[inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus head of libra at facebook. On may 9 senator brown and i sent a letter shortly after it was reported that company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using a social network. We asked space bar for more information how the system would work, access and use of Consumer Financial information and facebooks access to use of information on individuals or group of individuals for credit or insurance or housing i appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent facebook formally announced its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white paper providing information on the project. Since then us and Global Regulators have taken notice including the Federal Reserve, reserve, Uk Financial Conduct Authority and a stability board, g7 and others for the last week during the Federal
[gavel] this meeting will come to order. Will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus head of libra at facebook. On may 9 senator brown and i sent a letter shortly after it was reported that company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using a social network. We asked space bar for more information how the system would work, access and use of Consumer Financial information and facebooks access to use of information on individuals or group of individuals for credit or insurance or housing i appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent facebook formally announced its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white paper providing information on the project. Since then us and Global Regulators have taken notice including the Federal Reserve, reserve, Uk Financial Conduct Authority and a stability board, g7 and others for the last week during the Fede
Meteorologist michael schlacter. Good to see you. What is puerto rico looking at, what is the region looking at . Jose hit barbuda and lesser antilles. Neil what is left of barbuda at this point . Unfortunate desolate situation. Guadalupe and dominica got direct hits on its way to the British Virgin island and probably direct hit on puerto rico. Could be worst ever. The benchmark for the puerto rico is the 1928 lake oak hurricane that went through that as category five lake okeechobee hurricane. Neil continental United States, youre getting close to the neck of the woods, or what. Weve been warning entire century last 17 years, we saw it with irma and jose, a lot of strong hurricanes build ridges to the north, force themselves a little further west than computer models like to see. I wouldnt write this off out to sea just yet. People in turks and caicos, bahamas, east coast, need to watch this until it gets 7 or eight days. Neil southern florida, gulf region, so far . Nothing is off th
Dispair. In his american assumption, there was a version of the creed of exceptionalism that scholars came to regard as uniquely american, escaped from the rise and fall of history and universal opportunity for individuals, endless progress for the nation, and yet split historical second in the heat of radical reconstruction, they maintained that the american assumption was temporarily counterbalanced, alarmed by the return to congress in 1866 of unreconstructed southerners who might repudiate the civil war debt and almost certainly reduce the national tariff, they characterized northern industry has frightened and moving towards the stand which abolition democracy had already taken, namely temporary dictatorship, endowed negro education, legal civil rights, and eventually votes for negroes to offset the southern threat of economic attack. The american assumption was from radical reconstruction whether it was special order number 15 giving emancipated slaves possession their titles to
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