[inaudible] thank you. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee not on this subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves, and to meet themselves after they finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations of a Company House resolution 965, staff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. We not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. This hearing is entitled Holding Financial regulators accountable for diversity and inclusion. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing fo
University North Carolina chapel hill. My parents earnest jones and mom pertis jones. Dad, a farmer born and raised on a farm. That was his life. Thats what he loved to do. Im a member of a family of ten children, 6 boys and 4 girls. And the first five children was born as routen because their dad was routen and he was killed cutting logs in the wood. So that first five were very young when he died, and then my dad, earnest jones married my mama and has five more children. But my dad raised all ten of us because they were very, very young when their dad got killed. And basically what he did was we were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, brilliant people. And one of the ambition they had and they gave us as we were little kids he had two goals for us. He wanted all of us educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven. And so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard work and school. So i had the pleasure of going
He was killed cutting logs in the woods. So that first five were very young and my dad ernest jones married my mama and has five more children, but my dad raised all ten of us because they was very, very young when their dad got killed. Basically they were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, very brilliant people and one of the ambitions they had, they gave us as we were little kids, he two goals for us, he wanted all of us to be educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven, so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard work and school, so i had the pleasure of going to school all the way through elementary, all the way through high school and i never missed a day. He was mean and tough on us going to school, so we had to get up 4 00 in the morning, milk the cows, feed the pigs and do all of this walk one mile from the house to the dirt road where the bus came by and gets the bus at 6 45. You to do that and appl
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Remodeling bigtime during the lockdown. Profits went straight up, sales straight up. Those tools, wallboard and paint, just ran off the shelves. These two companies are economic indicators. They are doing well. The economy apparently recovering nicely. As for the overall market, well, the dow, thats close to the 28,000 level this morning, up about 40 points at the opening bell. The s p, thats just a couple of points away from an alltime high. The nasdaq, already there. By the way, apple is only, what, 10 shy of a 2 trillion valuation. All right. Lets get to it. The Virtual Convention. If it wasnt clear before, it should be clear now. This is Bernie Sanders Democrat Party. He laid out a far left platform and its been adopted by joe biden and kamala harris. Socialists wrote the party platform. Im calling it the Biden Harris Sanders ticket. Its the most progressive t campaign of any Political Party in recent history. Tonight, alexandria ocasiocortez will be a featured speaker. We heard fr