lisa cook knows real people. she has years of research in international experience and monetary policy, banking, financial crises. she served as an economist under administrations of both policies. all kinds of people have endorsed her. more letters supporting her than any fed nom that i remember in front of this banking committee. i have been on the banking committee for the a decade and a half. she's demonstrated her commitment to fed independence, the importance of making decisions based on fact. she agrees with chairman powell that the most important task is to tackle inflation. she supports american families, businesses and our economy. those are her words. take a moment again -- let me go back to why this is historical. first black woman in 109 years to serve on the fed reserve. think about that. think about the first black woman in 0109 years. this country is 12% black. we have had dozens and dozens and dozens of fed noms, yet we're going to need -- probably need the vice president to come in here and cast

economist lisa cook would not be the first black woman on the federal reserve board. she teaches at michigan state university. her research focusing on macroeconomics, economic history, international finance. the vote has been delayed for quite some time. covid cases among democrats in this very much partisan and evenly divided chamber, have delayed the vote and a nominations over the past few weeks. but finally we have that vote. and the full senate voting on lisa cook to become -- to be appointed to be federal reserve's board of governors, to become the first woman on the board. let's now get to vonnie quinn with the first word headlines. vonnie: sri lankan security forces have been given shoot on sight orders to quell protests. unrest continued tuesday despite a curfew. violence had erupted after the president's brother resigned as prime minister. the protests have been fueled by the government's financial mismanagement and asia's fastest inflation. house democrats plan to vote soon on a nearly $40 billion emergency ukraine spending bill. most of the package will b

votes expected on nominee lisa cook to serve on the federal reserve board of governors. if approved she would be the first black woman to have a seat on the fed. and tomorrow, senators will vote on whether to begin debate on abortion access bill and now live to the floor of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain dr. barry black will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. savior, lead us today as a shepherd guides sheep. direct our lives. inspire our hearts. may the talents here on capitol hill help bring unity and healing to our nation and world.

the senate signs off on lisa cook to join the federal reserve's board. >>> perhaps the market story of the year, energy surprising new stats on just where you may be getting more of your power from. >>> it is wednesday, may 11th, this is "worldwide exchange. >>> good morning, good afternoon, good evening, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. i am brian sullivan. let's jump in and get right to it stock futures are higher right now but not by much. nasdaq futures are up the most, about 0.75%. dow futures up 303 so they have popped in the literally last few minutes or so. all this off a mixed and probably disappointing day for many investors on tuesday because we have futures higher at this time yesterday and the dow ended down the s&p 500 and nasdaq did squeak out some gains. all this as the ten-year yield fell below 3%. right now those yields are going down again the yield around 2.49% there's a very real concern about a slowing economy being felt in the bond market as yields get hit and bonds get bought oil taking a hit on that as well crude ended yesterday's trading

but 50 democrats voted for lisa cook to join the federal reserve governors, and with vice president kamala harris's tie breaking vote, lisa cook then became the first black woman to serve under the federal reserve board of governors in the 108-year history of that agency. this morning, treasury secretary janet yellin testified in a senate hearing about the administration's attempts to control inflation, and secretary yellen spoke another aspect of the economic condition of women in this country. >> i believe that limiting the right of women to make decisions about wanting whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades. roe v. wade and access to reproductive health care, including abortion, helped lead to increased labor force participation. >> i think framing it in the context of labor force participation is, it just feels callous to me. >> it means the children will go up in poverty and two wars themselves. >> thank you, let me just say my point -- >> the truth -- >> joining us now, jim sprawling. he is senior vice president and t

the senate confirmed lisa cook to the board. she fellow at stanfords at hoover. and she was on the white house council of economic advisories during the barack obama administration. harris cast the tie-breaking vote after all 50 republicans voted against cook why? they argue she does not have sufficient experience with interest rate policy. >>> now at 3:00, construction is on in one east bay island community. kpix5 justin anders has a lot of people with more company in the coming years. >> reporter: for almost 30 years this has been angie's community. >> good schools, neighborhood, the people, she called it my alameta. >> i love it. everyone who lives here knows it is a great place. >> reporter: a place she calls home and so many others will, too, soon. >> when you see these homes being built behind us what do you think? >> i am excited. i am happy. we need housing. so, i think it is great. >> reporter: not hard to notice a lot of construction. that is because over the next eight years the state wants them to build 5300 homes to fulfill regional housing needs. so

