Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, footsteps of he the first woman to serve in that lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs ommittee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, footsteps of he another new yorker, eliot engel. Chair of the ag from tee, david scott georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of leadership of collin peterson. Africanamerican. Historic. Africanamerican. Contested races. Throughout our leadership, half leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. Here are more chairs to be announced, but these are the nes that related to rules and budget related to the steering and policy committees. Two of the speakers announcements that i made. Others will
Listen live with the radio app. Lawmakers held a News Conference to unveil a bipartisan covid19 emergency relief will. Ae measure would provide liability provision. This is about 40 minutes. Phones off. [laughter] you might want to put your phones on silent. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent . Let me welcome all of you, thank you for being here. Intense effortn and we want to thank staff for doing this work. As you see, we have with us a Bipartisan Group of people working diligently for the last 30 days or more to try to get to a conclusion. This is covid emergency relief framework. This is exactly what it is. Can you hear me . Ok. Back off. Let me just say that this is an intense amount of work the staff has been doing for quite some time. Every senator, every congressperson here has put an enormous amount of time on this inperson and on the phone. This is a covid emergency relief framework. We have worked in the best interest of what we believe is great for our
Directer ray gina haspel on the hook. They may be the first to go after the election. Hear what i asked house chief of staff and how mark meadows answered the question. Decline at start of trading. Dow industrialing down 273 points. Nasdaq down 100 rand s p lower by 33. This all 3 majors, this after 3 major indices posted losses last week over stimulus cases and rise in covid cases. As you can see market town this morning. Plan nor arizona and discussion over fracking, all coming up. Special day, join us from 8 00 a. M. Hour where we will go with fox friends on Sister Network and i will preview my books which will be heading bookstores tomorrow. Hope you will join us. Dont miss a moment of it. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria your intent markets this morning are lower, take a look, italy and france among the countries imposing new lockdown orders over surge of coronavirus cases. Cac quarante down 32 and dax index in germany lower by 282 points, better than 2 lower right no.
Dollar lower and bonds higher. That is pushing yields down. All of this before the fomc announcement at 2 00 p. M. Fed policymakers are expected to reinforce the policy shift they rearticulated last month. And athan longer rates target of inflation slightly above 2 in perseus in pursuit of broader employment. Any news out of the meeting will be nuanced in communicating how they plan to implement the strategy. Will they spout conditions that will justify continued lower rates . Will they quantify quantitative easing . The original rationale for buying assets was to bring the market back to smooth functioning. Now it is probably to support the recovery. Is not clearit that matters because people want to know the fed has their back. Id i had fought the fed id thought the fed kind of said that last time, we have your back. What more could they say this way . The rumor there will be further enforcement of monetary policy, or is it the fact . Nerds will be looking for specific parameters on
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