Good afternoon, the meeting will come to order. Without objection, declaring a recess of the committee, i recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This morning, we heard the president in his own words recorded in february slam the coronavirus has, quote, deadly stuff. Yet we also heard remarks, i wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because i dont want to create a panic, end of quote. The Trump Administration did play down the pandemic refusing to level with the American People about the known danger and refusing to develop and implement a National Plan to stop the spread. As a result, 190,000 americans have died, continuing to kill hundreds, tens of thousands every day. Over the last eight weeks, americans will be changing their votes in the midst of this ongoing crisis. A free, fair and safe election under these circumstances is a challenge. Let there be no doubt we do our part, america is up to the challenge. In june the centers for Disease Control and preve
The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
Up to us. And then there are things that are left up to the local level. Things to determine in a local Community Whether things should be opened or not, what kind of activities should be the activities where you draw the line in terms of crowds, much likely to be better decided at a local level by the state or by a mayor or county executive then by somebody here in washington. And then at the National Level we are moving towards our third package and the last few days to try to deal with this. The first package was about 8 billion, really focused on the Immediate Health response, supplies, developing a vaccine, trying to figure out what the right therapies were, understanding the things we needed to do to further help hospitals get ready and to further help people encouraged to go other than hospitals, all of those things are part of the first package. The package we sent to the president that the set president signed last night about 100 billion by almost any standard, a huge amount
Again an extraordinary year to , look forward to. Thank you so much for being with us. There is much to talk about in the next halfhour. I want to talk about your new effort, thinking about immigration and what it means for the fabric of the nation. We must talk about the central bank. We have to talk out the markets. You have been the gloom crews great pinata. They love to go after you in good times or bad times. You cannot possibly go up and once again confounded not only off the gloom of last december but confounded over one year, two years, five years, 10 years to good and substantial equity returns. When does it end . Abby well, tom, first of all thank you for having me here for this discussion. The gloom at yearend 2018 in many ways set us up to a good start to 2019 in markets. One thing that concerned about is how happy everybody is at yearend 2019. I think what is priced into the market now is an economic scenario that seems to be the most likely. No recession. The economy perk
Goldman sachs and has worked with the Cfa Institute. An extraordinary year to look forward to. Thank you for being with us. Much to talk about in the next halfhour. I want to talk about your new effort, thinking about immigration and what it means for the fabric of the nation. We must talk about the central bank. We have to talk out the markets. Gloom accruesthe great pinata. They love to go after you in good times or bad times. You cannot possibly go up and once again confounded not only off the gloom of last december but confounded over one year, two years, five years, 10 years to good and substantial equity returns. When does it end . Tom, first of all thank you for having me here for this discussion. The gloom and 2018 him anyway set us up to a good start into money 19 in the markets. One thing im concerned about is how happy ever but he is at year end 2019. I think what is priced into the market now, is an economic scenario that seems to be the most likely. No recession, the econo