Pollsess pulls poorly poorly and this trend is bipartisan. Democrats and republicans, most assignment a failing grade. Over the past decade, congress has not once approved in Approval Rating over 30 . Congresss 990s, Approval Ratings were in the 40s and the 50s. Today, they are in the teens and 20s. Once thought to be the great repository of americas republican principles, it is now a broken branch. Why has Congress Come to this point . Martha causes . Has anything changed since trumps election and the democratic takeover of the house . Can this state of affairs be changed . To answer this question, we have assembled a distinguished panel of experts on congress with a variety of perspectives and i will introduce them quickly in alphabetical order. I will introduce them all so we can launch into their remarks. Our first speaker is catherine pearson, associate professor of Political Science at the university of minnesota. She worked for several years as an assistant to several members of
Hudson. I am the director of the center for political military knowledge. Today we are honored to talk about an important report, important subject, congressional efforts to oversee the Nuclear Security effort, more specifically a report copies of which are outside by the partnership for secure america and the Arms Control Association on empowering blueprints for a new generation. I want to welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier if people can silence any cell phones you might have, that would be very helpful. The work we have been doing with the association, we collaborated with two organizations the last year and doing three events on the hill congressional briefings on Nuclear Threats and tools of the trade, encountering the threat and the global Nuclear Security architecture. The report and presentations we gave in congress, the Macarthur Foundation. The agenda for today, we have 3 presentations that will discuss the importance of congressional Nuclear
In europe and japan, Government Bonds pay no interest at all. In fact, when you buy a Government Bond there, you dont even get all your money back. Never in Human History has the lender paid the borrower. Rates are tumbling. This amounts to a worldwide race to the bottom in Interest Rates. Where it leads, i dont know. But its now very likely that our Federal Reserve will drop rates aggressively from here on out, simply to keep pace with everyone else. If they dont, the u. S. Dollar will keep going up, keep disrupting our trade and our economy. I thought that with all this free money flooding into the world, that a lot of it would go into the stock market, our stock market. That is not the case, at least not right now. The dow will open with a big drop, over 250 points to the downside and there will be losses on the s p and nasdaq as well. Other markets are convulsed by it all. Look at gold. Theres a rush to the safety, what they think of as the safety of gold. Its back above 1500 an ou
But the decision was made not to charge the president with a crime, in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold that isting president accountable outside the criminal justice system. Those are the issues the committee will look into. The big issue on everyone mine will be impeachment and whether the House Judiciary Committee will move through that after the hearing. That remains to be seen. But that will be top of mind. Host take us through the format of the hearing. Guest 2 it will be a regular order hearing, but it will be three hours. The hearing was supposed to be last weekend and be shorter than that, two hours. The committee was able to negotiate with special Counsel Robert Mueller for more times more time, which would allow all Committee Members to have questions. If it were two hours, the bottom runs of the committee would not be able to question Robert Mueller and public, whi
Platform. Some republicans on the Committee Also skeptical of facebook plans. The chairman of the committee saying he applauds facebook for trying to utilize their platform to serve underserved communities in the Digital Currency platform. The bottom line comes following a host of different hearings scheduled for this week. David marcus will testify before the House Financial Services committee tomorrow. Lets not forget Steven Mnuchin yesterday at the white house raising concerns the administration has with regards to the Digital Currency field. David before that we had chair powell from the fed raising concerns last week. ,f you were mr. Marcus listening to everything you are hearing from the senate, would you walk away having a better sense of what congress once from him . Kevin that is a great question. The short answer would be no. In talking with the Internet Community and the lobbying groups in washington, d. C. , as sympathizerschain who believe this is the future, they make tha