The fed warnings on risk theres a lot to watch the and an airbnb ipo is now officially in the works. You were just talking about becky about claims and this onagain narrative, the split between Public Companies and smaller businesses. When you keep thinking about what target said, brian with a tour deforce performance, talking about taking 5 billion in share you know he took it from somebody i keep thinking about that, thats the 5 billion that probably would have gotten into Smaller Companies that dont trade or companies that are starting to lay people off or file bankruptcies. The i call to attention estee lauder today you dont expect that perfume or skin care gets hurt. Hopefully lipstick sales are better usually when other things are weaker were not seeing that. Were ripe for stimulus, but nobody is talking. Yeah, jim, thats interesting, estee lauder layoffs, american dropping 15 minutes. But covid cases are lit rally collapsing shouldnt this be going in the other direction . Yes, b
Publicly commit that medicare reductions would not be triggered, given the amount of fear, anxiety, and misinformation that is out there. I wrote to the Senate Majority leader urging that we immediately remove the threat of an automatic cut in medicares funding. In response, i am pleased to say both the majority leader and the speaker of the house released a joint statement that pledged this will not happen. And that is the issue before us tonight. Medicare provides essential Health Care Benefits to our nations seniors. We must remove immediately the threat that an automatic reduction in the programs funding could occur which would affect Health Care Providers and diminish access that beneficiaries, including our seniors and disabled individuals have to the services that they need. Earlier this month, the aarp sent a letter to the house and Senate Leadership alluding and supporting my inquiry and Warning Congress of the potential consequences. The letter says, quote, the sudden cut to
Hurting from hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria, and who will be spending christmas not in their homes but in a hotel or with family and friends or in temporary housing. All across these regions, there are houses, businesses, schools, churches, Community Establishments that still need to be rebuilt, and they are waiting, counting on our help. It is wrong. Indeed, its maddening to those in the affected regions that the senate is not taking up legislation today to give them what they need to continue to rebuild and recover. In my home state, theres no doubting that texas gulf coast communities suffered tremendous losses in Hurricane Harvey, but the hurricane also brought out the best in texas. We saw texans standing together and lifting each other up, first through rescue and response, and now as we come together and rebuild our communities. The nation witnessed our iconic moments, from the thousands of texans who went out on boats to save their neighbors, to houstonians lining up of all
Good afternoon. I would like to welcome you all to this very special conference in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the u. S. China diplomatic relationship. Director of the china center here at brookings. Im thrilled to see such a big crowd of people. I had no idea i was this popular. Just as we finally saw a thaw in the temperature in washington this week, after a very long in u. S. Chinaaw relations more than three decades ago was almost equally as long awaited. The thaw began with pingpong diplomacy during the presidency of richard nixon. The ice finally fully mended by andtime president carter the chinese leader agreed to the 1979 joint community on establishments of diplomatic relations. It seems quite fitting that we are holding this event during a week when we have seen pictures streaming back from china of First Lady Michelle Obama playing pingpong, learning tai chi. Quite impressive, if you saw the picture. And appearing at schools to speak to the future generations of c
Really quickly, willie, set up where we are right now. News overnight, that the president of the United States, the Trump Administration, actually, once again, stopped the center for Disease Control in trying to protect americans. We saw this happen earlier in the week, where the white house tossed out some predictions about how many deaths there might be using Trump Administration facts. Yesterday, the cdc set out guidelines, and they wanted the guidelines to go to schools, restaurants, churches, and other community establishments, to help them safely reopen their restaurants and their businesses, and to save lives. Well, trump killed it. You know, its just like the white house, willie, time and again forgetting donald tr i trump specifically, forgetting the guidelines he gave to the American People with the help of dr. Fauci and dr. Birx. They were guidelines that would help open businesses in a safe way. He keeps pushing and were going to be talking about this to reopen businesses i