Gavel in for a short pro forma session no votes planned. This is live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. May 22, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable jamie raskin to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Compassionate and merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Lord, bless the world. Give health to our bodies and comfort to our hearts of hearts. You ask us to not be afraid. When our faith is weak and we are fearful, this is difficult for us, but you, o lord, will not leave us at the mercy of the storm. Bless those who continue to serve, even though threatened in doing so. Health care professionals, food service workers, and those whose work demands they
Air defense equipment, and what else agreed during the meeting between the president s of ukraine and the United States, lets tell how my colleague Iryna Shynkarenko told rob zelensky in the white house, based on the results of the conversation, the president because biden assured the ukrainian delegation that representatives of the democrats, republicans, as well as ordinary americans support ukraine because they know that it is fighting for freedom and sovereignty, he said russia could end the war already today, but instead, moscow is looking for weapons for iran and north korea. Joe biden noted that with the onset of winter, russia will again try to use war as a weapon, so that to help ukrainians get through the winter, the United States is sending ukraine a new package of military aid in the amount of 325 million, in particular to strengthen Ukrainian Air defense, and also, as us President Joe Biden noted , abrams tanks will soon arrive in ukraine. Today, i approved a new tranche o
Tuesday section session. These currencies are climbing against the dollar, these gaining. Rising. Lds are i want to get to the corporate give, novartis planning to its division an extra year and a half to rebounded before they decide to spin it off. They reported their first quarterly profit increase in almost three years. Drag foreen a bit of a has been a biton of a drag for novartis. Shares in novartis today down by 3 . A considerable increase in third half petrochemicals and intermediates such as assets and solvents helped drive process. Investor attention likely to focus on the agricultural product side after a six alien dollar purpose six billion dollar purchase. Unicredit reporting a sixfold jump in thirdquarter profits, driven by the sale of its pie and near Global Asset Management division. , partlyfell by 3. 9 upset by higher revenue from fees and commissions. Unicredit shares up 1. 75 . We are 90 minutes into the session in the u. S. How is it looking . Abigail it is looking
Host welcome back. Im thrilled to see you here for what should be a really interesting session. I would like to introduce to you my good friend and partner in witchcraft studies margo burns. , margo was one of the leading experts on the trials. One of the editors of the incredible records of the salem witchhunt. She has probably forgotten more about the individual documents than i will ever know. We asked her to speak about those records and the Amazing Things you can learn from a close read of them. I should also mention that she is the author of my favorite article on the salem witch trials. It looks at the issue of false confession that i strongly recommend to you. Margo burns. [applause] margo burns just so you know, i have a completely different read on the coercion of false confessions than he gave a few minutes ago. Read my article and you will find out. I am here today primarily to talk about the actual documents. And how do we know what we know. One of the things he was doing
We try not to opine on whether theyre correct or theyre not correct. But on, as you asked what the potential spillovers or impacts on Financial Stability could be of asset price revaluations, my assessment of that is that as asset prices have moved up, we have not seen a substantial increase in borrowing based on those asset price movements. We have a Financial System, a Banking System thats well capitalized and strong, and i believe its resilient. Okay. Thank you. Time of the gentle lady has expired. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from missouri, mr mr. Lucamire, chairman of the subcommittee. Thank you, mr. Chairman and thank you, madam chair, for being here today. As chairman of the Financial Institutions subcommittee, my concern is the oversight by the various Financial Services agencies. Chair yellen, when it comes to the feds supervisory role, i renew my call and the call of so many colleagues that the fed take a more measured approach and withhold any new regulation until