David hawkings is the editor in chief. There are leadership elections. Explain how they go about the two parties electing their leaders and can we see any changes . We will see some so, they meet in caucuses, different causes. No surprise here. The things are happening a little bit differently this year because of the pandemic. The Democratic Caucus which is happening the first of the meetings is happening today. There is a virtual opportunity for members to stay home, stay in their districts and cast the votes in the upcoming leadership elections using a secure app that the democrats have come up with. We wont see any changes at the top. The republican leadership, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, maybe, maybe not liz cheney, thats staying the same. Were not seeing any changes at the top there either. Remarkably long run of nancy pelosi as the leader and jim clyburn of South Carolina as number three, thats all continuing. Thats continuing for a into a 16th year. Its a remarkably long run
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Good afternoon. We just completed our second eeting this week with members of the White House Coronavirus continued. And weve weve continued to be on the sail mission w o save american lives. To work every day toward that put the coronavirus in the past. m joined today, and you will hear in a few moments, from members of the White House Coronavirus task force including those leading the effort of vaccinations, under operation warp speed, and i think you will be as impressed as i was, at fema earlier today, heard the detailed plans for the virtual Immediate Distribution of vaccines when and become approved available to the American People. From very early in this pandemic president s direction weve followed an approach to this pandemic that was federally state managed and locally executed. And to that end this past monday completed our 4 isst Conference Call with all of the governors. Every state, every territory. About our current circumstances where we see cases and hospitalizations r
Minutes. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Sen. Crapo today, we welcome the regulators, the comptroller of the currency, brian brooks. Chair of the federal deposit insurance corporation, Jelena Mcwilliams, and rodney hood. We will receive testimony from each agency on efforts and plans since you last testified before the committee. Since the passage of the coronavirus aid relief and Economic Security act, or cares act, your agencies have taken many meaningful steps to mitigate the Economic Impact of the pandemic and provide conditions that will lead to a forceful recovery. Lead to a forceful recovery. On october 30, the Federal Reserve announced changes to its main Street Lending facility on october 30, the Federal Reserve announced changes to its main Street Lending facility including decreasing the minimum loan size for priority loan facilities from 250,000 to 100,000, and allowing borrowers to deduct any ppp loan for their outstanding debt. Loan for their ppp outstanding debt. Your
Ms. Pelosi good morning everyone. As our nation prepares for we thank god for all the blessings he has bestowed upon us, our men and women in uniform who keep us safe. We thank them and their families for the sacrifices they make for our democracy, for our freedom. This year, we wont be able to be joining each other in the traditional way, but virtually well come together to thank god for our blessings. As we do so, though, it will be with great pain, with great pain that in our country and the course of this year, 250,000 americans have lost their lives from the coronavirus. Daily cases have averaged over 60,000 in this past week. Hospitalizations have set a national a record for three days in a row last week. And over 11. 7 million and growing have been infected. Cases are set to rise. On the economic front, 20 million americans are on unemployment with the benefits soon set to expire and millions have fallen into poverty and our food insecure and face the threat of eviction. This is