. >> reporter: the senate has confirmed uc berkeley alum lisa cook to serve on the federal reserve board of governors. she will be the first black woman to serve on the board, and she was also a fellow at stanford's hoover institution. >>> let's get back to those live pictures of the fire burning in southern california. luxury homes up in flames in laguna niguel, this is in the orange county area. you can see all the smoke burning, you can maybe see the fire starting to tamp down just a little bit but you can see several of the home's still on fire. the reporter in los angeles says there's about 70, 72 homes on that stretch. >> we are so close together because they all want to be on that stretch where you can look over at the ocean. this fire started in a vegetation fire and more than two hours later fire crews are still struggling to put out the flames. you are right, it does look like at least the gray smoke, that can be a good sign, that some of the fires -- you can see flames right there. >> no official count on the total number of homes burning but it is at least a dozen. >>> paul h

lisa cook has a degree from berkeley and was on the white house council of economic advisers during the obama administration. the vice president cast the tie breaking vote after all 50 republicans voted against her arguing she doesn't have sufficient experience with interest rate policy. >>> apple is discontinuing production of the i-pod after 20 years. fans of the music player can still buy one while supplies last. when it debuted it held 1,000 songs. >>> movie fans have the chance to bid on some of the most iconic props including wilson the volleyball that kept tom hanks company. the top item is an original x fighter expected to go up for a million dollars. also available is thor's hammer. that's your cbs money watch report. for more head to cbs money watch.com. at the cbs broadcast center. >> i want that gizmo. i want that right now. >> that's cool stuff. >>> speaking of cool stuff, and cool people we have traffic for you. we kick off with the forecast. >>> we had quite the excitement yesterday. i'm sure you l of the hail that we had for parts of the bay area in the north bay. we wil

cook she is the first black woman to hold the post. vice president kamala harris broke the 50/50 tie with her vote cook is an economist at michigan state university focussing on racial disparities in labor markets. >>> as the biden administration considers foregiving student debt it's hit a high it accounts for just over 10% of household debt a wallet hub survey found that ithaca, new york was at the top of the list. >>> don't think away those stinky sneakers. balenziaga has released a sneaker that stands at $1,850, despite that aggressively distressed look and 100 pairs are available at balenziaga.com. golden gooses are a total steal when it comes to this. >>> the tsa hit a bit of social media turbulence one couple got engaged at the airport in nevada, but some mocked and >>> it is exceedingly rare in the united states to hear about these kinds of stories. >> right now at 4:30, a story you will only see on nbc bay area. a bizarre ritual leads to the death of an 11-year-old. her mother is behind bars and the troubling video posted days

lisa cook has a doctorate in economics from the university of california berkeley and was on the white house council of economic advisers during the obama administration. vice president harris cast the tie-breaking vote after all 50 republicans voted against her arguing she does not have sufficient experience with interest rate policy. >>> apple is discontinuing production of the ipod after 20 years. fans of the iconic music player can still buy an ipod touch while supplies last. when it debuted in october, 2021, apple's first mp3 player held 1,000 songs and had a ten-hour battery life. >>> and movie fans had the chance to bid on some of hollywood's most iconic props this summer including wilson the beloved volleyball that kept tom hanks company on a deserted island in "castaway." the top item is an x-wing star fighter from the original "star wars" movie expected to go for up to $1 million. also available are thor's hammer and dan aykroyd's "ghostbusters" costume. >>> that's your cbs "money watch" report for this wednesday morning. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. >>> ruth bader gi

economist lisa cook will be the first black woman on the federal reserve board of governors. she one confirmation by the narrowest possible margin. the 51 to 50 vote required a tie-breaking appearance by vice president kamala harris. republicans questioned her qualifications. researchers in shanghai say the country faces a tsunami of proto-virus infections if the government reverses its covid zero policy. the vaccination campaign would be insufficient to prevent an omicron wave that would swamp hospitals. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> the first rate hike informed by the ecb forward guidance on the interest rates will take place sometime after the end of net asset purchases. i have been very clear that this could also include a period of only a few weeks. jonathan: christine lagarde looking forward to june 9, the next ecb meeting. we are, she is not. tom keene, lisa abramowicz, jonathan ferro. futures positive. on the n

