Comptroller of the currency, the Senate Banking Committee Received a 6month update on the state of Banking Systems, the impact of covid19 and support for Small Business owners in communities of color. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Today we welcome to this virtually hearing the federal prudential regulators, Federal Reserve vice chairman Randal Quaries, office of the comptroller, brian brooks, chairman of yellen and mcwilliams, chairman of the National Credit administration rodney hood. We will receive testimony from each agency on efforts, activities, objectives and plans since we last testified before the committee. As well as an update on covid19 related actions. Since the passage of the coronavirus a relief and Economic Security act or cares act your agencies have taken many meaningful steps to ameliorate the Economic Impact of the pandemic as you provide conditions that will lead to a forceful recovery. On october 30th the Federal Reserve announced changes to its facility inclu
Of direct payments for Contact Tracing. House democrats move forward after negotiations with the white house failed to produce a compromise. Floor debate before the final vote. Lowey, is recognized. Mrs. Lowey im pleased to yield five minutes to the distinguished gentleman from massachusetts, from my class, the chair of the committee on ways and means, mr. Neal. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts, chairman neal is recognized. Ms. Neal thank you, madam chairwoman. I stand in support of the updated heroes act. The previous gentleman was dismissive of the idea that there is some import to this moment in terms of getting a package done. So that means expanding Unemployment Insurance, thats not important . Unemployment insurance that we might consider now which is part of the need of the American Family . A reminder, there are 26 million americans right now collecting Unemployment Insurance. Let me put this in terms of what an economist might say. If we dont expand Une
This includes the National Fish Habitat Conservation through partnerships provision, a bill i championed. This title establishes a National Fish habitat board that supports a successful Publicprivate Partnership to restore fish habitat. I would like to thank the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources committee, rob bishop, and the Ranking Member of the subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife, tom mcclintock. I would also like to to thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for their ceaseless effort and commitment to making sure we do everything we can to conserve prork tect and enhance the resources that we are in charge of taking care of. I look forward to continuing to advance other important provisions, but this bill hopefully will be on its way to the president s desk. As cochair of the Chesapeake Bay watershed task force i would specifically like to act modge my friends an colleagues in the bay delegation who labored so hard for so long to help clean up our great Che
Executes a champion wrestler despite local and International Appeals to overturn his death sentence. Has been hailed as a historic moment the taliban and the Afghan Government in the same room facing each other for peace talks there in the cattery capital doha to find a political solution to end the early 20 years of war Abdullah Abdullah whos representing the government has called for a humanitarian ceasefire as soon as possible photos of food we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the negatives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together. Well the man leading the taliban delegation says they are prepared to negotiate but he has reiterated the groups demands that afghanistan must be run according to islamic law but only king we have acted acc
Stay cool are closed because of the pandemic. Yeah, scary situation. We need to make sure we check on those without air conditioning. Because lows like this do not help when we dont cool down during the overnight hours. Were in the 60s and 70s, some record warm low temperatures. It doesnt allow those areas that dont have air conditioning to clear out like we normally would have with the marine layer which is nonexistent. Free air conditioning is off and temperatures this morning up to 14 degrees warmer than they were this time yesterday. Lets see where we end up this afternoon. The asterisk is a record tying or record setting high temperature. And it starts in San Francisco and goes all the way into our inland neighborhoods from 86 there to 108 in fairfield. And this heat will complicate life during the taantsadoivobusinesses are Outdoor Dining and now they are making more changes to try to keep people cool. At least one restaurant in walnut creek installed a sun shade. Sushi is kind o