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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Senate Committee on banking, housing, and urban affairs will come to order. Welcome to the witnesses and committee members. We know most americans want the same thing, a safe and affordable place to go home, a good paying job, a strong stable government which they can trust. Our Democratic Institutions are only as strong as a people who are in power. Our economy works best when you have a free and fair democracy in which everyone can live lives...

Ceos from the countries six largest banks, including jane fraser of citigroup and Brian Moynihan from bank of america, testified before the House Financial Services committee on regulatory and oversight matters in the Banking Industry. They addressed several issues including the influence of chinese banks and the impacts of the pandemic. This is part one of a threepart hearing. This first portion of the hearing is two hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is author...

Join in with your phone calls, texts and treats for dan abrams wife sunday at noon eastern on indepth on book tv on cspan2. Mike mubaraks vice chair of the Federal Reserve board and talks about how the agency is working to make sure finally Financial Institutions are protecting consumer and using fair lending practices. The Brookings Institution posts the hour long discussion. Good afternoon, welcome. Im david wessel, director of the hudson step center on anfiscal and Monetary Policy at brooking...

Good afternoon, welcome i am david wessel director of the center on the fiscal and Monetary Policy at brookings. Its very good to see so many people in person. David we havent done an event like this in a two and half years and i am hoping this is the beginning of more of them. One of the things about the pandemic is that you do things that you used to think were a hassle and now they seem like a luxury and that is the weight felt when i got a suit on and my closet that have not worn in three ye...

Good to see so many people actually in person. We have not done an event like this in 2. 5 years, and i hope this is the beginning of more of them. I have to say that one of the things about the pandemic is that you do things used to think were a hassle, and now they seem like a luxury. That is the way i felt when i got a suit out of my closet i have not worn in three years. I am pleased today to host michael barr, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve board for supervision. Michael has a very di...

David wessel director of the center on the fiscal and Monetary Policy at brookings. Its very good to see so many people in person. David we havent done an event like this in a two and half years and i am hoping this is the beginning of more of them. One of the things about the pandemic is that you do things that you used to think were a hassle and now they seem like a luxury and that is the weight felt when i got a suit on and my closet that have not worn in three years. I am very pleased today ...

Some stories have thousands of comments. Abusive behavior and profanity and such we try to flag and get rid of those. But it is a tough question; these comments. Do they affect our editorial decisions . Absolutely not. This is one thing i would totally disagree with you on good. I think the newspaper has the responsibility to take the racist comments off and has every ability to do that. You know, if they dont have enough people to do it, then hire some more people or dont run any comments. I th...

I think the original story uncovered a lot of more deeper stories. This kid shot by a Police Officer, the unarmed kid shot by a Police Officer, now of thee the Response Police towards the citizens that pays their salary. Now have you the response the police towards media members that cover the stories. You have uncovered the racial wounds that st. Louis has so this story uncovered so many more stories beyond what happened to mike brown. Other stuff to deal with, because of mike brown. You think ...

Gchqs internet collection abilities, but he went on to say he would need to get ministerial backing for this. Now, the attitude is a conversion on the road to damascus. He didnt start in that position. And hes about to leave. [laughter] and he may be [inaudible] i mean, subject to the advice of the technical experts like the director of gchq, are you in favor of increasing the transparency of the activities of the Intelligence Agency . Generally, i am confident from what ive seen that the public...

Proactively preparing for potential disasters and readily responding to a situation as it occurs. Across the department, from fema, to mppd to science and technology, we work with a wide array of government, private and nonprofit faithbased organizations to build and foster resilience. Not as a concept, but as an applied reality. Fema is leading implementation of the National Preparedness system. My colleague here today will discuss our Critical Infrastructure, security and resilience programs, ...