hasn't been whipping votes hard enough and they need to focus more attention on -- that they can get, kratz aligned in order to proceed with the bill. host: the continuing resolution was passed in the house last week and has to be passed by the senate to avoid a government shutdown. what can you tell us about the administration's preparations for a potential shutdown. >> the administration has begun to reach out to staff at various agencies. they sent out a memo last week. alerting their employees the need to consider the government could be shutting down as soon as the end of the week. preparations are underway but given we are in a pandemic there is concern that doing something at that time, of the shutting down at this time could pose real problems to the administration efforts to continue to hold the spread of coronavirus and manage that. >> debate on these measures brought up the issue of crisis of the southern border. with the haitian migrants crossing at del rio. the headline from your piece over the weekend, the del rio encampment cleared as thousands are expelled and returned to me

>> it is definitely a problem, not to mention the fact that one of the senate emma kratz joe manchiname out and said he wasn't going to support it anyway so that there was a wrench in his plans but yes, the unpopularity on the afghanistan withdrawal is going to affect the rest of his agenda. he does not have public support, he will be hard-pressed to find other democrats who will support him because ultimately, they have to answer to their constituents. >> edward: abc news has a poll out that says 59% of americans disapprove of the handling of afghanistan but does foreign policy blunder really translate into votes on the other side come the election next year? >> if it becomes a national security crisis, then yes, absolutely and unfortunately, that's exactly what biden has created. the immediate effects of this are obvious. we still have more than 100 americans stranded in afghanistan and a lot will depend on what happens to them over the next few weeks or months but the long-term consequences of this withdrawal are going to be serious. we basically handed a terrorist organization th

significant fraud in previous virginia elections and do you agree with the former president that emme kratzay cheat and this one? have 60 seconds. -- the democrats. >> this is a democracy issue we are talking about. not a republican or dealt -- democrat. my opponent, when bush beat gore, he stared into the screen and said they took the president from us. he never acknowledge that the president wasn't legitimately elected president paired dive said over and over again that joe biden is our president. i wish he wasn't. i wish ef -- handled afghanistan better. when he campaigned with you, you embraced him. i think we need to invest in our election system. just like florida did to the point where there election system is trusted by all voters. virginians deserve that. that is the kind of investment i will make when i am governor. i will invest in making sure voter rolls are updated. everyone will show up with an id. virginians will trust our -- >> your time is up. you said you did not think there is significant fraud but do you agree with donald trump that democrats may cheat in this one? yes o

he said that, kratz want to expand the debt limit -- that democrats want to expand the debt limit so they can spend more money. is it not true that you expanded element because of money that has already been spent? like going to a restaurant, paying with your credit card, and then saying no, i won't paper it? sec. yellen: that is correct. it has nothing to do with future programs or payments. it is entirely about paying bills that have already been incurred by this congress and previous congresses. it is about making good on past commitments. as you said, paying our credit card bill. sen. tester: thank you very much. thank you, mr. chairman. sen. brown: thank you. senator shelby from alabama is recognized. sen. shelby: welcome, both of you. madam secretary, chairman powell. chairman powell, i will direct my first question to you. the phillips curve is an economic concept that represents an inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment. historically it has been utilized to understand the relationship between unemployment and inflation. in particular, and relation to the fede

emma kratz attempting to buy out big business as an attempt to gain their support for socialist takeoverwith almost 90% reimbursement for the paid family medical leave programs that employers offer their employees. if a business does not have a paid leave program, then they are permanently locked out. their employees we forced to apply it through the department of treasury if they want to claim paid family and medical leave and the business will forever face a disadvantage. why should we transfer the liability and cost of paid family and medical leave plans the big businesses are already paying onto taxpayers? why should employers -- why should we pay employers like amazon and microsoft for things they are already providing? my friends were very critical of one particular ceo and founder jeff bezos they were criticizing how much money he had earned and how he had taken and built a rocket ship to go into outer space and today, we are asking to reward him again by allowing middle-class americans to pay for. i don't understand the logic. i want to emphasize some of the points opposing the p

