Comptroller of the currency, the Senate Banking Committee Received a 6month update on the state of Banking Systems, the impact of covid19 and support for Small Business owners in communities of color. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Today we welcome to this virtually hearing the federal prudential regulators, Federal Reserve vice chairman Randal Quaries, office of the comptroller, brian brooks, chairman of yellen and mcwilliams, chairman of the National Credit administration rodney hood. We will receive testimony from each agency on efforts, activities, objectives and plans since we last testified before the committee. As well as an update on covid19 related actions. Since the passage of the coronavirus a relief and Economic Security act or cares act your agencies have taken many meaningful steps to ameliorate the Economic Impact of the pandemic as you provide conditions that will lead to a forceful recovery. On october 30th the Federal Reserve announced changes to its facility inclu
The nomination of the white house budget director. A vote on that is exacted at 5 30 p. M. Eastern today. This week Senate Lawmakers are expected to continue work on the Defense Authorization for 2021. This is live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O lord, as our lips are open in prayer, so may our hearts be open to receive your holy spirit. Help us to bow to your will and live lives devoted to your providential leading. Lord, we thank you for your providence that brought us the gift of representative john lewis. Were grateful he was a drum major for justice, truth, and righteousness. May his exemplary life and legacy remind us of the Transformative Impact one dedicated person can make on our nation and world. Today, please our senators in their work. Let faith, hope, and love abound in their lives. May they seek to heal the hurt in our world
Commemorating the end of slavery directed at the media. And in a place with a tragic you can see right there, those are the gray boards. History, this as the president under that is the bronze statue heads to west point today, of Winston Churchill. Gathering more than 1,000 cadets now, the rightwing groups out in the midst of the coronavirus here have all showed up to counterprotest and to march for crisis for a Graduation Ceremony what they say is to save this statue. Unlike any other. Peaceful or a threat . Protesters in seattle still in hes long been seen as britains control of several city blocks this morning, including a Police Greatest wartime leader, a National Hero, even immortalized precinct. Its sort of like a different on the big screen in the darkest way of thinking. With President Trump hour. Whatever the cost may be threatening to send in u. S. Troops, how will this standoff end . All that, plus happy we should fight on the beaches. Reporter but today a statue birthday, y
Good evening and welcome to politics nation. 2024. We are a couple of hours out from tonights Academy Awards in hollywood. We are awaiting the Biden Versus Trump action franchise to premier. With the president and his predecessor for the day to primary. I have my own awards to hand out. The best actor has to go to Congressional Republicans where they act like they care about the issues theyve been crying over. From the southern border to inflation. That is because they are taking cues from best director. Another easy choice in 2024. Who gave the best performances out of the worst actors. Even if it is not what the public wants to see. Just as the best award is for the producers, the best this year has been the president. They have actually produced something. A far better picture than what trump and the gop have to offer. That leads me to the last category, the best screenplay. Biden versus trump sequel will not be finished for another eight months. As the nation finishes the final dra
We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the romantic ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Item two is the approval of minutes for the november 14th, 2023, Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Any opposed . Motion passes unanimously the minutes of the november 14th, 2023, meeting are adopted. Item three is Public Comment on executive session on. We will now take Public Comment on executive session. Seeing none in the room. Do we have anyone on the phone . There are no callers for Public Comment. For callers on the line, please dial star three. If you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star three if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you. Public comment is cl