Do you have any thoughts about what treasury is telling people about buying back preferred stock and the regulators kind of might view actions on the . Senator, from the treasure perspective weve been working our way through the tarp assets trying to resolve them so that we can recover taxpayers investments fully, whenever possible. And we have worked with Community Institutions and have no objection when Committee Institutions are able to do that. Im not sure what the regulatory issue is what youre describing but id be happy to look into. We dont have any authority over that decision. How the fed does have to coordinate with treasure. Id like to get you a formal letter on this i would be happy to look into the. Two other points that are very specific to the maryland d. C. Area, just bring your attention and ask you to look into them and then i have a pretty big question. One of which is that the entire retired d. C. Firefighters have called my office along with alan Holmes Norton that
On the coast. Concord winds 21 miles an hour gust. We will continue to see this taper off for the afternoon and the temperature will soar, the valley where i think well have 90s if youre heading in that direction. 53 in concord, and the low 50s in napa. 51 degrees in San Francisco. Along the peninsula 53. Morgan hill 54. By the second half of the morning the clouds pull become, were looking at mostly sunny skies, along the coast another cool one. 60s around the bay. 70s inland. Look at the sacramento valley, some of the areas going into the 90s. Not us, ill have a look at the numbers expected for our area in a bit. Good morning sal. Right now the traffic is looking good, off to a good start on friday, the traffic continues time to look good on the bay bridge toll plaza and it is nice, nice and light and no major problems getting into San Francisco. This is a look at the san mateo bridge and the traffic is looking good, im sorry, were going to 880 here, im having trouble speaking, no ma
I mean, it absolutely does no good to have cheap products when people do not have decent jobs to be able to to buy the products. I think part of the problem is free trade versus fair trade. In other words, our competitors like in china, they dont have epa requirements and everything that we have to follow here. And im curious, tell me, what do you think the impact of trade deficits, you know, with other countries . I mean, were constantly losing this trade war and also the impact of having h1b 1 visas with open borders with regards to jobs and open borders in this country in regards to jobs. I think our experience with trade is that it improves the Living Standards of our competitors and the elite in this country but not, not the common person here guest well, ray, i mean, again, i sympathize a little bit with your comments. I do think overall trade remains good for the economy. Thats another area where theres been dozens of studies by economists. Historically, trade has been a positiv
Chair pascrell good morning and welcome to everybody. I want to call order the subcommittee on oversight and thank you for all the work you guys and gals have been doing on the committee on both sides of the aisle. I think we struck something in getting something done with the American People. Our two witnesses today. Were holding this hearing in a hybrid forum. You know what i think about that and i know what many of you think about that. We are what we are. [laughter] were holding this hearing in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 8. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help you navigate this hybrid format. First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background music and noise. Members joining virtually are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Committee staff will
Chair pascrell good morning and welcome to everybody. I want to call order the subcommittee on oversight and thank you for all the work you guys and gals have been doing on the committee on both sides of the aisle. I think we struck something in getting something done with the American People. Our two witnesses today. Were holding this hearing in a hybrid forum. You know what i think about that and i know what many of you think about that. We are what we are. [laughter] were holding this hearing in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 8. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help you navigate this hybrid format. First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background music and noise. Members joining virtually are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Committee staff will