statement is regarding something that one of your former people on the republican line said regarding emma kratzall the time and that cheating is reflected in president biden winning. i would venture to say anyone who is continuing that type of rhetoric is doing more to destroy and divide and making everyone and the united states of america vulnerable to the fall of this country which is one of the greatest countries in the world. i would venture to say if you look in the mirror and listen to what is happening in every state, the cheating is not being done by the democrats. it is being done by those who are power-hungry and have no concern about what is happening to the united states of america. they have taken united out of it and just leaving it as states of america and that means that anyone from anywhere can destroy from the outside and within because we are destroying ourselves from within. host: the first hour of our program, we asked callers, do you think the u.s. is still the greatest country in the world. how would you answer that question? caller: in some aspects yes, in some aspects n

statement is regarding something that one of your former people on the republican line said regarding emma kratzl the time and that cheating is reflected in president biden winning. i would venture to say anyone who is continuing that type of rhetoric is doing more to destroy and divide and making everyone and the united states of america vulnerable to the fall of this country which is one of the greatest countries in the world. i would venture to say if you look in the mirror and listen to what is happening in every state, the cheating is not being done by the democrats. it is being done by those who are power-hungry and have no concern about what is happening to the united states of america. they have taken united out of it and just leaving it as states of america and that means that anyone from anywhere can destroy from the outside and within because we are destroying ourselves from within. host: the first hour of our program, we asked callers, do you think the u.s. is still the greatest country in the world. how would you answer that question? caller: in some aspects yes, in some aspects no.

hasn't been whipping votes hard enough and they need to focus more attention on -- that they can get, kratzligned in order to proceed with the bill. host: the continuing resolution was passed in the house last week and has to be passed by the senate to avoid a government shutdown. what can you tell us about the administration's preparations for a potential shutdown. >> the administration has begun to reach out to staff at various agencies. they sent out a memo last week. alerting their employees the need to consider the government could be shutting down as soon as the end of the week. preparations are underway but given we are in a pandemic there is concern that doing something at that time, of the shutting down at this time could pose real problems to the administration efforts to continue to hold the spread of coronavirus and manage that. >> debate on these measures brought up the issue of crisis of the southern border. with the haitian migrants crossing at del rio. the headline from your piece over the weekend, the del rio encampment cleared as thousands are expelled and returned to mexi

emma kratz attempting to buy out big business as an attempt to gain their support for socialist takeoverwith almost 90% reimbursement for the paid family medical leave programs that employers offer their employees. if a business does not have a paid leave program, then they are permanently locked out. their employees we forced to apply it through the department of treasury if they want to claim paid family and medical leave and the business will forever face a disadvantage. why should we transfer the liability and cost of paid family and medical leave plans the big businesses are already paying onto taxpayers? why should employers -- why should we pay employers like amazon and microsoft for things they are already providing? my friends were very critical of one particular ceo and founder jeff bezos they were criticizing how much money he had earned and how he had taken and built a rocket ship to go into outer space and today, we are asking to reward him again by allowing middle-class americans to pay for. i don't understand the logic. i want to emphasize some of the points opposing the p

program or not stop that's more than $60,000 over a career and that can cause an average worker, emma kratz are hiding the ball. unlike the paid lee proposal currently in front of us which creates a new entitlement program from general revenue, the family act at least attempted to provide a current benefit with benefits funded by payroll taxes. many democrat members this committee thought the family act was the best approach to paid leave because 22 out of 25 of these democrats cosponsored that bill and every democrat on this committee cosponsored last congress. i would like to ask unanimous consent to include a letter from may of this year signed by the american academy of pediatrics and a number of other interest groups from across the political spectrum. the letter actually says the family act is the only paid national family and medical leave proposal that reflects what most people in the united states need to stop this amendment would allow supporters of the family act to include that proposal which they had cosponsored in this package. i yield back, thank you. >> that was a long lette

hasn't been whipping votes hard enough and they need to focus more attention on -- that they can get, kratz aligned in order to proceed with the bill. host: the continuing resolution was passed in the house last week and has to be passed by the senate to avoid a government shutdown. what can you tell us about the administration's preparations for a potential shutdown. >> the administration has begun to reach out to staff at various agencies. they sent out a memo last week. alerting their employees the need to consider the government could be shutting down as soon as the end of the week. preparations are underway but given we are in a pandemic there is concern that doing something at that time, of the shutting down at this time could pose real problems to the administration efforts to continue to hold the spread of coronavirus and manage that. >> debate on these measures brought up the issue of crisis of the southern border. with the haitian migrants crossing at del rio. the headline from your piece over the weekend, the del rio encampment cleared as thousands are expelled and returned to me