Rawlings, the military career leader who guided ghanas transition to democracy, has died. With all the sports news, the 2020 masters has teed off defending champion tiger woods, going in search of green jacket number 6, while the u. S. Has recorded its worst single day death toll from the corona virus since may. And as you were saying, Health Experts are warning the pandemic is getting worse. Nearly 2000 more americans died on wednesday, taking the total number of fatalities. Now 2241800, it was also the 9th straight day when the number of new cases topped 100000, texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000 cases. Well, europe is also struggling to contain a rapidly spreading 2nd wave as the World Health Organization wants countries not to lift restrictions too fast. While the u. K. s reported more than 33000. 00 new cases on thursday, frances Prime Minister now says every 30 seconds, another person is being admitted to hospital for the virus. Throughout the last week,
We saw a push higher in the session when the governor of the bank of england toned down the speeches we have seen as of late when it comes to negative rates. We will see whether ultimately he has to deliver on negative rates. Apparently the mood music has improved on that for today. Politics when it comes to the btp markets, today we have seen a significant pushback for the Prime Minister against mr. Salvini in local elections. The market has taken that positively. Alix just to pipit off what i said earlier. The eu Leaders Summit is postponed as the eu councile president was quarantined. You had a Security Guard test positive. That Leaders Summit will be postponed. Movement in the market, the dollar jumping higher. Charlie evans says the fed could raise rates before inflation gets to its 2 target. Interesting to see we get that reaction before we get fed chair powell. You are all seeing Maxine Waters speak right there. Lets break down what to expect. Emily wilkins joins us now. Will th
First, i would ask all members on the webex platform to keep themselves muted when theyre not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of our witnesses. Members on the webex platform are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. The staff have been instructed not to mute members except where a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members on the platform are reminded they may only attend one remote hearing at a time. So if you are participating today please remain with us during the hearing. Members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting particularly during the question period. If during the hearing members wish to be recognized the chair recommends that members identify themselves by name so as to facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask that members be patient as the chair proceeds given the nature of the Online Platform the committee is using. In addition the chair informs
How have you been. We call ourselves partners in crime. That we are not going to talk about the crime part of it, just to the partner part. What has been interesting since ive been in the position of library of congress is the fact that people ask me what does the National Archives do. What does the archivist do a and then theres a confusion around the history and the role of each of the institutions, and ive learned a lot about that even in coming up to reclaim the declaration of independence, the bill of rights. We call it the constitution. And that was held by the library of congress and the type of thing. It wasnt until the 1930s the United States got serious about its records. Iwas Franklin Roosevelt was passionate about records and that we actually created and he signed the legislation that created the archives. The charters had been in the custody of the state department independent of library of congress when the archives building was built, a beautiful tabernacle was created f
Budget process, deficits, debt, Health Care Costs, and oversight of coronavirus funding. Ill go ahead and call to order this budget meeting. Good afternoon and welcome. I want to take a few brief opening remarks and then ill turn it over. Then ill turn it over to Ranking Member sanders. We are here today to consider, to serve as the nest director of budget. To serve as the director since there were 20. Teen President Trump nominated him in march as the nations facing a unprecedented crisis, both health and economic from the covid crisis. The office of management and budget paint played a key part, in addition to building the president s annual budget we also to do financial, management grants management, information technology, program assessment, and Property Management just to name a few. Given the vast responsibility over the organization its important to have a senate director in place. Before we hear from the Deputy Director of want to discuss our response to the coronavirus pande