon, temperatures are feeling like theyre around 100 degrees because of the extreme heat and humidity. The Weather Service with a weather heat advisory. This will run through 8 00 p. M. This evening. The current heat index in the 70s and 80s. Already feeling like its 82 degrees in washington. Feeling about 72 in frederick. So heres your feel...

Community, ways and Means Committee. This hourlong program was hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society in the Committee Hearing room. We have a very many distinguished guests with us this evening. Im going to ask some of them to stand all of them to stand and please hold your applause until the keynotes be has been introduced. And that will be the end of the group. Congressman paul ryan, chairman of the ways and Means Committee. Congressman Sander Martin levin Ranking Member of the commit...

[applause] and to now, the chairman of the u. S. Capital Historical Society and a former member of congress from missouri will offer a toast to the committee and then we will have dinner. Before i offer the toast this evening, i want to give a brief history, a very brief history, of the committee. But i want to step set the record straight first. Jim was not only the ranking member, but he was chairman of this committee. [applause] it was 226 years ago and 10 days from now that this committee wa...