Our first panel of witnesses today. They are chairs of the National Endowment for the humanities and arts. Both witnesses are appearing for the first time before our subcommittee. Congratulations to both of you and your confirmation and thank you. Todays hearing provide us with a chance to hear more about the great work both endowments have done over the last couple of years and supporting our communities across the country economically, culturally and educationally. The National Endowment for the arts and humanities are a perfect example of how the federal government can be a positive force in communities large and small in every single state. In your statement following your confirmation, dr. Jackson, you said in addition to serving as an economic engine, arts and creativity are core to what it takes to heal our nation, communities and ourselves. I wholeheartedly agree. The fy 2020 three budget request for the National Endowment for the humanities is 200. 6 8 million 200. 68 million.
Revised guidelines will help ensure the proper balance is struck when pursuing investigation into authorized disclosures. While they will make a meaningful difference, there are protections. You can read the new guidelines online at our website www. C span. Org. Quacks on the next washington journal, we will sit down with hilda solis concerning the Health Care Law we will sit viebeck aboute the healthcare law. Dean clancy and lori load des. The former ambassador to morocco Marc Ginsberg discusses recent events in egypt and the response from the u. S. So far. All that plus your calls beginning live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspan. Next, a look behind the scenes of president ial marriages from Woodrow Wilson to george w. Bush followed by president obama at this Years National medal of arts and humanities ceremony. Later in Memorial Service for the firefighters who died fighting a wildfire in prescott arizona. On monday night, we are continuing our focus on first ladies. Tonight and a
Inauguration to triple 8, triple 7 when youre out this morning. So keep that in mind as well. That should be another good way to find out information. How to enter the National Mall, constitution avenue at 7th, 9th and 12th. Independence avenue at 7th and 12th. Metro opened at 4 00 theyre open till 2 00 tomorrow morning. These stations are closed. Smithsonian, archives and Mount Vernon Square and only if youre an inauguration Ticket Holder can you get off at union station, judiciary square, Capitol South and federal center. There will be Security Check points there as well, by the way. Lets go outside and show you what it looks like. At the 14th street bridge, right now its open but its 5 30, 14th street bridge will be diverted on to the southeast southwest freeway. Northbound 395 hov is closed at 9 00 a. M. More information coming up for you once again in a few minutes. Mike and andrea . Thank you, monika. Today well enjoy the inaugural motorcade, the swearing in ceremony and public s
Ovethe near future here. There you go, much of the area starting to dry out. Weve seen this little batch of shower and thunderstorm activity redevelop in the past hour to the south. If you look carefully, youll see blinking towards la plata and waldorf. And will come eventually into Prince Georges County to the north and east, towards annapolis and the bay. Nice and mild to start your day. Good news is once we get rid of this last batch of moisture, we should be looking at just cloud cover here for much of the morning and eventually afternoon sunshine. Conditions will improve. 65 at Reagan National. 59 at dulles. 64 at bwi marshall. Heres your forecast, early showers give way to afternoon sun. Temperatures top out in the mid 70s. Nice mild afternoon. More details in a minute, well look at the weekend. Back to you at the desk. Tucker, thank you very much. Lets go to julie wright with more on the traffic. Tony, on the inner loop of the beltway out of virginia this morning a rude awakenin
The headlines the organisation that oversees us president ial debates says it will take steps to avoid a repeat of the chaotic nature of the first debate between donald trump and his challenger joe biden. There are two more debates to come. The Trump Campaign said the rules should not be changed in the middle of the game. Joe biden has condemned the president for not clearly denouncing a White Supremacist Group known as the proud boys. Mr trump said he didnt know who the proud boys were and insisted that right wing militias like them should stand down and let the police do their work. Instead of, as he said in the debate, standing by. The United Nations secretary general, antonio guterres, has urged countries to start funding a global Coronavirus Vaccine plan by using money from their own national programmes. Mr guterres comments follow an urgent appeal by the head of the Global Vaccine Alliance for more countries to join. In order to help poorer countries. Now on bbc news
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