dollar but dipped near the 30-cent mark michigan state university, lisa cook, has now won the senate confirmation to serve on the federal reserve board, the first black woman to se serve as a fe governor voting was divided along party lines. >> that's right, andrew, we are just about 90 minutes away from april's consumer price index report, which sectiis expected o show that inflation has already reached its peak j we're looking for numbers above 0.2% in the headlines, but that's up 8% yooear-over-year. how comfortable do you feel with that consensus estimate? >> we do feel pretty comfortable with that consensus estimate we saw a huge push from energy prices, gasoline praisices in particular, in march we do think that will be a pretty subdued number, especially compared to the 1.2% increase we saw in march but, again, we're talking about headline and correlation, year on year changes that are just so elevated and so well above target that it really, it has little bearing on fed policy, at least in the near term >> so everyone's looking to say, okay, we can say that we've reached the

senators return 2:15 eastern to confirm a new science director and lisa cook confirmed would become the first black woman on the federal reserve board. the senate will vote on whether to begin debate on the bill to protect a woman's right tohave an abortion and turn it into federal law. 60 votes will be needed . live coverage here on c-span2. >> the senate foreign relations committee will take up several nominations today. president biden specs to be us ambassador to ukraine will take questions from committee members. the counterterrorism coordinator nominee for the state department will also testify live at 2:30 p.m. eastern on c-span3, online at c-span.org or watch full coverage on c-span now, our free video app . >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of the response to russia's invasion of ukraine bringing you the latest from the president and other white house officials, pentagon and state department as well as congress . we also have international perspectives from the united nations and statements from foreign leaders on the c-span network. >> .. the co-author of "this will not pass:

lisa cook has a degree in economics from berkeley. she was on the council of economic advisers during the obama administration. all 50 republicans voted against her. >>> its part of a slow expansion that started on the east coast. pooled rides will be limited to two passengers. >>> and you may want to take a carpool share to chase center. looking live there. fans will gather at 5:00. tonight marks game 5 of the western conference semi-finals against memphis. a win for them tonight would advance the team in to the western conference finals. >>> warriors head coach remains in covid protocols and won't coach tonight's game. mike brown will fill in for a second straight game. >>> and john seen here limping after monday night's loss. >>> 6:44. time for a check of weather and rrenwith a look at the forecast and we have had so much going on but it's cooling down. >> and i wato take a moment to review all that so much. if you were not in the north bay yesterday you may be surprised to see pictures that look like this. this is the hail that wa

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today senate democrats will try again to confirm professor lisa cook to the federal reserve board. professor cook has no proven expertise in modern economics at all, much less fighting inflation. one of her main supposed qualifications for this position is that she sits is on the regional fed board in chicago. the problem is, she was literally appointed to that position a few days before she was nominated for this one. professor cook is a proven partisan who has promoted left-wing conspiracy theories and called for a fellow academic to be fired because that person did not support defunding the police. the american people deserve an independent, nonpartisan inflation fighter for this important post. likewise, the federal trade commission is an important agency that gets wide latitude to oversee our private sector. the american people need its commissioners to be levelheaded experts who will put aside ideological axe grinding. the two current commissioners who were appointed by a republican president were so qualified and uncontroversial, the senate approved each of them on a voice v

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cook to serve on the federal reserve's board of governors. she will be the first black woman to sit on the board since its creation over a century ago. she's an accomplished economist and former member of the white house council of economic advisers. but in order to confirm her, vice president kamala harris had to come down to the senate to break a tie because surprise, surprise, all 50 republican senators voted against dr. cook, which means that even though the democrats had the votes to confirm her, all 50 republicans senators made sure they were there for this nighttime vote because they all wanted to be on the record voting against this accomplished economist to be the first-black woman to hold this position. priorities. we'll be right back. is position priorities we'll be right back. with angi, you can connect with and see ratings and reviews. and when you book and pay throug you're covered by our happiness check out angi.com today. angi... and done. and when you book and pay throug you're covered by our happiness living with metastatic

