Is christine pelosi, a san fransicoan, California Democratic womans chair and daughter of House Speaker nancy pelosi. Did i miss anything, christine . Good to see you. Nice to see you and good to be with everybody. Thank you. I like the backdrop there. Hey, as an italian woman living up with that statue, what is your reaction today . Well, i think eighth sign of the times and the growing grass roots pressure. There has been all over the country. For years to say, let have a reckoning with our past and lets also dedicate public spaces to people who were about healing, truth and reconciliation rather than division and i think the murder of george floyd, by the minneapolis pd for those eight minutes that we all saw really just galvanized and gave fresh energy to what was really happening in the Indigenous Peoples movement and the black lives movement for black and brown lives. Frankly as a cochair, the veterans and military council, i have been active on the effort to remove the confedera
Weve already had some great conversations this morning. We drive that forward in this hour, and out to jon ferros the open at 9 00. We are really going to focus on the dominion Warren Buffett transaction, which i find absolutely fascinating. Within all of this is a lift to the market because the government has the back of the financial system. The dominant feature right now is the certitude of 1 trillion here or 1 trillion they to buoy the economy up into the end of the year. Jonathan maybe another 1 trillion this month as well. Theres a huge debate taking place in washington. It is not a matter of when. They will do this. It is not a matter of how big. It will be large. It is a matter of the composition, what they agree on a moment. I am edging there is going to be some pushback down in washington in the next several weeks. Futures up 38, dow futures up 374, so a real lift to the has as aea all of this backdrop dependent. It is really a mixed picture. Theres no russian about that area
Fullon identity politics for the democrats. Mr. Biden now has a strong lead over the president. Hes 12 points ahead in the latest fox news poll. However, look at this. There is a huge Enthusiasm Gap and it is in mr. Trumps favor. 31 say they would vote for mr. Biden because they are enthusiastic about him. Double that number, 62 , said they were enthusiastic about President Trump. His base is clearly staying with him, obviously, and that will be into play tomorrow at his the city. They have already started to line up outside the stadium. We will take you there in just a few minutes. And we will take you to wall street and you will like it. Another rally this morning. Look at this. The dow will be up over, what, 350 points, 1. 3 . A similar gain for the s p and a 1 gain for the nasdaq composite. 10,100 on the nasdaq. Whoa. Amazon roaring ahead again today. They are clear lockdown winners. Jeff bezos is a clear lockdown winner as well. Hes by far the richest person in the world. Hes now
Good morning. Good morning. The hearing on the senate labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank thean senators and our witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices where we are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe us whoing and those of are here Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting 6 feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses for of about fivets minutes each, if they could please summarize them, there it ais. Senators will each have five minutes rounds of questions and we have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to finish this hearing by about noon and all the senators will have had that time and chance to ask theires questions. The question for administrators of the 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in august but how to do it safely. M
Industries association. Sen. Wicker all right, we will begin, and we appreciate people working with us on this partially remote, and partially in person hearing on a very important topic. The covid 19 pandemic has affected the normal operation of every Public Institution in our country. Including, as you can see, the legislative branch. I thank my colleagues and witnesses per for participating in todays hearing, which is the first of many covid19related oversight hearings that this committee will conduct. We will accomplish the business in accordance with the guidelines established by the rules committee, and in consultation with the office of the attending physician. And i want to thank my colleague and Ranking Member, senator cantwell, for her cooperation in this regard, and for all of our staff. The committee today convenes to discuss the state of the Aviation Industry. Witnesses, which are limited in number by the guidance we received from the senate, include nic calio, president a