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Different tone from the president on taxes and trade to immigration and obamacare, his message to the markets. Plus, the market rally returns as investors digest white house Economic Policy and that possibility of a march rate hike for the fed. And prepping for the biggest u. S. Tech ipo since facebook, snap is set to price tonight but will the ipo prove a boost to the tech market . First up in his first speech before a joint session of congress the president highlighted his plans for boosting jobs and the economy including tax cuts, trade deals and a major infrastructure program. I will be as...

We are glad to have become today. We will change the methodology little bit. We have two votes. When i 2 45 and one following that vote. We are going to run the hearing continuously. We going to waive Opening Statements. We will go straight to secretary mcdonell to make his full statement. Then we will go into q and a. With your cooperation, will work with those two votes. If we do shutdown, it will only be for a couple minutes. Let me welcome everybody to this meeting of the Center Veterans affairs meeting. I think todays hearing will be equally as good as last week. The commission on care is...

Dedicated to serving them. Thats what va is to veterans and thats why you dont find veterans demanding Community Care as the only choice. The demand for that only choice comes from elsewhere. It doesnt come from veterans. Veterans know better. I have tested this during my time as secretary, when somebody tells me that veterans should only have the choice of the Choice Program, i ask them are you a veteran . And by and large the answer is no. And then i ask to be here in between votes and, mr. Secretary, pleasure that you are here with us as well. I have a specific set of circumstances that ive...

marcus -- too soon? if you are not familiar with him, he plays cameron on "modern family." stand up. here he is. [applause] i do have one question for you, what is the marijuana crackdown? seriously, what is the concern? we will deeply the nation's funyun supply? sometimes pot smokers vote, sometimes one week after the election. but they vote. [laughter] i would like everyone to raise your hand if you have never smoked pot. [laughter] look at britt hume. he is high right now. [laughter] he is on his fourth macaroon. i hope you do not think i am out of line but marijuana is something ...

>> senator, was it worth your while to come out here today? >> absolutely. again, i wrote the bill. i felt obligated to defend it. and even though you always worry about decorum and being able to say what needs to be said, i think it's important that i come out here and represent the state of arizona. >> even though there were only two senators up there, do you think it was productive? >> well, see, it doesn't matter whether there was 2 or 15 up there. the story that's going to be told is in the media. so i hope they cover it well and make that -- >> there were a lot of youth that we...