Historians are not supposed to guarantee anything about the future, but this is one thing i feel certain about. Watch q a on cspan. Coronavirus Task Force Members testified on the response to the pandemic. [indistinct conversations] today, the committee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of the Trump Administrations response to the covid19 endemic pandemic. Due to the Public Health emergency, members can participate in todays hearing either in person or remotely via video, and. Theart of this hearing, microphones will be set on mute, for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Remotelyarticipating will need to unmute your microphone speak. Participating in person, please wear your mask when not speaking. Dr. Monahan extract expressed in the updated guidelines that the use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected. When we are not speaking, each of us is playing a vital role in tech and all members and staff in at
Able to be here today. Our clerk is john carroll. I want to folks at sfgov tv for creating this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Thank you very much. In order to protect Board Members and public during the covid19 health emergency. Board of supervisors legislative chambers taken pursuant to all local, state and federal orders. Committee member will attend the meet thuing through video conference. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov tv. Com are streaming the Public Comment number across the screen. Comments are your opportunity to speak during Public Comment and they are available by via phone. Once connected and prompted in the meeting i. D. The i. D. Is 145 8532772. Press pound and pound again to be connected. You will hear the meeting discussion. Youll be muted in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star and three to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a q
Destruction. Extricate us from traps we have set for ourselves. Remind us that you are a god of justice from whom we borrow our heartbeats. Arise, mighty god, and make those who defy your purposes tremble with reverential awe. Hear the prayers of our senators, and give them wisdom, courage, and integrity for these challenging times. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley one minute for morning business, please. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley the virus pandemic is disrupting our daily lives in unimaginable ways. The National Institutes of health is working with a private sector Biotech Company and have already begun early stage human trials for a pot
Focus today executive nominations, including brian miller for pandemic recovery. And the vote for mr. Miller setting for 4 30 p. M. Eastern. Take you live now to the senate floor on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Lord god, have mercy upon our nation for the winds of suffering buffett our land. We hear the cries of the voiceless and the anguish of the unheard. We see the criminal actions of those who threaten freedom. Lord, snatch this nation conceived in liberty from the precipice of its own destruction. Extricate us from traps we have set for ourselves. Remind us that you are a god of justice from whom we borrow our heartbeats. Arise, mighty god, and make those who defy your purposes tremble with reverential awe. Hear the prayers of our senators, and give them wisdom, courage, and integrity for these challenging times. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The presid
The 10 year yield was up 72 basis points after that refunding announcement and the new twentyyear issuance will be bigger than the primary dealers were thinking. The median estimate was for around 13 billion but thats now 20 billion worth of twentyyear bonds being issued. Demand for them and now we are back to the stock market and we are seeing the s p 1 sondred up 4 10 of its recovered those earlier gains. The nasdaq is running away once again, up 1. 2 with several thats are credited for including the lights of beyond meat and stocks you would not normally associate with a climb. The dollar index is above 100, continuing to strengthen but not a huge amount of movement in the yuan. Crude oil is back at the lows of the session, down 2. 4 after we saw the build coming in lighter than the market had anticipated. Quite a hefty build last week but the markets recovered slightly and we are back down almost 4. 5 . The European Data continues to be grim. The European Commission says they could