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Vote the presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 52. The nays are 48. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the bill. The clerk calendar number 266 h. R. 1 an act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles 2 and 5 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the senate that senator wyden or his designee be recognized to offer a motion to commit the bill, text of which is at the desk. I further ask that the time until 8 00 p. M. Be equally divided between the leaders or their designees and that at 8 00 p. M. The senate vote in relation to the motion to commit with no intervening action or debate and that following the disposition of the wyden motion, the majority leader be recognized. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Wyden mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Wyden i ask unanimous c ....
Percentage point dax is slightly weaker, relatively flat as is the cac. Crude oil prices, crude Oil Yesterday was flat ended up by two cents this morning another 44 cents 55. 35 so wti above 50 a barrel. Back to the markets in a moment first the latest developments on Hurricane Maria. The hurricane making landfall on the island of dominica as a category 5 storm it is now weakened slightly within the past few hours to a category 4 thats the good news forecasters warn that maria could reach strength as it nears the Virgin Islands, puerto rico also in marias cross hairs. You know, when these hurricanes come, they come. This come in waves we are also following developing stories out of Southern California overnight a magnitude 3. 6 earthquake shook parts of los ang ....
I think heather might have more to say about this than i do. But i would just say that i think that this figure you sometimes see of, you know, vast numbers of jobs that are unfilled, its not because of a lack of skills, not entirely. A lot of it is just employers too damn cheap to pay the wages that would attract the workers that they want and say that they need. So i think that we shouldnt focus were leaving this now to go live to indianapolis where President Trump is going to talk more about the republican tax reform plan released today. Thank you very much. You just want massive tax cuts. Thats what you want. Thats the only reason youre going so wild. But its wonderful to be back in the great state of indiana. What a place. I want to thank senator todd young, senator joe donnelly, representative jackie would lar ski, representative susan brooks, and representative mike messer for joining us today. Thank you very much. Thank y ....
President s speech, which is with just one hour to the closing bell, imminent. What do we have . One arm on the farm bureau and one eye on capitol hill where both have very active political scenes. In d. C. , Mitch Mcconnell and House Speaker paul ryan explaining why their unified plan will make the complex american tax system fair and simple. Here it is. This is a onceinalifetime opportunity that is all about more jobs, fairer taxes and bigger paychecks for american families. For all of us, this is a new or never moment. About getting america going again and growing again, providing jobs and opportunity here rather than overseas, providing middle class tax relief for hard working american families, so they can get ahead. Liz i just want to let you know, we are getting embargo details, which means we cannot tell you exactly how his speech is going to go, but heres what we kno ....
Stunt growth we are in washington with the latest who has a break down of the republican tax plan. Hi reporter hi scott, republicans are committed to getting tax reform done this year, Republican Leadership has been trying really hard to show that everyone is united around this framework, and members of the tax reigning committees in both the house and the senate just held a joint press conference to make their pitch to the American People this is a now or never moment taking money out of washington and putting it in the pockets of our citizens. House republicans join with President Trump in our Senate Colleagues in letting the American People know were taking action now. And i hope we can bring de ....