Alive. Thank you very much. Today a house subcommittee holds a hearing to examine security for the upcoming president ial election in november. Live coverage begins at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Talk about this morning as the negotiators on capitol hill continue with that pandemic relief package. Well hear more about that a little bit later this morning. But heres whats proposed so far. This is in the package at least the senate is debating, the socalled heals act, people who work for themselves and Small Businesses. They write the proposed act would also put aside 190 billion to create another round of paycheck loan program to provide Financial Assistance to struggling Small Businesses as well as independent contractors and the selfemployed. The government has already approved more than 5 million 5 million, excuse me, ppp loans worth nearly 500 billion in the Small Business loans program made available by the cares
In protests as the City Council Votes to defund and cut more than 100 officers from the force. We have the latest, plus uprisings in portland and chicago. Markets meantime pointing gains at the open, 279point gain on dow futures. Gains across the board this after mixed performance yesterday. Look at the blue chips go. The nasdaq finishing in the red after a week showing in the tech sector money peeling out of the stocks but the dow gaining more than 1 . 357 points. Protecting your data, flaws and snap dragonship putting 1 billion android phones at risk from a hack attack. Looks to connect all of your Smart Devices to one another. Vaccine risk. Vladimir putin says his country has a vaccine but here at home the epidemic can affect the effectiveness. Checking the world and stock market action, european markets are up across the board. We have gains north of 2 in england, france and germany. In the uk another 81,000 people lost their jobs last month. That number was slightly better than wh
A hurricane before lashing the state already reeling from close at 9 take. And time could be running out for ticktock in the u. S. President trump says he may well badly out because of worries over chinese time what will it make for the video platform and its millions of users. Im a decorators welcome to the program even as germanys Coronavirus Infection numbers rapidly increase has saying some 20000 people on the straits protesting pandemic restrictions on their daily lives almost all of the protesters disdaining the use of mosques police eventually moved in to break up the march citing the lack of social distancing and face coverings. Yet. Yes thats right. Free people chance this crowd during the coronavirus pandemic they say wearing a mask and hearing to restrictions is violating that freedom and it seems thousands agree the mixture of conspiracy theorists far right figures and citizens concerned by the economic effects of the law took to the streets of berlin to say the coronavirus
354, h. R. 6395, a bill to authorize appropriations for 2021 for military activities of the department of military d for construction to prescribe military personnel strength for for other year and purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 053, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on the services printed in bill, an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of rules committee is adopted and the bill, as amended, is considered as read. Debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and the ng minority member of committee on Armed Services. The gentleman from washington, smith, and the gentleman from texas, mr. Thornberry, each minutes. Rol 30 the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. Mr. Smith mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and to heir remarks include extraneous material on h. R. 6395. The speaker pro tempore witho
Be used to spur economic recovery but first remind folks what the Tax Foundation does and how you do it. The Tax Foundation is an organization that educates the public on tax policy and also assist members of congress in developing tax policy. We do in particular analysis of the cost to the economy and to the government of tax increases or tax decreases, Tax Foundation. Org is a website as. As we look at recovery efforts, its now been four months since america startedon shutting down. Congress congress is appropriatr 2. 5 trillion in response. At what point do we start focusing on longterm recovery as opposed to responding to immediate needs that are happening in the here and now . Guest thats hard to say. I had originally thought when the crisis began that around the end of the summer we would need to make a strong tilt towards longterm growth. We had sort of a threepart approach to this during the immediate crisis we needed to write liquidity for businesses, for households so they co