Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Do we ask everyone to turn on their cameras . Were getting ready to get started. The hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both ranks member mr. Hysse and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person especially when we are in session. I made a promise that i would fight for that, and today is the fruit of that effort. I believe when were in session protecting everybody, those who are not comfortable or physically cannot join us in the hearings room, are more than welcome to join us through web i no noor. We ask everybody when they were not speaking, to wear a mask. I really appreciate that cooperation of for members appears remotely. House rules require that we see you, so police have your cameras turned on at all times during the course of the hearing. If they can let us you can use the chat function to send a request. And if that doesnt work, you can unmute and seek recognition. These arent ideal circumstances, but we are in the midst of a pa
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It came down, 13. 3 . The government says the resumption of Economic Activity at the end of may led to an increase, repeat, an increase of 2. 5 million new jobs. It was supposed to be a loss of eight million. Clearly a lot of people were recalled to work and went back to work. Now, to say this is a surprise is the understatement of the century. I will say this. The recovery is obviousily a lo stronger and faster than anyone thought. Back to the numbers. Dow industrials going to be up over 600 points, about 2. 5 . The s p will be up 1. 6 , 50 points to the upside. Even the nasdaq has dragged out a small gain now. A little pressure on the techs earlier but they turned around. Lot of green on the nasdaq. Its up 29 points. At the opening bell today, the dow will be roughly 8,000 points above where it was on march 23rd. Its the most explosive rally in history. And just tweet, this is a tweet just in from the president , he says he will hold a News Conference at 10 00 eastern of course on th