President trump saying youre welcome for the market milestone, this as joe biden lays out his cabinet picks and the plan for his first 100 days. We have insight all morning long. We hear from Chris Bedford from the federalist, tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn, michigan congresswoman, Debbie Dingell and laura trump. Stimulus showdown, millions of americans are waiting for another plan the to finally get pushed through congress, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin meantime will move unspent stimulus money out of the Federal Reserve, if you will. This is rescue money. And it needs to be reallocated by congress. So thats on nancy pelosi. Tax threats, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo promising a new income tax for the state if the government does not give out more coronavirus related aid. Okay. Keeping an eye on the Holiday Shopping season, weve got the best deals you can expect ahead of black friday and cyber monday. And mystery in the desert, an other worldly discovery in utah have people a
A couple votes coming up including one for President Trumps nominee for the National Credit Union Administration board. You are watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. A senator madam president . The presidin officer senator from kentucky. Paul palm i ask that the folling be granted floor privileges, calem case, lucy, carlin gupta, and gab brie ella mastra. Thpresiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 58, the nays are 35. The notion nomination is confirmed. Under the prious order, the motion to reconsid be considered made and laid upon the table and the predent will be immediately notified of the senates action. A se
Thank you, mr. President. I come to the floor today to pay tribute to this great wyoming leader. For nearly a quarter of a century, mike enzi has represented the people of wyoming in washington, and hes done it with intelligence, with intensity e and with integrity. The cowboy state and the capitol are going to sorely miss mike if enzi. Hes truly cemented his legacy as the trusted trail boss of the wyoming congressional delegation, and its been an incredible honor and a great privilege for my wife bobbi and me to serve the people of wyoming alongside mike and husband wife diana who is with us today. I mike is truly a devoted family man as well as a man of great and deep faith. In fact, mike taught sunday school over the decades, many in the Faith Community know that mikes first sunday schoolteacher was my wife bobbis mother, jerry brown. Jerry and husband wife both passed away this year, and they had been married 70 years. He taught sunday school in wyoming, and her star pupil was mike
Good monday morning welcome to squawk squawk im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla and julia. Were in the final stretch of 2020 were focused on two big ipos, airbnb and doordash. Airbnb is bouncing back strong doordash saw demands surge both of those companies seeing encouraging demand for shares and to define the future of the gig and sharing economies. Leslie picker has the latest on the ipo process. Its important to underscore the rarety of this level of issuance in a single week. Excluding spacs, were expecting to see more than 7 billion worth of ipos this week. Since the start of 2014, only three other weeks have surpassed that kind of volume. Most recently, in mid september there was, if you remember, there was a big week of software debuts unity, jay frog went public. The only week thats saw greater issuance was in may of 2019 when uber went public and then september 2014 when alibaba went public what is different this time, though, is that the billions of dollars in new stock is c
We are concerned with anything that could derail the process. As it stands now, i cannot see that happening, but hopefully it does not happen. Have you had any contact with embers of the biden transition . No, no contact. That help ensure a seamless transition from one administration to another . As i said, we are here to serve. If people want to contact us, of course we will be available. Know, i amd, as you not a federal employee. But i understand the rules are such that confidential information needs to be capped with the with kept federal employees. I will make sure i look at that. Otherwise, of course, i will be happy to be contacted, and asked lane what we are doing, as i am doing now to all of the public. Are we about to tip in to the most intense part we have experienced of this pandemic to date . Yes. On the one hand, that is true. When you say exponential, you mean the curve is very, very steep. If you look at the curve of what we had in spring, when it was dominated by the i