She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage
Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
President trump donald trump saying america is winning the war against the virus. Dr. Anthony fauci says at least part of the economy could reopen next month. Over at the capital additional funding for Small Businesses, Congressional Republicans to add 251 billion, democrats looking for more money and a much broader use of the funds. Meantime futures are pointing to a lower open to kick off this week. You have almost 300point loss on the dow futures after u. S. Markets in a short week last week rallied big time. The dow, nasdaq and s p all up more than 10 . S p having the best week since the mid70s. 1974. Deadly storms slamming parts of the United States over easter weekend. The southeast still being battered by horrible weather. We will have a live update. Mornings with maria is live now. Dagen and good morning, maria. Maria good morning, everyone. Dagen, thank you. We want to check Global Markets. This is a big week. Hope everybody had a great easter. Lets check Global Markets right
Date trade tensions resurface as china rebukes the decision to sign a bill backing protests in hong kong. And retail front and center as we get forecasts from adobe and the National Retail federation, forecasting strong Holiday Spending joining us for the hour is allied chief Investment Strategy lindsey bell here we go, a shortened day today but a lot of excitement. Whats driving the action . Well, you know, there is lower volumes today. Coming into the end of november, going into december, this is the seasonally strong period of the year earnings season was a good one retail sales pretty good retail earnings were good even though a mixed bag and so i think were in the period of pause until the new year. What are you paying close attention to today. Well, today, i think its really all about this is black friday about the retail environment and the consumer theyve been very confident, wages going up Unemployment Rate very low, near 50year lows can the strength of the consumer driving th
Good evening. Im elaine quijano. Winter is still over a month away, but hundreds of cold records are about to be shattered. A new blast of argument tick air is defending from the great lakes to the gulf coast. It could be the coldest day on record in minneapolis and chicago. Some 250 Million People could be affected. Temperatures could be up to 30 degrees below normal. Cbs news climate and weather contributor Jeff Berardelli is here with more on the big chill. Jeff, this sounds serious. For this early in the season, its exceptional cold, nearly unprecedented and dangerous cold. Now the core of the coldest air is going to be in the upper midwest. We could break 350 records this week alone monday through thursday. This happens tomorrow. On tuesday, it moves across the great lakes all the way down to the gulf coast, and then encompasses basically the whole eastern part of the country, straight to the eastern seaboard as we head into wednesday. Now the cold air is going to plunge all the w