We couldnt have had it in a more to say a more formal setting because it may been better attended. Im not sure any hearing we have had would be any more important in the spirit her witnesses will be the director of the Congressional Budget Office and jeans are darl who is the comptroller general of the United States in the head of the u. S. Government Accountability Office. With that i will make my Opening Statement and turned to Maggie Hassan my Ranking Member and then i think Ranking Member wise and for the entire committee for statement you would like to make as well. Again thank you all for being here. Im grateful to all who are joining us via the internet. Today we will address the topic a with refer to shy away from addressing her nations run away debt and deficit could when it comes to our Health Care Choices arent so easy. We exercise we want to relax and eat healthily when we preferred a splurge. These promote health and fitness and is worthwhile for her overall wellbeing. Sim
Policy. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to recess the hearing at any time. Before we turn to the substance of todays hearing let me address a House Keeping matter. First let me remind members should during these proceedings with the exception of when theyre speaking take precautions in light of covid19 including by wearing a face cover such as a mask. Were also limiting staff attendance at the hearing. I would encourage and urge unless youre speaking to please be wearing your mask. Were also conducting this hearing in the Capital Visitors Center auditorium, which affords Additional Space for those present to remain fizz any distant from one another. Before i get into the other House Keeping matter let me just express my best wishes to the president and first lady for a speedy recovery from covid19. I know were all quite shocked and distressed this morning to learn of their illness. And we hope for a very speedy recovery. Theyll be very much i
Discusses the 2020 campaign. We take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its the washington journal. President trump is in arizona and joe biden is in ohio. Senator harris returns to the campaign trail in floor. Early voting begins in that state. Vice president pence is in pennsylvania. He will also go to maine. Devoted to youis telling us about your top issues heading into election day. What is it . Perhaps its the pandemic. Maybe there are other topics. This is how you can let us know. If you support joe biden. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. You can text us. You can post on our facebook. The Gallup Organization pulled republican men and women what their top issues were. Gauging that and response, when it comes to matters of the economy, 48 of republican men and 49 of republican women say the economy versus 38 of democratic men. When it comes to the coronavi
Swan number three, hurricane zeta. We will show you exactly where it is right now and how its crushing oil, natural gas and energy stocks. At its lows the Dow Jones Industrials had fallen 908 points. So when you combine that with the previous two days, thats a drop of more than 1700 points. The s p 500 and the nasdaq are also struggling hard right now. We have the s p down 94, the nasdaq down 332. Look, now we see octobers gains wiped out for those two indices and oil getting crushed in the aftermarket session, down 5. 25 . We are now at 37. 51 a barrel. This is not helping, either. Three tech giants, facebook, twitter, alphabet google, adding to the nasdaqs woes. Their shares hammered as their ceos faced congressional scrutiny from both sides of the aisle during a very contentious hearing on capitol hill. We are about to show you the key moments and then our tech panel, top guys in the industry, will translate what it might mean for the stocks. Will the renewed lockdowns invite a supp
Remind the viewers about the purpose of your organization. Also could you tell viewers how you are funded . Voluntaryough donations from the American People. We are a Nonprofit Educational Foundation that tries to bring more transparency, accountability, and the rule of law to our nations public life. Host one of the issues of transparency that your organization spends a lot of time with is looking into the Russian Investigation and the backdrop of it. What wasople again essentially your take on what was done in that investigation. Guest my take is the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton campaign were nervous about the legal issues surrounding Hillary Clintons emails and other misconduct of 2016bama administration in as it related to Hillary Clintons emails and the targeting of President Trump. They doubled down on it, manufactured false allegations against President Trump to excuse unprecedented spy operations and later criminal investigations into trump and his team. Host what s