That a small victory for venezuela the south American Country wins the right to appeal the u. K. Ruling barring access to its own gold reserves will discuss it all right its time to boost for a new i q. I. Mean the former republican president ial candidate tea Party Activist and businessman has just died of complications from the coronavirus the news of his sudden death comes as kobe 1000 numbers continue to rise in this country and Wearing Masks in Public Places has yet to be fully enforced in each state and even in congress are joining us in studio with more on herman cains passing fair and yesterday you brought us the news representative gomer testing positive for kobe one. The latest with that well so were going to get to that just a 2nd but 1st lets go back to herman cain so we have again people still in shock of whats going on you know herman cain not only a Business Executive a syndicated columnist and a president ial candidate in 2012 he also was one of the biggest fighters of
Withdrawing the amendment. If there is no further debate, the amendment we are back live at the House Appropriations committee. Theyre working on 2021 spending levels for the defense, commerce, justice and transportation department, as well as the department of housing and urban development. The markup is excited to go into the evening. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Chair lowey for what purpose does the member from california rise . The member of california . Thank you. I havent amendment at the desk have an amendment at the desk. Chair lowey the clerk will read the amendment. I ask unanimous consent to dispense of the reading. Chair lowey without objection, the reading of the amendment is dispensed with. Thank you. This amendment is straightforward. It would block a president from starting a war with iran absent expressed authorization from congress. This amendment consists of language that the house is already adopted as part of h. R. 550 in january of this year. Let me be
Im really pleased to be here this afternoon with brian hook and elliott abrams, both from the state department, to talk about two of the most pressing issues that the United States is facing today, iran and venezuela, and the next is the relationship with the evolving relationship between the two countries. Elliott abrams is a special representative for venezuela at the department of state and brian hook is a special representative for iran and a Senior Policy Adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo. He previously served as the director of policy planning in this administration at the state department. So, ive known both Brian Elliott for quite some time, and its always a pleasure to see both of you. I would like to start. I think author start with elliott to tell us a little bit about the evolution of the administrations policy, visavis venezuela, as i recall, elliott, i think it has been about a year and a half since you have been special representative. Why dont you tell us a litt
Outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and a dire economic crisis. We have lost over 110,000 people to the disease, and 40 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the band that it was worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage the sba disaster resources available. Can you please mute . Anyone should be muted. Everyone should be muted. As the virus continues to spread, or state and local governments began imposing stayathome orders and business closures. We quickly realized Congress Needed to do more to meet the full scope of the problem, and that is when we started working on what ultimately became the cares act. To help Small Businesses and eligible nonprofits, congress created a new Paycheck Protection Program, expanded eligibility to the program and provided payment and interest relief for current sba borrowers. I
Countries are headed in the wrong direction. The virus remains public enemy number one. Anger at what they see as political bias protests in the democratic republic of congo on the appointment of a new Electoral Commission chief. We look at steps being taken to protect a british socialite in jail and a Court Appearance on sex trafficking charges. So then a strategic a stretch of water is a new source of tension between the United States and china your set your state might pump air says that beijings claims to the South China Sea are completely unlawful and it will not be allowed to treat it as its maritime empire its rich in oil gas and fishing resources and china is Building Military bases on several assholes but 5 Southeast Asian nations also claim parts of the sea and last week the u. S. Navy held military exercises. So lets take a close look at china claims about 90 percent of the South China Sea including ownership of the Spratly Islands which are disputed by the philippines by vi