Good morning. The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First i would like to go through a few administrative matters that weve adopted because of covid. Weve consulted with the attending physician and the department of health and human services, centers for disease control. Individuals in the hearing room are six feet apart. Theres no room for the public in person. The press is covering as a pool. You can watch this on streaming or there will be an unedited recording that everyone can watch. All of our Witnesses Today and some senators are participating by video conference. I would like to Say Something about masks. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk into the microphones since our chairs are six feet apart. So, thats why my mask is off. When im not back here, im wearing my mask in the hall. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the arkt te
To a Senate Committee hearing looking at college ath lecks and athlete compensation. Live coverage on cspan 3. But in the institutions of Higher Education themselves, and then before that in 1929 a report from the carnegie education was being neglected and commercialism reigned. The ncaa had been formed to protect the safety of players and deal with corruption. Now, my second experience forming an opinion about the subject were talking about today came from my service of that Night Commission when i was president of the university of tennessee. Our Commission Recommendation was that University President s take charge, assert themselves, take charge of College Athletics, to take charge of the huge amount of Television Money it attracted and restore academic and financial integrity to the programs. As a result over the next several years academic standards became more stringent, Financial Support for student athletes increased, college presence asserted more responsibility for financial
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 92, the nays are 4. And the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of john w. Holcomb of california to be United States district judge for the Central District of california. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of john w. Holcomb of california to be United States district judge for the Central District of california shall
The nasdaq is up second day in a row. That looks safe. First backtoback gains for the nasdaq in two weeks. We have that. Well have a lot more to cover with fox Business Team coverage. Susan li standing by in the new york newsroom. Well get to susan in a moment but we start with blake burman on what was very busy, important day at the white house. Blake . Reporter historic as well. I will keep this short. Were probably getting the president s comments shortly any moment from now. A historic day at the white house where the president of the United States was joined with the israeli Prime Minister with two leaders from arab nations to sign a peace deal. Israel and the United Arab Emirates and israel and bahrain. President trump said he believed there could be five, maybe even six more of these peace deals in the middle east in the works to come. The president suggested that this could be a domino effect saying that he ultimately believes it will lead to the biggest middle east deal of all
Every channel and square memorial. And a hint of life in the clouds above venus scientists make a startling discovery in experiments conducted out of pure curiosity. And im we are starting with all of the days sports news chelsea are off to a winning start in the English Premier League and version dortmund power their way into the german cup 2nd round with a 5 nil beating up. So that they spend a week finding shelter wherever they can but hundreds of refugees are moving into a new tent city on the greek on the flexibles has been hastily prepared by the greek government and by aid agencies after a fire swept through the giant moronic camp that was home to around 12000 people of greece wants to move most of them into the new settlement over the next few days but theres been a resistance from those who fear they wouldnt be allowed to leave the camp and they have been protests by others demanding to be moved to the greek mainland while in the past there are reports that some european natio