lisa cook, the first black woman ever to be on a federal reserve board, is i think a key achievement of bidenomics trying to make sure that this extremely important globe economic institution looks a little more like the people that they're representing. >> martha: i'm sure she's excellent and well-qualified. how does the fact that it's a diversion pick mean that the economy is going to improve? why is that relevant. >> totally fair question. the reason it's relevant -- remember, these are people that are pulling some of the most influential levers in the economy. now, any time you're doing that, you have to ask yourself on whose behalf are you pulling those levers? if you're focused on the top reaches of the corporate sector, if you're focused on the stock market and you're not paying enough attention to communities that have long been left behind in this economy, then i would argue that you have a federal reserve that is not as representative as it needs to be. that's what president biden -- >> martha: people would argue with that. doesn't matter what color you are to compare at co

the senate confirmed tonight economist lisa cook to serve on the federal reserve of government. she will be the first black woman to sit on the board since its creation over a century ago. she's an accomplished economist and a former member of the white house council of economic advisers. but in order to confirm her tonight, vice president kamala harris had to come down to the senate to break a tie, because surprise surprise, all 50 republican senators voted against doctor. which means even though democrats had the votes to concern all 50 republican senators nature they were there for this nighttime vote, they wanted to be on the record voting against this accomplished economist to be the first black woman ever to hold this position. priorities. we'll be right back. panera chefs have crafted a masterpiece... succulent, seared chicken... a secret aioli... clean ingredients... in a buttery brioche roll. made fresh, to leave you... speechless. panera's new chef's chicken sandwiches. $1 delivery fee on our app. trelegy for copd. [coughing] ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel.

in other economic the senate voted firm she can state economist lisa cook to the federal reserve board of governors today. cook will be the first black woman to serve on the board in history. vice president kamala harris cast the deciding vote. treasury secretary janet yellen argued today that abortion rights are key to economic health. she told senators that legalizing abortion helped women control their lives, go to school, and get jobs. she said if roe v. wade is overturned, it will damage the economy and set women back decades. the rate of gun killings in the u.s. jumped 35% in 2020, the most in more than 25 years. the cdc reports total gun deaths topped 45,000, the most on record, as the pandemic spread and firearms sales jumped. gun homicide rates rose the most among young black men. they were 20 times more likely to be killed than young white men. the head of the world health organization today criticized china's no-tolerance approach to covid-19. under that policy, much of shanghai has been locked down for nearly 6 weeks. but in geneva, the w.h.o.'s director-general said strict

senators will also try to advance the nomination of lisa cook to be a member of the federal reserve board after her nomination was blocked two weeks ago when to make democratic senators were absent due to covid-19. at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3, a look at global security threats with the director of national intelligence avril haynes. that's followed by confirmation hearing at 2:30 p.m. for state department nominees including the u.s. ambassador to ukraine. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more including charter communications. >> broadband is a force for empowerment. that's why charter has invested billions building infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity and communities of big and small. charter is connecting us. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers giving a front row seat to democracy. .. announced 20 internet providers are agreeing to help lower the cost of high-speed internet for low income comes -- consumers to know low -- no mor

lisa: it sounds like my kids trying to cook. jonathan: on inflation, this is important, the driver of inflation has switched from supply chain issues or the surgeon post-pandemic demand to the tightness of the labor market can only be solved by weaker labor market data. socgen earlier this morning. tom: i agree. i started percolating -- it's already percolating a few weeks ago on the labor market. i have not seen a marked out yet, maybe that awaits the weekend research notes. jonathan: have you had his cooking? lisa: he is good. you say not bad. jonathan: [indiscernible] tom: a swanson tv dinner, the differential between--and 375. i ticket out of the aluminum. jonathan: call it -- tom: you don't know what a swanson tv dinner is. jonathan: we have talked about it. up 1.1 on the s&p. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> keeping you up-to-date on news around the world with first world news -- first word news, the elon musk deal with twitter is on hold. he announced the delay, he is waiting for details supporting the calculation that span the

cook. coming from whole beginnings in rural georgia where her family fought segregation ms. cook will be the first black woman ever to sit on the federal reserve board of governors. she's a professor of economics at michigan state and number of the federal reserve bank of chicago's advisory board and she served as a senior economist in president obama's council of economic advisers. she absolutely belongs on the board and i'm glad she was finally confirmed. yesterday we also confirmed viral as a commissioner on the federal trade commission breaking a 2 to 2 deadlock that's left the sec from pulling strings for a year. his nomination is fantastic news for theamerican people. the fcc will be empowered to fight against price counters , market manipulators and go after bad actors using anti-competitive practices to drive up prices. we've been urging the fcc for instance to look at market manipulation and price gouging when it comes to gasoline and now they will have the ability to do so because

