Jury will come to order. Senator brown has been delayed a bit but im going to go ahead because as i think most people realize we had to readjust the time of the hearing to accommodate the fact that both have been called on the floor at 1030. That means senators will really need to stick to their five minutes and even then we may not get through for everyone and i apologize. I will stick around for 15 or 20 minutes into the first boat so we can go as long as we possibly can. I will wave my questions. I wont waive my introductory misstatement and i will start with that right now. Welcome, chairman powell today the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell update the command Monetary Policy development in the state of the us economy. Us economy continues to expand in 2019 exceeding 2 growth for the Third Straight year as the American People enjoyed to the longest continued economic expansion in american history. The labor market is strong with the labor force at an alltime high of 164 millio
We a. M. , the Senate Continues debate on the war powers the hearing will come to water. Senator brown has been delayed, but i will go ahead because most people realize we had to readjust the time of this hearing for those who have been called on the floor. That means the senators will need to really stick to their five minutes, and even then we may not get through for everybody and i apologize for that. Im sure that senator brown and i will stick around 15, 20 minutes into the first vote so we can go around as long as we possibly can. I will wave my questions. But i will start with my introductory statement. Welcome, chairman powell. Today the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell will update the committee on Monetary Policy development and the state of the u. S. Economy. The u. S. Economy continued to expand in 2019 come exceeding 2 growth for the Third Straight year. The American People have enjoyed the longest continued economic expansion in american history. The labor market is s
Worldwide now its 350000000 tonnes of caustic that are produced in just one year plastic is everywhere and most of it is single use packaging that has caught it right away and far too often ends up in the environment planets plastic thats what we want to look at us today here are made in germany how to get our addiction to plastic under control so we had to put it all the landfills a full was cycling capacity is lagging behind so why not send it abroad germany exports around a 1000000 tons of Plastic Waste every year but the main destination china is no longer willing to take in the rubbish so it goes to other countries that often end up dumping all burning it. Plastics plastic and more plastic and the stocks are only getting higher recycling companies in germany have been pushed to their net made in recent years. We didnt have enough Processing Capacity in germany the volumes involved and the production costs were just too high for huge quantities of Plastic Waste are shipped abroad a
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I will start with that right now. Welcome kevin foul today the Federal Reserve chairman will update the committee on Monetary Policy developments and the state of the u. S. Economy. It continues to expand in 200019 exceeding 2 growth for the Third Straight year. As the American People enjoy the longest economic expansion and history. The labor market is strong. Rd with the Unemployment Rate at 3. 6 remaining near half century low. Wages also grew in january by 3. 1 percent from a year earlier. Making it 18 consecutive months that pay has grown. According to gallup trends. Nearly six in ten americans are 59 now say they are better off financially than they were a year ago up from 50 last year. That reform in 2017 and rightsizing regulations including under the Economic Growth and regulatory release have undoubtedly helped fuel the Strong Economy and labor market. Americans are set to benefit even more when considering the effects of the u. S. Embassy a. T despite the substantial progres