Betsy devos poked the senators like elizabeth warren. You have no personal experience with College Financial aid or management of higher education. Kennedy im sure most Funeral Directors never died, but still managed to stay in business despite the inexperience. She pioneered vouchers and Charter Schools to let parents make a choice over their childrens education. Sister were there is no more reckless ideology and sacrificing the minds and futures of kids to support union jobs of crappy ideaistic teachers. Try saying this to a horrible tenured teacher who has long ago given you have on the system. You are fired. Kennedy our children are becoming the victims of socialist snowflake factories. Go ahead and subject schools to the Natural Forces of change and choice and give parents greater tools to strengthen family bonds and society. Its easier to close a Charter School than a failing traditional public school. Connecticut senator chris murphy pressed miss devos on the issue of gunfree sc
Santoli in for wilfred frost. I cant believe wilfred missed out on 20,000. I was waiting for it longer than he was. Since i was around and working when it first hit 10,000. Sense hes not here, i can say im happy to have you here for it. I gave you the chance to predict it yesterday. You didnt jinx is by saying for sure. Its throwback thursday, were throwing it back like its 1999. Thats the year the dow hit 10,000. I believe cher the number one song that year. A year of a lot of believing. Then what happened . I was in high school. A check of Global Markets. The dow closed firmly above 20,000. Really nice broad gains across the board. The s p 500 closing up 0. 8 . The nasdaq soaring a full percent. Guess what . The strength is continuing this morning. Dow futures are up 53 points. S p futures up 3. Nasdaq futures are up almost 15 points. The dow, s p, nasdaq, s p 400 mid caps, nasdaq 100 all hitting alltime highs. Not just the dow. Boeing, home depot, visa hit highs during the session.
Of betsy devos. We know at least two republican senators intend to vote against the nominee, meaning that Vice President mike pence would need to come to capitol hill to cast the tiebreaking vote and that would be the first time that Vice President broke a tie in a cabinet confirmation. President trump tweeted about the devos nomination earlier today saying, senate dems protest keep the failed status quo. Betsy devos is a reformer. She will be a great education secretary for our kids. That Senate Confirmation vote will take place at noon eastern time today and you can watch it live on our companion network cspan2. And from here we go to House Armed Services committee with a state on the military. This started just a short time ago. They watched our fighting and theyre preparing their forces. We need to me pair to fight any adversary. Were extremely good today and are ready to fight in the middle east. Against violent extremists but we need to fight against any adversary. We need more f
Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties
Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties