First National Book festival event. As we all collectively face the challenge of the pandemic the safety of our staff members, visitors scholars is our First Priority at the library of congress. We are following the cdc recommendations and guidelines and all of our buildings are closed to the public until further notice. However, it is the librarys mission to engage and connect with our users. So we been rolling out various programs virtually for parents and teachers, scholars, students, and everyone who could benefit, we hope, from our resources online. So please visit our website llc. Gov for more useful information not only about whats going on currently, but also things you could use during this time. Now to our events, we will be joined by bestselling author john m berry who will be discussing his book, the great influenza, the epic story of the deadliest plague in history. He will be joined in conversation by mr. David rubenstein, cochair of the National Book festival and author
Betty ross talks about the 5 billion tax credit scholarship proposal which is pending in congress. Secretary devos is joined by white house advisor Kellyanne Conway at the event hosted by the American Enterprise institute. [applause] thank you. Good morning. Thank you to aei for posting this Important Forum today. Robert, thank you for your hospitality and for a principled conservative leadership, especially now in your new role. Its always a pleasure to be back here with so many friends. Our ideas are advanced by the work of the institute and there are many who worked for the cost of education freedom and for our nations students especially rick so im looking forward to our conversation today. We are here to talk about education freedom scholarships and let me say a few things about our proposal to set the table before our discussion. Heres what it is. A 5 billiondollar annual federal income tax credit for voluntary contributions to 5o1c3 nonprofit organizations that provide scholarsh
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And welcome to power lunch. Eye melissa lee, your money carving out some small money today, and russell 2000 at rosh highs. Its a global rally. Lets check out bitcoin is bouncing back after falling below 10,000, Goldman Sachs say its a bubble bigger than the dotcom era and famous tulip bulb mania, and p g was down travelers rallying by almostsh topping expectations tyler . Thank you very much, melissa. Welcome, everybody we begin with a major decision from the white house the administration saying it will slap tariffs on solar panels and washing machines. If youve got a solar powered washing machine, you are not, kayla, going to have whiter whites Kayla Tausche is at the very white house with more. Reporter those tariffs are steep and final. For companies outside the United States empowereding washing machines into the United States theyll sue new tariffing between 20 and 50 , depending on the number of washing machines they are importing. For components that 50 . For solar part manufa