Debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties and with the time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 9 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from North Carolina, ms. Foxx, for five minutes. Ms. Foxx thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise to recognize dr. Donald moore of madison, North Carolina. For over 40 years dr. Moore has served as a physician at western rockingham family medicine. Dr. Moore understands that god humbly uses him as an instrument to care for those who are entrusted to him and he believes each patient is an extension of his own family. That mindset, mr. Speaker, encapsulates the true essence of a servants heart. After graduating from madson high school with the title of valedictorian, he attended the university of North Carolina at chapel hill where he majored in biology. He was then a
Witnesses. Today the committee will hear from witnesses about the challenges that state stanksed businesses in the cannabis owners have when attempting to under the controlled substance act, its considered a schedule one drug. Being categorized as a schedule one means that the possession, distribution or sale of marijuana or other marijuana derived products is illegal under federal law and any proceeds from cannabis related activities remain subject to antiMoney Laundering laws. In the last several years many states have used valid initiatives or referendums that have legalized marijuana in some form, whether for recreational or medical use. Currently there are 11 states plus the district of columbia where it is legal to buy and consume recreational and medical marijuana adds well. And there are 22 states plus d. C. That have approvedmedcal marijuana totaling 33 states in all that have some form of Legal Marijuana. Senators gardner and merkley have introduced Bipartisan Legislation tha
Step in and curb their rise. Hes here with his proposal to lower rates by a full point. The dow has been fluctuating. Up 327 at the highs, up 67 right now. S p is down 15. Nasdaq is down 1 . This despite lower yields across the board. Today, the tenyear down seven basis points from yesterdays close, around 4. 63. As for Bank Earnings this morning, shares all higher on stronger than expected results, but well off the highs. Jp and wells fargo a little more than 3 up. The ceo jimmy diamond noting it was overearning and he expecting that to normalize over time. Pnc, shares are lower by almost 4 after missing on the top line. They beat earnings estimates, but, again, their Loan Loss Provisions came in at half the estimates. By the way, it wasnt just them, the big banks did this, as well. And financials are where we kick it off today. My next guest says hes bullish on the big banks, especially goldman sachs. Also with us, lets bring in frances donald, w. Out with a recession call today. Tha
You saw kentucky senator rand paul coming out and members of the Senate Republicans had their weekly conferences. Democrats, to but on the republic inside their meeting with President Trump for the first time up on capitol hill for one of these tuesday mornings. Were expecting comments from leaders shortly and the senate gaveling in momentarily. Cant bring those, live to you on cspan2 we are streaming them live online at cspan. Org. We will take you back to the next senate floor. Live coverage of cspan. Org. The presiding officer the senator from kentucky. Mr. Paul are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate not in a quorum call. Mr. Paul okay. Id seek recognition. The presiding officer the senator from from kentucky. The senator recognized. Mr. Paul we currently have a 20 trillion debt, and you might ask yourself whose fault is it . Republicans or democrats . The easy answer is, both. Both parties are equally spock, equally both parties are equally responsible, equally
Consumer spending. Gets you over 3 . Probably not. I would take the under on that. Very interesting comments from the former fed chair. He was great and listen, he deserves a tremendous amount of credit for what he did for this economy. The recovery was called the obama recovery i believe he had the large hand, but hes 100 right. Getting to 3 is going to be difficult because the driver of gdp in this country now is software. Is services. It is the Technology Component and that is incredibly difficult to measure. We are a different economy, we are a time and convenience economy and to get the 3 , its not going to be the old bulk economy thats easy to measure. The treasury secretary says its going to take two years to get to 3 . Economic growth. This is the market debate. Over the next few years. Either youre going to get levels of Economic Growth to sustain stocks at high levels, profits and otherwise or youre not. Let me cast a scenario in which you get that 3 growth and a lot faster t