Two Human Resource executives and author of three books on workplace topics testify and answer questions from committee members. The hearing is about 90 minutes. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. In is cultivating diversity, improving retention with Congressional Staff. I recognize myself for five minutes for opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be 90 degrees in here. My apologies to each of you. Well be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today were going to talk about whats the backbone of this institution, the Congressional Staff that work here. I think i speak for all of us and those yet to come when i say we couldnt do our jobs without teams of people that work for us. Anytime i get a compliment where someone says nice job on this or that, my response is always i have a good team and i feel lucky for that. Theyre dedicated Public Servants that a
Here the dow fell 300 points on word of the attack, but we are modulating slightly. Treasury yields and crude as well oil prices in just a moment. Tenyear note at 4. 58 the expected run to safety. The question is is this performative to show we are retaliating. The reaction in the commodities market the initial reaction was steep and then we pared the gains. Crude is 82. 57 the story is in brent which surged above 90 a barrel. Were back below the level right now. As for gold, 2 2,395 that is unchanged. Bitcoin had the same reaction as we saw over the weekend with the initial strikes from iran. We had bitcoin now higher at 2. 4 64,882 as we await the halving which is expected over the weekend. Lets get a live report from raf sanchez in tel aviv. Raf, good morning. Reporter melissa, andrew, good morning for a week, the world has been waiting to see how israel would respond to the barrage of the iranian drones and missiles. We have an answer this morning and it doesnt appear at this momen
Amazon prime day a look at the Ripple Effect amazon is having on consumer goods companies. By the way, the shares of the company slightly lower in the session, and battle of the home echo wars. Goggle and amazon are slashing prices on their devices. 50 or more in some cases. And its its the final countdown. Were gearing up for big reveal of americas top state for business we are anxiously awaiting the result, and we will bring it to you later on closing bell. You probably saw scott cohn reveal that georgia was number two a little while ago reporter but we knew he wasnt in georgia. We knew he wasnt in georgia. We just dont know where he is right now, but well find out here on closing bell today lets begin on capitol hill where our ylan mui has the hills reaction to the emails released by donald jr. In relation to a meeting with a russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging evidence against democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton. Reporter Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnel
Internally, to execute on that. President omotalde thank you. Commissioner wald commissioner wald thank you both for coming in. Its good to see both of you again. So, this is sort of a follow to commissioner hoyos question. If you achieve your goals, this can be a ripple effect. Youre going to have vast numbers of new writers and those people are going to the park, if thats the technical term, in San Francisco and a lot of them are going to get on other kinds of public transportation. Whether its bike were buses or whatever. So, i would welcome, at least assurance, or it is not a big discussion, that you are not only talking to the departments about its expertise, but that you are at least trying to get sort of a candle on all the parts of the city family in San Francisco that will be impacted by the achievement of your goals. Particularly, in terms of ridership. Both in terms of increasing the number of people who ride and how they get to your vehicles. Its not just in San Francisco.
Thank you chair, and all. My name is christopher and live commenting on more bad news. Within the last two weeks climate scientists have presented more alarming reports. These are on our southern Antarctic Ice cap and the reports describe once again how the warming climate and oceans are accelerating the ever Faster Movement of ice mass the size of california, averaging over a kilometer in thickness. Into the worlds oceans resulting in multimeter sealevel rise by the end of the century. Once again scientists are lowballing the numbers and once again their predictions will lag reality. My prediction is still 50 by 55, that is 2055. My prediction is that by that time Climate Change will disrupt food production, that Climate Change will bring famine, that Climate Change will provoke war among the nations over vanishing resources. My solution is still using freely Available Energy to desalinate freshwater to irrigate new trees. What can you do to help . And i would move the absence of a qu