Good morning to everyone. The committee on Health Education labor and pensions will please come to order. First, a few administrative matters. Weve gotten advice from the sergeant at arms health and human services, centers for disease control, individuals in the hearing room will be at least six feet apart. Theres no room for the public, therefore, but this is all streaming and there will be an unedited version of it that anyone can watch later. Our witnesses are participating by videoconference today and some senators are as well. Id like to Say Something about masks. Since were six feet apart we dont need to wear masks, although some may. Thats why my mask is off, although i have one and i wear it outside because as we were reminded yesterday its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant of arms, the press gallery, the architect of the capitol, the Capitol Police and our staff, people, all their hard work in helping to kee
Its been a wide range today. Former citigroup ceo sandy weill will join us to discuss the water shed moment at his former company which just became the first major u. S. Bank to appoint a female ceo plus, well speak with jason robins from draftkings ahead of tonights nfl kickoff. And we are counting you down to some exciting earnings after the bell today including peloton, oracle, and chewy. Two out of three are big stay at home winners plus an interview with chewys ceo as soon as the numbers hit the tape lets get straight to the market in the final hour of trade another volatile session on wall street mike santoli tracking the action for us what caused the weakness here in the last few momentors so . That morning rally was really limp it did not pass any of the tests. It stopped where yesterdays highs were nobody had any faith this was really going to be upside momentum then you had a rally in the treasury market. Yields got compressed a little bit. And the dollar is also been higher
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
Okay. Agenda item number 1, call to order. To call the roll call. Clerk agenda item number number 2. President stephen follansbee. Present. Clerk Vice President chris canning . Clerk present. Commissioner Karen Breslin. Present. Clerk commissioner mary hao. Present. Clerk supervisor dean preston. Present. Clerk commissioner claire zvanski. Present. Clerk and commissioner randy scott is absent. President follansbee, we have a quorum. Okay. Can we call the next item agenda, number 3. Clerk agenda item number 3, approval with possible modifications of the minutes set forth in the august 13th, 2020. Is there any discussion on this item . At the corrections or modifications from the board . Ill make a motion to approve the minutes, as presented. Second. Okay. I think we have an opportunity for Public Comment at this point. Clerk okay. The moderator will be opening up the phone lines. The slide presented gives information on the Public Comment callin number, which is 408 4189388, access code
Climbing and nasdaq pole vaulting 2. 26 september has still been ugly. Ive been warning you that this is historically the worst month of the year. Ever since august ended, complete with a nasty tenday close and thats precisely what we got but now that september is almost over, lets focus on the future meaning next weeks game plan. It starts on monday when we get results from the mighty four industries which dominate the rv and motor home industry. When the pandemic first hit, ford sold off hard as investors figured wed have a normal recession and rv sales get slaughtered. Sure enough, we have a slowdown and mass unemployment and an incredible boom in the rv business because these things represent one of the only safe way to go on vacation. Since then, thor stock soared but tends to pull back every time people get excited about a potential vaccine. Lie i can th i bet rvs stay longer than you might expect tuesday we hear from companies that can potentially deliver upside surprises that m