Of slaves. If you support such acts, 2027488000. If you do not support it and say no, 2027488001. If you are not sure, 2027488002. You can also post on our social media sites. On twitter it is cspanwj and you can post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. The New York Times highlights a little bit of the legislative efforts being made, which was a topic of this hearing saying the tol titled the Commission Study and develop reparations proposals for african act now sponsored by Sheila Jackson lee, democrat of texas. It would authorize 12 million for a 13 Member Commission to study the effects of slavery and make rep recommendations to congress. It would cost 12 million for the commission. The commission would hold hearings across the country and recommend ample remedies to congress after it is formed and the money supplied for it. When it comes to members of the commission, it would have three members appointed by the president , three by the house, one by the senate, and 6 membe
The committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you, and we want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of you. So patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes, why, well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before our Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to onehalf of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much
I came away with a couple different impressions. First of all Artificial Intelligence was everything. Every panel, every roundtable, every discussion centered around Artificial Intelligence. People like to raise Artificial Intelligence really when its not even speak as we believe this but you can finishwatchingd take you live to discussion of the Banking System and Financial Services sector with Bank Executives and former regulators. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. 1300 bankers state Association Leaders independence day. Even more watching on our liveke out of your busy schedules to add your voice, your advocacy efforts. I also want to walk members of the media who are joining us, and i would like to extend a special thanks to the members of congress, regulars and other es our program over the next few days. This event is all about advocacy. Its about dimmest setting to the policy community that bankers are committed to working constructively toward a policy environment that
Season. Jesse fox news alert, the full transcript of bidens former business partner, devon amper has just been released and it confirms everything that joe biden and the media have been lying to you about. Archer testified not only did joe biden know about his sons foreign business but Vice President Joe Biden Sat at elegant dinners that lasted hours with his sons former clients and he knew exactly who they were. According to archer joe would enter the room and shake everybodys hand. They werent going to him, joe biden was coming to them. One of these dinners, archer says, was a Birthday Dinner at cafe milan know in georgetown in spring of 2014, neither jo hunter or so why was the Vice President attending one of his sons Birthday Dinners a cording to archer, the guest list for the Birthday Dinner included russian billionaires, a burisma executive and a kazakhstan businessman, one was a billionaire. And here is a picture of joe biden from the Birthday Dinner. The guy on the right of the
This hearing is one hour 40 minutes. Sen. Brown finding more and more ways to raise those costs, to boost their own profits. Weve talked about how every time americans go to a Grocery Store, they pay for corporate stock buybacks and executive bonuses. Last week we looked at how Companies Use the latest technologies to jack up prices for consumers. This week we look at junk fees. Often lastminute charges that drive up the cost of products, have no justification or connection to anything other than their quests for profits. Think about that hotel room you booked that has a bunch of mysterious charges at the end. Or that time you paid your credit card bill over the phone so you wouldnt be late but were charged a convenience fee. The only thing that fee is convenient for is the banks bottom line. Or lets say youre looking for an apartment, you find one with affordable rent but when you look at the lease, you realize between the maintenance fee and the trash fee and the mysterious convenien