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Of your words and you can pause when answering questions so that we capture your complete response. Thank you very much and ms. Barnes, youre now recognized for five minutes. Ms. Bans, yrnes, you may have t unmute. I think were having trouble hearing you. Proceed, ms. Barnes. I think you just unmuted. Okay. Chairman pappas, chairwoman brownley, Ranking Member bergman, chairman takano, members of the subcommittee and task force, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss gaos work for Sexual Harassment at the department of veteran affairs. I will talk about statements from my june report released last week. The protection board estimated that 22 of va employees experience some form of Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va has several methods to address such Sexual Harassment complaints. But we found that the agency was falling short in a number of areas. Including one, its complaint structure, collection of incidents on Sexual Harassment and actions taken, and, three, provision in
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Restrict military action against iran. Live coverage of the house now on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, lord of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You, o lord, are the source of life and love. You hear the prayer of congress for the good of this nation and for the good of humanity around the world. Help this congress and the president to discern your will in our day. May short term gains, selfinterest or partisan advantage never prove to be an obstacle to true vision. Rather, lord, grant each member depth of perception, clear analysis, and creative response to the needs of our time. Today, we especially remember our fellow citizens in puerto rico. As they recover from yet another natural disaster. Bless them and especially those who labor sometimes dangerously, to help in the long return to normalcy on that beleaguered island. In these days,
Welcome to post9. What do you think . We were down as much as 200 points on the dow earlier today. Now were down just 16 points. I think it really what were getting a feel for here whether you thought there was a 50 basis point coming or 50 base point rate cut coming, i think it goes off the table. It hit bull the hardest which is that inflationary hedge. It pushed gold lower equities have recovered but the moves we saw in bonds and dollar havent retraced steps. Shows the resilience and risk on sentiment that investors have. Thats what i was watching throughout the session when you saw equities lower and bonds lower you need one to break one way or the other we saw continued selling in bonds but a little bit of recovery in equities what were seeing on the screens they really arent down too much s p futures down its interesting to see what happens on monday when everybody comes back from the hampton. We only have one basis point decline for nasdaq any positive close for the main three i