Question, we will move to the next senator until resolved. I remind all senators that the five minute clock still aflies. You should have a box on your screen labeled clock that shows how much time is on your screen labeled clock that shows how much time is remaining. But we have had some troubles, and i have had senators who cant find that box or dont see it. And so, in fact, last hearing one of the senators ask me again to get a reminder, i will do that at this time for everybody. So at 30 seconds left on your clock, there will be a tone, a bell ring, to remind senators and the witnesses that their time has almost expired. At the end of the five minutes, a bill will ring. That way we can all know how the clock is working, even though we dont find it on our screens. Today we will receive testimony from the security and Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton, regarding the work and agenda of the sec. I thank you chair clayton for your appearance before the committee today, which is e
When emilys list first started there were only two women in the u. S. Senate. Now there are 26 of us. You allowed so many more women to hold elected office and that made our nation better. They have the power to make a difference. I want to say thank you to Ellen Malcolm for getting this Party Started and im so appreciative ofyour vision. Thank you for starting an organization that brings women together and making this a better place. To stephanie, i am so grateful for your amazing leadership. You have the ability to see what is possible. Thank you for your courage. We will make sure more women are at the table then ever before. Especially more women of color arerunning for office than when it. Id like to see women like me become elected officials in the us in every corner of this country you helped elect new democratic prochoice women to the congress of the United States. So much has been accomplished in these 35years and so much more needs to be done. In 35 years i want to see women
Mr. Portman mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from ohio. The presiding officer mr. President , im here on mr. Portman im here to talk about the steps congress should take with respect to the coronavirus pandemic. Im start with the legislation that majority leader senator Mitch Mcconnell introduced yesterday, one of the aspects of it that hasnt gotten much attention and i think is very positive and an effective way to get the economy moving in a safe way is some tax legislation. These are tax credits and Tax Deductions that help to encourage the hiring of new workers but also to do so in a safe way. These are the kinds of things that make a lot of sense and have a lot of bipartisan support and appeal. So i think it should be part of whatever final package we end up with. The goal of these tax incentives is to say that we want people to reenter the workforce but do it in a safe and sustainable way. For example, in the mcconnell proposal is legislation i introduced called
Resilience in the hong sang this morning. The u. S. House of representatives passes a fresh china sanctions bill. Welcome to daybreak europe. We could use the word resilient to talk about the markets right now. Second day of the new quarter and the second half of the year. We did the Risk Appetite pick up a little bit yesterday after a slow start. The data helping a little bit. What is driving the positive sentiment overnight in asia but also in terms of european and u. S. Futures today is an early trial of an experiment to shot from pfizer showing that the shot was safe, prompting patients to produce antibodies. Thats giving a lift to the markets. Equity markets are moving on that. The 10 year yield this study. Not a lot of movement on the headline level on the bloomberg dollar index. Yesterday withn wti going above 40 a barrel on a u. S. Stockpile drawdown. U. S. Stocks climbed after a double dose of optimism from positive Vaccine Developments and betterthanexpected manufacturing dat
And global names are all taking it on the chin. The market itself is down close to 40 from highs reached a little more than a month ago. And this is feeding on itself. Now, the excuse de jure seems to be the fact that the senate could not cobble together a rescue package late last night. 2 trilliondollar package, democrats say was tilted too much towards businesses. Now theyre scrambling again to come up with something that might be more mutually acceptable. Questions whether it is too little too late. If you consider the 3 1 2 to 4 trillion that the Federal Reserve has provided through everything from cutting Interest Rates down to essentially zero to buying mortgagebacked securities, buying corporate paper, buying anything that they can get their who little hands on to get the cash in the system, that is what it is all about, get cash in the system so people dont feel theyre frozen out, or there is no money available, you hear a lot about this quest for liquidity. Liquidity, my frien