On the agenda today, resolution on the peaceful transfer of power after the president ial election, live house coverage at cspan. The speaker pro tempore the ouse will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 29, 2020. I hereby appoint Emanuel Cleaver 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. Haplain conroy let us pray. Lord, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As the stresses of the pandemic and as economic and educational effects stubbornly continue, we ask you once again to send your spirit of peace and healing upon our nation. Bless those who labor to bring healing and teaching during these difficult times. Comfort all who are ill with coronavirus and those who mourn the loss of loved ones because of it. As the members
We will hear from Large Companies including four dow components, 3m, caterpillar, merck and pfizer, we have tall numbers coming out for you. Markets this morning look like this. Investors looking to add onto yesterdays rally, dow futures up 135 points and nasdaq futures higher by 113. Markets rallying as lockdowns are ease ago cross the country and new round of stimulus goes into action. Plus changing face of travel, jetblue making masks and limiting seating, mornings with maria is live right now. Dax index higher by 205, almost 2 . The u. S. Central bank would ease Business Loan term as it expects emergency Credit Demand to surge. In asia overnight markets were mixedment take a look at the numbers in asia. You have some strength in hong kong, up one and a quarter percent. The others negative. The kospi fractionally higher on the fraction. Oil sliding this morning. Another selloff on the price of oil this morning. Take a look where we stand, another decline of 5 sitting at 12. 13 a bar
At a bay area drivethru. Standing in the rose garden, President Trump announced his bold plan for covid19. Im officially declaring a National Emergency. Reporter standing in the parking lot of a bay area kaiser, dr. Rod is already implementing the president s plan. Drivethru testing. The biggest process is really around us wearing the right protective gear to protect us and the patient to make sure were doing it the right way. Reporter the doctor leads an eight person medical team on this winding afternoon, donning, about a tenstep process of taking on and off the gear for every patient. And then the testing. The actual swab is pretty fast. Patients pull up, they turn off their car, once i have the protective equipment on and i go and talk with them and make sure it is the right patient and we print the label and print the label on the swab and then i go and do and explain the procedure and the swab, which is a little bit in the back of the throat each side and then it is done after th
I am not saying capacity is the last word in competition but its an important one. This is a question i want to address to both gentlemen. Whats happening . Where are we going . What will you do . How concerned should we be . First of all, thank you for hosting us here today. We have been frequent flyers the two of us in the past, and i appreciate the very sort of serious thoughtful approach that the institute takes to ssues like this. Which maybe arent on the forefront which are important for our country. Mr. Courtney we served together on the committee during our entire time in congress over the last 14 years and again its not sort of bipartisanship thats sort of papering over some disagreements underneath. Really have worked together in just so many ways. Thank you for the invitation to be here today. He comments i think actually snapshot in the immediate present, the fact of the matter is to answer your question should we be concerned, the fleet ing behind the size and whats happen
Good afternoon and welcome. I want to thank our cspan viewers and those joining us online for todays discussion here at Hudson Institute. Im the Vice President for Government Relations at hudson. Our mission is to promote u. S. International leadership for secure, free and prosperous future. We develop policy solutions by thinking about the future outside the limitations of conventional thinking. Two highly respected members of congress, representative joe courtney and rob whitman as the latest guests in our bipartisan speaker series, conversations on National Security and u. S. Naval power. With the director of hudsons center for american sea power. Todays discussion is part of an ongoing series weve held here at hudson over the last few years. The series brings together leading National Security experts to engage in constructive dialogue on the future of naval power and its role in our National Security strategy. Representative courtney chairs the House Armed Services subcommittee on