People disappear from westminster and it is quiet. You have been reading about the problems, and that is something on the social scene i suppose, and the controversy over which songs should end the problems, a musical event that happens every year. Of course it is much scaledback. I am preoccupied by the latest comings and goings. Tom we have Economic Data on thursday, jobless claims. What is the trend of the economy that you see . Right now in america aims to be almost a two art economy, very separate. A twopart economy, very separate. Anna we are talking this morning about the kshaped recovery. Going to john olsens great piece this moaning about how tech stocks do well, value stocks, other left behind sectors not doing as well. Even as we look at the u. S. Right now. Also really dominating in the news overnight. Anna a recovery, kitd juckes writing on that as well. An unusual august. For our briefing with first word news, there is ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and speakers at
Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni
That was a sea change over what we have seen the last eight weeks. Francine hyde park was definitely packed as well and on saturday. It kind of goes to the challenges the authorities have as you look at the infections in real time to see whether you can go back to full lockdown. This is what markets are trying to figure out as businesses are reopening but you dont exactly know for how long. Tom it is true, nation to nation as well. Brazil having a particularly tough go of it. Statistically there is much more we can talk about about the economics and financing and also how it all folds into this pandemic. German powell front and center on that chairman powell front and center on that. Right now with our first word news. The Federal Reserve chair says the u. S. Recovery could drive through 2021. He told 60 minutes the economy will recover steadily through the second half of this year, but he said a full recovery depends on people being confident and that may not happen until a vaccine is
It was 13 years ago today marshawn lynch, remember this . He took a car he washington and overtime which led to one of the arguably best celebrations i remember this like it was yesterday. He took it a few people, too. Were you there . Saw this in person . I think i was. It was so many years ago. I dont think he got in trouble. Marshall lunch was a star along witharon rodgers. Thank you for being with us. Lets get straight to the news about some people in california, here in the bay area, here we r again. It could happen this week again. It is all due to the extreme weather in our forecast. Christina, this could happen in just days. That is exactly right. Good morning. We have been talking to people here this morning who are thinking, here we go again. The last Power Outages two weeks ago, part of the city lost power here so folks are hoping it does not happen yet again. Pg andy says they doif they do decide to shut off power the impact would be significantly smaller, it could impact 1
Federaln is live at the society for a discussion about the 2020 sentences and efforts to put a Citizenship Question on the survey. We will be hearing from a professor of georgetown law and a former member of i mentioned our moderators. He has an author and journalist in washington, d. C. , somewhat of a federal society of a Federalist Society regular. I do want to thank him for his role as our moderator today. [applause] thank you very much dean. Welcome to the Federalist Societys Panel Discussion entitled, citizenship the road ahead. It was originally entitled citizenship, i said what else . That is because the Supreme Courts june 27 decision and the department of congers the permit of commerce may have impossibly we have three expert panelists. To my left, john s baker who will speak first is Professor Emeritus at the Louisiana State law center and chairman of our citizenship counts, a group of scholars and other interested people. He has been a consultant to various government bodie