National crisis to get the house and congress in general moving . Rep. Graves it is important to look at where we were. We passed legislation to address this type of scenario. We increased funds for organizations to make sure we are prepared for this. This is an evolving threat. Every country in the world is working together with the World Health Organization till learn as much as we can. The legislation we passed through the house yesterday provides funds to the department of health. The primary objective is trying to get funds out to the state Public Health departments and the folks who are actually on the ground. This is everything from surveillance, trying to understand where the infection is, how it is being transmitted and learning as much as we can. It is about ensuring we are moving forward on treatment and vaccines. Most importantly, getting the resources out to our state and local public entities to ensure they have the appropriate testing and other types of respiratory equip
The climate crisis, Louisiana Republican garret graves. Good morning. Give us a sense of where the money from the coronavirus package is headed in the house. The house allocated 8. 3 billion yesterday. Where is that money going and why does it seem like it takes a National Crisis to get the house and congress in general moving . Rep. Graves it is important to look at where we were. We passed legislation to address this type of scenario. We increased funds for organizations to make sure we are prepared for this. This is an evolving threat. Every country in the world is working together with the World Health Organization till learn as much as we can. The legislation we passed through the house yesterday provides funds to the department of health. The primary objective is trying to get funds out to the state Public Health departments and the folks who are actually on the ground. This is everything from surveillance, trying to understand where the infection is, how it is being transmitted
Rep. Graves it is important to look at where we were. We passed legislation to address this type of scenario. We increased funds for organizations to make sure we are prepared for this. This is an evolving threat. Every country in the world is working together with the World Health Organization till learn as much as we can. The legislation we passed through the house yesterday provides funds to the department of health. The primary objective is trying to get funds out to the state Public Health departments and the folks who are actually on the ground. This is everything from surveillance, trying to understand where the infection is, how it is being transmitted and learning as much as we can. It is about ensuring we are moving forward on treatment and vaccines. Most importantly, getting the resources out to our state and ublic entities to ensure they have the appropriate testing and other types of respiratory equipment and other Protection Equipment they need to be effective managers of
Gunce the incidents of violence. Then live, President Trump and indian Prime Minister modi in houston. Pedro joining us on newsmakers this week is rob bishop, republican of utah and the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources committee. Representative, thanks for joining us today. Rep. Bishop thank you for the invitation. Pedro along for the questioning of cq roll call, and Miranda Green with the hill, who is an energy reporter. Thank you for joining us. Hi, congressman. This is ben. There are millions of people globally striking for action, Political Action on climate. Places like australia, japan, uganda, germany. People are in the streets right now, pressing their governments to do something about Climate Change. Where do you think that urgency is coming from . What is the impetus driving folks out to the streets to demand action . Rep. Bishop if you want to know why someone is doing it, you will have to ask them. From our perspective, we want to make sure that our actions are not o
Locked and loaded and the senate has already agreed to everything in there. The funding fight going into october and november is going to be ugly. I have been talking to a lot of democrats on the Appropriations Panel and they say the fight is the same as last year. Which is not great news because we ended up with a 35 day shutdown. They do not have a strategy of how they going to deal with the border wall. That was the main issue that spurred the government into a shutdown of this year. Then there is the other tricky issue like the detention beds and the Enforcement Powers that ice agencies have. These are things that democrats are really riled up about given the aggressive actions on immigration all through the summer. Democrats are ready to go to the mat on this. Republicans are hearing from trump on this. We are staring down the same fight that we had last year. The senate will take up the continuing resolution. They are back to looking at the southern border. You point out the demo