We are ready to go now. Take it all for joining the first remote hearing of the subcommittee on select revenue measures. We find ourselves in challenging times as evidenced by this new method of conducting Community Business in accord with the Public Health and safety recommendations. But the challenges we encounter here in congress are small compared to what i hear and see and what i am sure all of you here and see in our communities. Im glad we can move forward into the work that our constituents need given the difficult economic situations in which so many find themselves. The covid19 recession has laid bear the economic struggles of millions of American Families with almost no warning the shutdown claimed tens of millions of jobs, and American Workers and families felt the ground ball from under them. Many had been just barely scraping by and unable to save much for a rainy day, and the sudden loss of income has left them nothing. Food banks are Unprecedented Demand in the country
Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b
Test test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 st. Petersburg is a hardship outpost. Its cold. There arent a lot of other women there. Most of the diplomat wives dont travel with their husbands when they get sent to st. Petersburg. They have a baby girl, louisa Kathryn Adams and the child dice after about a year and thatle really devastates her mother louisa. Its painful. And for john quincy. He is also very much torn apart by this. The war of 1812 here has broken out. John quincy is sent to negotiate a treaty and he leaves louisa with her youngest son charles in st. Petersburg and when peace is resolved and he is sure he will be returning home or sent to london, he asks her to join him. She makes this arduous journey from st. Petersburg in the winter to paris with her son and who is only about 7 at the time and a couple servants she basically just met that day and doesnt know if she can trust them. As shes crossing europe she encounters dangerous travel conditio
President getting support from some big names and might not be too late for a serious run and natural gas pipeline goes dry. Duke energy canceling atlantic pipeline, warren buffet is buying dominion. Mornings with maria is live right now. Dagen good morning, take a look at european markets right now. We have gains across the board. Pubs in the United Kingdom welcoming people back over the weekend, optimism there. In asia overnight, markets also having a strong rally, gains across the board. Chinastate run media saying the Company Needs bull market to build strength as Capital Markets ongoing reforms to attract money from home and abroad. You can see the rally in shanghai there up almost 6 . The fourth of july weekend marked by violence in major u. S. Cities, Cheryl Casone has the details along with other top stories we are watching this morning. Good morning, cheryl. Cheryl in chicago alone at least 77 people shot, 14 of them killed including a 7yearold girl, now the president is offer
Hold back, saying gleesons interpretations contradicts precedent and lacks a sound basis in the constitution. Sidney powell writing an even harsher critique of gleeson, accusing him of conducting a wrapup smear against flynn that demonstrates the difference between a d. Of prosecutions a department of prosecutions and a department of justice. Powell concluded in her argument that the only lawful action left for the court to take is to dismiss in its entirety the case against general flynn. And more breaking news from the department of justice, they are now recommending that lawmakers strip away all Legal Protections for big tech giants including twitter, facebook and google. Those protections fall under the section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency act, a law supported and defended by republicans and democrats a alike for decades. Under that law big tech the companies have found safe harbor from any lawsuits arising from usergenerated context or their decisions to censor what appe