Good evening everyoneand thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Event Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring miles and donovon hohn. I wanted to extend a thank you to everyone for your support of our Virtual Events programming. We feel incredibly lucky that we are able to continue to offer Virtual Events during these difficult times and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up and stopping by so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies. We do ask you keep your video feed disabled throughout the duration of the event and if you enable it we will disable it for you and if you and he let a second time we will have toreview remove you from the event. We appreciate your cooperation. I wanted to go over our format, were going to have a reading by miles and donovan to start us off and after miles reads from the king of confid
Up for the season that starts next month with all the teams playing in phoenix. The cdc and National Institutes of health are supportive even espn. Even though there wont be any fans, it seems like we might return to some semblance of normalcy well, dont take me to the ball game, but have a ball game i think thats the perfect metaphor for today the market started strong, kind of excited about the baseball season dow up at 1. 900 points i think the metaphor is actually wrong which is why we sold off hard in the afternoon. Dow ended up closing off 26 points s p dipping. 16 it was quite a reversal. Were supposed to be in one of the saddest moments in history while we slow the spread of covid19, the death toll keeps rising the darkest is just before dawn. What do they think dawn looks like if you judge from yesterdays action, investors are buying on a vshape recovery boom, boom, business comes back, everything comes back to normal. A v says we have this virus whipped in no time id love tha
Parts here today. Some are literal. The princess cruise ship is one. Theyre watching throughout the day as it makes its way to the port of oakland. It is supposed to dock around 3 00 this afternoon. Well talk about that, oil off the bat with our buddy phil flynn out in chicago, price futures group, senior strategist at cme. We talked about it last week, phil. You and i were going back and forth about russia and saudi arabia. Now we have the true price war breaking out that has consequences in places like texas and north dakota. Take us through what youre thinking about today . What im thinking about is were learning today, not always is a low price for oil good for everything. There is concerns for banks, oil producers, the general overall market. Having said that, there is some hope, you know, right now with the talks of stimulus. Maybe we can pull off the lows right now. There are old saying in the business low prices cure low prices but this breakup of opec and russia, this opec plu
Abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling megalopolis of Cleveland Akron would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio, and so man came and continued coming until today nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigatable stream, a water supply and as a suewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga. With us is the professor of history with the university of cincinnati and the coauthor of where the river burned. Physically, where are you located and explain what happens 50 years ago this month. Hi, steve, thanks for having me. We are sitting at the near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the can cuyahoga reaches lake erie. But
They now must walk the walk. Im incredibly proud to have brought forward this Bipartisan Legislation tonight. I urge my colleagues to join me in voting yes. Thank you. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from illinois reserves. The gentleman from texas is recognized. But first, lets have some order in the house, please. Take your conversations off the floor. Those of you in the back of the room. Thank you. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Burgess thank you, madam speaker. At this time im pleased to recognize the gentleman from georgia, mr. Carter, pharmacist by profession, very valuable member of the Health Subcommittee and the energy and Commerce Committee, for three minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Carter i thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam speaker, i rise to speak in support of h. R. 2115, the Public Disclosure of drug discounts act. Im very glad to see this bill that was part