To declarer can rise a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee not on the subcommittee are authorized participate in todays hearing. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Thatrs are also reminded they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965, we will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. When not recognized for to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that our house rules relating to the order and the decorum of the desk decorum applied to this remote hearing. This hearing is entitled insuring against a pandemic challenges and solutions for , policyholders and insurers. I now recognize myself for three minutes to begin with an opening statement. According to the Congressional Research service, 110 Millio
Alive. Thank you very much. Today a house subcommittee holds a hearing to examine security for the upcoming president ial election in november. Live coverage begins at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Talk about this morning as the negotiators on capitol hill continue with that pandemic relief package. Well hear more about that a little bit later this morning. But heres whats proposed so far. This is in the package at least the senate is debating, the socalled heals act, people who work for themselves and Small Businesses. They write the proposed act would also put aside 190 billion to create another round of paycheck loan program to provide Financial Assistance to struggling Small Businesses as well as independent contractors and the selfemployed. The government has already approved more than 5 million 5 million, excuse me, ppp loans worth nearly 500 billion in the Small Business loans program made available by the cares
American Psychological Association ceo arthur evans joins us to discuss stress in america report and how covid19 is affecting Mental Health field Mental Health. Host as Congress Tries to hammer out the covid relief package, Small Businesses are in trouble. Business health and cashel have stalled. Yelp says 2800 businesses in new york city alone have closed. The Small Business administration has given out more money in the past few months than its entire history. It is tuesday, august 4, 2020. We welcome you to washington journal. We will spend this first hour asking you about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Small Business. If you are a Small Business owner, call 202 7488000. Or former an employee Small Business employee, 202 7488001. For all others, 202 7488002. Texts, 202 ur 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are from. On twitter, cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan. Negotiators on capitol hill continue with the pandemic relief package. We will hear more about that later. Her
Work on a more normal basis, well continue to try to meet remotely so that we can play our part in slowing the spread of covid19. I want to also announce a couple of reminders to the conduct of this hearing. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing, and members are responsible for their own microphones. Just be mindful that you probably have a little bit more responsibility than usual than if we were in a regular meeting space. And please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking and finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, email them to the committee clerk. But if you dont have it, we can make sure you do get it. I welcome you to the science, space and Technology Committees First Virtual hearing. Today were discussing the impact of covid19 on the Fire Service Community and how we can best leverage existing federal programs to expedite assistance to Fire Departments during the pandemic. I appreciate our witne
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths