Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating and is expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title 1 under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs related to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While va officials were
Live from dc with all the details. Hi alexandra. Hey vicky good evening throughout the week we saw the interactions between senators and judge barrett remain quite cordial. But today we did see lawmakers lose their patience with each other. Points. In the final day of hearings Democratic Senators continued to push against the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court this is as sham democrats say republicans previously vowed not to move forward with filling Supreme Court seats in an Election Year louisiana senator john kennedy says he made no such promise you just accused me breaking my word i can. Name some names the record will confirm that the chairman. In fact made that. Commitment democrats pointed to statements made by senator Lindsey Graham and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell when republicans blocked the nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016, he said the American People should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice Republican Ut
108 points hire. So good news all around. Lets see if it can stay this way. Treasury yields, you can look at a 10year note at. 681 we have so much going on the fed kicking off a twoday meeting. The first since it put new framework into place isnt expected to change Interest Rates fed chair powell planning to answer questions about the outlook during tomorrows News Conference then we have the data coming in today where we get august import and export prices. The latest productions numbers and the earnings, we have fedex and adobe. A lot of other news, joe i can hear the bounce in your step i hear it in your voice. I think it might be the guests we have again today. I know you are excited for the hour we had great guests yesterday and great guests today we have bob from viea come cbs Jared Kushner coming up in the 7 00 hour. Kevin mccarthy then i realize we miss becky whenever shes out but you like to talk and i guess i do too so it is 50 50, instead of 33, 33, 33 you dont have to admit
Which has mostly gotten a free ride. Well get reaction from liz peek coming shortly. Spigot to Small Business drying up. So what happens now . All that and so much more on making money. Charles well the dow is up steadily today and the market has been on a roll. The market has done better than you probably know. It is not reflected in the quotes. Give you an example. The s p was up. 006 . Tiny fraction of an increase. Guess what . Nine of 11 sectors were higher on friday. This rotation is going on. Weve been talking about for some time. Now it is catching fire. What should you be doing to take advantage of it . I will bring in my three favorite experts, mike murphy, Courtney Dominguez and shah ghailani. Mike, i want to get your thought on what were seeing in the market. The dow is having a powerful session. A lot of tech names are under pressure here but this rotation we talked about is happening. I dont think youre buying it just yet . You know, charles, i love some of the big Dow Com
Yeah, thousands of students reported to class virtually but teachers. And their union and the district are all still trying to hash out what the plan is going to be for Distance Learning even though online instruction as daryn mentioned begins this morning. Gayle ong takes a look at whats going on. On monday thousands of students with the Oakland Unified School district will report to class virtually in the zoom call usd spokesperson john sasaki had little to say about specific teaching plans, partly because the district is still in negotiations with labor partners the beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is sort of the Teachers Union and district have been negotiating logistics teachers are asking for a reduced schedule working 5 hours a day the Oakland Education Association posted their proposal on facebook as