My advice to anyone that wants to compete this year is to find a topic that youre truly passionate about and pursue it as much as you can. This year were asking students to create a Short Documentary on the issue that you would like the president ial candidates to address during the 2020 campaign. Cspan will award 100,000 in total cash prizes. Plus a 5,000 grand price. Go get a camera, a microphone and go start filming and produce the best video that you can possibly produce. Visit studentcam. Org for more information today. Next, House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters holds a field hearing on combatting homelessness in the Los Angeles Metro area. And its impact on a national level. In this first portion, local government officials discuss the root causes of homelessness such as high rents, low wage growth, and a need for more government assistance. This runs 90 minutes. The committee on Financial Services will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized t
Growth, trade uncertainty, lower inflation. A number of participant thought it would better align the feds benchmark Interest Rate with socalled neutral rate, the rate that neither spurs nor slows growth. Several members want to the maintain rates. Not cut rates last seening. They thought the economy was in fine shape and they wanted to save firepower for when the economy actually deteriorates. There were a couple who wanted a 50 basis point rate cut. We know one of those was st. Louis fed president bullard. Going forward, more concerns about risks to the outlook in terms of trade uncertainty, slowing global growth. They are looking at protests in hong kong. They see a significant probability for a nodeal brexit. They see what is going on in the middle east, how that could impact the outlook for the economy domestically. Several members also discussed the job market. They do still see the job market as strong. However they are looking at weakness in manufacturing and business investmen
Prof. Selverstone good afternoon, everyone. I am marc selverstone. Associate professor in president ial studies at the university of virginias Miller Center, and as chair of the centers president ial recordings program, id like to welcome you to a special panel, echoes of the past, featuring my colleagues on the recordings program. Its quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Its something of a reunion, in fact. Kent was with us for years and years, now spending time at the university of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore the dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program, we were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this
Recordings program. Quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Kent was with us for years and years, spent time at the university of south carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well l in, to explore dynamics there but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program. We were established in 1998, and the only we are institution of this kind doing transcribenalyze and the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 so franklin, roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the miller center. Well,it offsite as because so much work these days is browserbased. But we publish work through the university of Virginia Press and its electronic imprint. The president ial recordings digital init
Will have transfer tax above what we projected in the report on what we see in the current month to date. Under our reserve provisions, 75 of that goes, is deposited to reserves. There are other offsetting revenues that we would also want to be mindful of. Im trying to think of theres a few that kind of, i have my eye on. One is sales tax, one is interest earnings, kind of like a sleeper revenue, but we assumed pretty substantial growth in that, so i dont know where we are going to end the year with that. So, possible news to the good thats easy to know about, and mindful of things that go the other direction. Thank you. The shortest possible answer as always, we do a review of revenue assumptions, the change in may after the revenues that we use to balance, or proposed the balance the mayors budget and a report the next couple of weeks. Thats those additional revenues are in consideration for this budgeting of this fiscal year, is that correct . We are in the process of reviewing what