The sunday before, we had the. Omens drop in announcer confined this coverage online at cspan. Org. We will take you live to an indepth preview of the second day of the Republican National convention. This could affect many more in the next few months. That is Affordable Housing. Americans go to the polls and many will feel the economic fallout of the covid crisis. Mass evictions are looming and americans are devoting more of their dwindling salaries to monthly housing costs. As these problems persist Affordable Housing is a growing concern, one that could be a factor in the elections. We are going to take a look at the policy measures that can be put into place to ensure all americans, especially those who are vulnerable, have access to affordable homes. I would like to thank the Enterprise Community partners for their support of the event. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Two mayors from very different advocates and housing experts. Thehillevents us hillhousing2020. As with an
While waiting for a Campaign Event with jill biden, the wife of joe biden to get started. This is live coverage on cspan2. Joining us is arturo vargas, president of the ceo of the nationalassociation of latino electedand appointed officials educational fund. Thanks for giving us your time thismorning. How are you. Remind our viewers about your organization. Its purpose, what it does. Our Organization Established in 1976 by the late edward r bruegel, he was the pioneer in american politics and latino politics as well. The cdc campus is named after him because of his leadership in helping assure that we pass Effective Health policy. Our mission is to promote the full participation of latinos in tiamerican democracy so we are a Membership Organization but also a Nonprofit Organization that works every day to strengthen american democracy and making sure that latinos fully participate. On the topic of participation and i suspect one of the topics youre keeping a close eye on is his decisio
National association of latino officials, Arturo Vargas discusses issues important to latino voters. Then later tim phillips discusses his groups role in campaign 2020. This is the washington journal for july 24. The house is expected to come in at 9 00. New York Democratic congresswoman because youre cortez and other democratic colleagues took to the floor of the house yesterday to discuss the issues of sexism and harassing comments. The congresswoman calling it a cultural issue. In light of that, in our first hour, we want to hear your calls about what you think on sexism particular lay in politics. You can let us know on the phone lines. For women it is 202 7488000. For men it is 202 7488001. If you want to text us, do so at 202 7488003. You can also post on our Facebook Page. What occurred on the house floor yesterday, the Washington Times writes this saying it was the representative responding on the house floor on thursday to representative ted yohos comments about her arguing th
Expiring ones. The dollar index in weakness, 1200 right now and continues to slide down over the past four weeks. The dollar moving average 200 day the lowest average in recent weeks. Citi says looking at a 30 possibility that gold will get to 2000 an ounce in three to five months. Stocks rebounded yesterday after slumping 5 . China up 1. 3 , turnover has receded from its highest levels since 2015. The hang seng up 1. 6 , biggest increase since july 6. Tencent adding 5 . Alibaba is the one to watch, surging 5 . Ant financial look at where we are in terms of the Southeast Asian markets. China up by 0. 5 . Sti up 0. 7 . Theaad we also have European Union leaders running a policy marathon as there planned two day meeting to pass a massive Recovery Fund. In the u. S. , republicans and democrats are starting to hammer out a budget plan this week. Our policy editor Kathleen Hays is with us. In both cases, agreeing on a we are getting some murmurs of an agreement. We certainly are, and we kno
Good afternoon as chairman of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on manufacture, trade and Consumer Protection i welcome you all here today to a hearing entitled, protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health present and president Public Health crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In light of the serious threat this post to america, in the shoe shuddering of mainstream businesses, the response of Public Health protocols, have been felt in every corner of the country. It has been clear the preventive practices, policies, and resources, including expanded testing case testing capabilities and the ability to have protective equipment or absolute assess these to reopening the economy extinguishing this health crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency recorded and recovery, there are frustration scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially of the nations most vulnerable communities like that of o