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Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, thank you for giving us another day. Throughout the country people mourn those whom they have lost. People lament the loss of businesses of normalcy. 100,000 have now died of covid19. They were democrats and republicans, they lived in urban areas and now more and more in rural areas. They were the desendents of men and women who were colonists or founding fathers, and immigrants who had recently become citizens. They were disproportionately peopl...

Covid19 has killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. It could unfortunately cause additional early deaths down the road and due to the unemployment poverty could cause. To stave off those avoidable deaths America Needs to reenter the booming economy that we had before covid19. To do so we have put on this presentation to listen today from United States senators ted cruz and mike lee page one has ideas about Regulatory Reform that will kickstart our economy as well as keep it going stron...

, and that is senator john thune of south dakota, who is here with us today to discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgovwatch to be sure to follow bgov on twitter. I do have a couple of housekeeping announcements just to get us to todays presentation. This is broadcast live and although we dont anticipate any technical issues, should you experience any streaming delays with audio, may be video quality, go ahead and re...

4. 8 million numbers worldwide confirmed. 1. 5 million of those cases in the United States. 318,000 deaths and over 90,000 deaths in the United States. 28,000 people have recovered. Look at the righthand side of your screen. You can find this on the Johns Hopkins website. Before we get to your thoughts on the confidence level in the Trump Administrations response to the pandemic we want to begin with the president s comments yesterday that are making making news, what he had to say. Bout taking ...

Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. My name is cliff johnson, the general manager and head of Government Affairs solutions here at Bloomberg Government. I am actually delighted to welcome you to a 2020 springhill watch event. Hopefully by now youve all the chance to take a look at the newest addition of our biannual hill watch report that explores what to watch on capitol hill across more than 20 different policy areas, and of course, this report also examines the effect of covid19, the ne...

About with joe, andrew and becky and the degree to which walmart can post a 74 increase in ecommerce it looks like the big guys won. You basically had them cordoned off as essential services. So many other companies, little companies, medium, small, just couldnt compete this is what happens when you have a survival of the fittest economy. This is darrwin playing out. These numbers are astounding if the stock had not run up every day, i wouldnt know what to do. Add back 60 cents for home depot an...

Actions taken on pandemic and how money is being spent today. Getting america back to work today, larry kudlow will join me today at 8 30 a. M. Eastern live on the reopening of American Economy and rebound hes expecting and what if any additional stimulus is needed. We will also get into china. Turn into markets this morning. Futures are turning direction this morning. We are expecting weak opening this morning for stock prices, s p futures down 10 and nasdaq futures lower by 12 this after posit...

Board of governors of the Federal Reserve system. We will receive testimony from the secretary of the treasury and the chairman of the Federal Reserve as required under title four of the cares act. Congress has appropriated 3 trillion to protect and support americans to fight the pandemic and also to stabilize the infrastructure of our economic system. Fundingportion of this is authorized under title iv of the cares act which provides resources to loans, guarantees, and other investments from tr...

The constitution on a nonpartisan basis in order to increase awareness and understanding of the constitution among the american people. That is just what we are trying to do in collaboration with cspan, as we have invited you to join us in a listening to these important oral arguments and then convening afterwards with some of americas most thoughtful scholars who have filed briefs and are taking positions on both sides of the case to help us unpack the arguments we just heard. Friends, this has...

Opportunity to testify. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado. We hope some of the successful practices will give an example for other states and nations. We set realistic goals. Freedom of movement throughout the United States, it would be impossible to eradicate the virus until there is a vaccine so on the Public Health side, our folks have been destabilized by protecting the most vulnerable, supporting Health Care Providers, making sure people have access to all...