Gov. Abbott first i want to thank everybody for being here. Everythingk the people around me have been working on so very much. The chief, who has been one of the leaders in responding to covid19. We have the general who has done document is job in helping texas respond to covid19 and to instill a sense of safety and security in our communities to allow peaceful protests to occur. I want to point out in particular the director who has been involved across the entire state over the past week, making sure that our communities are as safe as possible. Also, all of these people behind the cameras who have been manning this Emergency Operations center, for everything you have been working on in the course of responding to covid19. In typical texas fashion, we are dealing with multiple challenges at one particular time. What we are here to talk about today is the status of this Tropical Storm. You can see the map of it behind me. I will be making reference to that map as we talk about the pa
1. 2 million leisure and hospitality jobs were added in may. The number of workers reported being on temporary layoff decreased 52. 7 million in may. More than that, this was a great number that was pointed out jobs were created for black americans in particular. Sot was a 1. 7 increase, very encouraging numbers from. Mays jump in average weekly hours also was an encouraging sign because increasing hours is a sign that employees employers need to hire more workers to meet demand. For all private sector employees, average weekly hours hours,ed by. 5 to 34. 7 the highest level since it began in 2006. 73 of Small Businesses are open. That is up from the 52 right before the april jobs report reference period. Upo, workplace visits were roughly 40 from a pandemic low. The stock market is absolutely soaring. We saw with the s p, it had its greatest 50 day rally. The markets clearly have confidence in President Trump, the jobs president who created the hottest economy in modern history once.
He cant get that here, at least right now. They are planning to have the official business of the convention in charlotte. Whether the actual nominations might happen here, it is all up in the air. People are still talking. There are contracts involving the convention and visitors bureau. Even the charlotte hornets, who have the arena and have contracted that. There is still a lot of talking. Host what about the reaction within the Hospitality Industry banking on revenue for the region . Jim the Hospitality Industry is looking at this as a lifeline. No doubt they had a rocky last two or three months, lost business, restaurants boarded up or closed. With the news of the convention leaving, there was one business we had a story on this morning that is closing because that was like the last straw for them. It was a business downtown not far from the Spectrum Center where the convention would have been held. Businesses are looking at it as a lost opportunity. The Host Committee of the conv
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
[general chatter] good morning, everybody. We are making progress. We are somewhat closer together now. Hello, senator grassley. A little brief update. Update, and then we will take of the business of the committee where we left off. Next week, we will have a hearing about policing, Community Policing and the use of force. We will have two panels. It will be a long day. I hope it will be an informative day and i hope good will come out of it. Last time that we talked, we talked about witnesses regarding the inquiry into the Robert Mueller investigation. Ourenator feinstein, and friends on the other side, i promise that if you want to call Robert Mueller or his designee, that is fine with me, at the appropriate time. When the Michael Flynn cases over, when it happens i want the doj to tell us why they decided to drop it, and if you want to call mr. Gleason or judge gleason, or anybody else as to why it should not have been dismissed, we will do that. That would be a good topic for this