Regulations members are required to leave their cameras on the entire time they are in an official proceeding, even if they step away from the camera. This is an entirely remote hearing and as such the Committee Ruling will be closed and members who choose to sit with their individual devices in the hearing room must wear headphones to avoid feedback echoes and distortion resulting for more than one person in the room on the Software Platform as has been reported by the committees. They also are excited to adhere to social distancing and safe healthcare guidelines including masks, gloves and wiping down their area both before and after their presence in the hearing room. While a roll call is not necessary to establish a quorum, whatever there is an official proceeding with low participation the clerk will call the roll to help make clear who is here at the start of the proceeding. I will ask the clerk to call on the role. Madame clerk. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [r
[roll call] [roll call] pursuant to Committee Rule Opening Statements is limited to the chair and Ranking Member and this allows to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides members and adequate time to answer questions. I now trigger myself for an opening statement. Before i deliver the opening remarks i must first acknowledge the recent protests against Police Misconduct in in favor of Racial Equity and justice across the nation. Times are demanding and we address this countrys centuryold challenges and with todays hearing we can be prepared to answer the call to Racial Equity and justice in education. I want to note this hearing marks the committees first fully remote hearing pursuant to House Resolution 965 and accompanying regulations. To date we will examine how covid19 pandemic has directly impacted his state and local government revenue and how projected state and local government shortfalls to further exacerbate educational inequities rooted in a with the inequities rooted a
Hampshire, new england and a very generous its the only venue i know where you can go and see the major candidates running for president of the United States at a venue like this and its free because of all of these wonderful supporters that we have. I also want to thank the New Hampshire institute of politics for being such incredible partners with the new England Council as we cohost. You say its been a very busy cycle so far with a very crowded field we look forward to spending more time here in the months ahead in fact we will be here tomorrow for breakfast with another democratic candidate. The council also has several other events that he planned in the next couple of weeks including a breakfast in Portland Maine with senator Susan Collins and on the 17th of june we of the newly elected congressmen from the district and then finally on june 27 the governor. We will have many more coming up in the weeks and months ahead and we hope many of you who are members will participate. So
In the gaza strip. Israel will no doubt have some mapped out. Not all of them. Where were standing if and when this Ground Invasion comes, it will probably be worse than ones weve seen before in terms of casualties and the bitterness of fighting that we have in store. Kim . Appreciate it. Elliot in london. Thanks americas top diplomat is in jordan after spending thursday in israel, Antony Blinken is trying to prevent the conflict from spreading and hoping to secure the release of hostage, cnn Beckie Anderson has more. The war between israel and hamas kicking off a flurry of diplomatic activity across the east. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken landed in tel aviv thursday to show washington solidarity with israel. The message that i bring to israel is this. You may be Strong Enough on your own to defend yourself. But as long as america exists, you will never have to. We will always be there. By your side. The Secretary Of State also tried to secure the release of hostages taken by
In the equity markets on this side of the ocean, you can see the european markets as well have steadied to say the least but thats about it. After again a nice twoday rally there, although that ftse, a lot of people saying thats not the one to look at. Yeah, its back to where it was before brexit but thats because most of it is international exposure, not necessarily exposure to domestic uk. Lets get to our road map this morning. It does start with a big day on wall street. Its the end of the first half of the year. Weve got a look at the winners and losers and whos poised for perhaps a pop in the second half of the year. Lions gate buys starz, 4. 4 billion in cash and stock. I will give you the detailtss on how the deal came down and what it means for the companies and industry overall. The results are in, we will have a look at the Bank Stress Tests and what it tells us about the strength of the sector. We are heading into the final trading day of the Second Quarter and the first hal