Bloomberg sheells will not take the path of least resistance. Dampenssystem fault hopes of japan replacing china as asias trading leader. U. S. Futures opening the session pretty flat. We sought u. S. Stocks gaining ground in the regular session, but this after a volatile session. Their hopes for another round of stimulus measures. We have a house voting on the democratic relief package they are tonight. Watch out for that. The s p 500 gaining ground. Most sectors closed higher. The nasdaq gaining more than 1 . We had a mixed sure when it came to the jobless claims. Are on the u. S. Jobs report tomorrow which is the last one before the president ial election. We have the dollar losing ground as we saw demand fading. Look at the bti. Wti. We saw pressure as it will to over a twoweek low. An unexpected return of libyan output that putting pressure on prices. Here is sophie in hong kong. After the volatile session on wall street, we might see a muted day here in asia with india joining th
George floyd and of police brutality. This has built so many of us into the street to stand with our neighbors and communities of color. Entertainingly and systematically abused by the criminal justice system. The committee in the house as a whole, is committed to swiftly enacting profound reforms. To punish police misconduct. Holding Police Department accountable to oversight. In eliminating the financing of police militarization. We hope have more to say in the coming days. And as my friend set us we, my protest is my statement. Even as we prepare our legislative solution. The topic of todays is essential workers pretty since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the United States, we are all acutely aware of the threats posed to ours health and safety. But we do not all face of the risk of the crisis equally. Grocery store workers, Food Processing employee, Public Transportation operators. Nurses and doctors and hospital support staff, nursing home employees, First Responders,
This is live coverage of the hearing on cspan3. The country is returning to work here. Many of us here in washington having this hearing while the spearer pelosi and House Democrats continue to stay at home Holding Virtual hearings. We have got to get back to doing the real live work that the people sent us here to do and i would urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to come back to washington and do what we have been elected to do. And with that, madam chairwoman, i yield back. Thank you. Thank you so much. Now were introduce our witnesses. First we have rita bigot, an essential worker who died from coronavirus. Next is john costa, the International President of the transit union. Next we have anthony mark perone, who is the unit food and commercial Workers Union and with us Bonnie Castillo who is the executive director of National Nurses united and California Nurses Association and the National Nurses organizing committee. We also have clint odum from policy and advocacy
Brutality. This has built so many of us into the street to stand with our neighbors and communities of color. Entertainingly and systematically abused by the criminal justice system. The committee in the house as a whole, is committed to swiftly enacting profound reforms. To punish police misconduct. Holding Police Department accountable to oversight. In eliminating the financing of police militarization. We hope have more to say in the coming days. And as my friend set us we, my protest is my statement. Even as we prepare our legislative solution. The topic of todays is essential workers pretty since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the United States, we are all acutely aware of the threats posed to ours health and safety. But we do not all face of the risk of the crisis equally. Grocery store workers, Food Processing employee, Public Transportation operators. Nurses and doctors and hospital support staff, nursing home employees, First Responders, janitors, mail carriers, de
We do know this is an unprecedented amount of money. Congress has never passed a rescue package like this before before, 1. 5 trillion on top of about 200 billion that was in the legislation that passed only a couple of weeks ago on top of the 8. 3 billion that was in the first one. This this is phase three. And then, finally, number three, this legislation does provide the help to the Health Care System, quickly, the Public Health care system to be able to provide the protective gear thats needed for Health Care Workers, the additional ventilators needed in our hospitals. The antiviral medication that can help when someone tests positive to know theres going to be a way to minimize to reduce the effects of this virus, the infection. And really significantly to not only lab corps said they can do 300,000 tests a week. We need to use the cotton swab to get them the swabs. There needs to be a process to get them. Now were starting to come online, this funding legislation will help them t