Beware increased risk during the covid19 pandemic. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members hey, jan. We cant hear you. I dont know, are you are you muted . Im not muted. I can hear her. I can hear you, jan. I cant hear you at least, not yet. I can. I can. Can you hear me now . Not yet. Oh, i think it must be on your end then. Youre coming in loud and clear here. Okay. Can republicans hear jan . Is it just me . Im not hearing anybody. Yes, jan, we can hear you fine. Okay. Im going to continue while somebody helps fix the silent person. Okay. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members and witnesses will be participating Via Video Conference as part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members and witnesses, you will need to unmute yourself, unmute your microphone, each time that you wish to speak. Additi
Intellectual property, this is about two hours. Come to order. Well im disappointed we cant all be together in person today, im grateful to the chairman graham, and our clerk for facilitating this through web apps. I want to be clear that this subCommittee Hearing is not distracting from the full committee. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd, and the senseless deaths of so many of our African American brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to senator graham for holding eight full Committee Hearing until the sink in america and i fully support that effort. We also have to continue to address the covid19 crisis in the impact its had on millions of americans and livelihoods. Just this morning the full Committee Held a conference on covid19 and its impact on tension. Centers im also glad mcconnell and several republican senators will take up the protection program. We are going to continue to address this
Fight the virus. This as deaths in the u. S. Surge past 50,000. The numbers are Getting Better in spain and italy but seem to be getting worse in places like russia and germany. The World Health Organization also forming an International Alliance to ensure that vaccines and treatments are distributed fairly. We are just ahead of a big week in earnings. I want to bring in taylor riggs. Sammys buoying the markets. What were you watching . Taylor exact reversal of yesterday. Outperformance within the tech sector but we are still lower for the week. We are waiting a bunch of being earnings coming next week. We got some chipmakers reporting this week. I will also talk about crude. Monday and tuesday, you had crude go below zero for the first time ever. Some of the losses we saw on monday and tuesday, even though the Energy Market rebounded, not enough to offset the big losses in crude. Contract still on pace for their worst week ever. You are starting to see some of that pessimism. Pandemic
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Good evening. Im here to introduce our guest. Clive is a former Systems Engineer with ibm. Graduated from university here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and a trained psychotherapist. Also the awardwinning author of small works of fiction and nonfiction. A recipient of the Richard Wright awarded africanamerican literature as well as numerous other words he is been a guest on oprah, and pr, radio and tv programs across the nation he appears tonight you speak about his latest book think plaque which was just shortlisted for the 2019 prize of social justice. Please join me to welcome to the kendall planetary in at the Oregon Museum of science and industry. [applause] thank you leslie and all for being here i cannot tell you how special it is to be here. Was just talking with the president , nancy and just re living my First Experience over 40 years ago at Washington Park and i was a volunteer working with a group that actually was involved i had just come from ibm to go to Chirop