Because we have a historic moment with the introduction and the nomination of Kamala Harris to the Vice President ial nominee, and we have a lot of big democratic stars who will be speaking, including nancy pelosi, hillary clinton, elizabeth warren, and barack obama. This will be an important night for the party to get an audience and introduce, harris. Introduce Kamala Harris. I am hoping we hear less attacks on the president and more about their governance strategy. David one thing we have not heard about is the issue of law and order. President trump will hit it hard. What is going on in some of our cities. We see it in new york, in chicago, in seattle. Kamala harris is in a particular position to address that, how we can police our streets and still not abuse some of the less fortunate. Jeanne this is what i have heard from moderates and more conservative friends who say this is a glaring absence so far in these last couple days. We know this is going on in the country around us, a
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by monsignor anthony j. Marcaccio, pastor of st. Pius the tenth from greensboro, north carolina. The guest chaplain let us pray. Blessed are you, lord god, of all creation. You are the gifter of ever good gift, of life and liberty, of peace and prosperity, of wisdom, understanding, and right judgment. We ask that in your divine mercy you would bless our republic and in a special way the work of our senators, that they may discern all that is true, all that is honorable, all that is right, all that is excellent and worthy of praise for our nation. In this moment, make us mindful of all that has brought us together as a country and how it foster passes that which can divide us. So when all is deliberated and done here, we may be preserved as one nation under god. Amen and amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the
Hes all three. Hes about to hop off the the ways and Means Committee markup to give us the inside scoop on the amendment that was just voted down and why that carried interest loophole is still wide open and gaping. Plus, what happened to the fire and fury that President Trump threatened north korea with . Now hes offering to play lets make a deal with dictator kim jong un. Are we about to see a nuclear compromise . Ambassador Stuart Holliday here on whats really behind the president s 180degree turn. On wall street the markets are about to pull off something thats only been seen twice before in 18 years, and its not necessarily a good thing. With red on the screen were less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the countdown. Liz okay, so that market move, if all three indices finish lower and they all look to be on track for that right now it will be just the third time in 18 years that all three hit intraday record highs during the session but then finished lower. Well get to
Nomination put forward for the person who will permanently be proposed to head up the o. C. C. , joseph otting. And in mr. Otting, we have another example of somebody whose entire career has been spent working with banks and other major Financial Institutions to try to evade important Consumer Protections and taxpayer protections. In fact, mr. Otting and his bank were able to profit very handsomely from the mortgage crisis. The c. E. O. Of one west during part of that crisis was the person whos now secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin. He was the head of one west during the foreclosure crisis. During that time, one west had what many have called a foreclosure machine in place. And mr. Otting, who is going to be in the, the head of the o. C. C. And who we would hope would be more independent as required by the charter of the o. C. C. , he was there working for the secretary treasury, steve mnuchin, at one west. And mr. Otting was there working at one west when the bank foreclosed on