Do not meet in groups. Work away from your normal working place to protect yourself and your family and everyone else. But we are back in town. Majority leader tells us that we dont take days off. He says we are here to do the nations business which can only be done only possible, when we are here. It talked about taking careful steps back. I have been waiting for the present majority red leader a mr will announce what the business will be this week. What are these things we should be doing. And from the endless telephone conferences that are evolving. In the comments by my friends and neighbors in illinois. There are many Unanswered Questions which they would like us to address. We have been waiting carefully and expectedly for the majority leader to announce what we are doing this week. Not just because members of the senate are being asked to come back, that is what we ran to do. You promised the people in our states that we would be there to do the business of the senate and the na
Sockof course is momentum that of course is the momentum behind this rally. Rally seems to be fading, and another interesting piece, we have the Canadian Dollar soaring against the u. S. Dollar with the oil rally. You were mentioning that everything is rallying, and that is true too for bonds. The two year yield carving out a record low and that tells you that bonds are rallying in a big way. While stocks are rallying you have investors going towards the bonds, suggesting they have their eye on the economic picture. The jobs data and nonforeign payrolls coming out tomorrow which will be devastating, not just from an economic standpoint, that from a human standpoint. The question is will we see more of a connection between stocks and the Economic Data or not . Or will we have investors look past the data towards the liquidity that the fed has been providing . Certainly a risk on day. David that is what they have been doing so far. Few mckee got to talk a minutes ago with mary daly, the
Central part of the country. 202 7488001 for the Mountain Time zone. Send us a text, tell us where you are texting from and your name at 202 7488003. We also welcome your comments on twitter and on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. In many parts of the country, decent weather over the weekend, drawing people out, combined with looser restrictions in some states. An Associated Press story and the Washington Times, wellbehaved crowds coming to beaches and parks. Everyoneweather to seemed to cooperate at an oceanfront park on saturday as new jersey reopened its state parks, people itching to get sand between their toes after months of being cooped up. Island beach state park was among the parks to reopen, drawing several hundred to a beach that routinely handles thousands during the summer. Hours, almost all of the crowd stated six feet apart. They also right that the new jersey governor said he was pleased with the initial reports, not only from the beachfront park, but other state resorts
He serves as president of the National Medical association. Good morning to you. Remind folks what the National Medical association is and who your members are. Guest the National Medical association is the group that represents the 50,000 African American physicians in the country. We are the oldest incorporated since 1895. This is our 125th year. Our role is to ensure there is proper health, equity, and inclusion for African American physicians who were denied access to residency programs and being on staff at hospitals for many years. And also to ensure the African American community is well represented so the health has proper care and you are not excluded. Host some of the data makes it clear there is a disproportionate impact of covid19 diagnoses and deaths in the African American community. What is the latest data saying now about how wide that gap is . Guest it is variable from new york, chicago, milwaukee, new orleans, los angeles. In general, i like to look at it on a Nationa
Has disinfected they can use. We have spaced out the room to be as safe as possible for my staff and minority staff , thank you for working together to set up the room. It has been 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet the committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we also have things that are necessary like filling judicial vacancies we are getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states that we will be as part to that as we can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings state and federal and Detention Centers and for immigration purposes we will try to Work Together to have those hearings i am curious myself about our nations prisons and immigration Detention Centers so we are working as quickly as we can hopefully we will have a hearing about liability issues related to the virus and what we can do as the congress to safely open the country to minimize lega