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
Alley were seeing more push and pull this morning in this case the dow and the s p are green. Were getting decent bounces in names related to travel. Of course the covid cases out of florida at 11,000 plus is not good, but it has been off set by the data out of gilead lets talk about where were going in the coming weeks. You have been riding names like facebook and alphabet and is any of that betting tired the nasdaq 100 has bet the s p for ten straight months. At this point i think the s p this year is down 1 and the value index was down we started our careers at the same time. We saw the tech bubble we saw how bifurcated it can get. We saw how they still have value. Other companies doing exceptionally well it is not available compared to what we see in other sectors what is an example of that . Lets take leer if your family owned the business, you would say we made a billion and a half dollars a couple years ago and a few years from now we will again, but the market is offering to bu
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
Worried. A lot of mixed messages here. Our economy is reopening. Summer vacation is here. And testing is becoming more widespread. But the numbers dont lie. The biggest singleday spike since the pandemic started. Take a look. Santa clara county reporting 122 new cases in a 24hour period. Hospitalizations are also spiking, and Health Officers are concerned. Nbc bay areas ian cull has the new details. Reporter tonight the number of new cases reported in the south bay was 122, the largest singleday jump since the pandemic began, an increase the county Health Officer feared but anticipated as she told supervisors in a phone cull today. Recently were seeing worrisome signs that this increase may be accelerating. Reporter dr. Sara cody says the rise is likely due to three things. More is reopening. More people are going outside. And theres an increase in testing. The county is trying to perform around 4,000 tests daily, helped by the sap testing site opening today from 1 00 to 7 00 threw fri
Regional diplomacy and security with this agreement the 2 state solution. Israel and it say should just a yugo. Hello im come all santamaria this is counting the cost on aljazeera the weekly look at the world of business and economics this week europe how does the continent deal with a rising china and a u. S. President who riles his own allies to the threats facing new york from the silent chinese economic takeover to a full blown trade war with the United States also as black lives matter draws the worlds attention will look at how Silicon Valley and the world of finance has really failed black people will talk to the c. E. O. Who funds black businesses. And state backed Cyber Attacks they are nothing new but theyre also on the rise during the pandemic and the targets are the vaccine make and the purchase. These are i think we can all agree extraordinary times but zoom out and youll see the big picture is just as unpredictable were focusing on europe this week which is that a bit of