A couple votes coming up including one for President Trumps nominee for the National Credit Union Administration board. You are watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. A senator madam president . The presidin officer senator from kentucky. Paul palm i ask that the folling be granted floor privileges, calem case, lucy, carlin gupta, and gab brie ella mastra. Thpresiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 58, the nays are 35. The notion nomination is confirmed. Under the prious order, the motion to reconsid be considered made and laid upon the table and the predent will be immediately notified of the senates action. A se
Behalf of the more than 19 Million People in our nation and half a Million People in michigan who show us every day what service and sacrifice and love of country is really all about. These patriots landed on beaches in normandy and their pacific theater, crept through jungles in korea, shed blood in vietnam, survived attacks in iraq, and fought terrorists in afghanistan. These people are heroes. They love our nation so much, theyre willing to put their lives on the line for our democracy, our people, and our way of life. Thats why it is so incredibly shocking and infuriating to hear the president of the United States, the commander in chief of our armed forces, disparage our veterans. President trump called them losers and suckers. Losers and suckers. He said he couldnt understand why anyone would join the military, because whats in it for them . He said veterans who have lost limbs shouldnt be in parades. Why . Because he couldnt handle seeing them, didnt think people would want to s
What people know about most is the biggest one, the cares act. I think it got 97 votes here on the floor of the senate. 970. Weve in the past been able to figure out a way to come together as republicans and democrats, as americans to be able to address this crisis. We need to do it again because we still do have a crisis. We still do have unacceptably high levels of people getting infected, hospitalized, being in the i. C. U. , fatalities, and of course our economy is not where any of us would like it see it, although it has improved significantly in part because of the legislation we have passed here. Im convinced we would be at over 10 unemployment still if not for the legislation we passed here. Instead were beginning to come down, 8. 4 last month. Thats faster than anybody thought it could. Still, of course, unacceptably high. So more help is needed, and we cant let the upcoming election and the Politics Around that keep us from getting together and continuing to do the work that
Looking to open off 37 points. The 10year note stands at a point. We are looking at. 672 melissa lee in the house that was a major move we are back up towards those highs right now. We saw lots of ramifications in the market looking at how quickly it moves higher. Im trying to watch whatever information i have is about 12 seconds old we are all in a house somewhere. Just not together. It is good to see you although i cant see you now. Im looking at the board from 15 seconds ago. We are going to power through this well up an update on why we are all doing this new case numbers have been declining across the country but testing shortages are calling those numbers into request the average number of covid cases down 19 from july 28 but testing has declined over the same time period amc to reopen u. S. Theaters august 20 and hopes to have twothirds of theaters open. Says all staff and customers must wear masks. That is the change from comments in june that mask wearing would be encouraged b
Surged as lead by amazon well have more on that in a minute jim cramer said it feels insane. Im wrong to say that at the moment u. S. Equity futures at this hour show you how it stands. Well have another day in the green. Dow up 230 points. S p 500 up we should show you treasury yields now at. 0617. All i do is think about my 10year mortgage i dont have a 10year you have a 30year, which you regret i wish i had a fiveyear arm. You could still have a fiveyear arm. You are giving it to the man you are. Giving it to the suits. We are seeing a bit for bonds and equity even higher a reach for safety even though we have a risk on. The eu has reached a breakthrough deal agreeing to 857 billion Recovery Fund it will raise money by selling bonds collectively disbursed to the maybe countries hit the hardest that do not have to be repaid many countries including germany had long opposed also agreed to eu budget of 1 trillion beginning next year brining the total spending agreement upwards of 2 tri