Charge of the recovery act and it was hard as hell to get the votes for it to begin with. And then it was hard as hell to get the number even we got. But one thing we learned, is we cant do too much here. We could do too little. We could do too little and sputter. Real live people are hurting and we could fix it. And we could fix it. That is has been his message from the beginning. And President Biden is focused on this today. Hes expecting to speak live later this hour and on how ep plans to revised the economy in response to covid. And the latest jobs report came out this morning showing only 49,000 jobs were added last month across country. And still there is more. On capitol hill, republican freshman Marjorie Taylor greene, shes about to hold a News Conference and at the moment im going to use the term News Conference loosely as we will see if she actually takes questions from actual real reporters which she has long avoided. Greene now without any Committee Assignments after the h
Committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation title 1 under Veterans Mission act, program of assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace. While officials were invited to discuss the critical programs they oversee, the department chose to decline that invitation. This committee and the va shared a common goal to pass the mission act in 2018 to better serve veterans and their families and we continue to Work Together to address important issues for our nations veterans. I would expect them to be here with this to share all theyve accomplished since the va was transformed with this legislation and discuss what needs to be done to make improvements. The va is an integral part of in dialog, which is why i planned a whole subsequent
This is the regular meeting of the commission. I would like to welcome the public and the staff. Following the guidelines set forth by local and state officials during the health emergency, the members of the Economies Commission are meeting remotely to ensure safety for everyone including members of the public. Thank you, all, for joining us. Please call the first item. Thank you, mr. Chair. The first order of business is item 1, roll call. Commission members please respond. Commissioner brackett present. Commissioner ransomscott present. Vice chair rosales present. Chair bustos present. The next is item 2, announcements. The next meeting will be november 3, 2020 at 1 00 p. M. Please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. During the Public Comment period, viewers are instructed to dial 14156550001, enter the access code which is 146 413 2620. Youll need to press the pound sign twice to enter
Stay with the website in the network as we continue to Cover Campaign 2020. With that said, we go to the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 30, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties and time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 10 350 a. M. The chair now 10 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman fr
Out now that also includes all of Crystal Springs road and north fork Crystal Springs road now at last update cal fire said that the fire was at 50 acres and is spreading dangerously fast you can see a bit of video here of just how quickly that fire has then spreading this morning, those large plumes of smoke it gives you an idea also it is a pretty populated area lots of wineries and what not in that area. This is a developing story of course were going to have the latest for you as details come with this is new video that were just getting in folks have been tweeting and sending in pictures and images, this is a video we allowed to be you using from from a twitter video someone posted look at the flames just completely torching of these trees again this is in saint there are mandatory evacuations due to this wildfire which is being called called the glass incident. Again cal fire has been describing this as a fastmoving of fire the Evacuation Orders were given out around 5 oclock thi