Meeting to hear racist symbols on our public lands. Under Committee Rule 4f, any l Opening Statements designees. This will allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner and help members keep their schedules. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent and that all other members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today or the close of the hearing, whichever comes first. Hearing no objection, so ordered. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess subject to the call of the chair because there are votes. So we will have to break for that. As described in the notice, statements, documents, or motions must be submitted to the electronic repository at h r see hnrc. Members are responsible for their own microphones. As with our in person meeting, members can be muted by staff only to avoid inadvertent background noise. Anyone present in the hearing room today must wear a mask, covering their mouth and nose. The speaker of the hous
Attack, shooting and killing five explosive strapped suspects. This after a van plowed in to a crowd of people in barcelona, killing a dozen and leaving a hundred others injured on the pavement in what is now the worst terror attack to hit the country in a decade. We go to the ground in barcelona. Tell us more about the overnight shootout. Reporter well, philip, im standing right on the area here in the center of barcelona, where the white van yesterday plowed in to a crowd, killing at least 13 people. Now, it was closed until two hours ago when we were here last. But now its reopened, as you can see, its full of people. I can see the stores are open, people are buying newspapers, other people next to me are laying flowers. Others are tourists with luggage rolling to or from their destination. So, it just looks like any other day here in the area. As if Nothing Happened a few hours ago here. And its more remarkable if you consider that this was the terror attack that took place here, w
[applaus [applause]. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Jay, thanks for the nice introduction and ed macer, thanks for the kindness youve shown to me and my family. This is my First City Club without paul green and i miss him, we all do, a fantastic person and great resource and all the had a little jab for every speaker with the tough question, i looked forward to it and im sure you will in his tradition make sure i face the music, too. And donna is one of my faves. And i remember saying would you go to a cubs game with me because she wears cubs earring and we went to opening day, you never know what to expect. Well, it was a snowstorm and we ended up in the box and we were there with Billy Williams and she got her picture taken and i was sitting there watching the game and look around, darned if she wasnt weighting on everybo everybody waiting on everybody in the box. You dont have to do that, youre a guest. And as i told the people at the table, with your permission, she
Now becky quick. If you want to know what bill clinton thinks about the state of the world all you have to do is ask. Thats what we did. We spoke about politics, Hillary Clintons run for the white house and americas economy. That is our cover story this week. If you look at how the American Economy is doing compared to most other big economies in the urlworld inclug developing economies including the bric we are doing quite well. We have more than regained the jobs lost in the recession. It was a big crash and usually those things take a decade to get over. So we got jobs back more quickly sflmpt kw can we go back to the Federal Reserve. They decided not to raise Interest Rates and cited a couple of factors that arent in the dual mandate, china and the stronger dollar. Were they right to look at additional conditions . I think so. I think that in a world where america looks like a good news story compared to the current problems in china and the slow growth in russia and the uncertaint
When i sat down with the former president at the Clinton Global Initiative in new york city. We spoke about politics. Hillary clintons run for the white house. And americas economy. That is our cover story this week. If you look at how the american economys doing compared to most other big economies in the world, including a lot of the developing economies, like the brits, the people we thought would lift up up into the 21st century, were doing quite well. We have more than regained the jobs that we lost in the recession. There was a big crash, and usually those take a decade to get over. So we got jobs back more quickly. Back to one of the shortterm things you mentioned. The Federal Reserve. They just decided no the to raise Interest Rates, and in doing so cited factors that arent in their dual mandate. Talked about china, talked about the stronger dollar. Were they right to look at all of these additional conditions and right in their choice not to raise Interest Rates . I think so.