Whether or out is not the 23rd amendment will be repealed. Bill, h. R. 51, contains that. Edited procedure for im pleased to yield one minute from maryland, my Good Neighbor and good friend, the majority leader of representatives, steny hoyer. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentleman maryland. Mr. Hoyer im going to leave my on. Not because its not safe for me but for you. It represents e the best of america. From maryland. Aryland was a slaveholding state. I represent the district that probably had the most slaves, from the my friend first congressional district. Were many ere sympathizers for the southern had that would have maryland join the confederacy. Were, of course, wrong. But i want to tell my friends states who withdrew to whose states tried destroy the union that they to remember that this without ok them back condition, with full citizenship to vote. Ight the same for do fellow citizens. Mr. Speaker, i rise in strong of this bill and i thank delegate Eleano
Live coverage on cspan2. We have with us, larry kudlow. Id like to just announce the spectacular news for American Workers and American Families and for our country as a whole. Theres not been anything like this, record setting. It was just put out that the United States economy added almost five million jobs in the month of june, shattering all expectations. I was watching this morning and the expectations were much lower than that. The stock market is doing extremely well, which means to me jobs, is what it means, jobs. This is the largest monthly jobs gain in the history of our country. The Unemployment Rate fell by more than 2 Percentage Points, down to just about 11 , were down to the 11 number. We started at a number very much higher than that. As you know we broke the record last month and we broke it again this month in an even bigger way. This news comes on top of mays extraordinary jobs report, which was revised upwards, by the way, to 2. 7 million jobs, it was 2. 5. That was
Or delayed their plan phase reopening. In texas reversing that saying it must force bars to close today and only remain open for takeout and delivery, that saying that restaurants with indoor capacity right now, lets cut it down from 75 they have been getting used to but the last couple of weeks to 50 and anything to do with rafting and tubing, that stops immediately. So those actions, reversing earlier actions, the first time we have seen it got the markets attention and the fear that other states that have seen a similar uptick in cases with the real test availability and we might do the same. We have gotten hints out of florida that maybe that could be the off thing but that is way too soon to tell. Again, the drill on wall street, you sell first and begin to ask questions and get clarification later. We are also waiting to hear from the president s Coronavirus Task force, we have not seen them in a public setting like this in almost two months, theyre gonna be speaking again were t
That jobs news to end this holidayshortened week. Check the futures. The dow pointing to a jump of 459 points. Good for a 1. 75 gain. Strong gains on the s p and nasdaq. By the way, the nasdaq in record territory once again, led, guess what, by the big tech names that we follow so closely. All of these names right here are in record territory this morning. Lets begin with tesla, up another 9 this morning after reporting more than 90,000 sales last quarter. That absolutely blew away that word we dont like to say, expectations, and up the stock goes. 102. What a ride for tesla. Amazon, that stock closing in on 3,000 a share. Certainly amazon has been the winner during the lockdown. Microsoft, solidly above 200 a share. Microsoft also doing very well, thank you very much. Everybodys watching netflix these days. Huge winner during the pandemic. That stock coming close to 500 a share. Well, President Trump is well aware of this rally. He tells fox business that the market, though, will cras
Fauci testified today there may be a democratic phase process and thank you to everybody thanks to the chairman of the committee of ways and means. I say chairman because if you are chairman of the ways and Means Committee, you are always the chairman. Brady, i wasnt there but i remember that it was september 21, 1795 that the committee was set up with the greatest legislative authority which is relevant now as there are so many pieces of the covid challenge. Begin, i want to thank all of those courageous selfless americans for helping not only their neighbors but strangers. Congers been brady, would you like to say a few words . First, thank you for letting me join you. You have brought republicans and democrats together, former policy makers and current ones, business leaders, innovators from around the country into ,hese comfortable situations Social Security and medicare, and all of those big issues that congress has to deal with. Those always found conversations to be helpful. It