[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen
All because of an announcement that it will cut 400 jobs from its marketing unit, one third of the Marketing Department globally. This happened according to an email from the ceo earlier today. Is also falling close to about 4 . The coo is leaving. Said theyders of lyft would not ira replacement ends not higher a replacement and instead delegate the responsibilities. Largely expected the fed will cut rates. Theres a 20 chance they could cut by 50. Lets look at a pretty interesting chart that goes back five years. In blue, the fed funds future yield. In white, the s p 500. Correlatedtwo were until this year with the feds pivot. We also see the fed funds future yield also possibly bottoming out which suggests jay powell has a delicate task ahead to keep both bond and stockholders happy. You see the big divergence there, that if yields were to should backup, it may take a bite out of the rally. Romaine beyond meet, one of the most popular companies, reporting earnings. It looks like it di
Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
Two Human Resource executives and author of three books on workplace topics testify and answer questions from committee members. The hearing is about 90 minutes. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. In is cultivating diversity, improving retention with Congressional Staff. I recognize myself for five minutes for opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. My apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats the backbone of this institution, the Congressional Staff that work here. I think i speak for all of us and those yet to come when i say we couldnt do our jobs without teams of people that work for us. Anytime i get a compliment where someone says nice job on this or that, my response is always i have a good team and i feel lucky for that. Theyre dedicated Public Servants that a
Have been shot and killed in a u. S. Marshals task force serving a warrant in east charlotte, North Carolina. Just getting these breaking details. News conference ongoing. Correspondent Jonathan Serrie has been following the latest tonight from atlanta, our southeast newsroom. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening, bret. Charlotte Mecklenburg Police say the scene is now safe for residents. They no longer need to shelter in place. But the shooting is exacted a heavy toll. Police in that ongoing News Conference confirming just moments aid officers were shot in this incident and that three Law Enforcement officers were killed. Of the surviving officers one of them is listed in critical condition. Of a u. S. Marshals service. But also members of Law Enforcement agencies. They were attempting to serve a warrant for a firearms violation. Some sort of weapons charge on a resident, when this suspect, allegedly opened fire on them. Police say the officers returned fire. Killing the suspect found