I hereby appoint the honorable scott r. Tipton to act as speaker pro tempore on this dafmente day. Signed, john a. Boehner 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 submitted 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, 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. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. It was interesting to listen to some of the congressional reactions after the United Nations Security Council on monday unanimously approved a resolution that creates a basis for International Economic sanctions against iran to be lifted. This was a 150 vote for
Testifies before the House Agriculture Committee wednesday. This is two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning. This is a hearing on the committee of agriculture for oversight by the u. S. Department of agriculture will come to order. Ive asked Rick Crawford to open us with a prayer. Thank you mr. Chairman. Father, i bow humbling before you. Thankful for this country youve given us and, father, mindful of the great responsibility that youve charged us with. Father, just ask that everything that is said and done here today be pleasing in your sight and we ask that you help us to be civil in our discourse and discerning in our comments and dialogue. Father, i just pray it all in jesus name. Amen. Thank you, rick. I want to thank the secretary vilsack for coming to be with us this morning. He has a horde stop at 12 15. He has cabinet responsibilities to do. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for being here this morning. Be careful on your knee there on your on the table. I want to say at the start
His reaction. But first lets get you caught up on the market. The dow hitting a high this morning. Global bonds have been selling off. Rates going up. Tech stocks still under pressure yet again. Morgan brennan has more on that from the Nasdaq Market site for us. Thats right, so the good news is we are pairing some of the earlier loss we saw for the nasdaq composite, however still underperforming the dow and the s p the big cap nasdaq 100 fairing even worse, down about three quarters of a percent right now. You mentioned tech stocks are the big culprit here and that really has been the case, weve been seeing the major tech names sell off ever since trump won the white house in about part thanks to investor worries about change on trade and immigration policy. So apple one of the biggest losers. It is having the bigs negative point impact on the nasdaq 100. One reason is that we have a report out of china that iphone sales may suffer if president elect trump were to impose tariffs on tha
Shape. Rnc chair Reince Priebus tapped as chief of staff. For chief strategist trumps Controversial Campaign ceo steve bannon on leave from the ultracondition conservative bright bar news. Known for white nationalists. One Campaign Source describes the priebus pick an olive branch to the establishment. Under under scoring concern nbc news. Instead of draining the swamp we put in the head alligator. The reason we had an electoral landslide is that donald trump was able to bring different pieces of our party together. Reporter in a new interview with 60 minutes gave a glimpse into what kind of president hell be. Ill conduct myself in a very situation is. Sometimes you have to be rougher. These are the most corrupt people. Reporter refusing to say hell stray from the fiery language he often used on the trail. Sometimes you need a certain rhetoric to get people motivated. I dont want to be just a little, nice, monotone character. Reporter as for his Signature Campaign promises . Trump pled
Drawn. Heres how this all started. According to philadelphia police, undercover nar cot ins officers in the area of 16th and east hunting park. They saw two men inside a toyota and witnessed within man shot the other, get out of the car and into the white tahoe. No officers were shot, and they did not draw or fire weapons. However, they did pursue the white suv and thats how they located it here on coral street. There is one confirmed shooting victim. Police tell me he got himself to frankford and hes in surgery. Also an officer injured. Responding to this investigation and he was involved in a car accident. He was taken to the hospital but expected to be treated and released. Again, police are still looking for the shooter in the case and anybody else who may have been helping him. Well continue to follow this and bring you new information at 6 00. Live in frankford. Rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. Download the nbc 10 a. Pp and get alerts directly on your phone. If you were outside, yo