Others physically present in the room for guidance from the office of attending physician, masks must be worn at all times during todays proceedings except for the member or witnesses speaking, please also sanitize yourss seating area we use these chairs as a safety issue in an important matter of order and quorum for this proceeding. For members participating remotely, keep your video function on all times, when you are not recognized by the chai. Members are responsible for mutating and on muting themselves and please remember to meet yourself after you finish speaking. Consistent with House Resolution 965 in the accompaniedr regulation, staff only mute members and witnesses as appropriate when they are not under recognition to eliminate background noise. I see that we have a quorum and i now recognize myself for opening remarks, let me welcome or witnesses as i let the Ranking Member know, ill be going considerably longer than the customary five minutes by my this morning and ill yi
And independents, 2027488002. U can text us if you want at 2027488003. You can tweet us and post on our Facebook Page. It was over the weekend that ed markey out of massachusetts appeared on a Boston Television station highlighting this proposal that he and california senator Kamala Harris, vermont senator Bernie Sanders have laid out for this proposal this payment based on the coronavirus pandemic. Right now, we are in the midst of the greatest economic down turn in our lives. Massachusetts senator ed markey, along with senators Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders, unveiled new legislation that would send americans a check every month until this Public Health emergency is over. Americans need more than just one payment. The bill would provide 2,000 a month to every individual with an income below 120,000 a year. Married couples would receive 4,000. Families would receive 2,000 per child for up to three children. And the legislation would give payments to all u. S. Residents, even if they
Eric katz is a sin to correspond with thend publicatin governor executive and recently published a piece take a look at federal employees and how they been impacted by covid19. Morning. Good morning. Paint a picture overall will be our first number of employee employees. So the number of employees with tested positive is over 10,000 and thats been growing pretty rapidly. A lot of these workers are on the front lines so their exposure rates are pretty elevated. Weve seen that kind of climb at a pretty rapid rate. The Defense Department has a lot of positive cases, delivering healthcare, employees have a lot of cases and the Postal Service is also there. They are out there every day. They are acting with customers and doing the rounds so that has left a fairly high exposure although were talking about over 2 million federal employees here. Thats to be expected that the would be some cases. If youre talking and saying frontline people like the deity, like the v. A. , like the Postal Servi
Crude at 22 a barrel. Guy some of the crude stocks in europe are trading a bit higher. Of the stocks in terms Sector Performance today actually doing a little bit better, but european stocks are down. We are down your session lows, approaching 4 . We are waiting to find out what happens in the senate a little bit later. That big bazooka a little bit of ther on ahead german fiscal story. Theyre going to be turning on the taps over in berlin. Still, maybe more need to be done on a european basis. 38 on the negative 0. 38 on 38 on theenure german 10 year. The pound is back down again now , down only a little bit, but its been battered of late. The euro is still in positive territory, up by over 1 at the moment. Clearly, this demand for dollars still yet to be fully cited by the swap lines put in place. But to be honest, they take a little while to work. All of these announcements we are getting on a minute by minute basis from the and others, they dont kick in immediately. They take a lit
We do have a change in our supervisor. Rafael nadal him and will no longer be part of our board and we will have mr. Dean pressed things preston starting next month in february. We have a quorum. Item number four . Item four is the possible modifications of the meetings set forth below. Regular Meeting Minutes from december 12th, 2019. Are there any corrections to the minutes . I move adoption of the minutes for the december 12th meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor of approving the minutes signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed . Its unanimous. Item number five. Number five is the general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction. Happy new year. Im sure you are tired of hearing from me, but i want to let you know that i genuinely appreciate all of your time. I wanted to say that last month or the month before when you made the recommendations for the memo, i really wanted take to get to hard. I especially thought about what you said, c