Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
We kick it off with blake and the latest from the mt. Reporter melissa and connell, President Trump has threatened to pull federal funding from schools should they not fully reopen in the coming weeks. The president would not go that far when he was asked about the situation out in los angeles and san diego, breaking news from this hour, when the president was asked about it moments ago over here at the white house. Los angeles, los angeles the nations second largest public school, there will be Remote Learning to start off the school year. This is part of the reaction from President Trump, watch. We have to open the schools. We have to get them open. I think there is a lot of politics going along. Think i they will do better if they keep the schools closed in the election. I dont think it will help them frankly. They feel that by keeping schools closed that that is a bd thing for the country. Therefore that is good thing for them. Reporter the white house for the most part has spent t
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
Muted p. Further, members are required to leave their cameras on the entire time theyre in an official proceeding, even if they step away from the camera in which case we should see an empty chair, as this is an entirely remote hearing. The committees hearing room is officially closed. Members who chose to sit with their individual devices in the hearing room must wear headphones to avoid feedback he can as and disportion resulting from more than one person on the platform sitting in the same room. Were also expected to hear the social distancing Safe Health Care guidelines, including the use of masks, gloves and wiping down the area before and after their presence in the hearing room. And i also note that when you ask questions if youre in the hearing room if the witness is also in the hearing room it would help if you mute while the answer is taking place because the answer is picked up by your mike and then that echoes back in this mutualal distortion. The roll call is not necessary
Opportunity to testify. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado. We hope some of the successful practices will give an example for other states and nations. We set realistic goals. Freedom of movement throughout the United States, it would be impossible to eradicate the virus until there is a vaccine so on the Public Health side, our folks have been destabilized by protecting the most vulnerable, supporting Health Care Providers, making sure people have access to all forms of health care and doing everything we can to acquire testing equipment and personal Protection Equipment and being as smart as we can with the use of limited resources. And making and making sure we meet the needs of every critical patient that comes to the door, covid or noncovid so as not to overwhelm the Health Care System. On the economic side, we take into a number of its ordinary measures to help workers make Strategic Decisions about reopening, really taken into account the econom