Because the threat posed by covid19 remain serious and widespread, we are proceeding in the best manner we can, remotely in todays case in order to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and the public. Todays conversation is essential to the oversight of how we should adapt and meet the challenge of increasingly assertive china especially in the backdrop of a Global Pandemic. I had hoped this would be a bipartisan discussion. Unfortunately, without reason or justification, republican colleagues have decided to absent themselves from the committee. I repeat my hope they will reconsider and join us for future unclassified public hearings and unclassified closed roundtables. We will continue to have them as they are being used to frame the oversight issues and requests and inform our members of the various threats facing the country. The American People expect congress will continue doing its job even in a pandemic and that means showing up at a minimum whether we want to or
To moderate our panel on Civil Liberties on covid19, we have kristin you of the Hudson Institute and the president of aei, with key Public Policy issues and leading intellectuals. Thank you, welcome one and all. The Civil Liberties issues raised by Government Actions with the coronavirus pandemic. We will hear from more legal scholars in this order, former law time chairman of the Civil Liberties union. Eugene but one of the ucla law school, host of the autonomous website, Julia Mahoney of the university who specializes in property, Public Finance and constitutional law and Mila Versteeg specializes in constitutional law, further information about each is available at the conference website. The run to 90 minutes concluding not later than 5 15 eastern time in the United States, we will have individual presentations and a general panel discussion, questions from attendees. When question time arrives i ask those with questions to click raise hand on your zoom screen for star 9 on your ph
Committee on Small Business member states, hearing on response, we had a hard stop, we could move as quickly as we can and could not accommodate every member in person today and we are accepting statements until thursday april 30th. Today is a chance for the committee to hear directly from members of congress about thoughts on the covid19 response for the next package to Small Business issues for the committee of jurisdiction. I would like to remind everyone we are practicing social distancing and taking other precautions for all in attendance. I appreciate your cooperation so that we can protect ourselves and our hardworking staff. Three weeks ago when congress created the Paycheck Protection Program we did so with the goal of providing a lifeline, the program experienced Unprecedented Demand and proven successful, helping more than 1. 6 million entities to support employees. As a result we will be replenishing the Program Later today. While we are moving quickly to provide an additio
Saying. We are getting headlines out of the iea. It depends on what is happening in the middle east given what has happened in iran and the last 15 days. The International Energy agency saying the oil supply is a vulnerable as middle east tensions flare up. Ieas always good to see the thinking. You can see the brent. Stocks are gaining 0. 4 . We are we have to see and i will show you later that we have a tight range when it comes to treasuries and dollar pound. Significant one because there is more bets that the bank of england will cut rates in january i believe january 30. Coming up, we hear from the chief executive of allianz. Something you do not want to miss. That is coming up a little bit later. Lets get to first word news. Viviana we begin here in the u. S. , the house of representatives sending two articles of impeachment. It is the first step to begin Donald Trumps trial almost certain to end in acquittal. Chief Justice John Roberts of the u. S. Supreme court will preside over
Madeleine albright and the former u. S. Ambassador to myanmar talked about helping governments in fragile states. The good afternoon. I dont want to interrupt your lunch, so feel free to keep eating but as promised, we are going to have a really goo good important discussion that will help to draw on what we heard this morning. And bill, by thinking a little bit about how we set a strategic frame this of Good Governance, think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in fragile states, governing institutions needed to become more accountable. We have to work on ways to build inclusiveness, tackle the problem of marginalization and exclusion, figure out how to empower the youth to take leadership roles. The importance of enabling Civil Society to be an important part of cementing a stronger state of society relationship, these are all dimensions of governance in one way or another and this is one of the centr