Peters, and delivering the opening statement, a minute to acknowledge the United States passed another milestone that we have lost 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren and grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight to stop the virus from spreading, to protect millions more from experiencing this loss. As members of congress we will go to republicans, all united to be our part. We turn to opening statement, unlike every hearing, in the u. S. Congress economic committee, simply explore economic issues. We will focus on Public Health. With the closing of coronavirus is in march causing unemployment in april, democrats reset some of those Public Health experts in the country. Two all two nobel prize laureates, 5 former chairs of the president s council of economic advisers and 3 were president of the National Economic association over 2 dozen in all. Every one of them have the same urgent mess
Going straight to. The Iraqi Parliament has approved Prime Minister abdul mahdi his resignation comes after weeks of protests from more than 400 people were killed across the country hell stay on to lead a caretaker government but attention now turns to who will replace him so manifold and reports now from baghdad. After only 13 months in office iraqs of bethels Prime Minister added up that he has officially stepped down yet his succession is mired in uncertainty according to the constitution the president is supposed to take up the office of the Prime Minister until a replacement is chosen but instead of the mahdi is staying on as part of a caretaker government. The largest bloc in Parliament Led by shiite cleric mulcted out of sudden must now nominate every placement within 15 days. Its a murky and often lengthy process that requires consent from shia sunni and kurdish parties as well as regional and global power brokers 7. More than ever the choice would have to be accepted on the s
Its. Next, testimony from financial regulators on oversight and other issues including Digital Currency, banking liquidity rules and the impact Climate Change could have on the financial industry. Held by the Senate Banking committee this is an hour and 40 minutes. [inaudible background conversations] this meeting will come to order. Today will receive testimony from the honorable randall orosz, Federal Reserve vice chairman for supervision. The honorable eleanor mcwilliams chairman of the ftse and the honorable rodney hood chairman of the ncua. Welcome to all of you. This hearing provides committee an opportunity to examine the current state of and recent activities related to regulatory and supervisory activities of these agencies. Its been over a year now since the enactment of s 2155 Economic Growth regulatory relief and Consumer Protection act and the work of the agencies to implement most of the laws provision. Your agency should also carefully review the existing supervisory fra
New york, only on fox news sunday. Then. Is very encouraging but were not going to let it go to our heads. The answer has always been i dont do poles. Chris buttigieg up, worn down. We will ask our sunday panel about the top tier of 2020 Democratic Candidates getting reshuffled all right now on fox news sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. President trump returns towhitee trip to afghanistan and some golf in florida, and right away he faces tough choices. He must decide whether to send lawyers to and do my participate in impeachment hearings conducted by the house Judiciary Committee. Meanwhile, democrats and the Intel Committee will deliver their report, making the case to impeach a president for the third time in american history. In a moment, we will talk with two members of the Judiciary Committee, republican congressman doug collins and democrat Hakeem Jeffries. But first, lets get the latest from kevin corke live from the president s florida retreat at maral
Early afternoon. As we go to the noon hour well see low 80s for many of our micro climates and a few spots reaching the mid80s before it starts to come back down for the evening as gusty winds pick up. That will keep it cool for the weekend. Well talk more about that. Mike, theres a crash in san rafael. Everybody is keeping it cool as well northbound. Now lets show you northbound i cant show you because there are no lights. You see the headlights. Thats the southbound commute. A crash was cleared around central san rafael. Everything on the Speed Sensors looks great. Theres a little blip coming into sunnyvale. Well check on that. Right there 580 through the altamont pass. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Another hot button day is on tap in our nations capital. A live look now at capitol hill where President Trump is still denying accusations of impeachment acts calling all the reporting a hoax. Today, in just hours, acting director of National Intelligence will testify. House Speaker Nancy P