Historical society provided video of this event. Is the enoch girl scholars series. We thought we would start with our own. One of the nations finest scholars on the First Congress. That early time in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have him as part of our society team. He was 20 seven years working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation. Using primary sources, letters of the time, where people wrote to one another about science, food, culture. The back and forth that made early days in washington. Usinvite you to stay with for questions and answers. Will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. Questionscouple of during the presentation. The majority will calm at the conclusion. Andse put your questions in i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move away. Thank you very much. For the work you have done to put this together. Welcome to the platform. Welcome, everyone. I am very gl
Outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and a dire economic crisis. We have lost over 110,000 people to the disease, and 40 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the band that it was worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage the sba disaster resources available. Can you please mute . Anyone should be muted. Everyone should be muted. As the virus continues to spread, or state and local governments began imposing stayathome orders and business closures. We quickly realized Congress Needed to do more to meet the full scope of the problem, and that is when we started working on what ultimately became the cares act. To help Small Businesses and eligible nonprofits, congress created a new Paycheck Protection Program, expanded eligibility to the program and provided payment and interest relief for current sba borrowers. I
Accompanying regulations, members are required to leave the camera on the entire time they are in an official proceeding. Even if a step away from the camera. While roll call is unnecessary to establish a quorum and official proceedings conducted remotely, whenever there is an official proceeding with remote participation, the clerk will call the roll to make clear who is present at the start of the preceding. At this time i ask the clerk to call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] chairwoman, this concludes the roll call. Thank you very much. Pursuant to Committee Role 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself do for the purpose of making and opening statement. Today, as we know were examining how the covid19 pandemic is straining our Higher Education system and discussing what Cong
Dead flat to start the morning but you never know, of course, where it is going to end up and thats why you have to watch every minute. I promise. Take a look at this. The nasdaq in record territory, fueled of course by big tech and for those of you who wonder why we talk about these stocks so much, here is why. They are all going to open at record highs, starting with amazon. Today will make six days in a row that it has hit an alltime high. Apple at 384 bucks, that stock up 40 in a month. Microsoft, 215. That stock is up 25 in a month. Facebook also continues to surge, despite an ad boycott and negative pushback from civil rights groups. Netflix, clear lockdown winner and its been said on this program that we are indeed entering the golden age of streaming. We will talk about all of these stocks and more, tech winners throughout the program. They are remarkable. Its going to be a big day at the Supreme Court. It is the last day of the term and a decision on whether to release the pre
Good morning andnd welcome to te subcommittee as of right and liberties briefing on the First Amendment under attack detailing government bans against civil rights protesters and journalists covering them. Your written testimony will be submitted as a major contribution to public understanding and discourse moment in time. We thank you want to thank a representative Jackie Speier who are not in the subcommittee but have joined us today. The eightminute and 462nd video of his dangling and murder by the officer Derek Chauvin demanded a pair of the broken central contract in america per this Mask Movement touched every state barred city small towns and suburbs is up more than twothirds of American People in Public Opinion polls galvanize the nation promotingat analysis and. Police brutality has been an essential Racial Injustice for centuries which is why many of us are proud we have a bipartisan basis that George Floyd Police at the most comprehensive Police Reform dilma history of the U