Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. In keeping in the great way senator lindsey runs his meeting, we start here on time too. And well defer our opening comments out of respect to you so you can make your introduction and go on about your business. But you honor us by being here. We thank you for that. And the floor is yours to introduce one of our nominees. Thank you, chairman corker and Ranking Member. Thank you for the opportunity tew peer before the committee on behalf of the president s nominee to serve as the undersecretary of state for management. Hes been my budget director, hes an excellent manager. He has tremendous historical knowledge and coordinate many efficiently. He was born and raised portland, oregon and attended college in san francisco. He remains loyal to his west coast roots. After graduating college, he considered teaching diplomatic history. While he never had a chance to pursue that interest, the opportunity to pursue the role in Foreign Policy will
Senator lindsey runs his meeting, we start here on time too. And well defer our opening comments out of respect to you so you can make your introduction and go on about your business. But you honor us by being here. We thank you for that. And the floor is yours to introduce one of our nominees. Thank you, chairman corker and Ranking Member. Thank you for the opportunity tew peer before the committee on behalf of the president s nominee to serve as the undersecretary of state for management. Hes been my budget director, hes an excellent manager. He has tremendous historical knowledge and coordinate many efficiently. He was born and raised portland, oregon and attended college in san francisco. He remains loyal to his west coast roots. After graduating college, he considered teaching diplomatic history. While he never had a chance to pursue that interest, the opportunity to pursue the role in Foreign Policy will be a great privilege. He began work in the legislative branch in 1989 and se
Comments out of theboe. You can see how the safety trade is not playing out with dollaryen higher and a mild risk off move after the Missile Launch it now back onto the dollar story. Gold going nowhere. Jonathan potential terrorism in the u. K. , several people injured in an explosion on a subway train in london. Police said they were treating it as terrorism on a number of people were injured, suffering facial burns and some were hurt in a stampede, according to the press association. No word of the whereabouts of the perpetrator. Station inen subway london was cordoned off as police investigated and north korea is another manchild launch Missile Launch in japan after the United Nations approved harsher sanctions against the regime while Rex Tillerson says these continued provocations deep in the north korean diplomatic and economic isolation. Joined by our chief agent economics correspondents. Editor forcutive international government. Walk three details as they come through in londo
Program with the late senator ted kennedy. Before i begin, lets call the meeting to order. Before we begin to take just a moment to say that our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been impacted over the past few days by hurricane irma. Of course, we continue to keep those suffering from the effects of Hurricane Harvey in our thoughts and prayers as well. These have truly been horrific events, and i hope and pray for the safety of everyone involved. I join with my colleagues in the commitment to doing all we can to assist our citizens who are in need at this extremely difficult time. We will see what we can do to help alleviate some of the pain. Now, the hearing were having today will come to order. 20 years ago senator ted kennedy and i came together to create the Childrens Health Insurance Program, or chip, in order to provide Health Corner for Vulnerable Children and family who were too poor to afford private coverage but still didnt qualify for medicaid. 20 years ago we w
S p indicated up fractionally. The nasdaq up fractionally as well overnight in asia, the nikkei ended higher it was up by 11 points thats still a win hang seng was up by a quarter percent. So was the shanghai composite. This morning and in some of the early trading weve seen take place in europe, modest advances actually things are relatively flat the cac is up by 0. 1 . The ftse is flat the dax is flat. Well see how things react as we get deeper into the trading day. Lets look at crude oil prices crude was down yesterday this morning its back above 50. 50. 7 5 50. 70 Hurricane Maria is lashing the islands, and puerto rico is preparing for a strike Steve Mclaughlin joins us now. From 7 00 p. M. To 1 00 a. M. , this storm had winds of 175, were down to 155 this is a strong category 4. The eyewall a bit bigger, now on land, mainland puerto rico we dont get an official landfall until the center of that eye crosses land. Here are the implications. 150mileperhour sustained winds, gusts to 1