Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
Lauren simonetti watching those markets, blake burman standing by at the white house and Hillary Vaughn is in baltimore where the Vice President is expected to address the Republican National convention this evening. Lauren, we start with you. Lauren hey, connell. Tech certainly led the way today, but that wasnt all. Manufacturing remained strong. Orders for the big expensive items surging last month and hopes for a vaccine alive and well. Moderna says new trial data that the vaccine candidate built immunity older patients. That lifted sentiment. The dow rising a quarter of 1 . S p 500, four Straight Record closes. The nasdaq, five straight. Above 11,600 for the very first time. Alltime highs, amazon, alphabet, microsoft, and facebook. Yes another record close for apple at 506 a share. Look at sales force, guys. These gains are incredible. Investors cheering they raised the fullyear guidance. Imagine if right now sales force were in the Dow Jones Industrial average. It would be up a lo
Committee heard from representatives of veterans organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [no audio] [silence] [no audio] good afternoon, everyone. [audio difficulty] millions of veterans every day. This committee is gathered to hear from those organizations about their firsthand perspective and their support for comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This piece of legislation has been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those veteran Service Organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts they have in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its passage and its ability to be sent to the president. Additionally tomorrow, september the 10th, is worldwide Suicide Prevention day, and this is our opportunity to call attention to the tragedy of suicide and urge for sw
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A bad thing. Well of course we run the risk anyway by in relaxing restrictions as a race skull that you could increase the chance of seeing another spike in the number of current virus cases here in germany there are also new reports out that perhaps up to 10 times more people than previously thought actually currently have been as well infected by coronavirus here in germany many of them thought not to be showing symptoms so theres lots of variables still to take into consideration here and then of course you have to deal with the different states of course there is the advantage that different states can take a more targeted approach those be more worst hit perhaps they might not open their restaurants as early. As the restrictions on restaurants as early as some other states that havent been so badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic but of course then there are long term questions as well how does that affect travel around germany at the moment it is still recommended to keep travel