Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
The National Defense authorization bill today for 2021. There there are a number of amendment votes scheduled for this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, grant to this nation, and to all people, a social conscience built on the vision of the ancient prophets who saw sufficiency for every person and a time when anxiety would overcome chaos and hopelessness. Hasten the day when the small and weak can make their contributions alongside the great and powerful. Lead us to the day when we will see peace among the nations of the earth, when swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Use the members of this body to bring us to the time when your will is done on earth even as it is dob in heaven. Lord, we trust you with our future. Let your glory cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The pr
Makes it clear that they want to tighten things backup. New roles from immigration and Customs Enforcement are leaving the International Students anxious about the fall they announce that students in the u. S. Taking buses entirely online must depart the country or take other measures such as transferring to a school with in Person Instruction or risk deportation. We need to think about the undergraduates that we do not take a person classes. Reporter the uc berkeley freshman that only one to be identified as x is one of many students that estimated more than 1 million nationwide weekly like many others have the fall Classes Online with limited inperson classes. In berkeley it is quite hard for every single undergraduate student to find inperson class. They referred us to the uc system and the did not respond to us for,. They say that leadership is analyzing the guidance and they have their best interest in my. They called the rules horrifying and said this, at a time when institutions
You. I now call the Prime Ministers to answer the engagement question, participating virtually. Had johnson mr. Speaker, i meetings with the minister in addition to the duties in the house and i shall have further meetings today. Last week saw the anniversary of the beginning of the battle of britain. As you are aware, these systems alone deployed 10 thousands of and ofacross lancaster taken on over 250 a parenthesess in that part of the business this year. To doing all that he can to secure these key jobs to support the defense experts and the team. P. M. Johnson i have no doubt i will be coming in due process. Programmers00 involved in the project, 2500 year. 800 of those are in the constituency. I look forward to his constituency being at the epicenter of the development of the next u. K. Lead combat program. Now the leader of the opposition. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Over the last few months, we have supported comic measures by the government. The decision not to provide specific sup
We will break that down later on. Take a look at the rest of the market. You see caution still. The likes of gold, despite the rebound in stocks, gold topped at 1800 for the First Time Since 2011. Theres caution around a resurgence of cases. We have the situation in hong kong with china and acting sweeping powers. Goldman saying we could see 2000 for gold in the next 12 months or so. Extending theg best performance we have seen in 30 years. Money coming off of the dollar here, more of quarter selling and rebalancing. A little bit of strength in the yen. Offshore renminbi gaining at 705. Take a look at the nikkei. A survey cannot very negative. Manufacturing sentiment dropping to the lowest level since 2009. China seeing shares up 6 10 of 1 . The pboc said to Lower Borrowing costs for small businesses. Perhaps anticipating a rate cut today. Watching bonds. Treasuries did tumble. They continue. 68 basis points. Lets get to our top story now. Hong kong marking 23 years of chinese role hou