A stop to those surveillance powers all right its time to boost your i. Q. Ever since the coronavirus pandemic forced stay at home orders which ultimately led to the shutdown of a lot of businesses congress has passed several relief measures aimed at getting americans back on their feet but after trillions of dollars got rubberstamp prove the country as a whole is nowhere near reopening and americans are becoming impatient with elected leaders and today the u. S. Treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chairman were grilled by members of the Senate Banking committee wanting to know where all that money went arties Rachel Blevins has been monitoring the hearings today and shes joining us now. What is the current status of these loan programs for businesses and local governments so todays hearing mark the 1st time that officials were questioned by the Senate Banking committee on that 2. 00 trillion dollar cares act that was passed and the hearing was held remotely in order to abide by
Want to show you the programs we have covered with the democratic president ial primary candidates. Politicians write book once policy issues or memoirs prior to launching a Political Campaign and well kick off with michael bennett. He has been a senator for colorado since 2009. He launched his president ial campaign in may of 2019, and his book, the land of flickering lights, came out in june of 2019. Heres a portion of his discussion from san francisco. Ben. You cant accept the way politics works in was and create a tour double seeings on climate. You cant fix Climate Change four years at a time. I dont think thats any way to regulate a Banking System or support education. But you certainly cant deal with climate that way, and thats why i think sort of as a definitional matter you cannot accept the current political align independent america and we have to build a coalition of americans outside of washington to overcome a broken washington. Thats what well have to do. That sounds rea
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Thank you, evan. Thank you very much for being here, congratulations on the book. Thank you, thank you. I have to say i was little surprised to learn about the book and to read it. Its a funny book, thats not the surprise but the surprise is that i remember when you got to the senate, there was talk of you, i guess the expression was the Hillary Clinton model, following the Hillary Clinton model, you know, do your homework, go to committee hearings, dont do national press, basically show that you mean to be a serious senator. Youve been in there for nine years. Right, right. This is not the kind of book you wouldve written, almost nine years, this is not the kind of book you wouldve written maybe at the first, would you . Oh, not at all. Basically, i had to not be funny publicly [evan] right. For my entire first term laughs . audience laughing and i took hard to do. I mean i get, the book is a response to a lot of questions i get asked. The first i get asked the most is is being a Unit
Tilt. Divided Republican Party could not deliver the votes to get things done. The president turned to democrats who could, now what . The president is cleared decks crowd of legislative calendar no longer quite so crowded and democrats involved limited tax cutting legislation looks likely to pass the republicans in disarray leadership stunned by the president s tilt conservatives furious democrats got what they wanted they are happy looking forward to december 15 when funding of government will be an issue all over again, sum it up this is a shock to the political system, it is a political realignment, in a moment we show you the markets reaction to all of this irma looks like eastern see board takes the ive got to start with irma, it is still a monster remains category five storm. It looks like it to hit the east coast of florida. Right hand side of your screen storms track on the left, youre looking at long gas lines in florida. As people are try to get out of the way. Mandatory eva