Red across the board on some weak u. K. Cpi. Respectively sitting at or around new highs, the nikkei logging its best gain in two months. Apple puts ice new ipad retina on the market. And walmart steps up the competition. Another record close for the dow. The s p finishing just a fraction high of the alltime high. The nikkei closes at a high. And up say, jim, the dips are bought again and again and they are. A lot of times its just the intra day dip. Something might happen, a piece of data comes out and people say this is my chance. Theres a classic downgrade today of fedex. Fedex has been on fire. That deal with amazon and the post office, that is bad for fedex. Watch that stock. That will be the tell. It will go down a little and then buyers come in. Buyers cannot resist the transports. The downgrade of fedex to a market perform, they raise their price target from 136 to 117. They dont even mention the amazon ups deal. They say the value is outpacing demand i say thats convincing, i
Thank you for the kind introduction. Thank you for being here. Its wonderful to be in washington which was my home for many years. Ive done so much of the research for the book. When i told taxi drivers what i was doing. I was writing a biography. Most of him have heard of him. He bought alaska. [laughter] and thats right. But what else did he do . What was he like . Let me take that last question first. What was he like as a person . During the civil war years, he was in his early 60s. Short, lean man with as mas of sort of disorderly gray hair. Big nose, almost always a cigar in his mouth, and if it was any time past 5 00 in the evening a glass of wine near the hand. Talking, always, always talking. One of his also lived and famous host gathering around his table diplomats, soldiers, politicians, actors, you know, the life of the party. What he ask do . He was secretary of state for eight years under lincoln and president johnson. Before that he was a federal senator for 12 years. Be
Shovelready project. If there were would would have done it. I if we had invested more in modernizing our infrastructure, it wouldnt some of it might still be spending out but thats fine. Maybe we might have been a little bit could have spent a little more. Could have spent more and im not so sure we were all right that it all had to be timely. This was going to be a long slog, and we did need the longer run investment. I think this debate has gone on for a long time but the fact that so many people placed so much of the emphasis on the recovery, and the single bill actually revealed the flaw. Growth is not a bill. Greg greg is a commitment to the kinds of incentives that get people to invest, to hire people and to want to spend money. Its not a bill. If we look at the economy today, the striking feature has always been that the business sector had the financial wherewithal to spend more and just didnt. Think harder about better incentives, including doing things we need to do, like ge
Virginia want to make virginia a model for pragmatic leadership that is friendly to job creation. A model for strong schools that prepare our students for the jobs of tomorrow. The model for welcoming the best and brightest scientists and innovators, no matter your race, gender, religion, or who you love. And a model for an official Transportation System that reduces grid lock for our families and our business. When all of this is only possible, if virginia is also the model for bipartisan cooperation, and thats a view i their with the next lieutenant governor, the commonwealth of virginia, ralph northland. While there are a lot of proud democrats here, and arent we proud tonight, folks . Im also particularly proud to welcome all of the republicans who are here tonight. Give them a great round of applause. The truth is that this election was never a choice between democrats and republicans. It was a choice about whether virginia would continue the main stream bipartisan tradition that
Chaplain connery let us pray. Loving chaplain conroy let us pray. We thank you for giving us another day. As we think about the blessings of life, we prayner blessing of peace in our lives and in our world. Our fervent prayer is that people will learn to live together in reconciliation and respect so that the terrors of war and dictatorial abuse will be no more. In a special way we ask your blessing on the people of ukraine. May peace and civility descend on that nation as it finds itself in political turmoil. May your special blessings p be upon the members of this assembly as they return from a week in their home districts. Give them wisdom and charity that they might Work Together for the common good. May all that is done this day in the peoples house be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approve the pledg