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Republicans are saying there is not sufficient evidence to accuse the president of these actions and this impeachment is a sham. It is not built on firsthand evidence and they have tried to dismiss the process as not worth pursuing. I was talking to sources over the weekend who are working on the committees with regards to impeachment, and theyre working on drafting articles of impeachment as we speak. When will that process conclude and the committee introduce articles of impeachment . We expec...

Expanding trade with africa. We may also hear more about the shortterm spending measure that republicans unveiled last night which would fund the federal government through february 16. Debate in the house likely tomorrow. Live house coverage is here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, architect of the universe and advocate for us all, thank you for giving us another day. When we rise ...

Delving into how defense secretary mattis has changed his position on Nuclear Weapon developments since becoming defense secretary. Among the highlights in the article, secretary mattis used to question the u. S. s nuclear ar san nal andcalled for certain elements to be removed or reduced . But since joining the trump administration, secretary mattis has seemingly reverse the his position and now supports building more. His u turn suggests it has become important as the u. S. Conference china an...

Review. This is about 90 minutes. The meeting will come to order. The Committee Meets today to hear testimony on the Administrations National Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture review, both of which were recently released. We welcome back the secretary of defense and the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to discuss these important documents. I cannot count the number of times i have heard members of this Committee Talk about the importance of having a Defense Strategy to help guide de...

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Well as the isn services index. Market desk where julie hyman has all these. Julie we recently got disappointing news on the manufacturing, but disappointing on the nonmanufacturing front as well. Service industries expanding at the slowest pace in six months. We saw the biggest month over reading ofase, a 55. 9 for the month, that is worse than estimated in october. Again, thats isn noninfection composite, 55 point point 50 59, 58 is what economists had estimated. Factory orders, excluding tran...

Countries will have an impact of the value of a dollar and the economy. Were interested in having the chairman address that issue also. These are some of the major issues we will discuss, and i certainly look forward to hearing chair yellens thoughts on this. There is also growing uncertainty that we should add to the occasion. Too many mornings we hear breaking news or pick up the newspaper and find headlines we dont want to read. That appears to be a spreading cancer not only in the United Sta...

We are very, very happy to have congressman teeberry take over as vice chair. Welcome. I also want to welcome our distinguished chair of the Federal Reserve janet yellen and thank her for appearing before us this morning. This committee has a long tradition of receiving regular updates from the chair of the Federal Reserve and were pleased to be continuing that tradition today. U. S. Economy has struggled through a long season of at tted growth. Over that time, our economy has grown at a histori...

Were interested in having the chairman address that issue also. These are some of the major issues we will discuss, and i certainly look forward to hearing chair yellens thoughts on this. There is also growing uncertainty that we should add to the occasion. Too many mornings we hear breaking news or pick up the newspaper and find headlines we dont want to read. That appears to be a spreading cancer not only in the United States but also throughout the world. And so the uncertainty that that leve...

Minutes. If we need a second round, we will try to accommodate that and also try to accommodate those that have had to run out for votes and will come back. Chair yellen, all of us sitting up here today would love to wake up to headlines in the wall street journal, headlines in the new york times, pictures on the front page of financial times. I have all these things that highlight you this morning as person of the day. I dont expect you have that same enthusiasm waking up every morning, but wer...