the senate confirmed lisa cooke last night to be the federal reserve governor. the senate has confirmed now two of his picks, another two could be confirmed within day, and hen you've got jay powell's confirmation coming up. being on financial services, what is your assessment of biden pretty much controlling federal reserve, it looks like? >> well, two problems here. one is monetary policy. it portends the possibility that they will continue the monetary policy errors, the historic monetary policy errors and not tighten fast enough to deal with this inflation crisis. and secondly, it continues to be an omen for the politicization of financial regulations, the weapon anyization of financial -- weaponization of financial regulation against energy. this is going to exacerbate the inflation problem to not tighten sufficiently enough k. and then to further constrain the supply of domestic energy because of the politicization of financial regulation against fossil energy to redirect capital against energy if to continue this wrong-headed agenda that is constraining t

the senate vote today confirm michigan state economic professor lisa cook to the federal reserve. the vote 50-50 with vice president kamala harris casting the tie-breaker. cook is the first black woman to set on the central bank board. vote paving the way to confirm two additional pick this is week including fed chair jarome powell and philip jefferson as fed governor. well, several guests at the bahamas resort were three americans mysteriously died complained of overpowering smell of bug spray on the resort groined. investigators on the island are also looking into whether faulty air-conditioners could be a contributing factor in this tragedy. the three victims reported feeling unwell and received medical attention before being found dead in their rooms last friday. finally this, a quick-thinking passenger jumps into action to help successfully land a small plane after pilot suffered a medical emergency. the passenger had no flying experience so he turned to air traffic controllers to help. plane again i'm going to emphasize it made it landing at palm beach international airport

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so if the tammy i police, i make sure a do like lisa that and damaging the day will soon any legal. they are very expensive. and i don't have a problem cooking as one of 100 trainees learning to patent polish diamonds at this factory, which is owned by an engine company that invested in botswana. for years, the country has been pushing to not only export rough diamonds, but also to attract companies that processed them here too. and in value and creating jobs. now, more than 30 companies, cut and polish diamonds locally. suddenly in boots on, under garment is quite our pro diamond industry. now it is the main industry for most wanna ease of doing business in botswana for diamond printing and polishing is, is, is quite a weitel thing. why people are easily able to come here instead of them businesses, landlocked woods, one i was once one of the poorest countries in the world until it discovered vast diamond deposits in less than 20 years. it had turned itself into a success story, as well as the middle income country, a small population just below 2500000 people. good governance and

today kemp was holding a cook out near the georgia campaigning alongside nebraska governor pete. on monday the governor campaign former vice president mike pence. that is notable because for president trump is backing perdue. bill governor kemp said he believes is not as divided as some would suggest. >> i believe every republican in georgia we have been through tougher primaries before in our state. like pete said people of different opinions and who they want their nominee to be. i can guarantee republicans in georgia romeo i will be a lot better governor. >> former president trump continues to hover over this race he's denying reports he is distancing himself from perdue pre-the former sitter is also campaigning heavily on voter fraud claims. last night he really did try to fire up the maggot base. >> i am fighting for you. our governor sold us out. the radical left to take over >> democrats are also holding their primary next week. stacy aprons running unopposed richie luster brian camp in 2018. next time round expected to bring a stronger challenge is raising a lot of money

i'm lisa desjardins. judy: to help us break down more of last nights results, i am joined by david wasserman, the cooke political report with amy walter. and the editor at large of the nonprofit newsroom the 19th. welcome back to the newshour to both of you. dave,o ask about the influence of president trump. the candidates he endorsed. how did they do? not all of them won. dave: it was a mixed bag. and, regardless of whether president trump endorser did not endorse certain winners, the party is moving in his direction. madison cawthorn, who trump endorsed, self sabotage his defeat in western north carolina but two other controversial republicans who are very pro maga won their primaries. there is still a chance that trump's preferred candidate dr. oz will sin the -senate primary- will win the senate primary in pennsylvania and the only two trump skeptics o did really well were mike simpson in idaho and brian fitzpatrick in pennsylvania who won primaries that largely escaped trump's radar. judy: what do yo

