The committee will please come to order. First, straightive matters based on the sergean u attending physician after we consulted the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Relayingni observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on www. Senate. Gov. Witnesses are participating individual i dont conference in a onetime exception. Some senators, including the chairman, are participating by video conference. Senators, weve been advised, may remove their masks, talk into the microphone in the hearing room six feet apart. Grateful to the rules committee, sergeant of the arms, capital police, Committee Staff all for their hard work to keep us safe. We are hearing last thursday, all roads back to work about back to school run through testing. And what our country has done s
Essential work places. Im sorry, senator, you broke up at the beginning of your question. If you could just say it again. Im sorry. Yes, dr. Redfield, do you think that the testing protocols currently in place in the white house present a model for other essential work places. Well, thank you for the question. I think one of the important things you bring up is the essential worker guidance the cdc put out and i think it was originally modeled on Health Care Workers where there was significant shortages. Im asking if you think the white house protocol testing are a model for other essential work places. I would say i think each work place has to define their own approach how to operationalize. Had some considerable comment on the fact osha has not stood up an enforceable mandatory temporary standard for workers in all sorts of work settings. That aside, would you say that the ppe rules and protocols in effect right now in the white house are a model for other essential work places . We
I am Frank Mallicoat and rosemary is here to tell us about all the rain coming not been ending february on a dry note as feared but we will cool it down and breezy conditions do pick up but then we will not see any rain. We may see accumulation of snow in the sierra, more on that coming up but lets look at headlines. Patchy fog this morning, cool and breezy, a notable drop in temperatures this afternoon 10 or 15 from yesterday and the breeze is expected to continue in as we mentioned a moment ago cast for us and we look dry and the extended, i will have a look at what you can except for the weekend and beyond coming up. There are now four coronavirus cases of unknown origin here in the United States. One is in oregon at an Elementary School for an employee and another high school stuaces year and the first is an solano 65yearold woman in santa clara county. Reporter good morning we know a lot of people have concerns about coronavirus but San Francisco mayor london breed says do not avo
Fed chair jay powell has to strike a fine balance at jackson hole. Fears of recession swirl, but regional fed president s question the need for more cuts. As i look at where the economy is, it is not yet time. Im not yet ready to provide more accommodation to the economy, without seeing an outlook that suggests the economy is getting weaker. Matt a working weekend at the g7. French president Emmanuel Macron tells Boris Johnson a new brexit deal in 30 days is unlikely to happen, and italy has a few more days to cobble together an unlikely coalition. Plus, the perfect storm. Germanys Buddhist Bank bundesbank say it is not time for stimulus even as sentiments hours on the manufacturing sector. Welcome to bloomberg markets, the European Market open. Were looking at futures pointing to gains. The u. S. 10year yield continues to climb. 1. 64 , 1. 65 the next stop, and in terms of European Equity index futures, we see green across the board, on s p futures as well. Upe a look, dax futures. 75
House budget committee, discusses federal spending and efforts to avoid another government shutdown. And at 9 30, emily martin of the National Womens law discusses efforts to close the gender pay gap. Host political reporting that House Speaker nancy pelosi will meet with Steven Mnuchin to discuss finding ways to avoid budget cuts and raise the debt limit as congress possibly faces another federal shutdown later this year if these issues are not resolved. This is the washington journal for july 10. Part of his political many credit him for the rise of and airdparty system recent poll showed many respondents say the current twoparty system is broken. That is what we want to get your sense of in our first hour of the washington journal. When it comes to the twoparty system, do you think it is broken . Call us and tell us why. If you consider yourself a political independent, 2027488000 is the number to call and everyone else can call at 2027488001. You can post your thoughts on twitter a