For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Prevention to help us have a conversation about suicide. Why do people kill themselves . People who kill themselves are in pain. They are in intolerable pain of one kind or another. In the united states, we have the luxury that is primarily emotional pain. In other countries it may be economic, and maybe physical pain because the Health System has collapsed. It may have to do with shame. In the united states, we have those forms of pain. We have families that run out of money and call in and say i have the choice of being dead or homeless. People learn physical pain and decide in their lives and we have children who are bullied and who die of shame. Primarily, it is emotional pain and that is what we have come to have to grapple with. We dont know much about emotional pain, so we have trouble dealing with it. We dont recognize it. So, when you say we have difficulty dealing with it, at the same time every Suicide Prevention organization at its core has a list of signs that people need
Welcome to todays hybrid hearing to have subcommittee on the committee of oversight and government reform. Some members will appear in erson and others will appear remotely via webex. Pursuant toe latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members that are appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaking in what is known as active speaker mode. A timer is visible directly in front of you. For the members appearing remotely i know that you are all aware by now. But let me remind everyone of a few points first. You will be able to see each other speaking during the hearing. Whether they are in person or remote as long as you have your web said to active speaker mode. If you have any questions about this activation, plea
His tweet is flagged as misinformation if you dunt tcount the illeg votes, the ones that came in late, they are trying to steal the election jay powell says the current economic downturn is the most severe of our lifetimes. Sure, i think that there are plenty of people on capitol hill who on both sides of the aisle who see a need for further fiscal action and understand perfectly why that might be the case and the wall street rally continues. The swiss luxury giant says online sales are recovering after 82 drop in net profit well, the u. S. Election is inching toward a final result as votes continue to be counted in several crucial battleground states across the country. At this moment, democratic candidate joe biden is ahead of President Trump in the key Electoral College tally, 253 to 214, that is according to nbc news projections 270 votes are needed to win. The tightest race is in georgia where President Trump holds array czar thin lead of under 700 votes. A win in georgia for bide
This meeting will be conducted via webex. Okay, lets see here. Sorry about that. This meeting is being held by webex, pursuant to the governors executive order and proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency during the coronavirus disease, the Fire Commissions regular meeting room at city hall is closed and meetings of the Fire Commission will convene remotely. You may watch live on www. Sfgovtv. Org and to participate by Public Comment by phone, please use the call in number 4156550001, access code 1465020961. Members s members of the pubc will have opportunities to participate during Public Comment. The public is asked to wait for the particular agenda item before making a comment on that item. Comments will be addressed in the order they are received. Members of the public can raise their hand by pressing star 3 and you will be queued. Callers will hear silence when waiting for your turn to speak. The operator will unmute you. When prompted, the callers will have the s