We start in the United States, with a Democrat Doug Jones this week delivered a stunning upset by beating republican roy moore in alabama. That since the Republican Senate majority to just one. Kevin cirilli joint to myself as the results came in. We are hearing he will come out and address his supporters any moment now. But the republican majority in the senate is razor thin, down to one vote, the number of votes republican can lose. There are host of issues, that is the only vote they can lose. With tax reform coming, this is the bottom line. Doug jones will likely take office sometime the week after christmas and before january 3. Tomorrow, President Trump is going to meet with a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers from the house and the senate on the Conference Committee to finalize the details of the tax reform package. If republicans want to get this done by the end of the year, they have to do it before doug jones gets up to washington, d. C. Because of that razor thin majority now is
About cause and effect. History matters. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Up next the acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley testified on president trumps 2018 navy budget request. Hes joined by the chief of Naval Operations John Richardson and marine corps commandant. This is just over two hours. Senator mccain good morning. I want to thank each of our witnesses for they distinguished service to the nation as well as the say alreadies say alreadies, marines and civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. In recent months, our nations Senior Defense and military leaders testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. Theyve reported shortfalls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new, modern capabilities. Yet as secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington. Fiscal uncertainty,
To go around. Crisis, crisis, ladies and gentlemen, thats giving everyone a giant hangover. Well explain as power lunch begins now. Welcome to power lunch. The dow moving lower again today. Take a look. The Dow Jones Industrial arch now, its lower by 34 points and we were roughly 95 points away from the dow 20,000 level. There are still some notable standouts in the broader market. Nvidia, microsoft hitting record highs, melissa. Heres what else is happening at the hour. Freddie mac says the average rate is 4. 3 . Boeing says it delivered its 500 dream liner jet and a major winter storm is closing in on the plains. It could bring blizzard like conditions by christmas day. A busy two hours as we kick it off with a news alert. What were watching, shares of Energy Transfer partners. The big pipeline operator. They are moving higher. The brief spike just about now. On heels of dow jones headline, saying private equity firm blackstone is possibly in talks to take a stake in assets. Not the
The city of San Francisco sfgov tv meeting of the budget and finance committee occurring wednesdayoctober 26, 2016 will begin shortly. [gavel] good morning everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, october 26, 2016. My name is mark farrell all be chairing this committee. Im joined by supervisor katie tang and supervisor norman yee. I want to thank the clerk of the committee and sfgov tv for covering the meeting today. Do we have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 2 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Mdm. Clerk all item 1 is item 1, 2016 issuance by water Revenue Bonds [reading ordinance] thanks very much for our puc is here to speak good morning supervisors chairssf puc. The item before you this morning is a request for your review and approval of Revenue Bonds for water enterprise. These bonds are meant to fund our Wa
Water Revenue Bonds [reading ordinance] thanks very much for our puc is here to speak good morning supervisors chairssf puc. The item before you this morning is a request for your review and approval of Revenue Bonds for water enterprise. These bonds are meant to fund our Water System Improvement Program were what you may know as the us which is a Multiyear Program to rebuild our Regional Water system. I have some slides to share with you to go through. If we could go to the school slides please . This transaction i will walk through some details on that. Ill talk about the sources and uses of the funds. We plan to use the money. Ill go within the board resolution before you today. I will talk a little bit about the transaction documents which as you know with these sorts of transactions theres a lot of different documents to review. Ill describe those. I will go through some disclosure q a which would we know with our commission which we found helpful and ill share those with you and