A couple votes coming up including one for President Trumps nominee for the National Credit Union Administration board. You are watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. A senator madam president . The presidin officer senator from kentucky. Paul palm i ask that the folling be granted floor privileges, calem case, lucy, carlin gupta, and gab brie ella mastra. Thpresiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 58, the nays are 35. The notion nomination is confirmed. Under the prious order, the motion to reconsid be considered made and laid upon the table and the predent will be immediately notified of the senates action. A se
Have a small declines for both small cap and energy and some of those other cyclical sectors. Taking a bit of a break today. Maybe we earned a bit of calm after the storm. Thank you for the update. Affordable care act really got attention yesterday. First, in the challenge to it in the Supreme Court of the united and then from president elect biden who said hed improve, not replace, obamacare. President elect biden well ease headquarter on you and your family. I promise you that. As i said, ill protect your protect it like i like its my own family. Weve been unfortunately consumers weve been significant consumers of headquarter. That starts on building on the Affordable Care act. A dramatic expansion of headquarter coverage and steps to lower headquarter costs. David we welcome one of the arc Affordable Care act, jonathan gruber, professor technical nd assistant to the Obama Administration helping draft the legislation what became the Affordable Care act. Professor, thanks for being wi
Madrid could announce a state of emergency today. A golden reopening. Beijing is back to work efforts week long holiday. Chinese equities and the yuan outperform. Very good morning to you. 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. Happy friday. Its one week since we learned the president of the United States tested positive for covid19. D. C. Politics is messy. We will talk about that a little bit later. We are 25 days away from the u. S. Election. Some optimism that we have had a bit of shift on stimulus in the white house. Nancy pelosi, Steven Mnuchin, are talking again, but many skeptical we will see support. The hope of that is moving markets this morning. S p 500 futures to the upside this morning alongside euro futures as well. Chinese equities outperforming. We are up more than 2 this morning, 1 00 p. M. In beijing. China is back to work after golden week. Its back with some good optimistic measures when you look at the equities space. The bloomberg dollar index lower against all of g10
President trailing in key swing states. With 93 days to go, we will discuss whether the president s reelection efforts stands with jason miller. Plus, millions of americans on unemployment lose their 600 weekly supplemental with congress nowhere close to a deal. Speaker pelosi and the democratic leader have refused to negotiate. Ten weeks we have asked the leader to negotiate, but its too late. Chris we will ask our sunday panel about the deadlock over the Coronavirus Relief bi bill. All right now on Fox News Sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. President trump raised the possibility of delaying the november election this week, something he does not have the power to do, but it was a way to dramatize his continuing campaign against mass mail and voting. Meanwhile, joe biden continues to lead in most of the key battleground states and hes getting closer to picking his running mate, but Top Democrats say not to expect an announcement for another week to build up exc
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