[gavel] committee will come to order. Without objection the chair to declare recrest of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitledle policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize four minutes to an opening statement. Today we convene on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. Chairman powell, welcome back. Oday i would like to start by addressing the current elephant in the room when it comes to policy and the fed. This president has made it clear or he has no understanding respect for the independence of the Federal Reserve. Doesnt d the fed, have a clue. Most lled at this time difficult problem for the u. S. Hes ing to media reports discussed firing chairman powell just as hes fired others he with. Not agree lets be clear. It is essential that the federal maintain its executive e from the branch. So i urge chairman powell and other Federal Reserve board overnors not to submit to the High Pressure tactics of this president who continues to push economic nd harmfu
Committee that any state offering a caucus in 2020, as opposed to a primary, needs to find a way to open it up to more participation. There has been longstanding concerns about the caucus system where it requires people to turn up on a certain day, certain time. For an hour or more, to express their to the president. This year, asked any state sticking with the caucus system, to find some way to have remote participation. Nevada, and two early caucus states were going with virtual online appbased options that both decided to stick with the Old School Technology and do a vote by phone. They are still offering the traditional caucus meetings, but this is a new, additional way people can express their preference next february. Host how do they secure this system . How do you know the person on the phone is the person they say they are and they are a member of the Democratic Party and not someone time to spoof the system . Guest some of that is still remaining to be seen. Party Officials S
Future of the Affordable Care act. And later, john scott from Pew Charitable trust talks about the potential for Retirement Savings reform legislation. Retirement savings reform legislation. Host good morning. It is thursday, july 11, 2019 and this is washington journal. Following emotional migrant testimony yesterday, and news report says the u. S. Begins raids on sunday. We will start the program looking at u. S. Asylum laws and asking you if they need to be tightened or changed and here is how to join us. Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents and all others, 2027488002. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj and we will look for your posts as well on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Here is the report from the New York Times posted at nytimes. The u. S. Prepares to arrest thousands of family members. Nationwide raids have been scheduled to begin sunday according to two current and one officials. Security to the final details of the operation remain in f
This hearing is called to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, two astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. Including half of the United States congress. These three astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The year was 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When, with more than one third of the earths the earth watching or listening live, they became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission
He is a great american, great patriot, he has served nasa for 42 years. We love him. It is also true that we are moving to a new era in human spaceflight. Where the administration is interested in going fast, we are interested in doing things a different way. We believe it is important to have new leadership. It was entirely my decision. At the end of the day, we need to be very clear that nasa is committed to cost and schedule. Safety is the highest priority, but we are committed to cost and schedule. I thought it was important to make this change at this time. A quick follow on that. You are coming at a time when we are about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. About to fly crews from american soil for the first time. As you mentioned, the Artemis Program of returning to the moon. You reassigned ahead of human exploration. I was curious if you could give us some insight. Why was that done at this moment . Jim we are landing on the south pole of the moon with the next man