The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you, secretary azar, for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated, but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. I think you will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget. My first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully, that will be the case again this time. But you propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the health care workforces and preparedness programs and research programs, all that we have been about earlier today at the members reading on the current virus. Home energy, rural programs we wou
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Im sorry im sorry get out and go. Captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Annemarie green is off, im wendy gillette. Hundreds of protesters outside the u. S. Embassy in baghdad are gone this morning. Tensions remain high. The proiran demonstrators withdrew from the compound after two days of clashes with american forces. President trump says iran will be held fully responsible. Laura podesta is in new york. Whats the fallout from the embassy violence . Reporter wendy, there are several levels of fallout. One, its a security concern. How did these protesters breach checkpoints in order to get into the Embassy Compound . Theres also a relationship fallout. Tensions between iran and the u. S. Are now at an alltime high since iran is accused of backing these protesters even though the country denies it. As protesters withdraw from the u. S. Embassy in baghdad, more american troops are on their way to the middle east. The depar
Together, unfortunately at the end of the year. I wish our colleagues on the other side had kept the agreement we reached last summer. We wouldnt have ended up with two massive minibuses, but that having been said, all of the president s priorities are in the bill, the two bills. The republican members are happy with provisions related to taxes and spending, and im particularly thrilled to say goodbye to the metal goal medical device tax, the Health Insurance tax, and the democrats are excited to get rid of the cadillac tax. The defense we want and there are some issues a lot of us care about. Senator young is standing behind me and are deeply interested in d21, raising the ability to purchase tobacco to age one, so there is a lot to like in both of these bills. We will be moving to of them when they come over. In the meantime, 13 district judges we will have to process before we get to the appropriation bills, but i think we are ending on a pretty good know here in spite of all of the
Gas from siberia to cities across china. Now at least 2 people have been killed as heavy gunfire continues on the streets of benny and eastern democratic republic of congo the firing started off to hundreds of people marched towards a u. N. Peacekeeping base congolese government soldiers blocked the crowds from getting too close to the compound which is near the airport and one of 2 u. N. Bases that demonstrators have been targeting u. N. Peacekeepers accusing them of failing to protect them from attacks by rebel groups well our producer 11 counties in beni and he joins us now on the phone and then youve been hearing those gunshots do we have any more clarity about whats been happening on the streets and just whos involved. They come so. Clearly leaning heavily on the bitty to get just getting. All of these. Shots to. Riccis home. So sedition is violent maybe he. Didnt. Get the. Wish. Not to reach the. Mission because the men talking. To each man meant military because of the u. N. Dow