[laughter] i do like to cook. we try to enjoy the windy cool day because despite the cool than average weather, it's a sunny -- it is a sunny start to the day. look at that from our camera. going from 10 to 20 miles per hour right now but continuing to get quite dusty, we add in some showers in the deal here is that it's not just a one-day event. we are talking several days of cool and breezy conditions. >> thank you. also next, an offensive explosion. the dubs take a lead over the series -- grizzlies in the series. under district attorney gascón, i prosecuted car break-ins. all repeat offenders, often in organized crime rings. but when chesa boudin took office, he dissolved the unit and stopped me from collaborating with the police on my cases. now home and car break-ins are on the rise because repeat offenders know they can get away with it. chesa boudin is failing to do his job. there's a better way to keep san francisco safe. recall chesa boudin now. >> here's a live look. you can see the flag blowing in the

lisa desjardins is here with more. >> judy, for the political response to this tragedy as well primary races tomorrow, i'm joined by our always thoughtful political monday's team, that is amy walter of the cook political report witamy walter. and tamera keith of npr. politics mondays here. let's start off with another unspeakable shooting and people in washington are looking at the words of some republicans, including this from the re--- republican house leadership. it warns of a permanent election insurrection and defines that as the arrival of undocumented immigrants. she has disavowed the buffalo shooting, she represents a district in new york, but some to see that ad as a reference to this what we hear about the white replacement theory, which the suspect in the buffalo shooting wrote about. amy, what do you think is going on underneath here? why are some republicans feeding or maybe not actively trying to address white anger? >> i think as this piece, as the lead and alluded to, lots of times when these things hpen, these horrible tragedies involving guns, we talk about the second

last week the senate approved the nomination of lisa cook. she has experience on monetary policy, banking and financial crises. she is the first black woman to serve on the board of governors in the 109-year history of the federal reserve. she's seen how economic policy affects all kinds of people in different parts of the country from the rural south where she grew up to the industrial midwest at michigan state university, one of the great midwestern state universities in this country where she built her career. dr. cook is a spellman college alumni, she was a marshall and truman scholar. she studied at oxford university and earned her ph.d. at berkeley. last night, the senate confirmed dr. philip jefferson, one of the country's leading thinkers on economic policy. she will be a critical voice on the fed. he is the dean of faculty at davidson college. he began his career as a fed economist and grew up as he said in the shadow of r.f.k. stadium in the southeast part of the city and he served as chair of the economic department of swathmore co

cook for the federal reserve. professor cook publicly called for the firing of a professor, a colleague of hers, because he dared to crit side -- criticize the defund the police movement. she actually encouraged donations to the very bail fund that were helping criminals get out of jail during the riots after george floyd was killed. she also insulted u.s. police officers by comparing their actions to, quote, heavy-handed tactics of the russian police. now to make matters worse, the senate is being asked to confirm julia gordon for f.h.a. commissioner. ms. gordon has a history of very troubling statements denigrating the police. among other things, she retweeted an inflammatory post that described police officers as, quote, the people killing us, end quote. that's how she describes the police. she also suggested in a letter that she wrote, not a tweet or a retweet, a letter she wrote that cases of police violence are not just outliers but, quote, stem from flawed and biased systems that require structural change,

lisa cook, first black woman ever in 109 years, 109 years, the first black woman at the federal reserve. alana just to name a few. ms. thompson has proven she'll work and listen to lenders and consumers on both sides of the aisle. before the pandemic, housing was too expensive and too hard to find, even before the pandemic. whether you're looking to rent or to buy, fhfa has an important role to play in bringing down housing costs and empowering more families to be able to afford a safe and stable home. i strongly urge my colleagues in supporting ms. thompson's nomination. expected to vote on whether to begin debate on a domestic terrorism agenda which recently passed in the house. legislation establishing three new offices in the justice and homeland security department. while we wait for more action on the floor of the senate we take you to a news conference on the mass shooting at a elementaryschool in uvalde, texas . >> had that gift taken away fromthem . stolen by a demented person. days before, days before yesterday when these children were at school, some were receiving awards for