Second. All in favor. Aye. The motion to not to disclose what we discussed in executive session. Second. All in favor. Aye. Onto item 6, pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item 7 aannouncements. Please be advised the use of cell phones, and pagers and other sound producing electronics are prohibited during the use of this meeting. Please be aware members of the public have up to three minutes to make a Public Comment on each item of the agenda unless otherwise stated. Onto item 8 Public Comment on items not on the agenda today. Is there any Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Item 9a, executive directors report. Good afternoon members of the public and port staff, im elaine, the ports executive director. The first item is i wanted to report on fleet week, which wa
Second. All in favor. Aye. The motion to not to disclose what we discussed in executive session. Second. All in favor. Aye. Onto item 6, pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item 7 aannouncements. Please be advised the use of cell phones, and pagers and other sound producing electronics are prohibited during the use of this meeting. Please be aware members of the public have up to three minutes to make a Public Comment on each item of the agenda unless otherwise stated. Onto item 8 Public Comment on items not on the agenda today. Is there any Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Item 9a, executive directors report. Good afternoon members of the public and port staff, im elaine, the ports executive director. The first item is i wanted to report on fleet week, which wa
And we have those across those other categories as well. And so finally just some kind of highlevel key issues that sort of emerge from this report, from this analysis and findings. Not surprisingly, you would see a lot of maritime facilities and industries. And that would obviously impact port and related jobs and services that these facilities provide. And for all of these the degree of impact is obviously driven by the elevation of the port facilities, by the condition, by how they are used and whether it will be temporarily on permanently inundated across a number of scenarios. So different facilities become vulnerable at different scenarios depending on how high up they are. Port facilities play a critical Emergency Response function in terms of both staging areas and areas for people to aassembleasemiassemble or evacuate. So that would have a big impact on the citys ability to recover from a natural disaster. Shoreline open spaces are at risk and this is a valuable resource and a
Im looking forward to talk about the fed and joe biden in one breathe. Maria exactly. Your reaction, markets, i guess jon markets were very disappoint and happened to jay powell several times where hes not doveish as the market expected. Everyone is talking how the stock market reacted, watch the dollar, the dollar is getting a lot stronger, that will be a political problem for jay powell, President Trump does not like seeing the stronger dollar. Maria youre also going to see cut into earnings, multinationals who will be blaming the stronger dollar on weak guidance and weaker than expected performances. In a world with trade is unkern. We will uncertain. We will talk about that. Remember when every president wanted a strong dollar, they wanted a strong dollar from reagan on. Maria they said they did. The president s economic adviser was always in favor of strong dollar. People are giving you money, you must be doing well, so trade deficits where people are giving you money and i love a
Hill as this historic election unfolds. Watch on cspan, cspan now, or online at cspan. Org. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. A look at u. S. Investments abroad and oversight of the International Development corporation with its ceo, scot nathan. He talks about the dfcs focus on Food Security, and strengthening supply chains. This runs an hour and a half. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Let me start by making something crystalclear to the international community. To the u. S. Foreignpolicy community. Two our nations allies and adversaries. As this Committee Moves forward, we will continue our work on behalf of the american people, as we have done for more than two centuries. The world faces challenges as well as opportunities. This committee of Senate Foreign relations, its members and staff, play a Critical Role in meeting the challenges america faces in National Security. As i accept the chairmanship with great humility, thanks to t