Wish to seek recognition. Per House Resolution 955 resolutions and members are required to leave the camera on the entire time they are in an official proceeding. Even if they step away from the camera. Our roll call is not necessary to establish a quorum and official proceedings conducted remotely whenever there is an official receding with remote participation the clerk will call the roll to help make clear who is present at the start of the preceding. This time i asked the clerk to call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] thank you very much. Pursuant to Committee Rule 7d Opening Statements are witnessed the chain the Ranking Member for this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members the adequate time to ask questions. Recognize myself a purpose of making an opening statement. Today we are examining how the covid19 pandemic is draining our Higher Education system and discussing what Congress Must do t
Also, happening this week, House Republicans are set to vote on the no fly, no buy gun regulation and democrats planning for disruptions on capitol hill this afternoon. Here we go again. Varney company with no disruptions starts right now. All right, lets take a look at the dow futures. You can see the dow off some 88 points, were seeing weakness already in europe. Perhaps brexit fears coming back to the floor. The dow is up 89. The s p 1 2 of a percent. Gold and silver, worried about brexit and spend sending gold and silver higher. Check this out. We dont talk about silver that much liz this mentality taking the polls and the market safe haven assets. With the negative Interest Rates now at 11 trillion, morning worldwide and Corporate Bonds moving into negative territory, according to jp morp chase, about 300 million there. Gold etfs, youre right. Hitting threeyear highs and silver is ahead of it. Theres some retracement in this, but silver has rode ahead of it a long way to go liz so
mornings weve been in the 50s, this is going to definitely start your day differently so make sure you have your coats today and winds pretty light is the good news. 510 miles an hour sustain and totally dry. that will change through the weekend ill let you know next chance of rain right now we have a look at your friday commute. weve made it to friday. congratulations and congratulations on the commute. id like to sabals its clear. no accidents or major delays for those of you who travel the 77480 interchange in independence everything looking great. the drive time on 77 between 480 and i90, seven minutes headed north into downtown, seven minutes headed south and a Traffic Alert from rta for those of you who take it, rta buses will replace trains east of tower city through the morning rush and ill tweet that out. john and lena,b to you. this morning an el early village home caught fire. Tiffany Tarpley joins us live and the state Fire Marshalls Office is involved here. they are and yo
Someone they know they can trust in those areas. Id say thats both for christians and yazidis. They also arent seeking the same refugee protection because theyre outside of that. You mention trafficking. Not only is there an issue of trafficking of women but because of the vulnerability of the refugees, children are much more susceptible. The parents go out doing things, they leave children behind for someone to take care of and we find more cases children being abused, which is heartbreaking. Its one of those cases to get them out of these situations we need to make sure they have emergency schooling and caregivers that provide that opportunity so their families arent vulnerable. Chairman, on your point about the dublin agreement, and as you say, just for those not familiar with the jargon, it means the within the European Union, the first country where a person claims asylum is the country that processes the application and looks after the person while that is happening. Clearly, thi
Have been suffering from fatigue. I felt in the last year or two that their contributions while increasing were not keeping pace with the needed increases. Certainly europe now is very focused on needing to provide more assistance to help the refugees who are in the middle east and are displaced inside syria and also refugees in the surrounding neighboring countries. Then for a couple of years now we have been trying to encourage gulf states to become routine regular donors to and through United Nations appeals. And i would say weve had mixed success on this. We have seen some very large generous contributions but they tend to be onetime only checks written. Theyre not always through the u. N. Theyre nothing you can count on will happen again the follow year. Were very appreciative that kuwait held three annual pledging conferences on the syria crisis, and i attended all of them. That did help to put, you know, real money on the table. And the u. S. And kuwait were the top donors in re