Good morning. Good morning. The hearing on the senate labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank thean senators and our witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices where we are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe us whoing and those of are here Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting 6 feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses for of about fivets minutes each, if they could please summarize them, there it ais. Senators will each have five minutes rounds of questions and we have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to finish this hearing by about noon and all the senators will have had that time and chance to ask theires questions. The question for administrators of the 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in august but how to do it safely. M
And lane college. They talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The hearing of the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about five minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to fi
Good morning im becky quick along with joe kernen and ars there are some red arrows. You have to look at what has been happening over the last week joe mentioned it is up 3. 5 this week alone watch what has happened. The crazy whip saw market picking up again walking you through the dow. Thank for peter for helping me out with this. The record high 25,551 on november 12. Falling to the low on march 23, 18,591 yesterday, june 3, the dow up 41 back to 26,269 the same story with the s p. Looking at that, you will see it hit a record high 3,386 on february 19. Fell on march 23 to 2,237. Yesterday back to 3,122. It just shows you how rapidly these things have happened and how much ground has been made if you are looking at the nasdaq. Only up 1. 4 from the record close from february 20 treasury yields have picked up the 10year yielding 0. 746 . Crude oil prices are down this morning. Concerns that that opec plus meeting. That there will not be any cuts extended a lot of that comes as you ar
This was hosted by georgetown university. Welcome everyone who is watching us tonight here on zoom as well as on youtube, facebook and twitter. On zoom, we have members of the Georgetown Community but also excited to have students and members of the community from a couple of nevada universities. Unlv and university of nevada at reno are also participating. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. So everyone is aware, the video is being recorded and will be posted for viewing later. I have always been very interested in the issue that were going to be focused on tonight, diversity in Public Service. As a person of color myself who spent most of my career working in the political trenches, looking around and seeing a lack of representation always struck me. On the political side, on the policy side. So tonight were thrilled to be joined by senator cortez masto to talk about some of these issues. Shes well versed in them. She spent her career fighting for issues and fighting for members of un
Committee heard from the president of urdu and lane college, they talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Hearing of the Senate Health Prevention Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about 5 minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We