Drug that meant people werent dying of this. In the study, only two people died no placebo up against the remdesivir they were using these are early results but promising signs of hope. The dow futures indicated up by about 700 points if we continue like this, that would put the dow in positive t territory. S p indicated up about 75 points and the nasdaq indicated up by about 177. Lets look at the treasury market yesterday, those yields for the 10year were under a little pressure they had come back down even more we were talking about under 0. 7 looking now at the 10year treasury, you will see on this friday, last trading day of the week, the 10year is yielding 0. 64 . Looking at oil and the shut down of Oil Production and cuts of the number of barrels being produced a day around the globe, you did see prices come back down it is not enough to keep up with the dropping demand. Watching that too. This morning, wti is down to 18. 61 a barrel well be talking markets, potential medical bre
Also want to thank the witnesses for being accommodating knowing vote scheduled interfered with the original hearing schedule and accommodating us today. The topics covered in this hearing and i said this previously are not necessarily what is going to make cable news every night but incredible importance when we think of how best to serve the United States of america, our interests and Foreign Policy and the foundation for any real Successful Organization always starts with the right people and make sure they are equipped with the right resources and ability to do their job effectively. I said multiple times previously and want to reiterate we are proud of the men and women that serve us in our diplomatic corps overseas and in Development Work around the world and these are patriotic americans. I once again want to reiterate the work of how important it is for foreignpolicy and american strength. The last few months as subcommittees chairman i had the pleasure of meeting with many ind
Operations budget for the state department and the u. S. Agency for International Development. Committee members asked about the high number of personnel vacancies within the department and hiring from a diverse pool of candidates. This is about an hour and a half. The subcommittee will come to order. We meet today to discuss the state department and u. S. I. D. Fy 2020 operations budget. Without objection, all members may have five days to submit statements, questions, extraneous materials for the record, subject to the length limitations in the rules. Ill now make my opening statement, and then turn it over to the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Ive noticed that the republicans are a little bit faster getting over here after votes. I want to thank the Ranking Member mr. Zeldin members of the subcommittee and our witnesses for joining us for todays hearing for the fiscal year 2020 operations budget, also want to thank the witnesses for being accommodating knowing that our vo
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone and welcome. E. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. The subcommittee i chair the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation at the others a subcommittee on Economic Growth and Energy Policy and regulatoryh, affairs. Its chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. We will have Opening Statements from the chairng and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements so ill keep mine brief. Cybersecurity has beenor a major focus of power since i became the subcommittee chair and im concerned that we are not prepared for the increased sophisticated cyberattacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country cafe cyberattacks and were forced to pay a huge sum of money and ransom for the federal government itself sets of data tens of millions of dollars its decades older t
I am calling the 2018 Summer Winter meeting to order. On chair would like to call the Committee Man from texas to the. Could we all stand for the invitation please . Dear lord, we thank you for giving us another day to serve you. We thank you for the blessing that it is to live in the greatest and most prosperous , and lord,he world we thank you for the opportunity to work to preserve the foundations of freedom and liberty and we ask that you would help us to continue to be the leaders that you called us to be. Help us to serve faithfully, and help us to understand that like your servant esther in the bible, we have been called for such a time as this. He asked that you would bless and protect the leaders of this great nation, President Trump, the house and senate leadership, governors and state legislators all over this land, that you would give them wisdom and understanding, and that they may make decisions that improve the lives of all americans. Bless and protect our Party Leaders