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
Ways to improve cyberSecurity Issues for the Energy Sector. Witnesses stressed the importance of protecting the Us Energy Grid and what the government can do now to help prepare for potential attacks, held by the Senate Energy committee, this is almost two hours. Good morning, the committee will come to order. We are here this morning to examine federal and industry efforts to improve the cybersecurity of the Energy Sector including efforts to improve collaboration on Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure protection initiatives. It has been more than a year since we last held a hearing on cybersecurity for the Energy Sector but it is fair to say this is always a timely topic. A critical priority we cant lose sight of even as we grapple with covid19, which becomes the source of our next national crisis. There have been a few noteworthy developments since our last year. Earlier this year the president issued an executive order focused on securing our system from the cyber and physic
But i think that the sideways period that we have had, has that cooled off for a few weeks, going nowhere. The s p has been in the tight range through july that whole period netted out we could not get away from upside risk. No selloffs, and you had things like m a popping up today and friday, and the idea that we may get a fiscal deal, and the highest stocks in the world continue to pull in dollars. Yeah, i know in general youre not a huge fan of seasonty and people making arguments based on seasons, but s p only had three positive augusts in the last decade i dont know that it changes that i feel like you have to be mindful of seasonty but know what it means. There is a tendency to have a uptick in compatibility and market action. I dont know if that is market wide or not. I think you have to be aware of it combined with the fact that youre seeing froth. It seems to come together. I find it interesting today that the dollar is bouncing and not really taking anything out of the big in
The second hour of the future of health care summit. Id like to thank our sponsor for their support of todays great program. We spent the first out on lessons we learn from the coronavirus pandemic. Will expand to look at policymaking breakthroughs and innovation in the face of seen and unseen challenges. Before we get underway a few housekeeping notes. You can tweet as at hashtag the Health Health and taking questions. Ive got a bunch that already come in. Speakers beware. If your experience, with a live stream lees refresh the page. It should be a quick fix. Thats what they say. Lets get started. Im please enter it is my first guest dies Health Official in the land alex faison sect of health and human services. Secretary azar has a a breadthf expense of both public and private sectors. His key areas of focus include healthcare reform, research and innovation come all of which have assumed added significance in the coronavirus era. Well, thanks for joining us today. We had a fantastic
I would not be surprised if we were seeing a 1 down move. Futures lower earlier. Silver higher. Stocks might not be doing much but some of the frothy money seems to be going to the precious metals. Silver up a fourth day in a row. Not surprisingly the dollar down for a fourth day is helping. Itll be interesting to see whether than the dollar index can hold on. A sleepy summer day. Tesla will be reporting after the bell. David except for silver. Abigail is focused on the silver question. Thanks to that report on the markets. A breaking headline the bloomberg. The chump the Trump Administration are reportedly weighing in interim unemployment deal that may extend the Unemployment Benefits even if they cannot get the stimulus deal done. Well be talking with republican senator from ohio they are in the program. We will ask him about that. In the meantime one of the biggest questions facing the country is how and when to open our school system. We want to talk to the leader of one of the Lar