Disease. And we all need more gas for the race toward more testing, better treatments, and the vaccine that will finish the fight. So last week i canceled the first week of august of our august state work period in the hope that the speaker of the house and the democratic leader would put aside their ideological demands with no relation to this pandemic and finally let congress legislate. Unfortunately mister president the democrats have let working families down. Theyre still reluctant rejecting any more relief for anyone unless they get a flood of the mans with no relationship to covid19. Its been two weeks since Senate Republicans put out 1 trillion plan to help america reopen , recover and stay on offense against this virus. Republicans did the same thing back in march. Pwe set up the same process with the cares act in a matter of days. Laid out a strong marker, built by our chairman and our committees. Ioset it to real factbased needs of our nation and invited the democrats new to
While renewing a right spirit within us. Lord, help our lawmakers today to discern your voice and do your will. Give them the ability to accomplish your purposes on earth. Speak to them your wisdom, guide them with your spirit, and sustain them with your might. Lord, restore joy to our hearts for we trust your unfailing love. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C. , thursday, august 13, 2020. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable john boozman, a senator from the state of arkansas, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley, president pro temp
Mitch mcconnell talked about it on the senate floor. Was mcconnell the senate supposed to spend this week finalizing another bipartisan rescue package for the american people. Laidoff workers needed more federal assistance to weather the storm. Small businesses needed more support to make payroll. Schools and families need more funding, tools, and certainty with reopening dates fast approaching. Nurses, and Health Care Workers need more backup as they hold the line against this disease. And we all need more gas for the race toward more testing, better treatment, and a vaccine that will finish the fight. I hope that the speaker of the house and the democratic leader would put aside their ideological demands, with no relation to this pandemic, and proudly let congress legislate. Unfortunately, the democrats have continued to let working families down. They are rejecting anymore relief for anyone unless they get a flood of demands with no relationship to covid19. Than two weekse since Sen
Budget, um that we really should go ahead and have a community meeting. So this is a community meeting. We have our commissioners present. Um, one of our commissioners. Was unable to be here. Uh thats commissioner joaquin guerrero, whos out of the country, but we have five other commissioners here. We also have members of the public in the room and we have members of the public on line. And so were going to go ahead and go through our regular, um the items that we were planning to cover today, which is our directors report. We will have a report on the budget and then we will have, um , a presentation on the which is an overview of the homelessness response system just to set the framework for everyone. In the ensuing months, we will we have worked with the commission to set up some presentations for all of you and for the public so that you can start to understand the various interventions and various pieces of our homelessness response system in San Francisco and how they all fit tog
Earnings. Joining us is Christine Harper from bloomberg. We are joined also by allison williams. Christine barclays and some of the banks around the world are up. Postbrexitthe trading and money market reform is coming into play today. That drove up client act timmy. Rates in particular. The fixed income trading is not really anything. Nobody was expecting that. Allison estimates started to come out and people felt better. We knew it was strong because of exit. August was a typical seasonal slowdown. Saw, inm things we general when things are accelerating, thats only 10 to get some of these beats. Christine its interesting. Thatd the First Quarter was terrible for a lot of banks. The Third Quarter which was summer was really good. Its up 48 year on year. On the money market reforms, how much of that is a oneoff due to that figure we wont see again in the next quarter . There is always a number of things that we are not going to see in the next quarter that we will hear analysts asking